5 library databases you didn’t know you needed in your life… TAGS: databases | film | gender studies | images | International Relations | media | moving images | Newspapers | official documents | online resources | Politics | Science Technology and Innovation studies | social anthropology | Social Work | Sociology | TV …until now. The many bibliographic and indexing databases you can access through the Library are fantastic and essential resources for your research and study whether you are an undergraduate, postgraduate …Continue reading →

*New* Medieval Family Life TAGS: 15th century | databases | history | Letters | Manuscripts | medieval | War of the Roses The Library has recently purchased access to Medieval Family Life, a collection of letters and manuscripts from c1400-1490. Only five major letter collections exist from fifteenth century England and they …Continue reading →

E-Resources currently on trial TAGS: American National Bibliography | databases | Oxford Reports on International Law | Sage Videos | trials | videos American National Biography on trial until 11th February.  This database offers portraits of more than 19,000 men and women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives …Continue reading →

Trial access to Medieval Family Life and Medieval Travel Writing databases TAGS: Adam Matthew | databases | Medieval Family Life | Medieval Travel Writing | Medieval Travel Writing and Accounts of the Far East | Travel and Pilgrimage We have trial access to Medieval Family Life and Medieval Travel Writing databases from Adam Matthew until 29th December 2015.  Both databases have been added to our e-resources trials webpage.   Update 2016 …Continue reading →

Trial access to Voxgov TAGS: databases | International Relations | Politics | Social & Political Sciences Studying American politics? Finding it hard to search for and locate the swathes of information being published by the US Federal Government? Voxgov may be for you. The Library has …Continue reading →

Gale Cengage E-Resources on Trial TAGS: Chatham House Online Archive | Crime Punishment and Popular Culture | databases | Gale Cengage | State Papers Online We are trialling the following 3 databases until the 31st October.  Access the databases via DiscoverEd or the trials webpage.   Chatham House Online Archive contains the research, publications, speeches …Continue reading →

Trial – Nineteenth Century Collections Online TAGS: 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection | and Conquest | Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange | British Politics and Society | British Theatre Music and Literature: High and Popular Culture | Christianity | Civilization | databases | Europe and Africa: Commerce | European Literature | NCCO | Nineteenth Century Collections Online | Photography: The World through the Lens | Science Technology and Medicine: 1780-1925 | Women: Transnational Networks We are currently trialling all sections of Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) until 30th November.  Access NCCO via the trials webpage or DiscoverEd.   British Politics and Society Including papers …Continue reading →

ProQuest E-Resources on Trial TAGS: Cecil Papers | Colonial State Papers | databases | e-journals | ProQuest | Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War We are trialling the following 3 collections until the 30th November.  Access the trials via DiscoverEd or our trials webpage. The Cecil Papers is a collection of documents, principally from the …Continue reading →

A-Z lists unavailable TAGS: AZ lists | databases | e-books There is currently an outage on the Library website – updates will be posted on the ISHelpline twitter account –  https://twitter.com/isalerts Please use DiscoverEd to access e-resources during the downtime

New online resource for SPS: Political Science Complete TAGS: databases | International Relations | new | online resources | Politics | Social & Political Sciences Following a successful trial in semester two, 2014-15, the Library has subscribed to Political Science Complete a major database in the areas of politics and international relations. Political Science Complete provides …Continue reading →