Music Online – new content added TAGS: Alexander Street Press | databases | music | Music & Performing Arts | Music Online Music Online has been significantly updated this week with the addition of: 4.5 million independent popular music tracks 1.4 million world music tracks 510,000 American song tracks 440,000 classical music …Continue reading →

Top 5 women’s studies library resources TAGS: academic support librarian | Books | databases | e-books | e-journals | gender studies | online resources | Womens' Studies Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the British suffragette movement and one of the most important feminist public figures of all time, was born today (15th July) in 1858. To celebrate her …Continue reading →

Very Short Introductions – Social Sciences TAGS: databases | e-books | new | online resources | Social & Political Sciences The Library has recently subscribed to the online version of Oxford University Press’ Very Short Introduction series for the Social Sciences. The Social Sciences collection includes titles within the following …Continue reading →

Trials ending Tuesday 15th July TAGS: Archives Direct | databases | Foreign Office Files China | trials | Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals Last chance to try out the following databases!  These all expire tomorrow and are available on campus or via the VPN at the links below. From Adam Matthew we have …Continue reading →

Web of Science upgrade TAGS: databases | Web of Science Web of Science will be upgraded this Sunday.  This will affect all areas of Web of Science and involve intermittent downtime between Sunday July 13th at 14:00 BST until Monday …Continue reading →

Trials ending this weekend TAGS: Alexander Street Press | Anthropology Online | Black Freedom | China Core Newspapers Full-text Database | China Reference Works Online | China Statistical Yearbooks Database | China Yearbooks Full-text Database | databases | Digital National Security Archive | Ethnographic Video Online Series | History Vault | Immigration | Law and Society since the Civil War | NAACP | Plantations | Politics and Society 1960-1975 | ProQuest | Slavery and the Law | trial | US Military Intelligence Reports 1911-1944 | Vietnam War | Women's Rights | World War II Last chance to try out these databases! From Alexander Press we have 3 databases on trial until Sunday 13th July. Anthropology Online provides a wide range of written ethnographies, field …Continue reading →

Better together or better apart? Some useful resources on the Scottish referendum. TAGS: academic support librarian | databases | online resources | Politics | Scottish referendum On the 18th September 2014 Scotland will vote yes or no to independence. There are a wealth of online resources available that can help with your research or help to …Continue reading →

New e-resources trials available TAGS: academic support librarian | databases | International Relations | literature searching | online resources | Politics | trials The Library has set up trial access to a number of online resources that may be useful for those studying politics and international relations. These include: Declassified Documents Reference System …Continue reading →

Trial access to BiblioRossica available TAGS: databases | e-books | online resources | Social & Political Sciences | trials BiblioRossica is a portal for academics and scholars that offers expertly selected collections devoted to the most relevant areas of modern Russian, Jewish, Eastern European and Eurasian Humanities. As an …Continue reading →

Index Religiosus Online now on trial TAGS: church history | databases | Divinity | online | Religious Studies | Theology & Ethics New on trial for University of Edinburgh users from 10 April to 11 May 2013 is the Index Religiosus Online. The Index Religiosus replaces the bibliography of the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique …Continue reading →