SPS Librarian Top 5 blog posts 2014 – no. 2 TAGS: Books | e-books | e-journals | Social & Political Sciences | Sociology As exams are almost over and semester one nears its end we are reposting our Top 5 blog posts from this year, every day in the final week of semester. …Continue reading →

SPS Librarian Top 5 blog posts 2014 – no. 5 TAGS: academic support librarian | Books | databases | e-books | e-journals | journals | media | online resources | Social & Political Sciences | Womens' Studies As exams are almost over and semester one nears its end we are reposting our Top 5 blog posts from this year, every day in the final week of semester. …Continue reading →

E-Resources downtime alert TAGS: e-books | e-journals | nature | Nature publishing | Palgrave | Palgrave MacMillan Due to essential maintenance, access to Nature.com, Palgrave-Journals.com and Palgraveconnect.com websites will be unavailable Sat. 13th Dec from 1.00pm to 5.00pm GMT.  Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Oxford Medicine Online – new e-resource TAGS: e-books | Oxford Medical Handbooks | Oxford Medicine Online | Oxford University Press Following a successful trial on the Oxford Medicine platform, we have access to the following Oxford Medicine Online e-books: Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia Oxford Handbook …Continue reading →

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online – additional titles TAGS: Dictionaries | e-books | Oxford University Press We have added 3 further dictionaries to our Oxford Language Dictionaries Online package. Arabic Chinese Russian The Chinese and Russian dictionaries are located on the original OLDO platform and a …Continue reading →

New books for Social and Political Science: November 2014 TAGS: academic support librarian | African Studies | Books | e-books | new | Politics | Science Technology and Innovation studies | Social & Political Sciences | social anthropology | social policy | Social Work | Sociology Thanks to recommendations from members of staff and requests via RAB from students the Library is continually adding new books to its collections both online and in print. Here are just a small number …Continue reading →

Autumn E-Book News TAGS: Access Engineering | American History | American University in Cairo Press | Anthem Press | Archaeology | art | astronomy | Boydell & Brewer | British History | Business & Management | Cambridge Books Online | Cambridge Histories | Cambridge Histories Online | Cambridge University Press | Classical Studies | Dawsonera | Drama and Theater | e-books | Earth and Environmental Sciences | EBL | Ebsco | Economics | Economics & Finance | Edinburgh University Press | education | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research | Engineering | English Literature | European and World Literature | European History | film | Fordham University Press | General Science | Geography | history | Hong Kong University Press | International Relations & Development | Jagiellonian University Press | Language and Linguistics | Law | Life Sciences | Liverpool University Press | Management | Manchester University Press | mass communication | Mathematical Association of America | mathematics | media | Media & Culture | MIT Press | music | MyILibrary | Oxford Handbooks | Oxford Scholarship Online | Palgrave | Philosophy | Policy Press | Political Science | Politics and international relations | psychology | religion | Religion & Philosophy | Social Sciences | Sociology | Stanford University Press | Statistics and Probability | Taylor & Francis | Theatre & Performance | University of Adelaide Press | University of California Press | University of Chicago Press | University Press of Florida | University Press of Kentucky | UPSO | Yale University Press The following have seen additions to content and have been or are in the process of being added to our catalogue. Access Engineering has seen about 30 title additions as …Continue reading →

Trial access to Gunsho Ruiju TAGS: art | cultivated arts | customs | e-books | economy | education | Gunsho Ruiju | history | language | legal codes | Literature | morality | music | Politics | religion | society | Zoku Gunsho Ruiju | Zoku Zoku Gunsho We have trial access to Gunsho Ruiju until the 19th December. Gunsho Ruiju is a collection of old Japanese books published from the ancient times to early Edo era. Subjects …Continue reading →

Trial – OpenEdition Platform TAGS: e-books | e-journals | humanities and social sciences | OpenEdition We have trial access to e-book and e-journal content on the OpenEdition platform until the 31st January. OpenEdition is the umbrella portal for OpenEdition Books, Revues.org, Hypotheses and Calenda, four …Continue reading →

Loeb Classical Library Online – new e-book collection TAGS: e-books | greek | history | Latin | Literature | Loeb Classical Library | religion Following a very successful trial we have now subscribed to the Loeb Classical Library. The Digital Loeb Classical Library contains more than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek and English texts …Continue reading →