Monthly Archives: August 2014

August E-Book News

We have increased our e-book holdings with the following providers.

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We have added a further 44  titles to the Dawsonera platform.  A list of the new titles is available here and these have all been added to our catalogue.

EBL – Ebook Library

We have added a further 72  titles to the EBL platform.  A list of the new titles is available here and these have all been added to our catalogue.

 

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A further 55 e-books have been added to the Ebsco and MyILibrary platforms over the last couple of months.  A list of the new titles is here and these have been added to our catalogue.

 

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A further 426 e-books in a variety of subject areas are now available on the Palgrave Connect website.  The individual titles have been added to our catalogue and the list of new titles can be browsed here.

 

2013_WOL_logoA further 695 e-books in a variety of subject areas are now available from Wiley Online Library.  The individual titles have been added to our catalogue and the list of new titles can be browsed here.

 

Further info

Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks

 

 

Anatomy & Physiology Online – new e-resource

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Anatomy & Physiology Online (Primal Pictures) has now been added to our A-Z list and will appear on our catalogue soon.  Anatomy & Physiology Online provides 20 interactive modules on human anatomy and physiology, with 3D images, animations, audio, text articles, case studies and quizzes.

 

SAGE Research Methods – new e-resource

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We now subscribe to SAGE Research Methods.  This provides access to 700+ e-books, encyclopaedias, videos and journal articles.  SAGE Research Methods supports beginning and advanced researchers in every step of a research project, from writing a research question, choosing a method, gathering and analyzing data, to writing up and publishing the findings. With information on the full range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioral sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the hard sciences, the book, reference, and journal content in SAGE Research Methods help researchers of all levels conduct their research.

A list of the individual e-books, reference works and videos can be accessed here and are in the process of being added to our catalogue.

SAGE Research Methods has been added to both our database A-Z list and e-books A-Z list.

Emerald Insight – platform upgrade

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Emerald Insight have completed their platform upgrade work this week. Prompted by customer feedback, this has resulted in:

  • Increased discoverability – thanks to enriched metadata and search engine optimization
  • Improved usability – due to simplification of the administration area and alignment with other academic publisher platforms
  • Enhanced search – as a result of advanced filter capabilities
  • Industry standard categorization – because of redefined subject taxonomies
  • Heightened security – owing to the implementation of latest access and security protocols
  • Plus an extended range of author and editor services, including downloads of published research and access to historic publication events such as citations in other publications

We have access to over 190 e-journals on the Emerald Insight platform, the titles are listed in our e-journal A-Z list and in the library catalogue.

Ecoinvent – new database

Ecoinvent has been added to our A-Z list of databases and catalogue.  Ecoinvent database version 3.1 offers science-based, industrial, international life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle management (LCM) data and services. ecoinvent logo

Access to this database is via specific user name and password.

Further information about our databases can be found at http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases

New E-Book Collections – August

We have recently purchased 3 new e-book collections.  The individual titles are in the process of being added to our catalogue but links to the collections are available from the e-book A-Z list.

 

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Access Engineering provides access to over 200 engineering reference sources; 5,000 interactive graphs and downloadable tables and charts; personalization tools; instructional videos. Includes Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers.

 

Casalini e-books package

The Casalini full text platform (Torrossa) provides access to a selection of 1,867 scholarly e-books from Italian and Spanish academic publishers since 2000 for Edinburgh University Casalini logousers. The collection consists of 1,188 titles on Italian studies and Italian literature and 679 titles on Spanish studies. The books are in Italian or Spanish and can be either downloaded or viewed online in PDF format (it is necessary to disable pop-up blockers on your web browser and also in your Google tool bar if applicable). The e-book collection is fully searchable, including by words in the full text. Click here to get a full list of the e-book titles.

 

 Wageningen Academic Publisherswag logo

We now have access to the e-books published between 2002 and 2014 on the Wageningen Academic Publishers platform.  Main subject areas include Animal & Veterinary Science, Environmental  & Plant Science, Food Science and Social Science.

Further info

Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks

 

 

SAE Technical Papers – new e-resource

The Library now subscribes to the full collection of SAE Technical Papers available within the SAE Digital Library.  This provides access to over 90,000 technical papers from the Society of Automotive Engineers, ranging from 1906 to the present day.  Papers are available in the fields of design engineering, aerospace sae-international-84engineering, advanced materials, power and propulsion, transportation, tests and testing, fuels, energy sources, safety etc.

 

A full list of our databases is available at http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases/databases-a-z

Accessible Archives – new database

Accessible Archives has been added to our A-Z list of databases – Eyewitness accounts of accessible archives logohistorical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records. Includes archives from African American Newspapers, American County Histories, Civil War archives and many other eighteenth and nineteenth century newspaper and journal archives.

A full list of the collections and coverage is available at http://www.accessible-archives.com/collections/

 

GeoRef and GeoScience World now available

GSW_rectangleGeoRef and GeoScienceWorld have now been added to our General A-Z list and Geosciences A-Z list.

GeoRef contains 3.4 million bibliographic records to the geosciences literature. Over 3,500 journals are reviewed for indexing in the GeoRef database as well as books, maps, government reports, conference papers, theses and dissertations.  It is hosted on the GeoScienceWorld platform where we now have access to the full text of 45 e-journals published by 28 publishers.  A list of these can be browsed here and have been added to our catalogue and Searcher.