We have recently purchased two extra collections within Foreign Office Files for China.
Both of these collections are listed on our East Asian Studies A-Z list and History A-Z list as well as our main database A-Z list and DiscoverEd.
We have purchased two additional Archives Unbound modules following a trial earlier this year.
The Mafia in Florida and Cuba: FBI Surveillance of Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante, Jr
This collection comprises materials on Santo Trafficante, Jr., Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano, including FBI surveillance and informant reports and correspondence from a variety of offices including, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, New York City, New Orleans, Atlanta, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago; Justice Department memoranda, correspondence, and analyses; Newsclippings and articles; Domestic Intelligence Section reports; Transcriptions of wiretaps, typewriter tapes, and coded messages; Memoranda of conversations.
The collection contains a wealth of primary materials documenting the Spanish Republican period (1931-1939), the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the post-War era of Franco’s rule (1939-1975). The collection’s greatest strengths are the Civil War itself and the immediate post-War years of the 1940s. Included are publications by Republicans, Falangists, Catholics, anarchists, communists, socialists, agrarian reformers, and regional political parties, as well as Spanish exiles and partisans outside Spain.
Both of these collections are listed on our History A-Z list as well as our main database A-Z list and DiscoverEd.
Following a successful trial, we have now purchased the Stalin Digital Archive database from EastView.
The Stalin Digital Archive contains primary and secondary source material related to Joseph Stalin’s personal biography, his work in government, and his conduct of foreign affairs. A majority of these documents are scanned page images and corresponding bibliographic records in Russian created by the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI). The archive also contains full transcriptions of all of the volumes in Yale University Press’s acclaimed Annals of Communism (AOC) series.
Stalin Digital Archive can be accessed via the databases A-Z list, the History A-Z list or DiscoverEd.
Following a successful trial earlier this year, we have now purchased the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England database.
The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272 – 1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485 – 1509), after which they were superseded by the journals of the lords and, somewhat later, of the commons. The rolls, which amount in total to over four million words, were first edited in the eighteenth century and published in 1783 in six folio volumes entitled Rotuli Parliamentorum ( RP ) under the general editorship of the Reverend John Strachey.
This database can be access via our Databases A-Z list, History A-Z list or DiscoverEd.
For this academic year we have expanded our holdings to include coursebooks – we have now loaded 8000+ e-books across most subject disciplines to DiscoverEd. A list of the additions can be found here.
A full list of our Cambridge Books Online can be found here. We will provide monthly updates on new titles added.
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks
If a book you require is not held by the library, please visit our Library Resources Plus webpage.
We now subscribe to JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIII and Arts & Sciences XIV packages.
The Arts & Sciences XIII Collection adds an increasingly international set of journals in disciplines including Language & Literature, Art & Art History, Philosophy, and Religion. Represented subdisciplines include European church history and the literature of the American West. The collection offers a global scope. European countries including Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands each contribute several titles, with an additional title published in South Korea, the Journal of Korean Religions. The collection will contain at least 125 titles by completion.
The Arts & Sciences XIV Collection brings together more than 125 journals devoted to the study of culture and communication, from civilization’s earliest traces to the growth and governance of peoples. All titles are new to the JSTOR platform at the time of launch. Journals in the collection span 17 countries, 23 disciplines, and date back to 1839. They are drawn primarily from the fields of Archaeology, Language & Literature, Communications Studies, Asian Studies, and Political Science. As this collection was only released last month, not all titles are online yet – these will be added to our catalogue/A-Z list as they become available.
See http://www.jstor.org/action/collectionsAvailable for title lists. We have added the individual e-journals currently available to our e-journal A-Z list and they will be added to our catalogue/searcher soon.
Jisc has partnered with AAAS to provide institutions of higher and further education in the United Kingdom with sitewide access to Science Classic, the digital archives of Science (1880-1996).
Science Classic delivers more than a century’s worth of full-text content from the annals of the world’s largest general scientific journal. The archives are fully integrated with the current content of Science which makes it easier to search the entire collection.
Our e-journal A-Z list has been updated to reflect this extra content.
Following a successful trial last year we now subscribe to the Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.
This is a package of e-books in archaeology. Around 10-15 new books are added each month. Subscribed and open access e-books will be added to the library catalogue/Searcher. The current list of titles can be found here and future updated lists will be available from our A-Z lists on the library website.
Online access requires the use of our library link listed in the EASE protected password page and then the Archaeopress login listed there.
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks
If a book you require is not held by the library, please visit our Library Resources Plus webpage.
A further 260 new titles have been added to our Cambridge Books Online Collection across the following subject areas; American History, Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, British History, Classical studies, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Economics, Education, English Literature, European History, General Science, Geography, History Cross Discipline, History Other Regions, Language and Linguistics, Law, Life Sciences, Management, Mathematics, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Politics and international relations, Psychology, Religion, Sociology . See the list here.
Dawsonera – We have purchased a further 73 e-books across most subject areas and from a variety of publishers. These are all on our catalogue. See the excel list of titles here.
EBL – We have purchased a further 98 e-books from a variety of publishers across most subject areas. These have been added to our catalogue. See the list of titles here.
Ebsco/MyILibrary – 
A further 45 titles have been added to our catalogue. See the list here.
We have added a further 201 titles to our Oxford Scholarship Online Collection. Subject areas include: Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Palliative Care, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, Religion, Social Work and Sociology. See the list here.
We have access to a further 464 titles from Palgrave in the following subject collection areas: Business & Management Collection 2015, Economics & Finance Collection 2015, Education Collection 2015, History Collection 2015, International Relations & Development Collection 2015, Language & Linguistics Collection 2015, Literature Collection 2015, Media & Culture Collection 2015, Political Science Collection 2015, Religion & Philosophy Collection 2015, Social Sciences Collection 2015 and Theatre & Performance Collection 2015. New titles will be added weekly until September when the collections will become complete. See the latest new titles added to our catalogue/Searcher here.
Elsevier Science Direct – We have added a further 16 e-books to our catalogue. See the list here.
On the Taylor & Francis e-book platform we have access to a further 674 titles primarily in the subject areas of Education, Environment and Sustainability, Philosophy. See the title list here.
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks
If a book you require is not held by the library, please visit our Library Resources Plus webpage.
Below is a list of our recent new e-journal subscriptions. These titles can be accessed from our E-Journals Page now and via our catalogue and Searcher next week following system updates.
| Publisher | Title |
| Elsevier | Annals of Vascular Surgery |
| Elsevier | Ophthalmology |
| Elsevier | American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry |
| EMERALD | Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance |
| Foundation for Iranian Studies | Iran Nameh |
| ICE | Green Materials |
| INFORMS | Information Systems Research |
| ISHEASTM-SIHSTMAO | East Asian Science Technology and Medicine |
| LWW | Current Opinion in Ophthalmology |
| MA Business & Leisure | Gramophone Magazine Online |
| Mohr Siebeck GmbH | Philosophy theology and the Sciences |
| Oxford University Press | Oxford Journal of Law and Religion |
| Palgrave | European Journal of Information Systems |
| SBCC | Scottish Building Contracts Committee Online |
| Taylor and Francis | International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement |