With the renewal of our Mathematical Sciences Publishers e-journal subscription, we now gain access to the following new titles:
Access is via DiscoverEd and the e-journals AZ list.
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We have added the newly available “Lives of Literature” collection to our Jstor subscription. This collection supports advanced literary studies and interdisciplinary research on writers and texts critical to curricula in literature. With its focus on journals that use an author or text as a starting place, Lives of Literature also fulfills a scholarly resource need for in-depth study and courses on a single author or text. It will contain 120 journals that are all new to JSTOR when completed.
Key thematic topics include:
View the title list at https://www.jstor.org/titlelists/journals/livesoflitext-backfile-collection?filter=head_titles&fileFormat=xls
Access Jstor via the Databases AZ list, this e-resource is also available to University of Edinburgh alumni.
A user guide to this collection is available from https://guides.jstor.org/livesofliterature
Oxford Bibliographies – Literary and Critical TheoryWe have taken out a subscription to Oxford Bibliographies – Literary and Critical Theory which currently contains 70 articles. As these articles are not yet available in DiscoverEd, please search the Oxford Bibliographies website directly – a user guide is available via the video below.
The following Oxford Bibliographies modules are available to the University of Edinburgh – American Literature, Anthropology, Biblical Studies, British and Irish Literature, Buddhism, Chinese Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Criminology, Education, Hinduism, International Law, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Literary and Critical Theory, Medieval Studies, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Victorian Literature. See http://oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/obo/page/subject-list for individual module title lists.
Access is available via the Databases AZ list.
With the 2019 renewal of our Nature journals collection, we gain access to 3 new titles.
Nature Machine Intelligence will publish high-quality original research and reviews in a wide range of topics in machine learning, robotics and AI. The journal will also explore and discuss the significant impact that these fields are beginning to have on other scientific disciplines as well as many aspects of society and industry.
Nature Metabolism publishes work from across all fields of metabolism research that significantly advances our understanding of metabolic and homeostatic processes in a cellular or broader physiological context, from fundamental cell biology to basic biomedical and translational research.
Nature Reviews Physics is an online-only journal publishing high-quality technical reference, review and commentary articles in all areas of fundamental and applied physics.
All 3 titles are available via our e-journals AZ list or DiscoverEd.
New to the library for 2019, TradeLawGuide provides comprehensive and methodical research tools for WTO law. Its primary document collection includes the WTO agreements and instruments, jurisprudence, dispute settlement procedural documents and negotiating history. Designed to account for the important role of jurisprudence in the development of WTO law, a suite of citators provides comprehensive substantive references to WTO, pre-WTO and Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties provisions as well as cross-references within jurisprudence to interpret provisions and update or distinguish jurisprudence. Annotated Agreements, Treaty Interpretation, Terms & Phrases, Subject Navigator, Dispute Settlement Body Minutes (for policy issues arising in jurisprudence) and Jurisprudence Pending provide additional value-added content. Sophisticated full-text search functions are provided for all research tools and document collections along with detailed summaries and commentaries on WTO jurisprudence.
Access TradeLawGuide via the main Databases AZ list, Law AZ list, Business and Management AZ list and DiscoverEd.
The Library has purchased the 2018 copyright year of Royal Society of Chemistry e-books. The first batch of titles have now been added to DiscoverEd. (50 titles).
A title list can be viewed at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/ebooks#!key=copyright-year&value=2018
Used primarily in the life sciences, protocols provide individual sets of instructions to allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratories. These documents provide written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments that describe the safety, bias, procedures, equipment, statistical methods, reporting, and troubleshooting standards to be used in order to successfully conduct the experiment.
We have purchased over 800 new Springer Protocols – covering copyright years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. These have been loaded to DiscoverEd in time for the new semester and for the remainder of 2018, we will continue to add newly published protocols. A title list is available from https://experiments.springernature.com/download-source-titles-list.
Springer Protocols can also be accessed at http://www.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url=https://experiments.springernature.com which will allow you to cross-search our other subscriptions from SpringerNature (Nature Protocols, Nature Methods) as well as the open access repository Protocol Exchange.
Just in time for the new academic year, we now have access to new Sage e-resources…
Sage Research Methods Video: Practical Research and Academic Skills – This newest collection of streaming video on the SAGE Research Methods platform offers support on the practical skills that researchers need to successfully complete their research. Key areas such as writing a research proposal, planning and designing a research project and securing ethical approval are explicitly covered. Practical skills such as project management, writing for publication, presenting work, and building networks are also presented through helpful explanatory videos. This video collection will give researchers the confidence to successfully navigate their research work, take responsibility for their professional development and identify the transferable skills they need to progress their careers.
A title list can be found here and there is a user-guide at http://sagepub.libguides.com/c.php?g=453083&p=5996497
We have expanded our coverage of Sage Knowledge content and now have access to over 4000 e-books in Business & Management, Counselling, Criminology, Education, Geography, Health & Social Care, Media & Communication, Politics & International Relations, Psychology and Sociology. Additional titles will be added to DiscoverEd as records become available.
University of Edinburgh current staff and students now have access to the Times Higher Education via a library subscription.
With our institutional subscription, you will be able to read online articles and digital editions using the THE website, and you will also be able to download the THE app to your device.
This service provides access to the latest weekly edition, and you can also access full text dating back to January 2013. An archive of earlier articles can be searched, and you have the option to set up a weekly email alerting you when the new edition is available.
Access is enabled via a personal account which is associated with the University using your official University e-mail address (ending .ed.ac.uk)
You can register for an account to access our institutional subscription from 1st June onwards.
If you are registering to access the Times Higher Education for the first time please follow these instructions so that your personal THE account is associated with the University’s institutional subscription:
Once you have successfully registered your personal account, just click on Login the next time you use the service.
If you require further information about setting up your access for the library subscription to Times Higher Education then please:
Contact us via the IS Helpline
We have now loaded over 3,200 e-books across most subject areas into DiscoverEd.
We will add the remainder of 2018 copyright year e-books available to us on the Springer website as the records become available.
We have purchased the Hart 2018 law e-book collection from Bloomsbury Publishing. We will add the 127 titles listed in this spreadsheet to DiscoverEd as records become available.
Our E-Book AZ list lists these books under Bloomsbury.