A further 173 e-books are available from Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press and Boydell & Brewer across a wide variety of subject disciplines. Please see the title list here. The e-books are now available on DiscoverEd.
We have now added the Music module to our Oxford Bibliographies collection. This can be accessed via DiscoverEd or via the Databases AZ list.
See http://oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/obo/page/music for further information about this collection.
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) content is now live in Academic Video Online: Premium (111 titles), ASCD is exclusive to Alexander Street.
ASCD is a global leader in developing and producing innovative content and services to support educational leadership and training for success in the classroom. ASCD represents a global community of 125,000 members, including superintendents, principals, teachers, and advocates from more than 138 countries. Its award-winning video catalogue illustrates classroom scenes of effective, research-based teaching practices and offers advice from top education experts to help bring school improvement ideas and strategies to life.
The ASCD catalogue of video includes a substantive list of demonstration videos, instruction, strategy, and analysis. 
Titles include:
A bibliography of the titles is available here. These will be added to DiscoverEd in due course.
Earlier this year we purchased Hart 2014 and 2015 collection e-book packages, we have now purchased a further 3 collections – Hart 2016, Education 2015 and Second Language Acquisition Archive 2001-2012.
These have all been added to DiscoverEd. Hart 2016 titles will continue to be added to DiscoverEd until the end of the year.
The Hart 2014, 2015, 2016, Education 2015 and Second Language Acquisition Archive title lists can be found here.
We have added to DiscoverEd, 304 new monographs and 113 new coursebooks from the following subject areas: American History, American Literature, Anthropology, Archaeology, Astronomy, British History, Classical Studies, Computer Science, Drama and Theatre, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Economics, Engineering, English Literature, European and World Literature, European History, Film, Media, Mass Communication, 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, Statistics and Probability. Most of the e-books are published by Cambridge University Press but some of the monographs are also published by Edinburgh University Press, Boydell & Brewer and the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute.
A list of the new titles can be found in this spreadsheet with the monographs on tab 1 and the coursebooks on tab 2. Columns can be filtered by subject discipline.
This is the first batch of e-books to be loaded into DiscoverEd since Cambridge University Press launched Cambridge Core. This new website replaces the separate websites they previously maintained for their e-journals, e-books, Cambridge Companions series, Cambridge Histories series, University Publishing Online.
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During the summer we took out a subscription to Academic Video Online following a successful trial earlier this year. A further 1,462 videos have been added across multiple subject areas. Content is regularly added to this database. See the full list of Academic Video Online content here. Columns can be filtered by collection, subject or to highlight the new content only. We will continue to add alerts about new content throughout the academic year.
Subject links
Art & Design – Art & Architecture, Fashion Studies
Diversity – Asian Studies, Black Studies, LGBT, Women’s Studies
Health Sciences – Counselling and Therapy, Health Policy, Medical Imaging, Nursing, Rehabilitation, Sports Science, Veterinary Science
History – World History, Women’s History, American History
Literature & Language – Drama, Film, Language, Literature
Music & Performing Arts – Classical Music, Dance, Film, Jazz, American Song, Popular Music, Theatre, World Music
Personal Interest – Cooking, How-to, Travel
Social Sciences – Anthropology, Business & Economics, Criminal Justice, Education, Environment, Food, Human Rights, Media Studies, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Social Theory
Access this database via the main AZ list list as well as several subject specific AZ lists. Content is in the process of being added to DiscoverEd.
Further info about this resource also appears on the SPS Librarian blog and the New College Librarian blog.
We have upgraded our RILM Abstracts of music literature subscription to include full text.
RILM abstracts of music literature with full text (RAFT) expands and enhances the unrivalled global bibliography of writings on music with the addition of a million pages of full-text content from more than 200 key periodicals, many of which are not available anywhere else online. In addition to metadata, abstracts, and indexing curated and written by RILM’s team of subject experts, RAFT offers search and browse for each full-text issue, cover to cover.
A spreadsheet of the current title list can be found here. New titles are expected each month rising to 240 by the end of the year.
Access this full text database via DiscoverEd, our Music AZ list or our main AZ list.
We have purchased 325 e-books from CABI publishing. Titles have been picked from the following subject areas; Agriculture subject collection, Animal Production and Husbandry collection, Human Health and Nutrition collection and the Veterinary Medicine collection. A spreadsheet of the new titles can be found here.
These books are hosted on CABI’s own website and as well as reading online, the books can be downloaded for offline reading for 30 days. A userguide covering DRM restrictions, how to download to different devices etc is available here.
These books will appear in DiscoverEd soon until then, the CABI platform links can be found on the E-Book AZ list.
A further 197 e-books across a variety of subject disciplines have been added to Oxford Scholarship Online and these are now available in DiscoverEd.
A list of the new additions can be found in the spreadsheet here.
We have updated our holdings to Sustainable Organization Library. New e-journal and e-book content has been added to DiscoverEd.
New e-journal
The Journal of Sustainable Mobility (ISSN 2053-2350) is a new peer-reviewed journal that provides an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of innovative and empirically sound research on sustainable transportation. The Journal of Sustainable Mobility is published in association with Cranfield University, Nottingham Business School and The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The Journal of Sustainable Mobility publishes on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
Dō Sustainability E-books – 50 new titles. DōShorts are a collection of concise, high-quality books for professionals. They address one sustainability challenge at a time and can be read in 90 minutes. The collection includes practical “how to” guides as well as framework pieces and business briefings that give an expert overview of cutting-edge developments in a wide range of fields.
See the full list at http://www.ingentaconnect.com.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/content/dos
The full list of Sustainable Organization Library content can be browsed at http://www.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/collection/gse_susorg2013. Individual records have been added to DiscoverEd. Sustainable Organization Library can also be accessed from the Business Databases AZ list.