A further 118 e-books published by Cambridge University Press have been added to DiscoverEd. Subject areas cover most disciplines. See the list here – tab 1 contains the monographs and tab 2 contains the course books.
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 recently purchased 235 e-books from Business Expert Press and these have now been added to DiscoverEd. See the title list here.
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.
All of our recent Bloomsbury e-book collection purchases have now been added to DiscoverEd. See the full list here.
Collections purchased include: Anthropology Archive 1993-2013, Anthropology 2014, Biblical Studies 2013, 2014, Christian Doctrines Archive 1988-2013, Christology Archive 1982-2011, Churchill Collection, International Critical Commentary 1901-2014, International Relations Archive 1998-2013, Political Theory and Philosophy Archive 1998-2013, Politics and International Relations 2014, Politics Archive 1993-2013, Religious Studies Archive 2008-2012, Religious Studies 2013, 2014 and 2015. Religious Studies 2015 collection titles will be added to DiscoverEd as new titles become available.
Platform features
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.
A further 130 monographs and 32 coursebooks have been made available in September. A list of the additions can be found at the links below. These are now available via DiscoverEd.
September Coursebooks Additions
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 have added a further 147 Sage e-books to DiscoverEd. Subject areas primarily Education and Psychology. See the new additions list here.
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.
Over 600 new e-books from Palgrave have been added to DiscoverEd. Subject areas include: Business & Management, Economics & Finance, Education, History, Language & Linguistics, Literature, Media & Culture, Political Science Collection, International Relations & Development, Religion & Philosophy, Social Sciences and Theatre & Performance.
A title list of the new additions can be viewed here.
We now have access to over 6,600 e-books on the Palgrave Connect platform, these can be browsed at this link http://www.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/browse/jumpStartResults.
The Library has recently taken out membership to Open Book Publishers (OBP). OBP are an open access publisher, primarily for humanities and social sciences but now expanding into other disciplines. Further info. about their vision can be found here. Currently there are 63 books available with a further 12-18 to be published during the next 12 months. A list of the e-books currently available can be found here. New titles will be added to DiscoverEd.
Library membership provides students/staff and alumni with the right to freely download any digital edition format of any title from their website. Library Membership also provides a 15% discount (to staff/student/alumni) on any printed edition of their titles, purchased from their website.
We have recently purchased British Newspapers Part 3 and 4 – 1780-1950.
British Newspapers Part III contains the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Leeds Intelligencer, Yorkshire Gazette, Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury.
British Newspapers Part IV contains the Evening Telegraph, Yorkshire Gazette, Nottingham Evening Post, Illustrated Times, Edinburgh Evening News, Chester Chronicle, Cheltenham Chronicle, Cambridge Independent Press, Belfast Morning News, Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, and Aberdeen Journal.
See the factsheet for more details as well as related newspaper packages we have previously purchased.
There is an entry for “British Newspaper Archive” on our main AZ list as well as the subject AZ lists for History and Newspapers. Individual newspapers titles will be added to DiscoverEd soon.
We have recently purchased two extra collections within Mass Observation – Mass Observation Parts III and IV. Access this resource via the database A-Z list and DiscoverEd.
Detailed information about the contents of Mass Observation can be found at http://www.amdigital.co.uk/m-collections/collection/mass-observation-online/detailed-information/ and a quick tour of the resource is shown in the YouTube clip below.
We have added over 600 new Elsevier E-Books into DiscoverEd. These new titles cover most subject areas. A list of the new titles can be found here.
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.