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.
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.
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.
We have just renewed our subscription to JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) for the new academic year and have added a few more titles to this subscription. We now have access to the following sections:
Access these e-journals via DiscoverEd.
Our subscription to the Financial Times now contains new features –
FT Confidential Research combines the FT’s proprietary survey data and on-the-ground research from China and Southeast Asia, to give you predictive investment insights and indicators for key sectors and trends in the region.
Instant Insight offers timely and authoritative analysis of the breaking news stories of the day. Understand the implications before anyone else through the insight of our award-winning columnists and global network of specialists.
Further Info
Financial Times is listed on our Databases AZ list and DiscoverEd. First time users will be asked to register. This then provides access to a range of additional tools and resources on FT.com including:
We recently took out a subscription to the Datasets component of Sage Research Methods following a successful trial.
The datasets included in SAGE Research Methods Datasets are taken from government sources and academic research and demonstrate both qualitative and quantitative methods. Each dataset is presented with an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to best demonstrate how the method is applied.
Datasets screenshot
These individual datasets have now been added to DiscoverEd following the Sage Research Methods platform change which involved replacing all of our existing records for the books, videos and case studies we already had a subscription to.
The new Sage Research Methods website has been fully redesigned to make it more modern and user friendly. It is also fully responsive to the different kinds of mobile devices that may be used. Sage have also improved the discoverability of content with an improved search and methods map. Browse options have been enhanced to allow browsing by discipline, content type and method topic.
Further Info
Access Sage Research Methods via our Databases AZ list or DiscoverEd.