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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thomson Reuters advise “This release, which will be live on July 26th, primarily focused on integrating ORCID data into our platform. We have always supported ORCID’s when they have been attached to a RID, and now we are able to display them individually.
Further information and other release information can be found at:
Dawsonera have now launched their new online reader. This includes a number of enhancements to improve the user experience of reading e-books on their platform.
The main enhancement we have all been waiting for – page range printing, is now available.
The new reader includes the following enhancements:
– An expanded view of the e-book to give full screen reading as well as a zoom in/out feature. Accessibility has been audited by the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind).
– Printing Improvements – you can now print page ranges rather than one page at a time. You have a print preview of the pages selected before you send them to the printer and a print allowance is shown for each book consisting of what you have already printed, and how many more pages you are allowed to print.*
– Copying Improvements – the copy button now shows allowance per book – copies used and remaining, there is a preview page before copying to your clipboard.*
– Searching within an e-book and hit highlighting.
– Improved page navigation using the table of contents, improvements to scrolling and intuitive icons.
– Private and shared notes. See the user guide below for full details on how this works.
– Improvements to the reader layout on a mobile device so that it has the same features as the desktop version…the PowerPoint link below shows screenshots of the new Dawsonera reader on a PC, mobile and tablet.
Some library staff met with Dawsonera recently to see a preview of the new reader. See the slides demonstrating the various enhancements at http://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/docs/Libraries/Main/E-Resources/E-Books/DawsonEraNewReader.pptx
A user guide for the new reader is now available at http://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/docs/Libraries/Main/E-Resources/E-Books/DawsoneraOnlineReader_UserGuide.pdf
Dawsonera have a list of FAQs here.
We welcome feedback on the new reader – please contact your academic support librarian to give your feedback.
*Can’t print or copy if offline, the reader needs online access for DRM management.