Irish Newspaper Archive Trial ending soon

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Trial access to Irish Newspaper Archive ends soon on Monday 31st August.

Irish Newspaper Archives contains electronic versions of Irish newspapers from the 1700’s to current day.  See the title list at https://www.irishnewsarchive.com/plist_static/

Feedback and further info

We are interested to know what you think of this e-book package and platform as your comments influence purchase decisions so please do fill out our feedback form.

A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.

Archives Unbound – Extra Collections Purchased

gdsc-webWe have purchased two additional Archives Unbound modules following a trial earlier this year.

 

The Mafia in Florida and Cuba: FBI Surveillance of Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante, Jr

This collection comprises materials on Santo Trafficante, Jr., Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano, including FBI surveillance and informant reports and correspondence from a variety of offices including, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, New York City, New Orleans, Atlanta, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago; Justice Department memoranda, correspondence, and analyses; Newsclippings and articles; Domestic Intelligence Section reports; Transcriptions of wiretaps, typewriter tapes, and coded messages; Memoranda of conversations.

La Guerra Civil Española – the Spanish Civil War collection

The collection contains a wealth of primary materials documenting the Spanish Republican period (1931-1939), the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the post-War era of Franco’s rule (1939-1975).  The collection’s greatest strengths are the Civil War itself and the immediate post-War years of the 1940s. Included are publications by Republicans, Falangists, Catholics, anarchists, communists, socialists, agrarian reformers, and regional political parties, as well as Spanish exiles and partisans outside Spain.

Both of these collections are listed on our History A-Z list as well as our main database A-Z list and DiscoverEd.

Stalin Digital Archive – new database

Stalin logoFollowing a successful trial, we have now purchased the Stalin Digital Archive database from EastView.

The Stalin Digital Archive contains primary and secondary source material related to Joseph Stalin’s personal biography, his work in government, and his conduct of foreign affairs. A majority of these documents are scanned page images and corresponding bibliographic records in Russian created by the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI). The archive also contains full transcriptions of all of the volumes in Yale University Press’s acclaimed Annals of Communism (AOC) series.

Stalin Digital Archive can be accessed via the databases A-Z list, the History A-Z list or DiscoverEd.

 

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England – new database

logoFollowing a successful trial earlier this year, we have now purchased the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England database.

The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272 – 1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485 – 1509), after which they were superseded by the journals of the lords and, somewhat later, of the commons. The rolls, which amount in total to over four million words, were first edited in the eighteenth century and published in 1783 in six folio volumes entitled Rotuli Parliamentorum ( RP ) under the general editorship of the Reverend John Strachey.

This database can be access via our Databases A-Z list, History A-Z list or DiscoverEd.

Cambridge Books Online – More E-Books Added

CBO-logo-600x63 (new)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 info

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.

 

Web of Science update on Sunday 26th July

wos-logo_webThomson 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:

http://wokinfo.com/news/new/

New Dawsonera online reader launched

logoDawsonera 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.

Trial access to History of Science and Medicine Library E-Books

logoWe have trial access to the History of Science and Medicine Library e-book collection from Brill until 9th July.

The History of Science and Medicine Library is a peer-reviewed book series devoted to the history of science and medicine, both history of scientific theory as well as the history of the role of science in society and culture from early modern times to the present. The medical studies include medical theory and practice as well as medicine and society.

A list of the titles on trial is available here.

 

Feedback and further info

We are interested to know what you think of this e-book collection as your comments influence purchase decisions so please fill out our feedback form.

A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.