Cite Them Right will experience downtime on Saturday 20th September between 9am and 5pm while the publishers migrate their content to new servers.
Trial – Historical Texts
We have trial access to Historical Texts a database which brings together three historically significant collections for the first time: Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and 65,000 texts from the British Library 19th Century collection. Access is available until the 10th October.
Feedback and further info
We are interested to know what you think of this database 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.
De Gruyter E-Journals – Access Resolved
Access to De Gruyter e-journals has been restored. There are still ongoing issues with their website displaying the correct access rights so it is best to access their e-journals from our library website e-journals page rather than searching on the DeGruyter website directly.
New E-Resources
Media Education Foundation – videos
Following a successful trial on the Kanopy platform, we now subscribe to the Media Education 
Foundation video package. This has been added to our A-Z lists. For further info on this new resource, check out the SPS Librarian blog post.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
We have purchased a further 2 newspaper archives from ProQuest.
The Irish Times (1859-2012) and The Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958)
These are now listed in our Newspapers A-Z list
Trial -19th Century Masterfile
We have trial access to 19th Century Masterfile database which contains over 8 million citations and over 60 indexes covering books, newspapers, patents and government documents published during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Further info about the database contents is at http://paratext.com/pdf/2014ncmcontentlist.pdf
Access the database on campus or off campus via the VPN until 4th October.
Feedback and further info
We are interested to know what you think of this database 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.
De Gruyter E-Journals – Access Issue
We have currently lost access to our De Gruyter e-journals. This has been reported and we hope to have this resolved asap.
This issue is now resolved.
Congressional Record – New Database
We have purchased the Congressional Record database from ProQuest.
ProQuest Congressional is a comprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics, including government, current events, politics, economics, business, science and technology, international relations, social issues, finance, insurance, and medicine. Finding aid for congressional hearings, committee prints, committee reports and documents from 1970-present, and the daily Congressional Record from 1985-present. Compiled legislative histories from 1969-present.
The database has been added to our A-Z list and our History A-Z list and will appear on the catalogue soon.
Further information about our databases is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases.
Trial – Oxford Medicine Online E-Books
We have trial access to 3 e-books on the Oxford Medicine Online platform ending on 2nd October:
Feedback and further info
We are interested to know what you think of these e-books or using this 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.
Engineering Village – additional content
We have increased the coverage available in our Compendex and Inspec databases which are hosted on the Engineering Village platform.
Previously we only had access to the archive content of the databases, now our access is to all available records.
- Compendex is now 1884 to the present.
- Inspec is now 1896 to the present.
Further information about our databases is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/library-databases.
August E-Book News
We have increased our e-book holdings with the following providers.
Dawsonera
We have added a further 44 titles to the Dawsonera platform. A list of the new titles is available here and these have all been added to our catalogue.
EBL – Ebook Library
We have added a further 72 titles to the EBL platform. A list of the new titles is available here and these have all been added to our catalogue.
Ebsco & MyILibrary 
A further 55 e-books have been added to the Ebsco and MyILibrary platforms over the last couple of months. A list of the new titles is here and these have been added to our catalogue.
A further 426 e-books in a variety of subject areas are now available on the Palgrave Connect website. The individual titles have been added to our catalogue and the list of new titles can be browsed here.
A further 695 e-books in a variety of subject areas are now available from Wiley Online Library. The individual titles have been added to our catalogue and the list of new titles can be browsed here.
Further info
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/library-museum-gallery/finding-resources/ebooks