Trial access to Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law

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We have trial access until 31st January to Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law

This resource contains full-text online editions of market-leading reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press, such as Oppenheim, and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Together with Judge Bruno Simma, books in the following four categories have been selected for inclusion:

  • Authoritative treatises, which continue to define their area of law
  • Black-letter reference works and commentaries, which will help you to answer practical questions about the law
  • Classic works on international law, which remain influential in their field today
  • Flagship publications, which provide innovative perspectives on current legal problems

All titles are fully searchable and browsable by subject matter, title and author, and are linked, via the Oxford Law Citator, to relevant case reports and articles within all of Oxford University Press’s online law products.

We are interested in your opinion on whether to subscribe to this resource or not.  This can be done by completing a trial feedback form

All e-resources currently on trial can be found listed on our Trials Webpage.

Aerial Digimap – New E-Resource now available

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We have expanded our Digimap holdings to include Aerial Digimap.  Aerial Digimap provides detailed aerial imagery data from Getmapping at various fixed scales. Most data is post-2011 with updates due each year. Users will be able to view maps through their web browser, save maps for printing and download the map data for use in GIS or CAD software.

Further info

A twenty minute presentation on Aerial Digimap is available at https://youtu.be/rAiO4XXRD5Q

Aerial Digmap is available via DiscoverEd or our Databases AZ list.

Oxford Scholarship Online – new e-books added

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We have added 110 new Oxford Scholarship Online e-books to DiscoverEd.  A title list can be found here.

Oxford Handbooks Online – new e-books added

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We have added the following Oxford Handbooks to DiscoverEd:

The Oxford handbook of the Aztecs / edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.
Oxford handbook of contemporary Buddhism / edited by Michael Jerryson.
The Oxford handbook of international climate change law / edited by Kevin R. Gray, Richard Tarasofsky, and Cinnamon Carlarne.
Late Victorian into modern / edited by Laura Marcus, Michèle Mendelssohn, and Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.
The Oxford handbook of British poetry, 1660-1800 / edited by Jack Lynch.
The Oxford handbook of the theory of international law / edited by Anne Orford and Florian Hoffmann.
The Oxford handbook of Islamic philosophy / edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke.
The Oxford handbook of developmental linguistics / edited by Jeffrey L. Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater.
The Oxford handbook of language and society / edited by Ofelia García, Nelson Flores, and Massimiliano Spotti.
The Oxford handbook of organizational identity / edited by Michael G. Pratt, Majken Schultz, Blake E. Ashforth and Davide Ravasi.
The Oxford handbook of Roman law and society / edited by Paul J. du Plessis, Clifford Ando, and Kaius Tuori.
The Oxford handbook of the economics of prostitution / edited by Scott Cunningham and Manisha Shah.
The Oxford handbook of Shakespearean tragedy / edited by Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk.
The Oxford handbook of the law and regulation of technology / edited by Roger Brownsword, Eloise Scotford, and Karen Yeung.

Further Info.

The following Oxford Handbook subject collections are available to the University of Edinburgh – Archaeology, Business & Management, Classical Studies, Criminology and Criminal justice, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion up to the end of 2016 copyright year.

New Cambridge University Press E-Books Available

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A further 173 e-books are available from Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press and Boydell & Brewer across a wide variety of subject disciplines.  Please see the title list here.  The e-books are now available on DiscoverEd.

Join us for webinars about BMJ resources!

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Join us for webinars about BMJ resources!

BMJ Quality – 2 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 GMT

BMJ Best Practice – 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 GMT

BMJ Case reports – 23 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 GMT

For links to join the webinars, please see http://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/docs/Libraries/Main/E-Resources/Databases/BMJ-webinars-2016.pdf

Yelena Parada of BMJ will provide training for us on how to get the best out of these BMJ resources especially designed for clinicians. These resources will help you both with your clinical practice and your academic work. To access our subscriptions for these and other BMJ resources (such as BMJ Learning or Research to Publication) go via our A-Z of databases to ensure you use the correct codes.

BMJ Quality

BMJ Quality is an online toolkit that supports individuals and teams to work through quality improvement ideas, make an intervention, and publish their results while developing their knowledge and skills. The toolkit is linked to the journal, BMJ Quality Improvement Reports, a searchable repository of global quality improvement evidence and best practice.

BMJ Best Practice

BMJ Best Practice is a point-of-care tool from BMJ Evidence Centre designed to support clinical decision making from diagnosis to treatment. The latest research evidence, guidelines and expert opinion are combined in a single source and presented in a step-by-step approach, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis

BMJ Case reports

BMJ Case Reports delivers a peer-reviewed collection of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions.

 

Guest post by Marshall Dozier, Academic Support Librarian, Medicine

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) videos now available

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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.  ASCD logo

Titles include:

  •          Unpacking the Common Core Standards Using the UbD Framework
  •          ASCD Master Class Leadership Series
  •          How to Prepare Students for Standardized Tests
  •          Instructional Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom
  •          Giving Effective Feedback to Your Students
  •          Integrating Literacy into Curriculum
  •          Best Practices in Action: Using Analogies to Enhance Background Knowledge
  •          A Visit to a Data-Driven School District
  •          Leadership Strategies for Principals
  •          Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping

A bibliography of the titles is available here.  These will be added to DiscoverEd in due course.