A further 253 e-books across most subject areas have been added to DiscoverEd. Cambridge Core hosts books from a variety of publishers including Edinburgh University Press, Cambridge University Press, Boydell & Brewer. A list of the new titles and subject areas can be found in the spreadsheet here.
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.
We have trial access to Punch Historical Archive until the 14th February.
From 1841 to 1992 Punch was the world’s most celebrated magazine of humour and satire – imitated, parodied and pirated from America to India and Japan.
The Punch Historical Archive will allow users to navigate and search all issues, seasonal numbers and almanacks of this iconic publication, providing a unique insight into the politics, culture and society of the 19th and 20th centuries
Feedback and further info
We are interested to know what you think of this e-resource 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.
We have additions to the following e-book packages.
Berg Fashion Library – We have added 70 e-books to our catalogue in December. See a list of the Berg e-books (currently 80 are available) at the e-book page on the Berg Fashion Library.
Cambridge Books Online – We have access to a further 477 e-books across most subject areas, these are in the process of being added to our catalogue. See the excel list here.
Dawsonera – We have purchased a further 151 e-books across most subject areas and from a variety of publishers. These are all on our catalogue. See the excel list of titles here.
EBL – We have purchased a further 94 e-books from a variety of publishers across most subject areas. These have been added to our catalogue. See the list of titles here.
Ebsco/MyILibrary – 
A further 68 titles have been added to our catalogue. See the list here.
Elsevier Science Direct – We have added a further 207 e-books across various subject disciplines to our catalogue. See the list here.
Oxford Reference Online – We have replaced or added 20 titles published in 2014. Browse a list of our titles here.
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/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.
The following have seen additions to content and have been or are in the process of being added to our catalogue.
Access Engineering has seen about 30 title additions as well as new calculators and videos over the last couple of months – see the new titles listed at http://ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url=http://accessengineeringlibrary.com/pages/updates
We have added 1156 e-books to our Cambridge Books Online package (includes some partner press titles). Titles have been added to most subject areas. Access the list here.
Cambridge Histories Online – we have purchased the 2014 published titles and these are in the process of being added to our catalogue as the titles are published (final titles due 5th Dec). The list can be browsed here.
Dawsonera – A further 223 titles were added to our catalogue over the last couple of months. See the title list here.
EBL – A further 140 titles were added to our catalogue over the last couple of months. See the list here.
Ebsco/MyILibrary – A further 59 title have been added to our catalogue during Sept and Oct. See the title list here.
IEEEXplore – we have added a further 21 titles published by IEEE-Wiley. Titles listed here.
Oxford Handbooks Online – Archaeology, Classical studies and History modules (6 titles). We have purchased the 2014 published titles listed here.
We have added a further 90 titles from Oxford Scholarship Online to our catalogue. A list of the new titles is here.
From Palgrave Connect we have 164 new titles in Business & Management, Economics & Finance, Education, History, International Relations & Development, Media & Culture, Political Science, Religion & Philosophy, Social Sciences and Theatre & Performance. We have received the final update for 2014. Further titles will become available to us in March 2015. See the list here.
Royal Society of Chemistry – We have added 14 more titles to our catalogue recently. A list is here.
From Springer we have access to a further 521 e-books across most subject disciplines. See the title list here.
From Taylor & Francis we have added an additional 172 titles in Education to the catalogue. See all 4 tabs on the excel list here.
University Press Scholarship Online has an additional 1226 titles added to our holdings in a wide range of subject areas and academic publishers. These have been added to the catalogue but see also a title list here.
Wageningen – we have a further 14 titles, subject area life sciences. Access the list here.
A further 100 new Wiley Online Library titles have been added to our catalogue. A list of the titles is available here.
Further information about our e-books is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/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 trial access to Punch Historical Archive until the 6th December.
From 1841 to 1992 Punch was the world’s most celebrated magazine of humour and satire – imitated, parodied and pirated from America to India and Japan.
The Punch Historical Archive will allow users to navigate and search all issues, seasonal numbers and almanacks of this iconic publication, providing a unique insight into the politics, culture and society of the 19th and 20th centuries
Feedback and further info
We are interested to know what you think of this e-resource 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.