Thanks to a request from staff in SPS the Library currently has short-term trial access to both Roper iPoll and Health Poll Database.
Access Roper iPoll and Health Poll Database via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 18th October 2022. Continue reading
Thanks to a request from a student in Politics & International Relations the Library currently has trial access to the Al-Ahram Digital Archive from EastView. This gives you access to one of the longest-running newspapers in the Middle East.
You can access the Al-Ahram Digital Archive via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 1st October 2021. Continue reading
Thanks to a request from a member of staff from Politics & International Relations, the Library currently has extended trial access to Oxford Politics Trove, which enables you, for the first time, to search and interrogate the wealth of Oxford’s politics textbook list.
You can access Oxford Politics Trove via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 30th June 2020. Continue reading
Thanks to a request from a student in SPS the Library currently has trial access to the Universal Database of Ukrainian Periodicals (UDB-UKR) from EastView. The world’s first database of newspapers and magazines of Ukraine, it includes publications in Russian, Ukrainian and English.
You can access the Universal Database for Ukrainian Periodicals from the E-resources trials page.
Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 15th May 2020. Continue reading
*The Library has now purchased access to African Newspapers, Series 1. See New! African Newspapers, Series 1 1800-1922*
Thanks to a request from UncoverEd I’m pleased to let you know that we currently have trial access to 3 digital newspaper archives from Readex covering African and South Asian titles. The 3 databases are African Newspapers: The British Library Collection, World Newspaper Archive: African Newspapers, Series 1 1800-1922 and World Newspaper Archive: South Asian Newspapers 1864-1922.
You can access all 3 databases via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available both on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 13th March 2020. Continue reading
I’m pleased to let you know that the Library currently has trial access to ProQuest Recent Newspapers: The Guardian, a new resource that gives us full-text and full digitised images of The Guardian newspaper from 2010 – recent (3-month embargo).
You can access ProQuest Recent Newspapers: The Guardian from the E-resources trials page. Access is available on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 1st December 2019. Continue reading
*The Library has now purchased access to African Newspapers, Series 1. See New! African Newspapers, Series 1 1800-1922*
Thanks to a request from the UncoverEd project team, I’m pleased to let you know that the Library currently has trial access to two digital newspaper collections, African Newspapers, Series 1 and South Asian Newspapers, from Readex. Both collections offer unique access to fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from Africa and South Asia.
You can access this digital resource via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available both on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 19th April 2019. Continue reading
*The Library now has access to LGBT Magazine Archive until 31st December 2021. See New! LGBT Magazine Archive*
I’m happy to let you know that just in time for LGBT History Month the Library currently has trial access to the LGBT Magazine Archive from ProQuest. This new primary source database is a searchable archive of major periodicals devoted to LGBT+ interests, dating from the 1950s through to recent years.
You can access this digital resource via the E-resources trials page.
Access on-campus is direct, for off-campus access you must use VPN.
Trial access ends 28th February 2019. Continue reading
Thanks to a request from a member of staff the Library currently has trial access to the online Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. This resource offers long-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars on a large and varied range of topics and subjects related to politics.
You can access the database via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available both on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 12th December 2017.
Updated regularly you can easily search the resource, browse by subfield or search within a subfield. It also gives you options to refine and sort your search results.
Access Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics via e-resources trials.
Access is available until 12th December 2017.
Feedback welcome.
Access is only available to current students and staff at University of Edinburgh.
Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for Social and Political Science
I’m pleased to let you know that the Library currently has extended trial access to World Politics Review from EBSCO, which provides up to date and extensive coverage of foreign policy, international politics and foreign affairs.
You can access the database via the E-resources trials page.
Access is available both on and off-campus.
Trial access ends 31st December 2017.
World Politics Review is a daily online publication for foreign policy issues. Articles for the Review are written by several hundred contributors from around the world, experts in a variety of disciplines. Full text is included in PDF and/or HTML and the Review contains thousands of articles in its archive. Continue reading