Two of the Library’s largest education databases are now sporting a new look. British Education Index and ERIC are now available from EBSCO, rather than ProQuest. The EBSCO interface will be familiar to anyone who has searched StirGate, SportDiscus, Business Source Premier or Historical Abstracts. As before, it is possible to search BEI and ERIC simultaneoulsy, simply select one of the […]
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New resources added to A-Z list: Times Literary Supplement Archive and The Sunday Times Archive
Two new electronic resources have been added to the A-Z list: Times Literary Supplement Digital Archive and The Sunday Times Archive. These resources will be useful for anyone researching, teaching or studying either English Literature, History or Journalism. The Times Literary Supplement Digital Archive provides access to the full text of the TLS from […]
Three new health resources added to A-Z list: OVID Medline, the Joanna Briggs Institute and OVID Nursing
Great news for anyone researching, teaching or studying health. The Library now provides access to three new resources: OVID Medline, the Joanna Briggs Institute and OVID Nursing. OVID Medline is a large index to medical, nursing, biological and allied health literature. References are included from over 5000 journals and it is updated weekly. It […]
New resources on A-Z list: Early European Books & The Vogue Archive
Two new resources have been added to the A-Z list of online resources: Early European Books and the Vogue Archive. Early European Books is a collection of printed material (mostly books, but also pamphlets and sermons) from across Europe from the start of printing to the seventeenth century. Previously it would have been necessary […]
Historic Books becomes Historical Texts
Historic Books, our access to Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and the British Library Nineteenth Collection has a new name and a new interface. Now known as Historical Texts, this service provides access to digitised versions of over 350,000 books, pamphlets and periodicals from the late 15th to 19th centuries. […]
New multi-media resources
Two new multi-media collections have recently become available: The British Pathé Collection and the London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News Audio Archive. The British Pathé Collection contains 85,000 historic films which cover the period 1896-1976. The collection is varied, but is particularly strong in its coverage of the First and Second World Wars. This […]
Network locations affected by the Airthrey power outage – 1st May 2014
As advised by the recent Estates Service Message, there is a fault with the high voltage electricity supply which has affected several locations. One of these is Airthrey Castle, where network infrastructure equipment is currently without power. While this equipment is offline, the following areas will not have any wired or wireless network connectivity: […]
Network and telephony service disruption, Tuesday 29th April 2014
There will be an interruption to external telephone lines and some network services, between 07:30 and 08:30 on Tuesday 29th April. During this time, staff from Systems and Network Services will carry out maintenance of the power supply to essential network equipment. The interruption will last for up to 1 hour. The following services […]
New policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework
A new open access policy for future research assessments, post REF 2014 has been announced by HEFCE and the other three UK funding bodies. The requirements apply to journal articles and conference proceedings which are accepted for publication after 1st April 2016, and do not apply to data, monographs, other long-form publications, creative or non-text […]
First World War newspaper articles
August 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. To facilitate access to research in this field Cengage Learning have made made several newspaper articles from the period freely available online. Topics include: the prelude to war, the Western Front, keeping the Germany Army at bay, Germany’s advance, America joins the […]