Environment Digimap offers land cover map data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). University of Stirling has access until 31st July 2014 while the Collection is free from EDINA. Environment Digimap offers two facilities: mapping through Environment Roam, and the ability to download data through Environment Download. The data available, CEH’s […]
Category: Databases
Free webinar Using doctoral theses in your research: a guide to EThOS
The British Library is holding a free webinar on how their EThoS PhD theses service works. Webinar on 10 December 2013, 11.00am GMT Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5131544266794515713 EThOS http://ethos.bl.uk is the UK’s national database for PhD theses, managed by the British Library. It’s a fantastic resource for researchers, with over 100,000 UK theses freely […]
ZETOC User Satisfaction Survey
The satisfaction survey is presented when you first visit the ZETOC home page at: http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk and also available by using the ‘Zetoc Survey 2013’ link listed in the ‘Please Note’ section. It would be really appreciated if you are able to take a few minutes of your time to provide feedback […]
New resource on A-Z list – Channel 4 Press Packs
Anyone studying or researching British media from the early 1980s onwards may be interested in our new resource Channel 4 Press Packs, which is available via the A-Z list of online resources. This resource provides access to digitised versions of the Press Packs which were produced by Channel 4 from its launch in 1982 until […]
Oxford Scholarship Online
University staff and students now have access to several new collections of ebooks published by Oxford University Press. We have recently subscribed to the following subject collections in Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy (over 1300 titles) Religion (over 1200 titles) History (over 1000 titles) Politics (over 700 titles) This is in addition to […]
Westlaw – access restored (18th September 2013)
Access to the Westlaw legal database has been restored. We apologise for any inconvenience the earlier interuption to the service may have caused.
Cancellation of FT.com
Unfortunately our access to the FT.com will stop on Saturday 14th September. The library has had to make the difficult decision to cancel because of a 300% price increase and licence terms which we could not agree to. The Financial Times is still purchased in print and is available to read in the library. In […]
2012 Journal Citation Reports now available
Journal Citation Reports are an immensely useful tool and can help you: – identify journals with the greatest total cites and the highest impact in your field – find the most appropriate and influential journals in which to publish Each edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is published annually following the year of coverage […]
Web of Knowledge databases may not be available 27 April until 29 April
Please be advised that scheduled maintenance of Web of Knowledge databases will take place beginning on Saturday, 27th April 2013 at 23:00 and ending by Monday, 29th April 2013 at 02:00. Web of Knowledge databases may not be available during this period. This will affect: – Web of Science (Citation databases and Conference […]
Historic Books – user survey results now available
MIMAS, the providers of the Historic Books service, ran a user survey from late 2012 to early 2013. 54% of the respondents were regular users of the resource, using either several times a week or once a week, and 61% said they would recommend it. The full results of the survey are now available on the […]