Westlaw has recently started to include legislation that is not yet in force. If you are reading legislation in Westlaw you should pay close attention to the status information displayed at the top of every legislation part – this will tell you if you are looking at prospective law (i.e., law that is not yet in force). […]
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ScienceDirect down for maintenance this weekend
ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12 hours from 1:00PM GMT Saturday, 23 January to 1:00AM GMT Sunday, 24 January.
Finding Scottish journal articles in HeinOnline
HeinOnline is a great place to look for full text articles for LLB and BA law essays, but its large size can make it difficult to find articles about Scots Law. A new feature in HeinOnline makes this much easier – you can now ask HeinOnline to only show articles published within Scotland.  To do […]
Business information moves into Premier league
Business Source Elite has now been upgraded to Business Source Premier. The University now has access to this key business resource purchased by 14 of the top 15 graduate business schools in the UK (according to Financial Times rankings). Business Source Premier significantly increases the number of business, management and economics journals available to staff […]
Looking for journal articles on political topics?
Try our new look IPSA (International Political Science Abstracts) database. IPSA will help you locate articles from over 1000 of the world’s leading political science journals.  To see if the articles from your IPSA search are available from the library use WebBridge   To find out more about library resources for politics try […]
PhilPapers – new resource for finding online research in philosophy
PhilPapers is an index to online academic journal articles and book chapters about philosophy. It contains references from approximately 200 philosophy journals and monitors the websites of leading philosophers. PhilPapers is freely available, but if you register for an account you can receive RSS feeds of new materials in topics of interest.  See more online […]
Digimap essential maintenance: 7 & 14 April 2009
On Tuesday 7 April 2009, EDINA will be undertaking essential maintenance on the servers which run Digimap. Â In order to minimise disruption to the service, there will be two short periods of downtime on this day (rather than a single long period of downtime) These periods of downtime will be between 08:00 – 08:45 […]
Advance notice: Library Catalogue unavailability during mid-semester break
The Library Catalogue, and associated services, will be unavailable during the mid-semester break on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th April 2009.  This is to allow the Library Catalogue computer system to be migrated to a new server.  The following services will be unavailable:  Access to the Library Catalogue Automated borrowing, returning or […]
Major enhancement to Journal Citation Reports
Additional useful metrics have been added to Journal Citation Reports in their recent update. (Reminder of what the Journal Citation Reports are). Â New metrics added: Â 5 year Impact Factor: considered a better measure for journals in slower moving areas (traditional Impact Factors are based on 2 years of data). Â Summary Rank in […]
What do you think of StirGate? – Quick Poll on IS Home Page
***POLL NOW FINISHED*** StirGate is a new way of searching for journal articles, web sites and other useful publications, and we’d like to know what you think of it.   Let us know by clicking on the Quick Poll on the Information Services home page.  Far more important than X Factor, Celebrity Big Brother, Your […]