Web of Science are offering these useful free webinars later in July and August: JULY 29 AT 10:00 AM BST | AUGUST 4 AT 2:00 PM EDT Your essential guide to literature reviews Whether you’re starting a review article or your dissertation, embarking on a literature review can feel daunting. Not sure where to start? […]
Category: Databases
Journal Citation Reports: 2020 release
This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is an immensely useful tool that lists Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) and other journal metrics. The Reports also monitor and exclude any journals that demonstrate anomalous citation behaviour. JCR can help you: – identify journals with the highest citation impact in your field […]
Textbook not available? Try VitalSource
During this difficult period when libraries are closed VitalSource has opened up its E-textbooks collection until the end of June. If you can’t access an ebook via the Library Catalogue, try VitalSource – more information at: http://libguides.stir.ac.uk/covidlibsupport/vitalsource
New ‘COVID-19: Resources for research’ guide
A number of organisations have created great resources for supporting research into COVID-19. We’ve added these to our new “COVID-19: Resources for research“ Libguide at: https://libguides.stir.ac.uk/covid Here’s the list so far: COVID-19 Research Database (provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO)) WHO is gathering the latest scientific findings and knowledge on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and […]
Dimensions research discovery platform adds datasets
Dimensions is a research information system that aims to make it easier to find different types of research-related outputs with a free search that covers more than 100 million publication records. Now Dimensions have also added research datasets to their free version, integrating more than 1.5 million datasets as a new content type. Datasets are sourced […]
ejournals and ebooks
The library’s collections expand far beyond the physical collection. We have access to 119,000 electronic journals through a range of local and national agreements with publishers. We have access to over 320,000 ebooks, now more than the 315,000 printed books we hold. We are adding to these collections on a daily basis but, if we […]
Focus on: Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
If you are studying the history of film, broadcasting, theatre or the music industry, you will want to take a look at the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive. This is an online archive of 50 entertainment magazines, from their first issues up to 2000. Titles covered include: Variety Billboard Broadcasting The Stage Picturegoer American Film The […]
Spotlight on…. American Periodicals
The Library subscribes to an online resource called American Periodicals, which includes digitised American magazines and periodicals published between 1740 and 1900. This is a good resource if your subject is American Literature or History, particularly if you are interested in the following topics: 19th century literature; women’s magazines; popular culture; American politics and government […]
Webinar: An updated PubMed is on its way!
On Wednesday, August 14th at 4pm, NCBI staff will show you PubMed Labs, a test site that will become the default PubMed early next year. PubMed comprises over 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions […]
Journal Citation Reports: 2019 release
This year’s edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. JCR is an immensely useful tool that lists Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) and other journal metrics. JCR can help you: – identify journals with the highest citation impact in your field – find the most influential journals in which to publish Each edition of […]