Information Services is investing in a new search tool to help students and staff find quality information resources. This will replace our StirGate service. This new toool will search simultaneously across many of the Library’s databases such as Web of Science, Historical Abstracts, CINAHL and Business Source Premier as well as our electronic journal and […]
Category: Journals
New subject research guide for Environmental History
A new subject research guide for Environmental History has been produced by Library staff. This guide brings together a list of the major databases and journal archives of interest to those studying or researching environmental history as well providing a list of recommended websites. The research guide can be seen here. You can keep up to […]
ZETOC – 10 years of keeping researchers up to date
ZETOC (the British Library’s Table of Contents alerting service) is ten years old this Autumn. This multidisciplinary search tool offers a current awareness service for researchers and is a useful way to keep up to date with what is being published in your field. ZETOC Alert allows you to register your topics of interest, or a list of your […]
Looking for academic journal articles about the financial crisis?
Routledge publishing have compiled 65 free academic journal articles about the causes and impacts of the financial crisis. There are eight categories of article: causes of the financial crisis, financial crisis impact and management, regional focus on the financial crisis, learning from the financial crisis, the financial crisis as a crisis of capitalism, opportunities emerging from […]
Science now available online!
You can now read online or download the full text of articles, book reviews and reports from the journal Science. After our recent announcement about Nature (available from December 2005 to present), Nature Geoscience (available from January 2008 to present) and Apidologie (available from 2000 to present) we now have electronic access to Science (from 1997 to present).  You […]
Electronic access to Nature, Nature Geoscience and Apidologie
You can now access articles online from the journals Nature, Nature Geoscience and Apidologie. Simply log on to your portal, search for the journals in the catalogue and click on the link.  Elizabeth Andrews Subject Librarian
Need up to date articles about education in Scotland?
The Scottish Educational Review journal is now available in electronic format. Search the library catalogue for Scottish Educational Review or go to http://www.scotedreview.org.uk/content.php Full text articles are available from 1997 onwards, with abstracts to articles from last two most recent issues also available. If you need the full text from the most recent issues the library […]
More journals in the SHEDL
Berg, Edinburgh University Press, and Oxford Univeristy Press have all finalised negotiations with SHEDL (Scottish Higher Education Digital Library). This will give the University access to many of the journals produced by these publishers at a very small additional cost, and in the case of Berg no cost at all, as we currently do not subscribe […]
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 […]