Changes to Project Muse platform
Dec
5
Project Muse have informed us that they will be changing their platform. The new platform will go live in January 2012, but is currently available to view in beta form at http://beta.muse.jhu.edu. Please feel free to take a look and feed back any questions or issues you might have about it.
Muse have alerted us to [...]
Proquest products unavailable 4th December 2011
Dec
1
ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on December 4th, 2011. A twelve hour window will be required for this maintenance, from 03:00 for twelve hours. As a result, most Proquest products will be unavailable during this period.
Apologies for any inconvenience.
No access to Reaxys 3rd December 2011
Nov
28
Due to scheduled maintenance, there will be no access to Reaxys on Saturday 3rd December. Access will be fully restored on Sunday 4th December. Reaxys apologise for any inconvenience.
Open resource to support PhD scholars with research data management!
Nov
14
An online training course to help disseminate good practice in research data management developed at the University of Edinburgh is now free to use by PhD students, early career researchers and digital data users at all UK universities.
The non-credit, free online course has interactive units focused on key concepts of data management including video clips [...]
Survey Results! Library Support for Postgraduate Reasearchers 2011
Sep
14
One of the key services Research Liaison offers to doctoral students and academics is 1-2-1 support with using Library resources. This is a bookable session which is tailored to your own research needs. We can look at:
Useful online resources for your subject
Effective searching for relevant results
Keeping up to date with research in your area
Every summer [...]
Web of Knowledge Maintenance, 17th July 2011
Jul
14
Thomson Reuters will be performing maintenance to Web of Knowledge, EndNote Web and ResearcherID this coming Sunday, July 17th beginning at 2.pm. They expect this maintenance to last approximately 12 hours.
During this time, there may be disruption of service and access to these products, including Web of Knowledge Personalization. We apologize for any inconvenience this [...]
The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
Jul
1
The Library has bought the Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991. This features the complete 62-year run of The Listener, the BBC periodical published from 1929-1991. The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929 under its Director-General Lord Reith. It was the intellectual counterpart to the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times. Developed as [...]
State Papers Online Parts III and IV
Jul
1
The University has purchased State Papers parts III and IV, to add to the Library’s previous purchase of parts I and II. The State Papers provides a digital edition of the Domestic, Foreign, Borders, Scotland, and Ireland State Papers of Britain with the Registers of the Privy Council and other State Papers now housed in [...]
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice Online
Jul
1
The University has bought Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice Online. This resource provides access to many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images. There are 17 thematic areas: Slavery in Early Americas, African Coast, Middle Passage, Slavery and Agriculture, Urban and Domestic Slavery, Slave Testimony, Spiritualism and Religion in Slave communities, Resistance [...]
Making of the Modern World
Jul
1
The University has purchased the Making of the Modern World. This resource provides access to the theories, practices, and consequences of economic and business activity in the West, from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century.
Contains collections from the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and [...]