University of Sussex Library Updates

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Tell us your views on our plans for future developments online

February

7

The Library is currently looking at how we can best serve our users online, both through our local services and working with others on the web. In particular we are looking at how we can enable you to discover content and resources relevant for your research more easily. With that aim, we’re developing a broad […]

Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive (PYMCA)

January

27

The Library is now subscribing to PYMCA, the Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive. PYMCA represents the content of hundreds of contributors from around the World, offering photographic, film, design and writing to form a collection of global youth culture content. PYMCA is available through the Online Resources page of the Electronic Library.

Trial of Ethnographic Video Online

January

21

The Library is currently trialling Ethnographic Video Online.  The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides and more. To take a look at this resource, please go to the trials page of […]

Trial of Oxford Bibliographies Online

January

20

We are currently trialling three subject areas from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, Philosophy and Renaissance and Reformation. To take a look at the these resources, please go to the trials page of the Electronic Library at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/electronic/trials

Bibliography of British and Irish History

January

20

The Library has taken out a subscription to the Bibliography of British and Irish History, which provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available – from 55BC to the present.

New JSTOR Collections

December

23

The Library now has access to three new collections from JSTOR: JSTOR Arts and Sciences  5, JSTOR Arts and Sciences 6 and JSTOR Life Sciences, which contains JSTOR Biological Sciences, for which we already had a subscription, as well as a number of other titles. JSTOR  journals can be found either via the Online Journals […]

ARTstor

December

21

We now have a subscription to ARTstor.  ARTstor provides more than one million images covering artistic traditions across many times and cultures: architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

Gale Newsvault

November

12

NewsVault provides a way of cross-searching to explore Gale’s range of historical newspaper collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across the Times Digital Archive, the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, and others. Provides access to over 10 million digitized facsimile pages. To access NewsVault go to http://find.galegroup.com/dvnw/start.do?prodId=DVNW&userGroupName=sussex

Recommender service to find articles relevant to your needs

October

15

The Library now has access to a recommender service called bX, which uses information gathered from usage data from subscribing institutions to suggest alternative resources when a user does a search.  It works along the same lines as Amazon’s suggestion of “People who bought this also looked at…” so, when you do a search, along […]

Box of Broadcasts (BOB)

September

23

Members of the University  now have access to Box of Broadcasts (BOB), which allows you to record television or radio programmes due to be shown in the next seven days. For some channels, you can also retrieve programmes from the last week or watch items that have been recorded by other users of the service. […]