University of Sussex Library Updates

News and information from the University of Sussex Library

Archive for the ‘new resources’ category

Bibliography of British and Irish History

January

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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

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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

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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

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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. […]

Elsevier launches SciVerse

September

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SciVerse Hub  integrates ScienceDirect, Scopus and targeted web content from Scirus, Elsevier’s science-specific Internet search engine. SciVerse Hub beta allows for a single search across its integrated content with results ranked by relevancy and without duplication.

Archival access to The Nation

August

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The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine and has published contributions from writers including James Baldwin, Hunter Thompson, Eleanor Roosevelt and Jean-Paul Sartre.  The Library has purchased the archive and we can now offer online access to the full text of the magazine beginning with its first issue in 1865 and continuing to the present […]

Increased access to Taylor and Francis archives

August

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T&F’s  online archives are  collected into subject areas and provide electronic access to journals from the very first issue. The Library has recently purchased the Anthropology & Archaeology subject archive, and also the Engineering, Computing and Technology archive. These include backfile access to titles such as Ethnos, Norwegian Archaeological Review and the International Journal of […]

The Guardian and Observer Historical Archive

July

27

We have added the Guardian and Observer archives (covering 1791 – 2003) to our newspaper coverage. The Historical Archives are fully searchable and contain scans of the papers as they were printed. This  allows users to see articles in context with other news stories and to see the photographs, adverts and images that were printed. […]