New e-Resource - Brill Classical Studies e-Book Collections

Plato

We now have permanent access to Brill's Classical Studies e-Book Collections after a very successful trial, last year.

You can access all 126 titles in the complete 2007-2010 e-book collections.

Subjects covered include Ancient Philosophy, Ancient History, Ancient Religion, Greek and Roman Literature, Epigraphy and Papyrology, and Archaeology.

Links to each individual e-book have been added to SAULCAT. 

NB: for off-campus access, use the Institutional Login and your University account Username and Password

Trial e-Resource - Classic Mexican Cinema Online

Our free trial access to Classic Mexican Cinema Online is now live, and runs until 28 February 2012.

The content comes from the Archives of the Filmoteca of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). 

During its heyday, the Mexican film industry produced an average of 100 films every year as entertainment for both domestic and international audiences.

This resource covers the 'Golden Age' of Mexican Cinema, from the 1930s to 1960.  It features popular full-text film periodicals, such as Cinema Reporter (1943-1965) and Cinema Mundial (1954-1965).  

It also includes dozens of lobby cards - film flyers which were distributed on the streets to lure people into the cinema - and the personal scrap books of filmmaker Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), a pioneering Latin-American filmmaker.  These scrapbooks contain reviews, movie stills, programmes and advertisements, and provide a unique insight into the career of this major director.

NB: take a look at the short online demo of this database on YouTube

New e-Resource - Italian Reformation

© 2012 Koninklijke Brill NV

A reminder that we have access to the Italian Reformation, Part 1 (Primary Sources Online) database. 

This is a collection of main primary texts which summarise the diversity of the theological profile of the Italian Reformation, as held by the Fondo Guicciardini, Central National Library, Florence.

Research has shown that the Italian Reformation movement spread widely, reaching not only clerical, intellectual and aristocratic elites in the cities but also merchants, artisans, and farmers, even in remote areas of Calabria and Sicily.  

145 e-book records covering this early printed book and manuscript content have been added to SAULCAT. 

This e-resource helps to promote a deeper understanding of Italian Reformation history.

NB: Please note that certain system requirements are essential in order to access this e-resource, including the requirement to download the DjVu browser plugin

New e-Resource - Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)

© JoVE

Meet JoVE (The Journal of Visualized Experiments) - the world's first scientific video journal for biological, medical, chemical and physical research.

We have access to the JoVE General module.

JoVE is the first online journal devoted to the video publication of biological research as a medium for learning, teaching and research.  It explains experimental techniques and procedures through a novel combination of peer-reviewed video and text.

The videos are filmed in research laboratories at leading academic institutions, including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, Yale, etc. Around 50 new videos are published every month.

Subject coverage includes cell biology, development biology, immunology, neuroscience, microbiology and bioengineering.

JoVE is indexed in PubMed, so you can link from your search results into the JOVE articles we have access to.

Links to JoVE are being added to SAULCAT and the E-Journals web pages.

NB:  why not submit your own video-article? - JoVE invites contributions

RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) - planned maintenance 14-16 January

The RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Publishing Platform will be subject to maintenance between 00.00 am on Saturday 14 January 2012 - 00.00 am on Monday 16 January.   This may affect the performance and accessibility of content.

This is essential maintenance required for the next release of the RSC Publishing Platform. The RSC apologises for any inconvenience that this maintenance may cause. 

EU Screen Portal - lost TV archives from across Europe

EUscreen is a new online portal, providing free access to thousands of items of archive TV footage.

It offers videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives, from the early 1900s to the present day.

It results from a groundbreaking collaboration of 36 partners from 19 countries, including the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC).

Content can be used in many different ways - in teaching and research programmes; for exploring popular and social history, the history of Europe and the history of television; by providing new and exciting insights into Europe’s TV heritage; by offering news and commentary on key events in history, etc.

NB: EUscreen is also very valuable as a language-teaching tool - it offers a wealth of news footage and programmes in over 15 languages, including French, German, Italian and Greek - and can help with pronunciation practice and listening skills

Cambridge Books Online - trial access to over 11,000 e-books

Our 6-month trial access to Cambridge Books Online begins today, through our membership of  SHEDL, the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library Consortium.

Over 11,000 e-books from Cambridge University Press are fully accessible, for this period. 

Cambridge Books Online offers extensive scholarly content from almost all academic subject areas - science, technology and medicine, humanities and social sciences. 

Click here to browse the subject areas and all the e-books in Cambridge Books Online.

Links into all the individual e-books have been added to SAULCAT.

Useful walk-through guide to the Cambridge Books Online platform.   

NB:  we have already purchased perpetual access to:

• Cambridge Histories Online  (over 250 volumes of the Cambridge Histories reference series)
  
  
• and 341 permanent-access CUP e-books
  
  
• as well as subscribing to Cambridge Collections Online (over 360 volumes in the Cambridge Companions book series)

NB: limited printing, copying/pasting, and downloading to PCs, mobile devices and tablets, is permitted

New Year - New Databases

Look out for a new year jam-packed with exciting new e-resources!

As ever, we've been thinking ahead for ways in which to enhance your learning, teaching and research experience, and we look forward to getting your feedback.

Coming soon are:

• 6 months trial access to all 11,000 e-books in Cambridge Books Online 
• 3 months trial access to the 2012 Springer ebook collection
• new permanent-access Elsevier e-books
• Twentieth Century Drama database
• Italian Reformation database
• ... and a whole host of trials of other e-resources identified by Schools as being of interest

Do keep checking back for more information and access details.

ScienceDirect and Scopus - unavailable on 7 January

Please note that both ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable on Saturday 7 January 2012, for approximately 13 hours, from 11.30 a.m. on 7 January to 12.30 a.m. on 8 January. 

This is to allow scheduled maintenance to take place.

Elsevier, the provider, apologises for any inconvenience that this will cause.

New Database - Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text

 A reminder that we have access to the Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text database.

FTLI is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of film and television, and has been described as 'the definitive online tool for film and television research'.

It provides the full text of over 120 journals and 100 books, and also indexes over 380 journals and gives abstracts (summaries) of their content.

Subject coverage includes Film and Television Theory; Preservation and Restoration; Writing; Production; Cinematography; Technical Aspects; Reviews, etc.

It also includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to the present, and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.

NB:  FTLI complements the Film Indexes Online database, which consists of Film Index International, the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals and the American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog

Dissertations and Theses database - now Full-Text

Our subscription to the Proquest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) database has been upgraded to the full-text version, for 2012.  Until now, we had access to 24-page previews only. 

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses with Full Text is a comprehensive collection of international dissertations and theses.

It includes over 1.2 million full text dissertations that you can download in PDF form. PQDT offers the full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997, and also for many older theses. More than 70,000 new full text dissertations are added every year.

As well as providing full-text, PQDT also includes 2.7 million searchable citations to international dissertations and theses, from 1861 to the present day, so is an excellent finding tool for relevant theses.

N.B: you also have access to the Index to Theses database which provides a comprehensive list of higher degree theses accepted by UK and Irish Universities, since 1716.

Over 16,000 new theses are added annually, and Index to Theses also provides links to over 50,000 full text theses freely available from University repositories, or from the British Library's EThOS online theses site

Off-campus access to e-resources

Remember that if you're away from St Andrews, you can still access most Library e-resources using your University Account Username and Password (the same as you use for University e-mail).

You can access via:

• A-Z Databases page
• SAULCAT, the Library catalogue
• the E-Journals pages also link to individual e-journals (wich are also listed in SAULCAT)
• or via SEEKER, the Library’s new search service, which allows you to do a single search across many of the Library's databases

If you’re not sure which off-campus access method to use, check the A-Z Databases page.

Logging in:

• select the database you want to search
• use the login link that you'll see on that database (you may have to look carefully for it)
• it will say something like: UK Federation WAYF / Institutional Login / Login via your Home Institution / Shibboleth login / Alternative login, or similar
• then enter your University account details to access
  

Please note:

• the previous method of off-campus access, using ATHENS, is no longer used
• you may continue to see ATHENS logins on some e-resources, but these links are no longer relevant to you, and you should ignore them (some Universities continue to use ATHENS) 

Important Changes to Management Databases

Please be aware that our access to the Emerald Fulltext database will end on 31 December 2011.

Staff and teaching in the School of Management have changed a great deal since we first subscribed to Emerald in 2003, and the fact that teaching and research emphases now lie elsewhere was the catalyst for the School's decision to investigate alternative subject databases.

We will retain perpetual access to the Emerald backfiles (more than 100 years of management research), the Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series Collection, and the Emerald Social Sciences eBook Series Collection.  All the titles in these collections are listed in SAULCAT.

This focus on new areas of teaching and research has led to a number of new business and management databases being purchased in the last year:

• Business Source Premier

contains the full text of more than 2,100 journals, back to 1965. Coverage includes marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics

• SCOPUS

comprehensive access to details of published scholarly material in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities

• ThomsonONE (Deals and Ownership) *

Market awareness and information on public and private companies. The Deals module provides information on Mergers and Acquisitions; the Ownership module includes global share ownership data and investor profiles.

* A Username and Password are required for access; please request  this

• EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts

a subscription to this new database will begin in January 2012

Please note: all existing links to the current Emerald journal titles will be removed from SAULCAT and the database web pages very soon

The British Newspaper Archive - read all about it and other newspapers!

The British Newspaper Archive has received much press coverage since it became available at the end of November.

The British Library has partnered with brightsolid online publishing, to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the BL's vast newspaper collection, over the next 10 years.

The archive offers full-text access to hundreds of historic UK regional newspapers, published between 1700-1940.  65 million newspaper articles, covering the most significant events of the last 300 years, are now available. 

At present, the British Newspaper Archive is aimed at personal subscribers. You can search the site for free, but full-text access costs £6.95 for 48 hour access; £29.95 for 30 days, or £79.95 for an annual subscription.  There is no institutional subscription available yet.

Please note - the Library has access to an equivalent database in Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers

The Library also subscribes to many other online newspaper resources:

• British Newspapers 1600-1900
  cross-searching of the Burney Collection and Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers archives (see below)
  
• British Newspapers 1800-1900
  71 London, national and regional newspapers from 1800-1900
  
• British Periodicals
  over 460 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection, Early British Periodicals, published between the 17th-19th Centuries
• Burney Collection
  more than 700 17th and 18th Century English newspapers and news pamphlets
• Eighteenth Century Journals
  rare periodicals and newspapers printed between 1685-1815
  
• Factiva
  more than 10,000 international business and news publications, 500 international newswires, etc 
• The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)
  newspaper archive, yet to be completed, currently covering 1959-2003 
• Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003 
• Nexis UK
  regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, country reports, transcripts of TV broadcasts, magazines, trade journals, etc
  
• Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
  49 full-text national, regional, and local UK newspapers, published between 1800-1900
  
• Picture Post Historical Archive
  pioneering illustrated UK newspaper published between 1938-1957
  
• The Scotsman Digital Archive, 1817-1950
  every issue of The Scotsman between 1817-1950
  
• The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
  complete digital edition of The Times (London)
  
• TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Historical Archive 1902-2005
  over 5,000 issues of the TLS

Trial e-Resource - International Studies Online

We have trial access to the International Studies Online database, the online version of the 12-volume International Studies Encyclopedia, until 14 December 2011.

International Studies Online is the result of The International Studies Compendium Project, published in association with the International Studies Association.

It is is the 'first major reference work of this scale' in international studies and international relations.

It includes over 400 specially-commissioned, peer reviewed essays of up to 10,000 words, written and edited by an international team of academics.

It also offers live links to archives, datasets, cases, teaching aids, etc., and is updated twice annually.

Different sections include:

• Diplomatic Studies
• Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration
• Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
• Foreign Policy Analysis
• Global Development Studies
• Human Rights
• Intelligence Studies
• International Communication
• International Ethics
• International Organization
• International Political Economy
• International Security Studies
• Peace Studies
• Post-Communist States in IR

NB: International Studies Online also includes a live discussion forum

Special offer - free dvd copies of earlier TV programmes

Missed a TV programme, aired between 1995-2006, that you wanted for teaching or research? - we may be able to get a DVD copy for you.

All you need to do is:

• login to TRILT, the Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching database
  
• use your University account details
• identify programmes from BBC1-4, ITV1, C4 or C5
• and request a free DVD copy, via TRILT, if it is available

TRILT lists programmes back to 1995, and supplements BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National, the TV/radio streaming service which covers programmes between 2006-present.

Once received, DVDs are held in the Library's extensive DVD collection on Level 2, and details added to SAULCAT.  They can be viewed in the Library or borrowed for teaching.

Keep up to date with the Library - Twitter and Facebook

Keep up-to-date with new developments and any issues affecting the Library's e-resources, by checking:

• the Library's Twitter feed
• the Library's Facebook account

Both are updated several times a week, so please check back regularly.

As well as highlighting any database changes or issues, Twitter and Facebook also publicise many other aspects of the Library service - opening hours, database trials, new services and innovations, Rare Books, Library blogs, Library redevelopment, surveys, lectures and events, etc.

You'll find the Twitter and Facebook links on the Library Home page.  Feel free to follow us.

Comments and suggestions would be appreciated!

Royal Society journal archive - now freely accessible

*  Benjamin Franklin's
kite experiment

The Royal Society has made its world-renowned journal archive, freely accessible, on a permanent basis.  

The Society is the world’s oldest scientific publisher, with Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the very first peer-reviewed scientific journal, appearing in 1665. 

The archive offers over 60,000 full-text scientific papers, and provides an unrivalled historical record of the evolution of science, that spans nearly 350 years.

Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment. 

The opening up of the archive is part of the Royal Society’s ongoing commitment to open access in scientific publishing, and follows the publication of Open Biology, the Society's first ever fully open access journal.

* © Bridgeman Art Library/ Private Collection

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts

A reminder that we have access to the ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts database, the premier tool for finding published research in marine biology and aquatic sciences.

Over 5,000 journals, books, reports, conference proceedings, etc., are indexed by this e-resource. Abstracts (short summaries) are also provided.

ASFA includes the following subsets, all of which can be searched simultaneously

• Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources(1971- present)
  marine, freshwater and brackish water organisms and environments, biology and ecology, exploitation of living resources and related legal, policy and socioeconomic issues

• Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 2: Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living Resources (1971- present)
  oceanography, limnology, coastal structures, marine technology, geology and geophysics, etc
  
  
• Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality (1990- present)
  research and policy on the pollution of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and estuaries, and prevention and control methods

• Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Aquaculture Abstracts (1984- present)
  aquaculture, and the cultivation and planned management of marine, freshwater and brackish water species
   
• Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Marine Biotechnology Abstracts (1989 - present)
  molecular biotechnology, cell and tissue culture
  
  
• Oceanic Abstracts  (1981- present)
  marine biology, physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics
  
  
• ProQuest Deep Indexing: Aquatic Sciences
  searches scholarly journals for indexed figures, tables, graphs, maps, charts and other illustration

Off-campus access: login with your University account details.

Free SpringerLink App

Research on the move - login to SpringerLink wherever you are, by downloading the new free App from the iTunes store. SpringerLink is a full-text database platform for journals, e-books, handbooks, book series, etc., published by Springer, and covering every area of science, technology and medicine. Our subscription provides full-text access to all Springer e-journals from 1997- onward, as well as permanent access to the complete Springer eBook Collection of over 30,000 English-language titles, published between 2005-2011. Links to each Springer journal and e-book have been added to SAULCAT. NB: the Springer eBook Collection includes permanent full-text access to Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP), Mathematics (LNM) and Computer Science (LNCS), plus any sub-series, published between 1997-2011.

Trial e-Resource - State Papers Online Part IV: The Stuarts: James to Anne, 1603-1714

Queen Anne
© Gale Cengage

We have trial access to State Papers Online Part IV: The Stuarts: James to Anne, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council, until 2 December 2011.

State Papers Online 1509-1714 is a large digital manuscript archive offering over 3 million pages of 16th and 17th Century State Papers (Domestic, Foreign, Scotland, Ireland) and Registers of the Privy Council, relevant to research in political, governmental, social, economic, and religious history (factsheet).

State Papers Online Part IV covers the 17th Century, one of the most turbulent periods of transition and unrest in British and European history.  It offers a wealth of full-text primary source documents which detail great international themes of this time - the Thirty Years’ War, the Great Turkish War, the end of the Dutch Revolt, the English Civil War, etc.

Wars and treaties, revolutions, marriage alliances, trade and commerce and religion, are all themes covered by this final installment of the four-part archive.

A Username and Password are required for access - please get in touch to request these (University staff and students only), then use our trial access.

NB: The Library already holds permanent access to State Papers Online Parts I-III

ACS (American Chemical Society) - access issues

The ACS (American Chemical Society) Web Editions platform is currently experiencing intermittent technical problems.   Until these have been resolved, you may encounter:

• problems when searching
• slow or unresponsive site performance
• interrupted sessions
• difficulty with downloading articles

ACS apologises for the inconvenience and is working urgently to resolve these issues.

New e-Resource - Film Indexes Online

We now have access to the Film Indexes Online database, an authoritative research resource for cinema and film studies.  It also covers history, literature, music and performing arts resources.

FIO consists of Film Index International, the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals and the American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog.  These important resources can be cross-searched or searched independently.

Film Index International

a comprehensive filmography, from 1900 to the present.  Covers more than 125,000 films and 800,000 film personalities, from over 180 countries. Includes information on film awards, searchable plot summaries, cast and crew lists, plus film synopses and production details.

The FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals (Plus)

almost 400,000 article references from nearly 340 academic and popular film journals, between 1972 to the present.  Provides expert international contributions on film preservation, cataloguing and documentation. Also offers over 85,000 full-text articles from approx 40 key journals. 

The American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog

a national filmography, documenting the history of American cinema.  Over 17,500 entries cover the early years of American film from 1893-1910, and the 48,000+  films produced between 1893-1974.  Provides full production and cast information, extensive plot summaries, etc.

Open Access Week 24-30 October 2011

Open Access Week is an annual global event promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research, with widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, and industry.

Not sure what Open Access is? - the JISC website defines it as "free online access to the outputs of publicly funded research ... typically focused on peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers"

The Library has staff dedicated to developing and promoting St Andrews’ contribution to Open Access.  Check out their informative new web pages:

• Open Access blog - updates on OA developments and related topics, eg funder mandates, new OA journals, etc.
• Open Access FAQ
• Open Access Definitions 
• Summary of funder policies - major funding bodies' OA policies and how to comply with them
• Open Access survey results - local responses to national survey on researchers' attitudes to OA 
• Research Information system - Pure - the University’s Research Information System which stores research activity such as outputs, awards, professional activities, etc
• Research@StAndrews: FullText - the University's digital repository of research output, which recently celebrated reaching 1,000 items
• Information about electronic theses

Trial e-Resource - Congressional Hearings Digital Collection

We have a free trial of Proquest's Congressional Hearings Digital Collection database, until 30 November 2011.

A Username and Password are required for access - please get in touch to request these (University staff and students only).

This resource contains the full-text of all published U.S. Congressional hearings held, from 1824 - present. It also contains unpublished hearings held prior to 1973 (House), and prior to 1984 (Senate).

Hearings cover a wide range of topics, including foreign and domestic policy, science and technology, medicine, national defence, business, and social issues. They contain full transcripts of the proceedings, including oral and written statements, question and answer sessions with Members of Congress, discussions, and other material such as articles, reports, correspondence, etc.

This resource forms an unparalleled documentary record of events and public policy issues faced by America, as well as the objectives and actions of Congress in dealing with these.

New e-Resource - Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies

Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies joins our existing Oxford Scholarship Online modules in Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion. 

The Classical Studies module contains over 200 full-text Oxford University Press monographs which can be cross-searched with the 2,370 e-books in the other subscribed modules. 

Classical Studies has been purchased as a permanent access collection

All titles are listed individually in SAULCAT

NB: you can create quick links to individual e-books and chapters for online reading lists, etc., by using the unique digital object identifiers (DOIs)

SEEKER Snippet 12: why isn't full-text available for all search results?

SEEKER searches across a wide range of the Library's online database subscriptions, as well as SAULCAT, the Library catalogue.

Many of these databases provide full-text search results, but not all - some are specialised indexing or abstracting databases, which can help you discover published research in a certain area.

Indexing databases - such as Philosopher's Index - index the content of many journals, usually in a specific subject, and provide bibliographic details (author, title, article details) of published secondary source material.  Abstracting databases - such as Historical Abstracts - also provide a brief summary (abstract) of the article.

Comprehensive research, especially at advanced level, will involve searching across a range of resources, not only ones which provide full-text.

Most SEEKER search results will link to full-text where we have access; however, since thousands of journals are covered by the indexing and abstracting databases included in SEEKER, it's inevitable that there will be some journals that we don't have full-text access to.

NB: You can limit your SEEKER search results to full-text or available material only by using the ‘Refine your Results’ checkboxes (to the left of your SEEKER search results)

NB: remember that we can get you copies of articles which we don't hold, through the Library's Interlibrary Loans service

Trial e-Resources - EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts and EIU Country Data

Our free trial of the EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts + EIU Country Data databases has just begun.  

The trial will end on 17 November 2011.

EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts provides global market indicators and forecasts back to 1990; economic, demographic, consumption and industry forecasts for 60 major markets worldwide, over the next five years, and longer-term economic projections. 

EIU Country Data gives economic indicators and forecasts, covering 317 series for 201 countries, as well as 45 regional aggregates, from 1980, and forecasting over five years.

Access is from on-campus via the following url: http://eiu.bvdep.com\ip (University staff and students only)

New e-Resource - African Writers Series

A Question of Power: Bessie Head
© ProQuest

We have recently acquired permanent online access to the African Writers Series database.

It includes over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Achebe, Biko, Emecheta, Gordimer, Head, Lessing, Mandela, etc.

Between 1962-2003, Heinemann published key texts covering the whole historical range of modern African literature, and this collection forms the African Writers Series database.

Content includes work by all the major authors of this period, classic earlier texts and new writing, giving the collection a unique importance in the history of postcolonial writing. Much of the content is out of print. 

African Writers Series is accessed through Literature Online (LION), and can be cross-searched with the other LION databases.

Links into the individual titles are being added to SAULCAT, the Library catalogue.

New E-Resource - The Cecil Papers

William Cecil
© Chadwyck Healey

Following a successful trial, we now have permanent access to The Cecil Papers database.

The Cecil Papers form an archive of 16th and 17th century manuscripts, privately held by the Gascoyne-Cecil family at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.

It contains nearly 30,000 documents gathered by William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) and his son Robert Cecil, the 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612), both Secretary of State to Elizabeth I.

Please see this earlier post for more information.

JISC Historic Books - forthcoming enhancements

Some new enhancements to the JISC Historic Books platform will be released at the end of October 2011. They include:

PDF Download

 - you will be able to download a single page, a selection of pages or an entire book as a PDF file, within the Historic Book viewer

Download information to reference management tools

 - using the same download option, you will be able to download Historic Book information into reference management tools

Advanced Search

 - this will allow you to search specific fields - initially Author, Title, Bib Name/Number (eg. WING number), Imprint and Place of Publication

You will also be able to restrict your search by date and database (eg to EEBO (Early English Books Online) books only, for example).

EEBO records enhancement

 - records for EEBO (Early English Books Online) are also being improved and expanded to enhance searching

RSC Publishing Platform maintenance - Saturday 8 October

The RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Publishing Platform will be subject to maintenance between 08.00 - 12.00 on Saturday 8 October 2011, which may affect the performance and accessibility of content.

This is essential maintenance required for the next release of the RSC Publishing Platform. The RSC apologises for any inconvenience that this will cause.

ScienceDirect - off-campus access display issue

ScienceDirect display issue - some users are not seeing their search results displayed when they access ScienceDirect from off-campus.

This is currently being investigated.  A message will be posted on the Library's Twitter and Facebook pages, once it has been resolved.

Get to grips with BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National

If you're new to BoB, our 24/7 online TV and radio streaming subscription, and want to get the most of out of it, read on ...

You can view four short introductory video tutorials, on the BoB site.

• Overview of Box of Broadcasts
• Recording Programmes
• Playlists
• Creating Clips

If you haven't accessed BoB before, you'll need to register the first time you use it:

• type 'St Andrews' into the 'Where are you from' box
• click on 'University of St Andrews'
• then 'Go to Login', enter your University Account details, and select 'New User'
• on the Preferences form, complete the User Information and Account Information areas
• make sure you add your University e-mail address
• click on Update
• then click on the link in the e-mail you'll receive, confirming your registration - and that's it!

For all subsequent logins, just login to BoB using your University Username and Password

For lots more information about BoB, please see earlier blog entries

Early Music Online - over 300 volumes of 16th Century music

Early Music Online contains more than 300 digitised volumes of 16th century music - some of the world's earliest surviving volumes of printed music - held in the British Library.

These anthologies of printed music contain approximately 10,000 musical compositions. They mainly consist of partbooks of vocal polyphony, but also include some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments. They include music printed in Italy, Germany, France and England. 

Highlights of the collection include:

• church music by the Flemish composer Josquin des Prez
• and the English musicians Thomas Tallis and William Byrd
• drinking-songs from Nuremberg
• love-songs from Lyon
• lute music from Venice and organ music from Leipzig

Search Early Music Online content via the British Library Catalogue

Click 'I want this' in each catalogue record to access the digitised music.

Browse Early Music Online content

Thanks to a partnership between Royal Holloway, University of London, the British Library, and JISC, this material is now freely available, and can be used for non-commercial purposes.

SEEKER - searching made simple

http://seeker.st-andrews.ac.uk

SEEKER is our recently launched new search service

It allows you to do a single search across most of the Library's e-resources - our many online databases (which provide you with e-journal articles, newspaper reports, e-books, books, book reviews, conference proceedings, theses, etc), and also SAULCAT.

Find out more

We'd love to have your feedback!

Oxford Scholarship Online - access problems

The Oxford Scholarship Online interface has just been re-launched, but this has resulted in some access issues with the site.

Many OSO e-book links in SAULCAT are not resolving correctly, due to this change, neither are chapter-level DOIs. Off-campus access has also been affected.

OUP apologises for this inconvenience - their technical staff are taking immediate steps to resolve these issues.

Hansard - now included in House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) database

The full-text of Hansard (1803-2005), is now included in the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) database.

Hansard (the Official Report) is the edited verbatim report of proceedings of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

It provides a record of parliamentary debates and questions, including written ministerial statements and answers to parliamentary questions, as well as transcripts of the debates. Each Hansard record corresponds to a day’s sitting or written answers, usually covering several topics.

This important enhancement to HCPP enables Hansard to be cross-searched with the Sessional Papers of the House of Commons.

Hansard can also be browsed by date or Member.

New - RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Mobile App

Download the new free RSC Mobile app for iOS (iPad, iPhone and iPod), from iTunes.

RSC Mobile gives you access to over 30 Royal Society of Chemistry e-journals, and allows you to:

• access the latest articles in the RSC journals 
• read full-text HTML and PDF articles via the University's wireless network
• save articles for reading offline
• share your favourite content via email, Twitter or Facebook
• get the latest news from the RSC Publishing platform 

RSC Mobile FAQ

SciFinder Scholar - web-based training

SciFinder Scholar is now completely web-based.

SciFinder is a research tool that allows you to explore Chemical Abstracts Service databases containing biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science literature, etc.

To access, please register for the web version of SciFinder, and choose your own Username and Password.  Login using your University Computer Account Username and Password, then register with your University e-mail address.

These details will allow you on- and off-campus access to SciFinder.  They will also allow you anytime, anyplace, unrestricted access to SciFinder Mobile (supported platforms)

You can also self-register for CAS Learning Solutions and set up your own tailored training at a pace to suit you.  

British Cartoon Archive - now includes Giles Archive of political cartoons

"Grandma" by Giles
© Express Newspapers

Over 15,000 cartoons from the Carl Giles Archive, held in the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent, have been digitised and made available for teaching, learning and research.

The Giles Collection is the single most important archive of British newspaper cartoons, and a major resource for British political and social history. It includes rare seaside postcards as well as political cartoons.

This JISC-funded digitisation project expands the holdings of the British Cartoon Archive which holds the national collection of British social and political cartoons.

This archive already represents the work of over 250 British cartoonists and is widely used for research and teaching.  The Giles Collection is cross-searchable with the 123,000 other images in this archive.

NB: due to JISC funding, HE UK staff and students can use images from the Giles Collection, free of charge for educational purposes; see full copyright information 

Literature Online (LION) - 400 Penguin Classics added

Bronte Sisters

Nearly 400 volumes of Penguin Classics - including more than 1,000 individual works - have been added to the Literature Online (LION) database.

This series has long been known for its scholarly and accessible texts of world literature.

Works by important English and American writers such as Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain and the Bronte sisters are included.

A large number of modern translations of texts by eg., Emile Zola, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Giovanni Boccaccio, Farid Attar, Cao Xueqin, etc., are also included.

Complete list of Penguin Classics Introductions.

Off-campus access: use your University Username and Password