New e-Resource - Past Masters (Philosophy and English Letters)

Hegel

Permanent access to several Past Masters collections of full-text online editions in Philosophy and English Letters is now available. InteLex's Past Masters series offers definitive editions of the works of seminal figures in the history of the humanities, and includes published and unpublished works, articles and essays, reviews and correspondence.

The purchased collections are:

Katherine Mansfield

English Letters

• Austen (Jane): Complete Works and Letters
• Eliot (George): Notebooks and Library
• Mansfield (Katherine): Collected Letters 
• Shelley (Mary): Journals 
• Shelley (Mary): Novels and Selected Works
• Wollstonecraft: Works

Philosophy

• Aquinas: Collected Works
• British Philosophy: 1600-1900 
• Descartes: Oeuvres Complètes
• Hegel: OUP Translations
• Kant: Gesammelte Schriften
• Leibniz: Philosophische Schriften
• Spinoza: Opera
• Wittgenstein: Collected Works

Links to the 189 individual works in each collection have been added to SAULCAT.  

Digimap Databases - unavailable on 3 August

The Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection and Marine Digimap mapping databases, will be unavailable on Tuesday 3 August 2010, from 10.00 until 16.00. This is to allow a major hardware upgrade to take place.

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

Databases moving to new search interface at end of July

Several OCLC FirstSearch databases have been taken over by new providers:

•      ATLA with ATLASerials (religion, including full-text)
•      EconLIT (economics)

now use the EbscoHOST search interface, which allows several databases to be searched simultaneously. Geobase (geography) and GeoRef (geosciences) will also move to another provider, shortly.

Links to these databases in SAULCAT and on the Library webpages have been altered, to reflect this change.

NB: any existing links to these databases in online reading lists, WebCT, etc., will need to be altered

Nature Archive 1987-1996 now available

We're very pleased to bring you permanent access to the Nature Archive 1987-1996, recently purchased by the Library. Together with our existing subscription, this gives you full-text online access to Nature, from 1987 to the present.

Nature is a weekly, international journal which publishes high-quality research articles in science and technology; some of the most influential science papers have appeared in it. It reports on important advances in science and interprets topical and future trends affecting science, scientists and the general public. Editorials, news, correspondence, commentaries, book reviews, podcasts, etc., are included.

New e-Resource - Economist Historical Archive 1843-2006

A reminder that we have permanent access to The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2006.  This primary research resource provides a comprehensive weekly analysis of international political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments, during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Archive contains complete searchable facsimile copies of all 8,000 issues of The Economist for this period, and complements our subscription to The Times Digital Archive 1785-1885.

Current years of The Economist can be accessed through other database subscriptions - details and links are given in SAULCAT.