New look Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary online has an exciting new interface. Watch this quick start video to catch up on all the changes!
Tag: eresources
Free content from Bristol University Press
Bristol University Press Digital are making their most frequently downloaded book chapters and journal articles available to everyone for free until the end of July.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos offers unrivalled breadth of classical and jazz music for on-demand streaming. From major to independent labels, recordings are supplemented with biographies, liner notes and other complementary resources.
Declassified documents demonstrated
ale supplies many primary historical resources: searchable collections of scanned documents, photographs and other footage from ages past up until the end of the last century. In this video, Gale’s experts explain how to get the most from Declassified documents, their collection of secret papers that have since been declassified and made available for study.
Practical engineering
Did you know that our databases don’t just contain scholarly musings on obscure issues, some of them are intensely practical, like the engineering and materials information database, Knovel, which you can use to build practical things, like bicycles, race cars, bridges, autoclaves… okay, let’s stick with bikes for now.
Knovel engineering
I’ve plumbed the depths of Knovel before now but having just chatted with the lovely lady from Elsevier who teaches people like your lecturers about the latest developments in our academic information resources, I wanted to pass on news of these latest exciting new tools and features that have been added recently.
New for 2023: RGS (with IBG) archives 1482-2010
We are excited to begin the new year by presenting you with the archives of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) covering 1482-2010.
Funded by research funding from our success in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise, this archive of historical geography is extensive and includes Maps, Atlases, Charts and Plans; Expedition Reports; Fieldnotes, Correspondence and Diaries; Grey Literature; Photographs, Artwork and Illustrations; Journal Manuscripts; Photographs; Proceedings, Lectures, and Ephemera. The collection spans a wide variety of interdisciplinary research areas, and supports educational needs in Anthropology, Area Studies; Cartography and Visualizations, Colonial, Post-Colonial & Decolonisation Studies; Development Studies; Environmental Degradation; Historical & Cultural Geography; Historical Sociology; Human Geography; Identity, Gender & Ethnic Studies; Geology; International Relations; Trade and Commerce, and Law and Policy relating to Colonization and over a hundred special collections.
New eresource: “Life at sea” chronicles 300 years of life at sea
We are delighted to announce that we have just added another eresource from AM Digital (formerly Adam Matthew) that is very relevant to Portsmouth: Life at sea. This new database gives you access to three centuries of archives from the UK and America that chronicle the lives of ordinary seamen, merchants, whalers, and pirates.
From news print to film: bringing you everything new under the sun
Our most popular media eresources are expanding and improving! Kanopy has expanded to include over 3000 new films and is redeveloping its search and browsing tools to make it even easier to find what you want. Meanwhile, our ever popular Gale Primary Sources collection has expanded to bring you fully searchable scans of the Daily Mail up to 2004 and The Times up just three years ago.
Meet our award-winning collection: Disability in the modern world
Some happy news to start the year: one of our digital collections, Disability in the Modern World, has been named Outstanding Academic Title 2020 by Choice Magazine. Clearly, we were ahead of the curve in acquiring it! “No other products directly …
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