• Project Muse Journals on trial

    We have taken out a trial to the Humanities Collection from Project Muse. Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing full text online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities journals. The journals are indexed and peer-reviewed. The Humanities Collection consists of 167 journals and can be accessed at Project…

  • Collection of Health and Education Journals on Trial

    We have got a trial of the complete collection of Journals from Pier Professional. Pier Professional publishes journals in healthcare and social care and allied fields. There are 23 journals in the collection. We already subscribe to 6 titles – so this package would give us online access to the other 17 titles. New titles…

  • WARC – new Media online database

    We have got a new Media resource called WARC. This online database includes thousands of case studies that reveal the campaign strategies of leading brands. There are articles and best practice guides. There is information on market intelligence – ad forecasts, brand profiles, conference reports and other material on top advertisers, brands and agencies. WARC…

  • Fame: new business database

    We have taken out a new subscription to Fame. FAME contains comprehensive information on companies in the UK and Ireland. You can use it to research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles and for analysis. Information provided includes Company financials with up to 10 years of history. financial strength indicators, directors and contacts,…

  • New Education Database: 1300 full text journals

    We have taken out a subscription to Education Research Complete. The database provides the full text for over 1,300 journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 2,200 journals. This database also includes full text for more than 550 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. ERC covers all…

  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: new interface

    Until July 2010 IBSS was provided by Ebsco. However Ebsco can supply no longer IBSS and our subscription has been taken over by CSA. It is a new platform for Edge Hill users but seems very intuitive.  IBSS focuses mainly on the four core social science disciplines – anthropology, economics, politics and sociology – but…

  • New Wiley Site: Wiley Interscience becomes Wiley Online Library

    Over the weekend of 7th and 8th August Wiley will launch their new web site – Wiley Online Library. The Wiley website and all Wiley journals will be unavailable during this time.

  • Illustrated London News Archive on trial

    The Illustrated London News Historical Archive has become available. ILN archive covers 1842-2003. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full colour and every article and caption is full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting and links to corresponding illustrations. Facsimilies of articles and illustrations can be viewed, printed and saved. This resource will be very useful…

  • InterEd – a new educational resource

    InterEd consists of 6 journals from Mark Allan. InterEd is an online resource providing lesson plan ideas, news, reports and features for teachers and education professionals working in early years, primary and secondary education. The interface is intuitive and the content will be very useful to all education students. The six journals are listed on…

  • New Ebook Platform

    We are trialling DawsonEra for Ebooks. What is different about DawsonEra?  When you enter the site there are 2 options. You can read the book online with the usual (restricted) printing options or you can download the whole book onto your desktop for upto three days. However there is no faculty to print/save on the…