• 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…

  • Oxford Scholarship Online

    We have a trial access to Oxford Scholarship Online. This collection consists of 3,000 scholarly Oxford books in several disciplines including Business and Management, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature,  Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology and Social Work.  We really need your feedback on this potential new resource. Can you let your Academic Liaison Librarian know…

  • 2,000 New Ebooks!

    Our  collection of Ebooks from Ebrary has now grown to 46,092. Two thousand titles were added to the collection in February and these are now available in the library catalogue. To search the complete Ebrary collection go to Ebrary Collection. Do not forget that whilst in the Ebrary library, you can set up a personal…

  • New Collection of Ejournals

    We have taken out a subscription to the entire collection of journals from the publisher “Walter de Gruyter”. This is an interdisciplinary collection of over 100 titles. All the titles are now in the library catalogue and can be accessed at Walter De Gruyter Journals

  • Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)

    We now have access to Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974-1996. FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary. We have…

  • History Online Database on trial

    We have got a trial of The Bibliography of British and Irish History Online (BBIH).  This resource has grown out of, and will supersede, the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History. This is a database of around 470,000 records, updated 3 times per year, with around 10,000 references added annually. It covers…