• 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…

  • 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