Archive for September, 2008

Periodicals Archive Online

September 27, 2008

The Library can now offer access to a new database of full-text journals. This agreement is a subset of 80 full text journal backfiles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences from the Periodicals Archive Online collection. Dating from 1891 to 2000, content included in this agreement is suitable for undergraduates and postgraduates.  Please note that [...]

Athens usernames

September 26, 2008

Athens is the passwording system for validating your access to the huge range of electronic resources we subscribe to. The publishers need to know that you are from an institution that pays them for the data, and they have been using Athens to do that for several years. Over the summer, the arrangement by which [...]

Business data

September 26, 2008

Over the summer, we have subscribed to two major new resources for our Business students. Business Source Premier gives full-text access to all the major journals in the subject area. FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) provides company financial information. Both are linked from the Database section of the Library homepage.

New Psychology full text database

September 26, 2008

We have added the ‘Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection’ of full text journals to our extensive collection of Psychology resources. It’s linked from the Databases section of the Library homepage, and the titles are listed in our AtoZ of electronic journals on the Online Journals section. Together with PsycArticles and the Science Direct collection, this gives our [...]

Law databases

September 26, 2008

The Library is now subscribing to Lexis-Nexis, Lawtel and Westlaw. No doubt the biggest users of these will be our Law students, but there is a mass of information available which will help any student exploring the legal background of your subject. All three are linked from the Databases page on the Library home page.