Henry Stewart Talks

Following a successful trial, we now have a subscription to a new database: Henry Stewart Talks - The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection which can be accessed (on & off campus)

The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection contains over 950 online audio-visual seminar-style talks each specially commissioned by leading scientists (including Nobel Laureates) from around the world. This new resource is perfect for the classroom setting, in the lab, for your research, as part of your course curriculum and as a study/reference tool for your students.

Turpion Titles

We have full text trial access from 1999 for the following 4 IOP Turpion titles for this year.

- Izvestiya Mathematics

- Russian Chemical Reviews

- Russian Mathematical Surveys

- Sbornik Mathematics


This access will start on 1 January 2009 and will end on 31 December 2009.

SPIE Digital Library - IReL

After a successful trial, IReL are now subscribing to SPIE Digital Library.

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 260,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually.

SPIE DL is hosted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) as part of its Scitation platform.

Collections include
Micro/Nanotechnology
Sensor technologies
Biomedical Optics
Defense & Security
Communications
Imaging
Lighting & Energy
Astronomy

New Chemistry eBook Collection

We now have access to the RSC eBook 1968-2008 collection


The RSC eBook Collection is a definitive point of reference for anyone working in the chemical sciences. Over 700 books spanning 40 years have been brought together, digitalised as pdf files and made fully searchable. The result is a comprehensive overview of research and opinion in a multitude of areas of chemical science.
Continually updated and expanded throughout the year the RSC eBook Collection provides access to new content as it is published and continuous access to our full catalogue of books. The eBook Collection is fully searchable and indexed to chapter level, with all documents provided as pdfs. Excellent search engines, powered by Google, enable you to quickly retrieve the data you want.

Blackwell and Wiley Merge

Blackwell and Wiley have merged, and as a result, from the 30th of June Blackwell will appear on Wiley platform.

During June 28-29 2008, both Blackwell and Wiley will be unavailable while content is moved.

Patents - Trial to Thomson Patent Store

We now have a trial of Thomson Patent Store which gives access to full-text records via Derwent Innovations Index (DII) on the Web of Knowledge platform. Full text PDF links of patents are now added for trial. Trial ends June 7^th 2008.

Derwent Innovations Index^SM is a research tool that provides Web access to more than 14,800,000 patents with links to cited and citing patents, cited articles, and full-text patent data sources.

• EPO

• WIPO

• German Patent and Trademark Office

• USPTO

• English translation of the first page of the patent applications published by the Japanese Patent Office (since 2000)

• Direct access to patents from ARIPO, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Former East Germany, Great Britain-A, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan (original documents 1971-), Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, OAPI, Portugal, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Trial of full archive of Royal Society publications

We now have a 60 day trial to the full archive of Royal Society Publishing

Their online journal collection is composed of seven peer-reviewed scientific publications, covering the biological and physical sciences, as well as the history and philosophy of science. Their digitised archive reaches back over 300 years (1665) and includes landmark papers from authors such as Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Alexander Flemming, Jams, Watson, Francis Crick and Stephen Hawking.

EMBiology Trial

A trial to EMBiology 1980-present is now available until 18-Apr-2008

A global biology indexing and abstracting database from Elsevier, EMBiology complements and extends EMBASE coverage in the basic biological sciences. Coverage extends from Biochemistry, Microbiology and Genetics through Biotechnology, Cell & Developmental Biology and Toxicology, to Plant Science, Agriculture & Food Science, Animal & Veterinary Science, and Ecology & Environmental Science.

EMBiology Quick Facts:

Journal coverage: more than 2800 active titles, including Trade Journals and Electronic-only Journals (books, patents & conference abstracts are not included)

Global coverage: cover-to-cover for all titles

Backfile to 1980: 4 million records

Current growth rate: 250,000 records/year

Abstracts: currently 85% (about 70% for the whole database)

Oxford Scholarship Online Trial

Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of over 1,900 Oxford books, including Biology, Mathematics, and Physics. Trial access to this database will expire on 20th March 2008 and is UCC access only.

Referex E-book Trial

Referex is a specialized electronic reference database, comprising of six editorially crafted collections of professionally focussed e-books which bring together key sources of reference material. The library already subscribes to two other of the EI (Engineering Information) collection, INSPEC and EI Compendex, available via our Electronic Resources list. Referex is fully searchable and instantly delivers full-text content of over 1,600 e-book titles across the following collections:

Chemical, Petrochemical and Process Engineering

Mechanical Engineering and Materials

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Computing

Networking and Security

Trial access to this database will expire on 25th March 2008.

New catalogue enhancement with LibraryThing

As part of our OPAC redesign project, we have now rolled out a new enhancement feature. LibraryThing for Libraries is a social cataloguing web application which draws on the extensive LibraryThing database for tags, suggestions for similar titles and details of other editions and translations.
For an example of the links see “The architecture of happiness” by Alan De Botton.
You will see a list of “Similar Books” and a “tag cloud” at the bottom of the page.If you click on one of the tags at the bottom of the screen, it will open a tag browser which will show books in our collections with that LibraryThing tag.
In the same way, the “Similar Books” list is linked through the tags. All links are to other books in our collections.

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

We now have access to the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. You have access to full text back to Vol.1 1962.

The Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP) is an international journal for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in all fields of applied physics. The journal publishes articles dealing with the applications of physical principles as well as articles concerning the understanding of physics that have particular applications in mind. The journal not only covers all aspects of modern technology such as semiconductor devices including VLSI technology, photonic devices, superconductors, and magnetic recording but also covers other diverse areas such as plasma physics, particle accelerators, nanoscience and technology, and applied bioscience.

Chemistry - SciFinder Scholar Update

SciFinder Scholar 2007 is now available. Please update your software by following the instructions here. Before updating, please contact the Science Floor Q+1 for a username and password. These will be given by phoning you back on a UCC extension or by emailing to a UCC address in order to safeguard access rights.

Photoshop CS3 e-Books

Two new Photoshop CS3 e-books have been added to our Safari platform. You can read them online by clicking the relevant title.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book

Visual QuickStart Guide Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Macintosh

New Resource for Architecture - ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The resources are available solely for educational and/or scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature. Please read the Terms and Conditions of Use. Note: system requirements.

JSTOR Demo on YouTube

JSTOR offers full text of early back issues of all of JSTOR’s scholarly journals in all disciplines, in some cases back to the 19th century. YouTube offers some "getting started" videos.

Mathematics EBooks from Springer

You now have access to 1,200 full text Mathematics and Statistics electronic books from Springer

EBooks Mathematics and Statistics copyright years 2005-2008 – English language

We have purchased copyright years 2005 – 2008, English language, so these will show up as full text on the above link but note you will not have access to books copyright pre 2005 or foreign language.

All 1,200 full access titles will eventually appear on our catalogue.

You can read these books, chapter by chapter (via a PDF link), or alternatively, use any keyword in the search box on the home page, i.e. type 'Linear Algebra' and you will get the combined hits over all Springer journals and book chapters where this phrase is used, and then you can use any of the additional functionality on the right hand side of the page to refine your search.

BioOne Trial

BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.

BioOne provides integrated access to an information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Trial runs until 21st December 2007.

Computer E-books

Doing Computer Science? Then why not check out our range of full text electronic books. A full list of titles via Safari can be seen on our catalogue here.

Dissertations and Theses database

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
With more than 2.3 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. Graduate students customarily consult the database to make sure their proposed thesis or dissertation topics have not already been written about. Students, faculty, and other researchers search it for titles related to their scholarly interests. Of the millions of graduate works listed, we offer over 1.9 million in full text format.