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.

Christmas Holiday Closing

The Boole Library will close at 1.00pm on Friday 21st December 2007 and will reopen at 8.30am on Wednesday January 2nd 2008.

Also note, due to some building work, the Library will close earlier at 8.45pm on Friday 14th December and will be closed all day on Saturday 15th December 2007. Details of our opening hours can be found here.

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.

Chemistry - SciFinder Scholar Training Materials

New SciFinder Scholar training materials are now available for downloading from the CAS web page on www.cas.org. These materials are designed to help you train new students and faculty to explore SciFinder.

The new Web page includes:
SciFinder Scholar Training Overview (PowerPoint; 3 MB)
Orientation Homework Questions (PDF; 100 KB)
Answer Key for Orientation Homework Questions (PDF; 240 KB)
You can access these new training materials from:—
the support page for academics:
http://www.cas.org/support/academic/index.html
or the support page for SciFinder Scholar:
http://www.cas.org/support/academic/sf/index.html