Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
A scheduled system maintenance period for the VLeBooks and Askews and Holt e-book platforms will begin Saturday 19 September 2020 between 22:00 and 03:00 Sunday 20 September.
The provider advises that the service may be unavailable during these times.
THE CLINICALSKILLS SITE is now accessible through a new entry in the library’s Find Databases service.
Access to ClinicalSkills is by university username and password, and a one-time short registration process.
The resource is described as follows:
ClinicalSkills.net provides online training and the latest up-to-date best practice guidance across the full range of clinical skills and patient care. The platform includes procedures for those working in primary care, healthcare, in caring roles and for those working with adults and with children. Working through the site, and completing a series of tests and assessments, it’s possible to track your personal performance, add reflective accounts about your learning experience and build your CPD record within ClinicalSkills.
THE INTERNATIONAL INDEX to Black Periodicals, a full-text database from Chadwyck-Healey, is now accessible through a new entry in the library’s Find Databases service.
Access to the resource is by university username and password.
The resource is described as follows:
The International Index to Black Periodicals draws together content from more than 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies. Subjects and disciplines including art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology. Wherever possible, the full-text of all materials in the index is provided directly within the IIBP site, either in PDF or HTML format.
The subscription costs for the resource are being met from a university grant supporting a research project, with access also being made available to staff and students more widely for the duration of the subscription.
MORE THAN 22 THOUSAND titles from the John Wiley eBook collection are now discoverable in Library OneSearch.
The titles are made available through a Usage Based Collection Management (UBCM) model, are will be accessible until the end of the UCBM cycle in June 2021. At that point, the library will be select titles to be purchased outright, following an analysis of the usage data across the whole period of access.
Access to the titles is by university username and password.
Titles in the collection, which is accessed through the Wiley Online platform, include:
JUST UNDER 600 titles from the Springer Intelligent Technologies and Robotics collection 2020 are now accessible through Library OneSearch
Access to the titles is by university username and password.
Titles in the collection, which is accessed through the SpringerLink platform, include:
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