Month: November 2022

Updated and withdrawn free-to-access databases

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures
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FOLLOWING AN AUDIT of the free-to-access resources in the Find Databases service recently completed by the Serials team, several entries have been updated or withdrawn.

Withdrawn resources

Political resources on the Net

This resource has been withdrawn by its publishers and is now only available as a snapshot in the index of the Internet Archive.

Sociological Tour through Cyberspace, A

This resource has been withdrawn by Trinity University and is now only available as a snapshot in the index of the Internet Archive.

Updated resources

JISC Historic Books

The on-campus and off-campus access URLs of the Find Databases listing for this licensed-free-for-HE resource have been updated to reflect a change in the WAYFLess URL format supported by the platform. Authenticated access remains by university username and password.

Keele Guide to Government & Politics on the Internet > British Government and Politics on the Internet

The Keele Guide to Government & Politics on the internet has now become the British Government and Politics on the Internet directory. The title, on-campus and off-campus URLs and Category assignments of the Find Databases listing for this resource have been updated accordingly.

Linguist List, The

The on-campus and off-campus access URLs of the Find Databases listing for this resource have been updated to reflect the reorganisation and relaunch of the site.

Marx and Engels’ Writings > Marx Engels Archive

The Marx and Engels’ Writings site is no longer active and is now only available as a snapshot in the index of the Internet Archive. The resource has therefore been replaced by the Marx Engels Archive which provides much of the same searchable full-text material.

NDAD (National Digital Archive of Datasets)

Both on-campus and off-campus access URLs of the Find Database listing for this resource have been updated to reflect the fact that the NDAD has now been incorporated in the main National Archives platform.

Supreme Court Applications

The on-campus and off-campus access URLs of the Find Databases listing for this resource have been updated following a reorganisation of the (UK) Supreme Court web site.

Updated resource: Global Health Observatory

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures
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THE ENTRY FOR the World Health Organisation’s Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) has been updated in the Find Databases service.

Data held in the now retired WHOSIS has been incorporated into the WHO’s Global Health Observatory (GHO) platform.

The Find Databases entry for the resource now points to the new location for the combined statistics portal, and has been renamed ‘Global Health Observatory (incorporating WHOSIS)’.

Withdrawn resource: Zetoc

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures
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THE LISTING FOR the Zetoc abstract, indexing and table of contents service, has been withdrawn from the library’s Find Databases list following JISC’s retirement of the platform.

Zetoc was amongst the first online databases that the library enabled access to shortly after its launch in September 2000. Zetoc was also one of the first integrations to be bundled into the library’s then-new SFX OpenURL resolver service in 2004.