Month: August 2023

New resource: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS added titles from 3 new collections to Library OneSearch, all hosted on the Bloomsbury Visual Arts platform:

Bloomsbury Design Library gives comprehensive global coverage of the history, theory and practice of crafts and design, from prehistoric times to the present day.

Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts combines visual inspiration with practical advice on everything from idea generation and research techniques to portfolio development – making this the ultimate guide to a visual arts education.

The Animation Practice collection offers a comprehensive selection of 53 high-quality, practice-focused books from the CRC Press imprint and Routledge.

Examples of titles discoverable on Library OneSearch include:

Updated resource: Springer eBooks

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to over 76,000 Springer eBooks on Library OneSearch – more than doubling the content available on this platform.

Selected new titles include:

Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

New resource: SMPTE Digital Library

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS added titles from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Digital Library to Library OneSearch.

The SMPTE Digital Library:

Focuses on innovative content for technologies within the communications, media, and entertainment industries. It provides unlimited, full-text access to all SMPTE standards, journal articles, and conference papers.

Included in this resource is the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, with an archive stretching back to 1916.

Access to all the titles in the SMPTE Digital Library is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

Updated resource: Nature

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS extended archival access to the historic Nature journal back to the very first issue, published in November 1869.

Discoverable through Library OneSearch the Nature archive contains seminal papers such as:

Access to Nature is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

New resource: C19: The Nineteenth Century Index

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

ACCESS TO THE Nineteenth Century Index platform has been enabled today in the Find Databases service.

The resource is described as follows:

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (C19 Index) is a vast resource that forms the bibliographic spine of 19th century research. It comprises tens of millions of records and provides integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers, archives, and reference material.

Access to this resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.