Month: September 2023

Updated resource: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS added more content to the Bloomsbury Visual Arts platform with the addition of titles from the new Applied Gaming and Photography collections.

Examples of titles discoverable on Library OneSearch include:

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

Updated resource: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

CONTENT AVAILABLE ON the Bloomsbury Visual Arts platform has been expanded with the addition of titles from the new Design Studies collection.

The Design Studies collection provides:

High-quality coverage of a wide range of important subjects across design research, product design, interior design, furniture, sustainability, and marketing and advertising.

Examples of titles discoverable on Library OneSearch include:

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

New resource: Writers and Their Work

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to more than 400 titles from the Writers and Their Work collection on Library OneSearch.

Selected new titles include:

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

New resource: Emerald emerging markets case studies archive

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS enabled archival access to Emerald’s Emerging Markets Case Studies, stretching from 2011 until 2022.

The resource is described as:

A growing collection of over 1,000 case studies and accompanying teaching notes with a unique focus on rising economies.

A link to the full list of case studies is available through Library OneSearch.

Library OneSearch Pro goes beyond this and makes individual case studies discoverable, each one of them available as an instantly downloadable PDF.

Access restored to JISC journals and book archives

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

ACCESS TO ONLINE archives of journal and book content provided by JISC has been restored following a brief interruption in service.

All the affected resources are now accessible once again, using a university username and password.

Outage notifications have been removed from the Find Databases listings for these resources, and access URLs updated.

Temporary loss of access to JISC journals and book archives

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

ACCESS TO SEVERAL subscription-based archives of journal and book content provided by JISC, will be reinstated shortly, after a brief interruption in service.

Attempts to log in to these services, using a university username and password, are currently returning errors and authenticated access is not available.

The affected services are:

Notifications alerting users to the temporary loss of access have been added to the Find Databases listing of each of these resources.

A further update will follow once access is confirmed as fully reinstated.

New resource: Emerald Expert Briefings

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

ACCESS TO THE Emerald Expert Briefings platform has been enabled in the Find Databases service.

The resource is described as follows:

Expert Briefings draw on insights into current events from a global network of more than 1500 academics, business leaders and former policymakers. These insights are reviewed by a team of regional and sectoral specialists, and distilled into accessible, impartial, actionable documents that help to guide strategy and decision-making.

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

Updated resource: Emerald eBooks

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to almost 4,000 Emerald eBooks on Library OneSearch – significantly increasing the range of titles available on this platform.

Selected new titles include:

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