Month: September 2024

Updated resource: Bloomsbury Fashion Central

eSystems Team

THE LIBRARY HAS added more content to the Bloomsbury Fashion Central platform with the addition of titles from the new Bloomsbury Digital Fashion Masterclasses collections.

Bloomsbury Digital Fashion Masterclasses includes a video collection and a business case studies collection.

The collections can be accessed from the Find Databases page, and individual titles from the video collection are also discoverable through Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro.

Examples of titles discoverable on Library OneSearch include:

Withdrawn resource: Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LISTING FOR Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination has been withdrawn from the library’s Find Databases service following cancellation of the subscription due to low levels of usage.

New resource: JSTOR Path to Open

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to books on the JSTOR platform from the Path to Open programme, which supports the publishing of open access scholarly monographs in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.

Titles from this collection are available in Library OneSearch and include:

All books in the collection are free to access from both on and off campus.

New resource: Carcanet Collection

Jonathan Gallacher

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to over 300 titles from the Carcanet Collection of poetry and literary criticism.

The resource includes:

New work from the poets laureate of Jamaica (Mervyn Morris) and Wales (Gillian Clarke), a debut from Joey Connolly, plus from Sinead Morrissey, Tara Bergin, Caroline Bird and Karen McCarthy Woolf. Carcanet publishes a diverse list of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation, as well as a range of fiction, lives and letters and literary criticism.

Selected titles include:

Access to this resource is by university username and password.

New resources: the CASE journal & the Case for Women

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to two new resources on the Emerald Insight platform: the CASE journal and the Case for Women.

The CASE journal can be accessed via Library OneSearch and is described as follows:

Over 250 double-blind, peer-reviewed cases endorsed by The CASE Association, which advocates case writing and teaching and provides a forum for both novice and experienced writers.

Articles from this journal are available from 2019 – 2023.

The Case for Women is available in the Find Databases service and also provides access to articles and case studies from 2019 – 2023. It is described as a collection of:

Winning cases from a case writing competition dedicated to the female protagonist, created in partnership with The Case for Women, Forté, and MBA Roundtable.

New resource: Bloomsbury Popular Music

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to over 400 scholarly titles covering modern popular music worldwide from the mid-20th century to the present day on Library OneSearch.

Access to the resource is by university username and password.

Selected new titles include:

Access to Bloomsbury Popular Music is also provided through the Find Databases platform.

New resource: Bloomsbury Sound Studies

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to over 100 scholarly titles on the study of sound on Library OneSearch.

Access to the resource is by university username and password.

Selected new titles include:

Access to Bloomsbury Sound Studies is also provided through the Find Databases platform.