Author: Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

New resource: Sage Business Cases

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to a collection of over 6,000 proprietary, licensed, and commissioned cases on Library OneSearch to support learning and research at NTU.

Access to the resource is by university username and password.

Selected new titles include:

Access to Sage Business Cases is also provided through the Find Databases platform.

New resource: Wiley Nursing Books

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to more than 150 titles from the Wiley Nursing Books collection on Library OneSearch. Students can explore e-books curated specifically for the nursing curriculum that are accessible on any device.

Selected new titles include:

Updated resource: ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS renewed its subscription to the Eighteenth Century Collections Online database on a new platform hosted by Gale. Check the Find Databases service for further details and access links to follow from on and off campus.

The resource is described as follows:

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It is a digitization of the eighteenth-century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States.

Updated resource: EEBO (Early English Books Online)

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS renewed its subscription to the Early English Books Online database on a new platform hosted by ProQuest. Check the Find Databases service for further details and access links to follow from on and off campus.

The resource is described as follows:

EEBO (Early English Books Online) contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere between 1473 and 1700.

New resource: Nottingham Central Library Catalogue

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

ACCESS TO THE Nottingham Central Library Catalogue search engine has been enabled in the Find Databases service.

The resource is described as follows:

The Nottingham Central Library online catalogue can be used to search for books, magazines, and newspapers and explore digital resources, such as eBooks, eMagazines, eNewspapers, eAudio, eReference and more.

Access to this resource is unrestricted.

New resource: Audio Engineering Society E-Library

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

ACCESS TO THE Audio Engineering Society E-Library platform has been enabled in the Find Databases service.

The resource is described as follows:

The Audio Engineering Society E-Library contains over 17,000 fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day. The E-library includes every AES paper published at a convention, conference or in the journal.

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

New resource: Open Book Publishers

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to more than 470 titles from the Open Book Publishers platform on Library OneSearch. Open Book Publishers is an independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed monographs, edited collections, textbooks, critical translations and more.

Selected new titles include:

New resource: Big Ten Open Books

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to 100 titles from the Big Ten Open Books initiative on Library OneSearch. Big Ten Open Books provides open access to books on the subject of gender and sexuality studies.

Selected new titles include:

New resource: Bloomsbury Open Collection

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to more than 190 titles from the Bloomsbury Open Collections program on Library OneSearch.

Selected new titles include:

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

Updated resource: OverDrive

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE RANGE OF content available on the OverDrive platform continues to grow with the addition of comics and graphic novels from notable publishers such as Dark Horse Comics, Marvel and Disney.

Access to OverDrive materials is through the OverDrive web site and also through the Libby app (available for Android and iOS devices).

Authentication to OverDrive content is by university username and password. NTU staff and students need to register an OverDrive ‘library card’ which then entitles them to ‘borrow’ up to 30 comics at any one time, for an initial seven day loan period.

A new entry for the OverDrive All Access Comics Collection has been added to the Find Databases service.

Individual titles are also discoverable through Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro, including:

Problems affecting access to online resources

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY IS currently experiencing authentication issues which is preventing access to multiple online resources, including books and journals in Library OneSearch, and resources listed in the Find Databases service.

Colleagues in Digital Technologies are urgently investigating.