Category: eBooks

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: 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:

Resolved – Kogan Page books temporarily unavailable

Marie Kauffman - Applications and Technical Services team

The previously reported issue has now been resolved and our CIPD Kogan Page books are once again accessible online via Library OneSearch and resource lists.

Kogan Page books temporarily unavailable

Marie Kauffman - Applications and Technical Services team

We are currently experiencing a loss of access for several of our CIPD Kogan Page books, with links returning the following error message: ‘Connection refused by ebs-patron.eb20.com, please try again later’.

Thank you for your patience while we working with the supplier to resolve this technical issue.

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: 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.

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.