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Category: eBooks
Knowledge Unlatched: new open access eBook titles
More than 100 additional titles from the Knowledge Unlatched open access eBook initiative are now discoverable through Library OneSearch. As was the case with the original set of titles added to LOS back in May 2016, these new titles are made openly available online through a collaborative funding partnership of which Libraries and Learning Resources is a member.
New titles in the Knowledge Unlatched collection include:
- US Nation-Building in Afghanistan
- Women in the Ancient Near East
- Facets of Facebook: User and Users
- Hitchcock’s Appetites : The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread
New titles from the Sage Knowledge EBA collection
More than 450 new titles from the Sage Knowledge EBA collection have recently been added to Library OneSearch. Access to these new titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Titles include the following:
- Secrets for a successful dissertation by Jacqueline Fitzpatrick, Jan Secrist and Debra J. Wright:
- Key thinkers in psychology by Rom Harré:
- World television by Joseph D. Straubhaar
Greenleaf Sustainable Organization Library: new eBook titles added
More than fifty new eBook titles from the Greenleaf SOL (Sustainable Organization Library) collection have recently been added to Library OneSearch. Access to the new titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Titles include:
World sustainable development outlook 2013. Sustainable development: new multi-disciplinary approaches and methodologies / Allam Ahmed
The ecology of law: toward a legal system in tune with nature and community / Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei
Piracy: leakages from modernity / Henry Mintzberg
Emerald eBooks: new Business, Management and Economics and Social Sciences titles
More than 40 new titles from the Emerald eBook Business Management and Economics and Social Sciences collections are now discoverable through Library OneSearch. Access to the new titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Titles include:
- Studies in Austrian macroeconomics / edited by Roger Koppl and Steven Horwitz
- Food security in a food abundant world: an individual country perspective / edited by Andrew Schmitz, P. Lynn Kennedy, Troy G. Schmitz
- Advances in management accounting. Vol. 26 / edited by Marc J. Epstein and Mary A. Malina
- Studies in law, politics, and society / edited by Austin Sarat
- Perverse politics? Feminism, anti-imperialism, multiplicity / edited by Ann Shola Orloff, Raka Ray, Evren Savci
New Elsevier eBook titles added
A total of 730 new eBook titles from the library’s Elsevier eBook series and backfiles collections have been added to Library OneSearch in recent weeks. Access to the new titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. A few examples include:
- Brain-computer interfaces: lab experiments to real-world applications / edited by Damien Coyle
- Negative affective states and cognitive impairments in nicotine dependence / |c edited F. Scott Hall, Jared W. Young, Andre Der-Avakian
- Theory of aerospace propulsion / Pasquale M. Sforza.
- Canned citrus processing: techniques, equipment, and food safety / editor-in-chief, Yang Shan
- Cell biology: translational impact in cancer biology and bioinformatics / Maika G. Mitchell
Resolved: MyiLibrary eBook platform – service problems
The MyiLibrary technical team report that the issues affecting access to eBook content on the MyiLibrary platform reported yesterday have now been resolved. Access to all acquired eBook content on the platform should now be available again for NTU staff and students, on and off campus.
MyiLibrary eBook platform – service problems
Widely reported service problems are currently affecting access to content on the MyiLibrary eBook platform. A range of different errors, slow response times and failures to deliver content are all cited. MyiLibrary’s technical team is aware of the issues and is working to restore the platform to normal service.
A further update will follow once the current issues are confirmed as resolved.
Find Databases: resource review (September 2016)
Following a detailed review by the Research Support and Learning and Teaching teams, a number of changes have been made to the list of resources made available through the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch (which will also be reflected, later today, in searches in the ‘All’ search tab of LOS). The changes are detailed below:
Updated
- AEI (Australian Education Index)
- arlis.net
- Bankscope
- British Library Sounds
- Child Development and Adolescent Studies
- Construction Information Service
- CPAG (Child Poverty Action Group) Online Publications
- FAME
- Family Law Online
- Information Asset Register
- Interior Internet
- LACORS
- Mintel
- MyiLibrary
- NBS Educator
- NBS TV
- Passport (formerly Passport GMID)
- Planning portal
- PoliticsHome
- Westlaw
Withdrawn
- Biosciences Image Bank
- biz/ed
- Epistemelinks
- LexisPSL
- Women’s Studies
- WWW Virtual Library: Archnet
If you’d like any further information about the specific changes that have been made to any of the resources listed above, please get in touch.
Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) eBook project: Wiley records in Library OneSearch
Further to the previous Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) eBook project update (4 May 2016), 17,879 Wiley UCBM records have now been suspended from discovery in Library OneSearch (following the conclusion of the Wiley discovery phase at the end of May).
These Wiley titles will be reviewed during the selection phase (during which the library decides which titles will be bought outright in perpetuity, and which will be withdrawn from the collection) alongside the EBA collections from Bloomsbury, Oxford Scholarship Online, Sage and Cambridge University Press.
New resource: eBooks from the Knowledge Unlatched initiative
Access to a total of sixty-five eBook titles made available through the Knowledge Unlatched initiative are now available through Library OneSearch. With funding jointly provided by libraries signing up to the initiative, the titles included in the collection are made available as open access full-text. This first set of titles are from the ‘pilot’ and ’round 2′ phases of the projects. A further forty-one titles will be released during the ’round 2′ phase, and these will be added to LOS as they are made accessible.
As Open Access publications, full-text access is unrestricted. Titles already accessible through Library OneSearch include:
- The world’s oldest church: bible, art, and ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria, by Michael Peppard
- Paul Robeson: the artist as revolutionary, by Gerald Horne
- World Beats: Beat Generation writing and the worlding of U.S. literature, by Jimmy Fazzino
- The war correspondent, by Greg McLaughlin
IOP Concise Physics and Expanding Physics eBook collections – new titles
An additional 38 eBooks from Release 2 of the Institute of Physics Concise Physics and Expanding Physics eBook collections are now discoverable in Library OneSearch. As with the other titles in the collection, access is by university username and password. New titles include:
- Hadronic jets: an introduction by Andrea Banfi
- Smart internal stimulus-responsive nanocarriers for drug and gene delivery by Mahdi Karimi, Parham Sahandi Zangabad, Amir Ghasemi and Michael R. Hamblin
- Key nuclear reaction experiments: discoveries and consequences by Hans Paetz gen. Schieck
- Networks on networks: the physics of geobiology and geochemistry by Allen G. Hunt, Stefano Manzoni
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