Category: eResources

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.

New resource: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS access to a brand new resource via Library OneSearch: The encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle.

This resource is described as:

bringing together the latest research in chronicle studies from a variety of disciplines and scholarly traditions. Chronicles are the history books written and read in educated circles throughout Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages. For the modern reader, they are important as sources for the history they tell, but equally they open windows on the preoccupations and self-perceptions of those who tell it.

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.

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.

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.

New resource: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS added titles from 3 new collections to Library OneSearch, all hosted on the Bloomsbury Visual Arts platform:

Bloomsbury Design Library gives comprehensive global coverage of the history, theory and practice of crafts and design, from prehistoric times to the present day.

Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts combines visual inspiration with practical advice on everything from idea generation and research techniques to portfolio development – making this the ultimate guide to a visual arts education.

The Animation Practice collection offers a comprehensive selection of 53 high-quality, practice-focused books from the CRC Press imprint and Routledge.

Examples of titles discoverable on Library OneSearch include:

New resource: SMPTE Digital Library

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS added titles from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Digital Library to Library OneSearch.

The SMPTE Digital Library:

Focuses on innovative content for technologies within the communications, media, and entertainment industries. It provides unlimited, full-text access to all SMPTE standards, journal articles, and conference papers.

Included in this resource is the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, with an archive stretching back to 1916.

Access to all the titles in the SMPTE Digital Library is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

Updated resource: Nature

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS extended archival access to the historic Nature journal back to the very first issue, published in November 1869.

Discoverable through Library OneSearch the Nature archive contains seminal papers such as:

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