Database Changes over Summer: The Education Datasets (British Education Index, Australian Education Index, ERIC) have moved from Dialog@site to Datastar, making searching simpler and more powerful. The new URL is http://www.datastarweb.com/athens Login using your Athens password.
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Database Changes over Summer: IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) has recently moved from the BIDS interface to the Ovid Silverplatter interface at http://arc.uk.ovid.com/. The BIDS version will be turned off in the next few months. The Silverplatter interface offers several advantages, including the facility to cross-search several other databases within the social sciences […]
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Database Changes over Summer: The Library has recently purchased the online backfile for the ISI Science Citation Index, meaning that this index is now available with uninterrupted coverage from 1900 to the present day, via the ISI Web of Knowledge interface. Previously coverage began at 1981. The backfile is only available via the new WOK […]
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Database Changes over Summer: The ISI’s Web of Knowledge interface (home to the ISI Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences Citation Indexes, and Journal Citation Reports) has had a radical overhaul, making it more user-friendly and adding new functions such as “Analyze results”. The new interface is already available from the usual web address […]
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Database Changes over Summer: The IRIS network was one of the first means by which the Library was able to make information available electronically across the University campus. However, the IRIS software has been unsupported for quite some time, and it is not possible to make databases on IRIS available off campus. In addition, […]
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The Law book collection held on 2nd Floor East is currently being re-numbered. This will also affect the Law books in the Short Loan collection. For a number of years a mixture of different types of classification number have been used, which has made the collection very confusing to navigate. Now, each book in the […]
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