Based in the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology?
Click here for details of e-books on the topics of oncology and clinical chemistry that are available from the university Library.
If you have any questions about e-books, or other library resources, please contact Subject Librarians Paula Younger (p.younger@qub.ac.uk) or Richard Fallis (r.fallis@qub.ac.uk).
The library has commenced a trial of the database Digital Theatre Plus.
Digital Theatre Plus www.digitaltheatreplus.com currently offers 19 high-definition films of award-winning British theatre productions and 60+ in-depth interviews with leading drama practitioners, actors and directors, giving insight into practice and revealing how theatre professionals transform text into live performance.
Digital Theatre Plus works with leading British theatre companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Almeida Theatre and the Royal Court to capture professional theatre productions in high-definition and from multiple camera angles. These films are the available to access on campus and for students to watch at home.
Automatic access has been set up at: www.digitaltheatreplus.com for those on site. For those not on site please contact i.okelly@qub.ac.uk.
Survey monkey details are here. We would appreciate your feedback on this resource.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7W62LWX
This trial will run until Sunday 09 March.
The library has commenced a trial of the database British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries.
British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries spans more than four hundred years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Complementing Alexander Street’s North American Women’s Letters and Diaries, the database lets researchers view history in the context of women’s thoughts—their struggles, achievements, passions, pursuits, and desires.
Extending back to the 1500s, the collection shows researchers the various shapes and formats of the diary as it evolved, including the travel diary, offering detailed accounts of journeys and descriptions of places; the daily personal diary, in which women reflected more broadly on aspects of their lives; letter diaries, wherein a daily dated letter to a recipient served simultaneously as a diary entry; and other forms.
Automatic access has been set up at: http://bwl2.alexanderstreet.com for those on site. For those not on site please contact i.okelly@qub.ac.uk.
Survey monkey details are at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NNC56FB
We would appreciate your feedback on this resource.
The trial will run until 30 June 2014.
Access to the HPB Database is now available via the library catalogue:
The HPB Database (previously called the Hand Press Book Database) is a steadily growing collection of files of catalogue records from major European and North American research libraries covering items of European printing of the hand-press period (c.1455-c.1830) integrated into one file. This makes it possible for information to be retrieved in one single search across all files. As the digitisation of collections in contributing libraries progresses, more and more catalogue records point to digital presentations of the early printed books.
Click here to link to the catalogue.
The Library has set up a Wiley Open Access Account which enables RCUK-funded authors at Queen’s to receive a 25% discount on open access publication fees for Wiley journals. This account is the latest of a number of prepayment and membership deals arranged by the Library, which reduce open access publication costs, including:
Some of these deals are restricted to RCUK-funded authors but others are not dependent on the funding source.
The complete list of prepayment and membership schemes is linked from the Library’s open access webpages: http://go.qub.ac.uk/oamemberships. Further information and advice about open access is available by emailing: openaccess@qub.ac.uk.
The library has recently begun a trial of Drama Online. All staff and students with an interest in drama are invited to have a look at this resource.
Drama Online introduces new writers alongside the most iconic names in playwriting history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides. The collection covers the epic to the monologue; ensemble to one-person plays; comedy to tragedy; the historical to the contemporary.
Drama Online features the pre-eminent theatre lists of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber as well as production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Drama Online may be accessed at: http://dramaonlinelibrary.com/ (Please note this is only available on-campus.)
We have produced an online survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7SZFKW3 . Please take a minute to fill this in as this really does inform resource buying in the library.
The trial will run until 20th April 2014.
We have been able to subscribe to a number of publisher collection deals increasing current access by approximately 2,600 titles from January this year.
The journal titles are from the publishers Oxford University Press, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Duke University Press.
All the titles are available from the QCat catalogue. Around 1,500 titles are entirely new to Queen’s; the remainder have previously been available only from archive sources which exclude access to current issues. Current access for the new subscription deals usually includes access to back issues from the mid 1990s onwards.
JSTOR users may also have noticed that more full text is now available from the Queen’s JSTOR subscriptions. Subscriptions to an additional four JSTOR packages mean that most of the archive is now available in full text.
We will also shortly be launching an A-Z to e-journals which will add the ability to search for ejournal access by publisher/source or subject area.
EBSCO Francis
FRANCIS offers extensive bibliographic indexing for over 2.5 million records dating back to 1972. Produced by Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS), the database provides multidisciplinary and multilingual coverage of humanities and social sciences. Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and reports.
Frantext
The FRANTEXT database consists of over 2900 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, poetry, theatre, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
These new databases are available on QCat. Simply search for the title of the database. Also check out the LibGuides pages at http://libguides.qub.ac.uk/modernlanguages for Modern Languages. All new databases are listed under Key Databases in Libguides.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals, along with full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals.
International Index to Performing Arts Full Text
Indexing and abstracts for more than 260 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 100 of the indexed journals. The index covers the arts and entertainment industry and includes dance, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film and television.
JISC Media Hub
Access to multimedia resources from a wide range of collections, including: Channel 4, Getty Images, the Imperial War Museum, ITN/Reuters archives, Gaumont and Paramount newsreels, Royal Mail Film Classics, and the Wellcome Library.
Key collection areas: Digital Images for Education (UK and world events, late 20th and early 21st Century); NewsFilm Online (ITN/Reuters and newsreels 1910-1934); and Film and Sound Online (Imperial War Museum, Wellcome Library, and classical music recordings from the Culverhouse collection).
These new databases are available on QCat. Simply search for the title of the database. Also check out the LibGuides pages at http://libguides.qub.ac.uk/creativearts for Creative Arts. All new databases are listed under Key Databases.
We are pleased to announce that QUB library has purchased 3 key titles, which feature on multiple reading lists, as in perpetuity e-books from the supplier 123Library.
These e-books are accessible to Queen’s students and staff via QCat Discover. The titles are:
Master medicine: physiology (2007) by J.G. McGeown. https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Rb1753901
Underwood’s pathology: a clinical approach (2012) edited by Simon S. Cross (previous editions entitled ‘General and systematic pathology’). https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Rb1805074
Psychology and sociology applied to medicine: an illustrated colour text (2009) edited by Beth Alder et al. https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Rb1846324
If you have any queries about these or other medical e-books, please email Richard Fallis, Subject Librarian for Medicine: r.fallis@qub.ac.uk
