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eLibrary - the single search interface to multiple resources. (06.02.2009)

eLibrary is a gateway to quality academic resources, such as peer-reviewed articles and selected websites. It lets you search a number of databases simultaneously from a single search interface, saving you time and effort. Results are retrieved in a merged, de-duplicated list and you can store the records you find in a single location. You can customise eLibrary to create a list of databases you want to search.

eLibrary can be found at: http://elibrary.aber.ac.uk

New electronic resources


Wiley Blackwell ejournals- 12 May 2009

Following the recent merger of the two large journal publishers - Blackwell and Wiley - and subsequent protracted negotiations, for a 3-year deal, we now have online access to the full text of over 400 extra titles, in addition to the 800 previously available to us, covering volumes from 1997 to date.

Wiley-Blackwell was created in February 2007 by merging Blackwell Publishing with Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business. It is now one of the largest academic and professional publishers, active in the physical sciences, life sciences, medicine, social sciences and humanities, and the largest publisher publishing on behalf of societies.

British Periodicals Online (1680s to the 1930s) - 18 February 2009

Courtesy of JISC, via Proquest: British Periodicals Collections I and II - this archive traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian "age of periodicals" and beyond. This unique digital archive consists of over 460 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forms an essential record of more than two centuries of British history and culture

Burney Collection of 17th and 18th century English news media - 18 February 2009

Courtesy of JISC, via Proquest: The Burney Collection - The newspapers and news pamphlets, gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library. The collection includes nearly 1 million pages from more than 1000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period, including the first successful London daily and first illustrated newspaper all dating from 1600-1800.

Pamphlet collections from leading UK libraries now available in JSTOR - 06 February 2009

JSTOR announce the initial release of pamphlets from the 19th Century British Pamphlets Project. Approximately 8,200 pamphlets were added to JSTOR today, including portions of the Knowsley Pamphlet Collection (University of Liverpool), Cowen Tracts (Newcastle University), and the Hume Tracts (University College London). The pamphlets are from collections held by: Newcastle University, Durham University, University of Manchester, University College London, University of Liverpool, London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of Bristol.

The 19th Century British Pamphlets collection is now freely accessible to all JSTOR participating institutions through June 30, 2009 as they work to evaluate delivery, presentation, and use of the content, and develop an understanding of how best to address the needs of researchers and students working with it. There will be regular releases of additional material during this pamphlet trial period.

More information in a PDF handout about the 19th Century British Pamphlets.

Annual Reviews series - 34 Science and Social sciences titles - 01 January 2009

We now have access online to the full text of all 34 science and social sciences  titles of the Annual Reviews series, including the new Marine Science, with various back-year access. From Annual Reviews website: " Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 37 scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI). "

Note each title begins 'Annual review of...' and look for 'Full text available via Annual Reviews'.

Periodicals Archive Online - JISC Special Collection (Proquest) - 21 October 2008

Periodicals Archive Online is an archive (most up to 1995) of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. We have access to the Special Collection for JISC of 80 titles.

NewsFilm Online - 03 October 2008

NewsFilm Online offers access to over 3,000 hours of downloadable television news and cinema newsreels, selected from the huge ITN/Reuters Television archives. Only members of subscribing UK FE and HE institutions can play or download the NewsFilm Online videos

ScienceDirect Back files to 1995 now available - Elsevier - Freedom Collection - 01 August 2008

Aberystwyth staff and students will be pleased to hear that we now have access to the back files to 1995 of the  Freedom Collection of ScienceDirect, published by Elsevier. This prestigious collection gives you full text access to over 1900 scholarly journals, covering the years 1995 to 2008 current issues. For more information of this collection, use the button on ElecInfo/JoEy.

Blackwell-Synergy & Wiley InterScience - 30/06/2008

Integration of Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience journal content

The journal content previously available on Blackwell Synergy is nowbeing delivered through Wiley Inter Science due to the merger of Wiley-Blackwell's online journal systems. Blackwell Synergy is no longer operating.

This is a first step in the development of a next generation online publishing platform, arriving early 2009, which will deliver Wiley-Blackwell journals, online books, reference works, databases, protocols and other electronic resources through one integrated service.

19th Century UK Periodicals - Series 1: New Readerships: Women's, Children's, Humour and Leisure/Sport - 11 April 2008

We now have access to the full text of the 96 titles in Series 1: New Readerships: Women's, Children's, Humour and Leisure/Sport of this database which uses content from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and other sources, to make available digitised versions of key 19th Century UK Periodicals. For more information use the button on ElecInfo

OUP Oxford University Press journals - BioMed collection - 01 January 2008

We now have access to the 66 titles in the BioMed Collection of OUP Oxford University Press journals, for the years 1996 to the current issues. (Note that for most titles we already had access to the archive, i.e. up to 1995) For more information use the button on ElecInfo/JoEy.

ScienceDirect - Elsevier - Freedom Collection - 01 January 2008

Aberystwyth staff and students will be pleased to hear that we now subscribe to the Freedom Collection of ScienceDirect, published by Elsevier. This prestigious collection gives you full text access to over 1900 scholarly journals, covering the years 2004 to 2008. For more information use the  button on ElecInfo/JoEy.

UK Access Management Federation and Institutional Logins:

This is a new authentication system which is being introduced 2008 and which will eventually replace our direct use of the Athens system (although some services will continue to use Athens via a gateway). Currently (Jan08) it is set up for EDINA Cab Abstracts; Land, Life and Leisure; Film and Sound Online EDINA; and ScienceDirect (Elsevier). For more information see 'Athens, authentication, and other Passwords'

Eighteenth 18th, Nineteenth 19th and Twentieth 20th (4.2.08) Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers now available via Proquest.- 14 January 2008

We now have access to the full text of all 18th, 19th and 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from one site - Proquest. Includes House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2004, with supplementary material back to 1688.

Nineteenth 19th Century British Library Newspapers- 14 January 2008

19th Century British Library Newspapers is a joint effort between the British Library and Gale to make available digitized versions of key 19th Century British newspapers. By taking the British Library's collection of 19th Century newspapers and turning it into a high-resolution digital format with searchable images, this database presents online access to a key set of primary sources for the study of 19th century history. The features of this collection include:

  • 2 million newspaper pages
  • Selected by experts in the field
  • Full runs when possible
  • National and regional newspapers

Titles in the database include the Morning Chronicle, The Examiner and Illustrated Police News and Chartism newspapers. Regional newspapers include: The Northern Echo, the Western Mail, The Newcastle Courant, The Ipswich Journal, The Bristol Mercury. In all, 48 titles from the nineteenth century are included

PsycARTICLES, via CSA - 01 October 2007

We now subscribe to PsycARTICLES, via CSA, through a CHEST deal, which gives online access to the full text of 60 journals published by the American Psychological Association.

Taylor & Francis ejournals: Behavioural Science (Psychology) and Physics packages - 25 September 2007

We now subscribe to 2 subject collections of E-journals from Taylor & Francis. The Physics collection consists of 25 E-journal titles, giving online access back to 1997 (where available). The Behavioural Science Collection includes 119 titles, giving online access back to 1997 (where available).

British Psychological Society E-journals - 10 September 2007

We now subscribe to a collection of 11 British Psychological Society E-journal titles, part of the Psychology Package, via a Nesli deal. These are available via IngentaConnect.

JSTOR - new Arts & Sciences V Collection - 01 August 2007

We now have access to all the titles on JSTOR as we have subscribed to the new Arts & Sciences V Collection. JSTOR is an archive of electronic full-text journals available in their complete runs (i.e. from the date of the first issue) as an archive up to four or five years before the current issues in most cases.

Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature Online (ACLL) added to the Brepolis Database collection - 14 September 2007

Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature Online (ACLL)is a full-text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe, together with the Latin works of the Continental 'peregrini', from the period 400-1200 AD / CE. It contains more than 400 Latin works spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, charters, inscriptions, etc.

Access as usual via ElecInfo

Keesing's Record of World Events now available - 14 September 2007

Keesing's Record of World Events accurately records, and objectively places within its immediate and historical context, the world's most significant political, social and economic events by the end of the month following that in which they occurred.

Access as usual via ElecInfo

Landmap Service archive via the National Grid Service (NGS) now available - 14 September 2007

The Landmap Service provides web-based access to and support for a range of satellite imagery for the British Isles for research and teaching purposes. It provides access to satellite images from four satellites covering the UK, which can be used as stand alone, with image or graphics software, or with other mapping data, eg Ordnance Survey data. A Digital Elevation Model of the whole of the British Isles at 25-metre resolution is available.

Access as usual via ElecInfo

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