Tuesday 13 September 2011

New electronic resources

The Library now provides access to the following JISC platforms which bring together a range of resources: JISC Historic Books, JISC Media Hub and JISC Journal Archives.

JISC Historic Books consists of Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and 19th Century books from the British Library collection. You can search across all the collection or a selection.

JISC MediaHub is a multimedia platform offering a wealth of digital image, film and sound resources available for use in learning, teaching and research. The service includes a wide range of subjects but is particularly strong for news coverage.

JISC Journal Archives enables you to cross-search over 450 journals in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, medicine, law, engineering, from a number of collections including: Brill Journal Archive Online ; Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library Archive ; Institute of Physics (IOP) Journal Archive ; Oxford Journals Archive ; Periodical Archive Online.