Connected Histories - new online resource

Connected Histories is a new website which provides access to a number of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain: http://www.connectedhistories.org/

You can search across all resources by keyword, person or place. If you select 'more search options' you can combine your searches. You can also refine your search by material type or by the source.

Connected Histories includes the following sources: British History Online, Charles Booth Online, London Lives, Old Bailey Online,Parliamentary Papers, British Newspapers 1600-1900.

VADS - the online resource for visual arts

VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) is a UK organisation that provides a huge range of digital images and other visual arts resources free and copyright cleared for use in UK higher and further education. You can search the indiviual collections that make up the service or search by keyword. The collections include material from a wide variety of sources, such as textiles, fashion, arts and craft but also contain the Women's Library suffrage collection and art and posters from the Imperial War Museum.
You can view the collections at http://www.vads.ac.uk/

Calling all researchers: what are your views on open access?

RADAR (Research Archive and Digital Asset Repository) is conducting a survey to find out what you think about Open Access and how you use the Research Archive part of the repository.

Within the publicly available Research Archive, we aim to make available information about your publications and also the full text of the articles. This means that your research will be available on open access and visible to the everyone who is interested in it (this is subject to publishers' permissions).
Several universities throughout the UK are conducting the same survey, the results are to be collated by the Repositories Support Project to gain a better understanding of attitudes to Open Access within the United Kingdom.

The survey is anonymous and will take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.You can complete the survey now by clicking on the link below:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/brookes.ac.uk/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHZRV3F0ZGNycUVBcEdlMGQtbGd4b0E6MQ

For more information go to: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/go/radar. Thank you for your support

ARTstor - new image database

The library has subscribed to ARTstor a new image database. ARTstor offers more than one million images covering a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, history, religion, anthropology and literature. The database is particularly good for works in US collections. The images are high quality and may be viewed, printed or downloaded for reproduction in coursework, for classroom presentation, or in Brookes Virtual.

There are no restrictions about on campus access but off campus use is only possible after registering on campus. Further instructions on how to do this are given on the database web page - from the Library home page at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/ select Databases and select ARTstor from the A-Z list.

Vacation Loans

From Thursday 12th May both one and two week loans for research students (MPhil and Phd) and staff will be issued until Friday 23rd September. If another user reserves a book you have borrowed you will receive a recall for the item and the loan period will be reduced to 2 weeks from the date of the recall.

Special Collections Showcase - Thursday 31 March

The Library is hosting a lunchtime event to publicise our range of Special Collections. You are warmly invited to come along and sample some of the delights of our collections. Our Collections are great for researchers and excellent as a teaching resource.

There will be short presentations about each of the themes our Collections cover, from Food and Drink, Publishing and Literary Prizes to Architecture, Brookes Archive, Welfare and Health. There will also be lots of items on display and the opportunity to explore our Collections further after the presentations.

Light bites, soft drinks, tea and coffee will be available from 12.15 pm.
Date: Thursday 31 MarchTime: 12.15 - 13.45
Location: BG05, Buckley Building, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane.

Please reply to Helen Whittaker (hkwhittaker@brookes.ac.uk) to confirm that you will be attending.

Getting Published - powerpoint of session

We have made available the powerpoint slides from the Getting Published session which we ran recently. You can view the slides on RADAR at: http://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/1933d71b-b74a-3325-69c9-7646b0cfd531/1/
You will need to log in initially with your student or staff number and password.


RADAR, Research Archive and Digital Asset Repository, is the university's multi-purpose archive of research and teaching materials. Further details about RADAR including access is available from our web pages at http://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/access/home.do