Trial of additional resources from Web of Science

Thomson Reuters, the people  who  provide us with Web of Science are switching on some additional resources in Web of Knowledge until August 31st – and these  include Book Citation Index®, Conference Proceedings Citation Index and Current Contents Connect®. 

They say “Web of Knowledge provides a single destination to access the most reliable, integrated, multidisciplinary research – approximately 100M records of all types. Quality, curated content delivered alongside information on emerging trends, subject specific content and analysis tools make it easy for students, researchers and faculty to pinpoint the most relevant research to inform their work.”

Please have a look and if you have any comments on this trial please send them to John Fry-Smith, Head of Library Liaison –  (Collection Management).

Trial of Supply Chain Analysis

We have taken out a trial of Supply Chain Analysis (click on the link to login) until the end of September 2013. Supply Chain Analysis is a guide to best practice and benchmarking in the supply chain, from factory gate through to shelf edge.

If you have any comments on this trial please send them to Graham Gamblin, Assistant Liaison Librarian (Collection Management, Millenium Point).

Trial of CINAHL Complete from EBSCO

We have taken out a month’s trial of CINAHL Complete from EBSCO, to evaluate it. Details of how to access the trial are here.

If you want to feedback on this resource, please do so either here or contact  Ann Stairmand-Jackson, Assistant Liaison Librarian,Collection Management,Health.

CINAHL Complete will be cross searchable with our other databases from EBSCO.

Further information is available here as to coverage: http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/cinahl-complete.

Trial of Art Source from EBSCO

We have taken out a month’s trial of Art Source from EBSCO, to evaluate it. Details of how to access the trial are here.

If yo want to feedback on this resource, please do so either here or contact Hugh Morgan Assistant Liaison Librarian, Collection Management, Art and Design.

Art Source will be cross searchable with our other databases from EBSCO.

Further information is available here as to coverage: http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/art-source.  

Trial of ARTstor – valid until Friday, April 5, 2013

We have taken out a trial to  ARTstor Digital Library –  a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.

To access the trial (which just for the trial is on-campus only) go to www.artstor.org and click on the link to “Enter the ARTstor digital library.”

Please have a look – the trial runs until Friday, April 5, 2013, and feedback either here or to Hugh Morgan (Collection Management) or Janice Wright (Learning & Teaching)  from Library and Learning Resources.

Trial of Classical Scores Library to mark Marc Yeats premiere on January 8th

Marc Yeats has just become composer-in-residence for the Thumb Ensemble, a contemporary music ensemble from the UK.

Their next performance is Jan 8^th at Birmingham Conservatoire at Birmingham City University, with the premier of Marc’s newest pieces called Black Bile, composed in 2012.

In connection with Alexander Street Press, (with whom we already have a  subscription to Classical Music Library) we have set up a trial to their sister product Classical Scores Library (active until February 8th. For off-campus access, click here.) The score of Marc’ s piece can be viewed here to help assess a score before and after a premiere performance.

Please comment here or send any feedback on this resource direct to Francis Firth, Liaison Librarian, Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham School of Acting.

Trial to IPA Source

We have set up as trial to evaluate IPA Source which you can access from on-campus.

“Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.”

Please comment here or send any feedback on this resource direct to Francis Firth, Liaison Librarian, Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham School of Acting.

Trial of Digital Theatre Plus

Digital Theatre Plus is a new service, capturing live theatre performances and making them available online to schools, colleges and universities.

We have set up a trial which lasts until 17th of Jan 2013. You can login to the trial site here.

Please comment here or send any feedback on this resource direct to Francis Firth, Liaison Librarian, Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham School of Acting.

 

Trial of LexisNexis Dossier

We have set up a trial of  LexisNexis Dossier – a company information service  – for more information on what it contains click here .

To access the trial, use the link here at the top of the page  and enter the trial username and passwords ( if you don’t see the Dossier tab, you may need to log out and take the option to sign in as a different user).  If you still can’t login, please contact us at athens@bcu.ac.uk .

Please send any feedback on this trial on this resource to Linda Garratt, Liaison Librarian, Collection Management.

Trial of UKPressOnline

We have set up a month’s trial to UKPressOnline to evaluate this product.

UKPressOnline is a newspaper archive that features the complete as-published content of the Daily Mirror, the Daily and Sunday Express, The Star and the Star on Sunday. It is available in single titles or in packages – trial access will allow us to look at all titles, and is on-campus only, though if we purchased this it can be accessed from off-campus as well.

Recently added new content includes “The Watchman and Wesleyan Advertiser”, the precursor of the Methodist Recorder, launched in the immediate aftermath of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The archive, from the first issue in 1835 to the last in 1884, is virtually complete.

Please have a look , and comment below; or send your comments to our Collection Management librarians, Linda Garratt  or Hugh Morgan.