TRIAL: Bankscope

We have trial access to Bankscope until Monday 18th August 2014.  Take a look at this resource and let us know what you think.

Access Bankscope from:
http://ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login?url=http://bankscope.bvdinfo.com/ip (University login required off campus)

Bankscope contains comprehensive information on banks across the globe. You can use it to research individual banks and find banks with specific profiles and analyse them. Bankscope has up to 16 years of detailed accounts for each bank.

Please note that you will be able to see all the data available in Bankscope, and have full access to the search and display software, but the export of data from the system (into formats such as Excel) is not available during this trial access period.

After trying Bankscope please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments. Do get in touch, we really want to know what you think about this resource.

International Financial Reporting Standards (eIFRS) now available online

eIFRS contains the complete text of International Financial Reporting Standards (formerly International Accounting Standards) and editorial corrections from 1997.

To access eIFRS via the web go to: http://library.liv.ac.uk/record=b3379310~S8

TRIAL: British Academy Publications Online

We have a trial of British Academy Publications Online, from Oxford University Press, until 8th June 2013.

To access this trial go to http://www.britishacademypublications.com.

For off-campus access, use AppsAnywhere. If we acquired this resource we would link to it via EZproxy as usual.

British Academy Publications Online is an online collection of academic monographs and essay collections from the distinguished British Academy list. Offering quick and easy access to the full-text of over 120 British Academy titles, each title is fully cross-searchable and content can be shared, saved, and downloaded to suit the demands of the busy researcher.
After trying British Academy Publications Online, please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.

More Palgrave Connect e-book collections available

We have purchased the following e-book collections on the Palgrave Connect platform (1,059 books in all):

Business & Management Collection Extended Backlist (1992 -2009) (102 books)
Economics & Finance Collection Extended Backlist (1990 - 2009) (147 books)
Language & Linguistics 2011 & 2012 (48 books)
Media & Culture 2011 & 2012 (74 books)
Political & International Studies 2011 & 2012 (466 books)
Social Sciences 2011 & 2012 (222 books)

Access is available now from http://www.palgraveconnect.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/index.html.

The Library Catalogue, Discover, and the library web pages will be updated in due course.

Note that all Palgrave Connect e-books from 2011 are available in EPUB as well as PDF format and come without Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions.

More Palgrave eBooks in Business, Economics, History

We have purchased all of the available Palgrave Connect eBooks in three subject areas:

Business and Management (662 additional titles)
Economics and Finance (726 additional titles)
History (836 additional titles)

Access is available now. We have activated them in SFX / find it @ liverpool so they can be found via Google Books and WorldCat, and they will be added to our catalogue and DISCOVER very soon.

Last year we purchased the 2009 and 2010 collections in all subject areas of Palgrave Connect. This year we analysed the usage statistics from those collections and bought those subjects where the greatest proportion of titles had been used.

Palgrave Connect eBooks are presented as DRM-free PDFs. All the 2011 collections, and the 2010 Business and Management collection are also available to download in EPUB format for use on EPUB-compatible devices. see the Palgrave Connect FAQ for more details.

TRIAL: PI Navigator financial data

We have an extended trial of PI Navigator from Perfect Information until June 2011. To access this trial login via the UK Federation using your usual Managed Windows Service username and password. You will also find PI Navigator in the library catalogue, and in the Databases A-Z.

PI Navigator is a financial and capital markets database providing access to over 14 million global company filings including annual reports, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Initial Public Offerings (IPO) and bond prospectuses. PI Navigator surfaces the value of the data buried within financial documents, providing the ability to significantly reduce the time taken modelling company financials.

Please leave any feedback you have on this resource through the comments section below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.

20 Cengage e-textbooks purchased

We have purchased 20 core e-textbooks from Cengage Learning. We have mutiple copies of these books on the library's shelves but this is the first time that these titles have been made available online. These books have been made available on the Myilibrary platform but note that an unlimited number of people can access any of these titles at the same time.

Catalogue records are in the process of being created for each book, but access is available now (including off-campus access via EZproxy):

AISE Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (Wooldridge)
Business Analysis & Valuation IFRS Edition Text & Cases (Palepu et al)
Calculus: Metric International Version (Stewart)
Chemical Principles (Zumdahl)
Communicate! (Verderber & Verderber)
Communication Between Cultures (Samovar, Porter & McDaniel)
Consumer Behavior (Hoyer & MacInnes)
Economics: Special edition (Mankiw & Taylor)
Global Business (Peng)
International Financial Reporting & Analysis (Alexander, Britton & Jorissen)
International Marketing Strategy (Doole & Lowe)
Management (Daft, Kendrick & Vershinina)
Management & Cost Accounting (Drury)
Managerial Statistics (Keller)
Marketing Research: Approaches, Methods and Applications in Europe (Kent)
Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, European Edition (Dibb et al)
Organic Chemistry (McMurry)
Principles and Practice Of Marketing (Blythe)
Strategic Management (Thompson & Martin)
Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples, Shorter Version (Titon & Todd)

Palgrave Connect e-books purchased

We have purchased the following e-book collections from Palgrave Connect:

Business & Management Collection 2009 - 60 titles
Business & Management Collection 2010 - 95 titles so far
Economics & Finance Collection 2009 - 70 titles
Economics & Finance Collection 2010 - 78 titles so far
History Collection 2009 - 70 titles
History Collection 2010 - 100 titles so far
Language & Linguistics Collection 2009 - 22 titles
Language & Linguistics Collection 2010 - 26 titles so far
Literature & Performing Arts Collection 2009 - 100 titles
Literature Collection 2010 - 110 titles so far
Theatre & Performance 2010 - 22 titles so far
Political & International Studies Collection 2009 - 150 titles
Political & International Studies Collection 2010 - 136 titles so far
Religion & Philosophy Collection 2009 - 30 titles
Religion & Philosophy Collection 2010 - 41 titles so far
Social & Cultural Studies Collection 2009 - 100 titles
Social Sciences Collection 2010 - 83 titles so far
Media & Culture 2010 - 30 titles so far
Education 2010 - 39 titles so far

Each of the 2010 collections will have a futher release of titles in October, and this will bring our total number of purchased titles from 1,362 to 1,624.

Palgrave Connect employs 'permissive Digital Right Managament (DRM)', which means you can download e-book content without any physical restrictions. E-book content can be copied, pasted, saved and printed. All ebook pages are watermarked to show that the content is copyright material from palgraveconnect.com. When a Palgrave Connect e-book is downloaded a watermarked coversheet is added, including the name of the subscribing institution.

The links above above how been updated so that they are routed via EZproxy for off-campus access.

Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006, now available

Following the positive comments in response to our trial, we have now purchased the Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006 from Gale, Cengage Learning. Access is now available from http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/menu/start?prod=FTHA&userGroupName=livuni or via the library catalogue or through SFX / find it @ liverpool, or through our e-Newspapers or Historical Collections online pages.

Don't forget we also have the Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2006.

TRIAL: Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006

We have a trial of the Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006 until 31st March 2010.

To access this trial go to Cengage Learning's trials site and login with the trial username and password.

The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006, is the complete searchable facsimile run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. Every article and advertisement ever printed in the paper can be searched and browsed individually and page by page. This is an essential, comprehensive and unbiased research tool for everyone studying public affairs, and economic and financial history of the last 120 years.

Note that we already have access to the FT from 1995 to date via FT Intelligence.

After trying the Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006, please leave a comment.

TRIAL: Palgrave Connect e-books

We have a trial of a few Palgrave Connect e-book collections until Janury 4th 2010:

Business & Management Collection 2009
Economics & Finance Collection 2009
Political & International Studies Collection 2009
Social & Cultural Studies Collection 2009
History Collection 2008

For off-campus access please use Internet Explorer in the Office or Web folders of AppsAnywhere. We would of course configure EZproxy access if we were to buy content on Palgrave Connect.

These are really just to give us an opportunity to try out the Palgrave Connect e-books platform. On Palgrave Connect you can download entire e-books as a PDF document, and there are no Digital Rights Management restrictions on copying or printing (though copyright law still applies of course!)

Futher collections are also available (but without trial access) in:

Literature & Performing Arts
Language & Linguistics
Religion and Philosophy

We buy a higher proportion of published titles in the Literature & Performing Arts area than any other so these might be the most likely for us to purchase.

Collections are sold by subject and year on publication, with the earliest collections going back to 2000. For a list of all the collections, see http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/browse/catalog.

We would welcome your comments on the functionality of the platform and the range of titles available.

After trying Palgrave Connect please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments. Please be specific about which collections (subject areas and years) you are most interested in.

Making of the Modern World now available

The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature, 1450-1850 from Gale Cengage Learning is now available from:

http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/menu/start?prod=MOME&userGroupName=livuni

You will find it in the library catalogue and in Metalib.

The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature, 1450-1850 provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 to 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.