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.

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.

Emerald upgraded to largest collection

We are delighted to announce that the Library has upgraded its Emerald management e-journals collection from the smallest, EMeJ 95, to the largest, EMeJ Plus.

The enlarged collection adds nearly 100 journals, and including many journals focussing on business in China and India and Islamic business and finance:

Asia Pacific Journal of Business Administration
Asian Journal on Quality
Asian Review of Accounting
China Agricultural Economic Review
Chinese Management Studies
Indian Growth and Development Review
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management
International Journal of Emerging Markets
International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management
Journal of Asia Business Studies
Journal of Chinese Economics and Foreign Trade Studies
Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship
Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management
Journal of Enterprising Communities: People & Places in the Global Economy
Journal of Indian Business Review
Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research
Journal of Islamic Marketing
Journal of Knowledge-Based Innovation in China
Journal of Science and Technology Policy in China
Nankai Business Review International

All titles are listed in the library catalogue and are available through SFX / find it @ liverpool. Note that EMeJ Plus will include every new journal that Emerald launches or acquires.

In addition to the new EMeJ Plus collection we still subscribe to the Emerald Engineering collection, and the Emerald backfiles.

Graduates of the University remain entitled to access the smaller Emerald EMeJ 95 collection - see http://alumni.liv.ac.uk/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pid=968.

ScienceDirect eBooks in 2011

Throughout 2011 we will have access to around 7,800 additional eBook titles on ScienceDirect. This is part of a usage-driven acquisition trial with Elsevier and the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow.

We now have access to all eBooks in the following subjects on ScienceDirect:

Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Business, Management, Hospitality and Tourism
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Energy
Engineering
Environmental Science
Finance
Forensics
Immunology and Microbiology
Materials Science
Mathematics
Media Technology
Medicine and Dentistry
Neuroscience
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
Physics and Astronomy
Psychology
Veterinary Science
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine

At the end of the year we will be able to retain access to a number of titles of our choice, up to a maximum value.

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.

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.

Emerald backfiles now available

We have purchased the backfiles of Emerald journals and access is now available. These backfiles include 68,000 articles from over 120 journals back to Volume 1. Emerald publish mainly in the field of business and management, but also publish a number of engineering journals.

We have updated SFX / find it @ liverpool and are in the process of updating our catalogue records.

TRIAL: Journals from Henry Stewart Publications

We have a long-term trial of all journals currently published by Henry Stewart Publications until 30th April 2009. The titles available are:

Journal of Airport Management
Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning
Journal of Care Services Management
Journal of Communication in Healthcare
Journal of Corporate Treasury Management
Journal of Management & Marketing in Healthcare
Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems
Journal of Public Works & Infrastructure
Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions
Journal of Securities Compliance
Journal of Securities Operations & Custody
Journal of Sponsorship
Journal of Telecommunications Management
Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal

All titles appear in the library catalogue and in our SFX link resolver, find it @ liverpool. After the trial has concluded we will evaluate the publisher's pricing proposal in the light of the measured usage.

We will also take into consideration any comments posted 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.