TRIAL: Wittgenstein – The Complete Correspondence

The University of Liverpool has trial access to ‘Wittgenstein – The Complete Correspondence’ until Monday 6th July 2015.

Click here to access the Complete Correspondence of Wittgenstein via the Past Masters resource (University login required off campus).

Wittgenstein’s Complete Correspondence is an online, searchable collection of correspondence to and from Wittgenstein.
It includes commentaries for all the letters and biographies of each individual mentioned in them, as well as a chronology of his life and indices of the literature and music mentioned in the correspondence.

After viewing the Complete Correspondence of Wittgenstein, 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.

TRIAL: University Press Scholarship Online

We have a trial of University Press Scholarship Online until 8th June 2013.

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

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

University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) offers full-text access to the best scholarly publishing from around the world, making disparately published scholarship easily accessible, highly discoverable, and fully cross-searchable via a single online platform. As well as content from Oxford University Press and Policy Press (most of which we already have access to), UPSO includes e-books from the following publishers:

• The American University in Cairo Press
• University of Chicago Press
• University of California Press
• Edinburgh University Press
• University Press of Florida
• Fordham University Press
• Hong Kong University Press
• The University Press of Kentucky
• Manchester University Press

The following publishers will be added later in 2013:

• Liverpool University Press - Launching 2013
• The MIT Press - Launching 2013
• Stanford University Press - Launching 2013
• Yale University Press - Launching 2013
After trying University Press Scholarship Online, please leave your comments below, specifying the publisher(s) and subject(s) you are most interested in. 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.

TRIAL: Oxford Scholarly Editions Online

We have a trial of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, from Oxford University Press, until 8th June 2013.

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

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

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online provides trustworthy, annotated texts of writing worth reading. The launch content includes hundreds of poems, plays, and prose works, written by writers active between 1485 and 1660, including Donne, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.
After trying Oxford Scholarly Editions 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.

TRIAL: Electronic Enlightenment

We have a trial of Electronic Enlightenment, from Oxford University Press, until 8th June 2013.

To access this trial go to http://www.e-enlightenment.com/.

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

Electronic Enlightenment is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century — reconstructing one of the world's great historical “conversations”.

Electronic Enlightenment includes 60,647 historical documents. Listen in on the first global social network as 7,476 historical figures discuss everything from religious tolerance to animal rights, vulcanology to classical archeology, economic modelling to celebrity culture.
After trying Electronic Enlightenment, 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.

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.

TRIAL: Cambridge Histories Online

We have a trial of Cambridge Histories Online until 31st March 2013.

To access this trial go to:

http://universitypublishingonline.org.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/cambridge/histories/

Cambridge Histories Online includes over 300 volumes in the Cambridge Histories series published since 1975, in 15 subjects areas:

American History
British History
Economic History
General History
History of Science
History of the Book
Language and Linguistics
Literary Studies
Music
Philosophy
Political and Social Theory
Regional History
Religious Studies
Theatre Studies and Performing Arts
Warfare

After trying Cambridge Histories 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.

Partnership with OUP for Oxford Bibliographies Online

The Library is delighted to announce it has entered into a one year partnership with Oxford University Press to help shape development of its exciting new resource Oxford Bibliographies Online.

The Library will offer staff and students at the University the opportunity to feed into the evolution of this resource through focus groups and questionnaires. In return for our help in developing the resource, Oxford University Press will grant us perpetual access to one of the subject bibliographies within the trial, regardless of whether we then choose to subscribe to the resource as a whole.

In the publisher’s words, “Oxford Bibliographies Online helps researchers and students find reliable sources of information to aid their research from within the enormous amount of print and online material available to them.

You can:
• Read a narrative guide to a subject area to get an overview of the subject before beginning detailed research
• Use the bibliography and supporting text provided to conduct more detailed research
• Get an overview of the best scholarship available whether it be a book, chapter, journal, website, or database from both subscription and free resources
• Use a resource that is editorially monitored by an Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board made up of leading academics in the field from around the world to aid your study
• Keep up-to-date with the latest scholarship in your field as the site expands to reflect newly available material”

Bibliographies in the following subjects are already available, with more to come through the year:
• Atlantic History
• Classics
• Criminology
• Islamic Studies
• Philosophy
• Renaissance and Reformation
• Social Work

You can access Oxford Bibliographies Online through the library catalogue or through LibGuides. Off-campus access is provided through EZproxy as usual.

If you wish to be involved, and/or want more information about Oxford Bibliographies Online, please contact Martin Wolf.

GeoRef, RILM, Philosopher's Index on EBSCOhost

We have transferred our subscriptions to the GeoRef, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and Philosopher's Index databases from CSA Illumina and OvidSP to EBSCOhost. This will mean that these databases will continue to be included in DISCOVER searches (as they have been for a trial period).

You can search these databases singly at:

GeoRef
http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login.aspx?authtype=ip&profile=EHOST&defaultdb=geh,guh

RILM
http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login.aspx?authtype=ip&profile=EHOST&defaultdb=rih

Philosopher's Index
http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login.aspx?authtype=ip&profile=EHOST&defaultdb=phl

You can also search your choice of EBSCOhost databases (other than by using DISCOVER of course) by clicking Choose Databases.

For example, you can search RILM and Music Index together:
http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login.aspx?authtype=ip&profile=EHOST&defaultdb=rih,mah

TRIAL: Oxford Bibliographies Online

We have a trial of Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) until 30th November.

To access this trial go to http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/. Off-campus users should use Apps Anywhere, but if we did subscribe to OBO we would of course set up off-campus access via EZproxy as normal.

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a tool designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information quickly by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. It is a springboard for new research that allows for fluid movement between texts and databases within a given institution’s collection and beyond. It is a starting point for organizing a research plan, or for preparing a writing assignment or syllabus. The style and approach is accessible to students, but the depth of coverage makes it of great use to faculty as well.

OBO is a library of disciplined-based subject modules. In each subject module, leading scholars have produced a literary guide to the most important and significant sources in an area of study they know best. The guides feature a selective list of bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult. Each topic has a unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. The citations promote discoverability as they link out to the sources via your library collection or through Google books and more.

OBO brings quality assurance and authority to online research. All articles receive multiple peer reviews and editorial board vetting to provide reliable and balanced coverage. Articles are regularly updated by their authors so that information in this resource is always current and accurate. In addition to updating existing articles, new topic guides are added on a regular schedule to expand the scope and extent of each subject module in the library.

Our trial includes all of the currently available modules:

Atlantic History
Biblical Studies
Buddhism
Classics
Criminology
Islamic Studies
Philosophy
Renaissance and Reformation
Social Work

Several more modules will be released in the next year:

Winter 2010:

Medieval Studies
Hinduism

January 2011:

Communication
International Relations
Public Health
Victorian Literature

Coming in 2011:

Anthropology
Cinema and Media Studies
Education
Latin American Studies
Linguistics
Music
Political Science
Sociology

After trying Oxford Bibliographies Online, please leave feedback through the comments section below, specifying which module(s) you are refrring to if possible. 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.

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: Past Masters

A trial of Past Masters is available to all UK HE institutions until May 30th 2010.

Past Masters provides online access to the complete works, and in some case correspondence, of some of the greatest philosophers and thinkers, including Aristotle, Darwin, Descartes, Kant, Plato, Wittgenstein, and many more.

To access this trial go to http://pm.nlx.com/trial_logins/new and login with the trial username and password.

After trying Past Masters 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.

De Gruyter E-journals Collection available

From 2010 we have started subscription to the full collection of journals from De Gruyter. This adds access to nearly 80 titles in fields ranging from Classics to Medicine, on top of our existing subscriptions. The collection restores access to two titles that had to be cancelled in recent years despite of good levels of usage:

Biological Chemistry
Botanica Marina

Amongst the other new titles are:

Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie
Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete
Byzantinische Zeitschrift
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
Journal of Group Theory
Journal of Perinatal Medicine
The Linguistic Review
Mammalia
Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication
Praehistorische Zeitschrift
Semiotica
Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie

All titles are listed in the library catalogue and have been activated in SFX / find it @ liverpool.

De Gruyter is celebrating 260 years of publishing and has recently announced a rebranding and modernisation of its image. It intends to increase the proportion of its output that is published in the English language.

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.

Walter de Gruyter e-books in Classics, History & Philosophy

We have purchased a 32 e-books from Walter de Gruyter on their Reference Global platform. Eight of the titles are available now and will be added to the library catalogue shortly:

From Alexandria to Babylon
The Invectives of Sallust and Cicero
Nietzsche, Power and Politics
Post-Roman Towns, Vol. 1: The Heirs of the Roman West
Post-Roman Towns, Vol. 2: Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans
Praising the Goddess
Rio Grande – Texas
Roman Portraits in Context

These rest will be added when they are published.

Walter de Gruyter e-books are provided in simple PDF chapters, with none of that Digital Rights Management (DRM) software that we know you hate.

TRIAL: Electronic Enlightenment

We have a trial of Electronic Elightenment until 17th December 2008. Electronic Enlightenment offers access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Electronic Enlightenment is a scholarly research project of the Bodleian Library and the Humanities Division, University of Oxford and is available exclusively from Oxford University Press.

To access this trial go to http://www.e-enlightenment.com/services/. (Off-campus users should use the version of Internet Explorer in the Windows Terminal Service to access this trial. In the event of a subscription we would of course arrange access via EZproxy for off-campus users).

After trying Electronic Elightenment 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.

Philosopher's Index - which platform?

The outcome of the consultation below was that we decided to renew Philosopher's Index on the Ovid platform. But at least we asked!

Our subscription to Philosopher's Index on the Ovid platform is coming up for renewal and we would like to give users the opportunity to decide whether to continue on this platform or to switch to CSA Illumina or EBSCOhost. Please try the three platforms directly:

CSA Illumina
EBSCOhost
Ovid

and through Metalib (click on the magnifying glass icons). Metalib is only suitable for quite crude searches but you might find that some versions work better than others in the Metalib environment.

Once you have tried all 3 versions 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.