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.

New Elsevier journal agreement

The Library has signed up to the new JISC Collections NESLi2 'Big Deal' journal agreement with Elsevier.

Under the new agreement, which runs for 5 years from 2012 to 2016, we have decided to cancel a few low-use (but usually high-price) titles:

Advances in Mathematics
Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
Information and Computation
International Journal of Multiphase Flow
Journal of Algebra
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Journal of Mathematical Economics
Journal of Number Theory
Journal of Symbolic Computation
Nuclear Data Sheets
Physics Reports
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics

Nevertheless we will continue to have on-going access to these titles as long as they remain in Elsevier's "Freedom Collection".
 
Instead we will start subscriptions to several more journals in 2012:
 
Academic Radiology
Advances in Anesthesia
Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
Advances in Pediatrics
Advances in Surgery
Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Annals of Tourism Research
Annals of Vascular Surgery
AORN Journal
Arthroscopy: the Journal of Arthroscopy and Related Surgery
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Body Image
Brachytherapy
Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly
British Accounting Review
Business Horizons
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
European Management Journal
Healthcare Management Forum
Heart Rhythm
Human Resource Management Review
Information & Management
International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus
International Journal of Production Economics
Journal of AAPOS
Journal of Business Research
Journal of Business Venturing
Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Journal of Clinical Densitometry
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
Journal of Great Lakes Research
Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume)
Journal of Hand Therapy
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Journal of International Management
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences
Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
Journal of Operations Management
Journal of Renal Nutrition
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Journal of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists
Journal of the American College of Radiology
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Journal of Veterinary Cardiology
JVIR: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Leadership Quarterly
Medical Dosimetry
Organizational Dynamics
Practical Radiation Oncology
Pregnancy Hypertension: an International Journal of Women's Cardiovascular Health
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Reproductive Biomedicine Online
Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
Tourism Management
Urological Science
Vaccine

Some of these have not been available to us before because they are not included in the Freedom Collection, and others are our best-used, non-subscribed titles in the collection. By subscribing to these titles we will earn permanent access to the content published during our subscription. We are only subscribing to new titles where usage statistics show that a reasonable number of abstracts have been viewed, suggesting that there is demand for these titles.

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: CRCnetBASE e-books

We have a trial of CRCnetBASE until 14th May 2010.

CRCnetBASE is the science and technology e-books platform from the CRC Press imprint of Taylor & Francis Group. It includes over 5,000 titles, and they presented in PDF chapters without restrictive Digital Rights Management (DRM) software.

We are trialling the full list of subjects available (just click on the subject to trial the titles available):

Biomedical Science (539)
Business & Management (696)
Chemical Engineering (158)
Chemistry (786)
Clean Tech (153)
Computer Science & Engineering (286)
Economics (767)
Engineering - Civil (365)
Engineering - Electrical (748)
Engineering - General (127)
Engineering - Mechanical (377)
Engineering - Mining (28)
Environmental Science & Engineering (610)
Ergonomics & Human Factors (127)
Food & Nutrition (561)
Forensics & Criminal Justice (284)
Geoscience (29)
Healthcare (104)
Homeland Security (74)
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing (252)
Information Technology (402)
Life Science (756)
Material Science (481)
Math (447)
Medicine (353)
Nanoscience & Technology (113)
Occupational Health & Safety (110)
Pharmaceutical Science & Regulation (268)
Physics (401)
Polymer Science (102)
Public Administration & Public Policy (70)
Social Sciences (537)
Statistics (279)
Water Science & Engineering (213)

We may already access to some of the titles in CRCnetBASE through Taylor & Francis's main e-books platform. It is possible to purchase individual titles, or to purchase or subscribe to collections.

After trying CRCnetBASE 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.