NEW RESOURCE: Oxford Bibliographies Online

Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship.

Each Oxford Bibliographies article, written and reviewed by top scholars in the field, includes citations and annotations, expert recommendations, and narrative pathways through the most useful and important works on the topic in question.

Each Oxford Bibliographies subject collection gathers together a large collection of those articles, addressing themes and topics within a single discipline.

Staff and students now have access to following Oxford Bibliographies Online subject collections:
   African studies
   Art history
   Atlantic history
   Biblical studies
   Classics
   Medieval studies
   Military history
   Political science
   Renaissance and Reformation

Access these resources via the library catalogue; search for ‘oxford bibliographies online’ to see the available subject collections.  (University login will be required off campus)

TRIAL: Routledge Handbooks Online

We have trial access to Routledge Handbooks Online until 12th March 2015. Take a look at this resource and let us know what you think.

Access Routledge Handbooks Online from:
http://ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.routledgehandbooks.com/
(University login required off campus)

Routledge Handbooks Online (RHO) is a new platform providing access to Routledge Handbooks, Companions and Worlds publications. Content is displayed by chapter and the search functionality enables users to navigate easily to content across 18 subjects. RHO will have 325 handbooks available on launch, split into 18 subject collections. All content is free of digital rights management in respect of the downloading of content and printing and is available to unrestricted numbers of concurrent users.

After trying Routledge Handbooks 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. Do get in touch, we really want to know what you think about this resource.

Look: Who's Who's back!

Having recently decided not to renew our subscription to Who's Who and Who Was Who we have now changed our minds in response to comments from some anguished users. So access is once again available from http://www.ukwhoswho.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/.

Who's Who, published annually since 1849 and the first biographical book of its kind, contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year. Each biographee supplies the original information for their entry and is then sent an annual proof for updating. Editors also monitor the press and other sources of reference for day-to-day changes and additions.

In 1920 the first volume of Who Was Who was published, providing a wealth of material for researchers without easy access to the earlier individual volumes of Who's Who. This first edition was composed of the entries of those who had died between 1897 and 1915 with the date of death added to each. Subsequent volumes of Who Was Who cover the years from 1916 to 2005. Published originally at ten-year intervals, and now every five years, each new edition provides an opportunity for revision and correction where necessary, using many sources of reference. However, as no account is taken of the many changes that may have been made to an entry during a life, serious researchers may, on occasion, wish to consult the individual volumes of Whos Who to obtain a fuller picture. Who Was Who has proved invaluable in identifying not only those who shaped the events of their time but others, now forgotten, who were familiar names to the journalists and diarists who recorded the events of the day.