TRIAL: International Historical Statistics

We have a trial of International Historical Statistics from Palgrave Macmillan until 8th November 2013.

To access this trial either:

Search International Historical Statistics at http://www.palgraveconnect.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/pc/archives/ihs.html, or

Browse International Historical Statistics at http://www.palgraveconnect.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137305688

International Historical Statistics is an impressive and peerless collection of statistical data from around the world, covering a wide range of socio-economic topics. The collection includes data on the Americas and Europe, but also hard-to-find data on Africa, Asia and Oceania. It is a truly interdisciplinary product that will prove a valuable resource to those researching and studying Business, Economics, Environmental Studies, Geography, History, Politics, Sociology and Statistical Studies.

This new release updates the last print edition of International Historical Statistics, which was published in 2007 in 3 volumes. It now includes 260 years of rich data, collected between 1750-2010 and available online for the first time. Users will find the ability to conduct statistical analysis across both time and geopolitical boundaries particularly valuable. Data tables can be downloaded as ePDFs and/or Excel files.

After trying International Historical Statistics, 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: 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.

Liverpool University Press e-books now available

We have just purchased the Liverpool University Press e-books collection on the University Publishing Online platform. Access is available now at http://universitypublishingonline.org.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/liverpool/home.jsf.

The collection includes 110 titles including many that are heavily borrowed from our print collections, including:

The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland
Reading Rochester
Irish, Catholic and Scouse: The History of the Liverpool-Irish, 1800-1940
Liverpool: City of the Sea
The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America, 1492-1810
The Disinherited Society: A Personal View of Social Responsibility in Liverpool During the Twentieth Century
Culture, Conflict and Migration: The Irish in Victorian Cumbria
Markets, Market Culture and Popular Protest in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Decade of Change: The University of Liverpool 1981-1991
Migration, Mobility and Modernization

If the University Publishing Online platform looks familiar, that's because it is run by Cambridge University Press and uses the same technology as their Cambridge Books Online platform. So it's the usual things that we know you like: PDF chapters that can be downloaded and printed in their entirety, and none of that annoying DRM.
The Library Catalogue, Discover, and the library web pages will be updated in due course.

New subscription to JISC MediaHub

We now subscribe to JISC MediaHub a single point of access to three major multimedia archives purchased on behalf of JISC Collections. Access is from http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/ which will prompt for institutional login, and it is listed in our catalogue and (soon) our A-Z list of databases powered by LibGuides. Content in JISC MediaHub cannot be found via Discover.

JISC MediaHubenables cross-searching and exploration of TV news, documentary films, still images and classical music from the following archives:

Digital Images for Education
The result of a significant procurement during 2009-10, this archive comprises over 56,000 images and 600 hours of film selected by the education community to capture world, UK and local events during the last 25 years. Sources include the AP Archive, Getty Images, ITN, Design Council Archives, Imperial War Museum, Royal Geographical Society, and PYMCA.

NewsFilm Online
Over 3,000 hours of digitised news stories from the ITN/Reuters archives, comprising some 60,000 stories. The sources include the complete Gaumont and Paramount newsreels, from 1910 and 1934 respectively. Previously unbroadcast and unseen material, such as rushes and programme scripts, are also included.

Film & Sound Online
Over 2,000 items, comprising 17 separate collections of digitised film and sound, including Imperial War Museum film footage, and scientific content from the Wellcome Library and the Biochemical Society. The archive also includes over 50 hours of classical music recording from the Culverhouse collection.

JISC MediaHub also enables users to search and link out to external media collections such as the Open Video Project, Wellcome Images, ADS, ARKive and the First World War Poetry Archive.

TRIAL: all Alexander Street Press databases

We have a trial of all Alexander Street Press databases until 28th February 2011, and we invite your feedback through the Comments option below. When leaving feedback, you may use the anonymous option rather than having to create an account but please leave you name so we can follow up. Please specify which database(s) you are referring to!

To access these database please use the links below. Off-campus users will need to use Apps Anywhere, but should we purchase any of these databases we would arrange off-campus access through EZproxy as usual.

American History in Video http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com
Dance in Video http://daiv.alexanderstreet.com
Opera in Video http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com
Theatre in Video http://liverpool.itiv.alexanderstreet.com
Ethnographic Video Online http://anth.alexanderstreet.com
Education in Video http://ediv.alexanderstreet.com
World History in Video http://whiv.alexanderstreet.com

The Digital Karl Barth Library http://dkbl.alexanderstreet.com
The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation http://dlcr.alexanderstreet.com
The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts http://tcpt.alexanderstreet.com

Alexander Street Literature http://wlit.alexanderstreet.com
American Film Scripts http://afso.alexanderstreet.com
Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family http://adli.alexanderstreet.com
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels http://comx.alexanderstreet.com

Alexander Street Drama http://asdr.alexanderstreet.com - comprising...

North American Theatre Online http://atho.alexanderstreet.com
Twentieth Century North American Drama http://nadr.alexanderstreet.com
Black Drama, Second Edition http://bld2.alexanderstreet.com
Asian American Drama http://aadr.alexanderstreet.com
North American Women's Drama http://wodr.alexanderstreet.com
North American Indian Drama http://indr.alexanderstreet.com
Latino Literature http://lali.alexanderstreet.com

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection http://radr.alexanderstreet.com

Black Thought and Culture http://bltc.alexanderstreet.com
The American Civil War Online http://cwo2.alexanderstreet.com
Early Encounters in North America http://eena.alexanderstreet.com
The Gilded Age http://gild.alexanderstreet.com
North American Indian Thought and Culture http://ibio.alexanderstreet.com
Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online http://lado.alexanderstreet.com
Social Theory http://soth.alexanderstreet.com
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 – 1974 http://sixt.alexanderstreet.com
Women and Social Movements Scholar's Edition http://was2.alexanderstreet.com
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works http://psyc.alexanderstreet.com
Counseling and Therapy in Video http://ctiv.alexanderstreet.com
The Romantic Era Redefined http://romr.alexanderstreet.com

All Music Online collections http://music.alexanderstreet.com. Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource, the first in its kind to deliver audio, video, scores and text reference through one centralized interface, a milestone in digital music reference.

The complete Music Online suite cross-searches more than 263,000 tracks, 17,330 albums, 407 videos, 15,808 scores, and over 45,000 pages of text reference, from over 150 different record and video labels, print publishers and score publishers, such as EMI, Boosey & Hawkes, Opus Arte, Hyperion, Six Degrees Records, Smithsonian Folkways, Edition Peters, Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, INEDIT, and others.

You can create centralized playlists with one single login, bringing in materials from Alexander Street databases or material anywhere on the Web. The robust indexing allows users to browse and search by genre, historical event, album, track, score, people, classical work, cultural group, ensemble, instrument, label, place, recording date, reference work, role, subject, time period, venue, and video.

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.

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.

Women and Social Movements in the US, 1600-2000 - free in March

March is Women’s History month and to celebrate, Alexander Street Press have made the popular online collection, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000, Scholar's Edition, freely accessible for the entire month.

To access Women and Social Movements, Scholar's Edition, simply visit http://wass.alexanderstreet.com.

This extensive collection of primary historic documents, books, images, scholarly essays, teaching tools, and book and web site reviews documents the history of women’s activism in public life, and is one of the most heavily visited resources for women’s studies and for U.S. history on the Web. Organized around document projects written by leading scholars, the collection is a powerful research and classroom tool designed to help users develop the skills needed to analyze primary documents and conduct research. Document projects are organized around interpretive questions, each with 20-50 primary documents that address the question.

Some examples are:
How Did White Women Aid Former Slaves During and After the Civil War, 1863-1891?
How and Why Did the Guerrilla Girls Alter the Art Establishment in New York City, 1985-1995?

The Scholar's Edition also includes more than 40,000 pages of full-text sources, including:
Proceedings of all women's rights conventions, 1848-1869
Proceedings of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1898
Selected publications of the League of Women Voters, 1920-2000

Also newly added to the Scholar's Edition are:
Notable American Women, the five-volume biographical dictionary
The Collected Publications of federal, state, and local Commissions on the Status of Women, a digital archive with 90,000 pages of publications, 1961-2005
New content is added semi-annually.

Please also be sure to check out the companion blog to Women and Social Movements, Women and Social Movements: The Online Discussion, where faculty discuss how they’ve made use of the online collection in the classroom, share syllabi, and exchange ideas.

TRIAL: Compass journals

Compass journals from Wiley-Blackwell publish peer-reviewed survey articles across 8 disciplines. They are intended to provide experienced researchers, teaching staff, and advanced students accessible, informative articles that provide overviews of current research.

We subscribe to Philosophy Compass and we have a trial of the remaining 7 titles until 31st January 2010:

History Compass
Literature Compass
Religion Compass
Geography Compass
Language & Linguistics Compass
Sociology Compass
Social & Personality Psychology Compass

Discounted prices are available if we subscribe to multiple titles.

After trying the Compass journals 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 Compass journal(s) you are commenting on!