Electronic Books
Library Resources Spotlight
New resources...August 2010....
Take a look at these e-resources.
They're either new subscriptions - recently made available to
University staff and students or resources which deserve a spotlight.
DesignInform / Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR)
This resource has moved to a new platform and is now being developed daily. The site includes: Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR)- a retrospective journal abstracting and indexing service; Design ProFILES (DP) - biographical dictionary of modern designers, craftspeople, artists and architects; ReVIEW Full-text - nineteenth and early twentieth century art journals.
No login required on campus. Off campus access is via Desktop Anywhere only.
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WGSN -World Global Style Network
Contains worldwide fashion industry news, trade show information and includes real-time trend analysis and fashion reports.
Login with non-university username/password currently required. A new platform late 2010 will allow access from on campus without a login.
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IEEE Wiley E-Books
A collection of over 400 technical titles spanning Bioengineering, Power & Energy and Communication technologies and other growing areas of research.
No login required on campus. Off campus use University username and password
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Romantic Era Redefined (Alexander Street Press)
An collection of Romantic-era literature, focusing on the period between 1800 and 1830. Includes published and previously unrecognized writers from Britain, the British Empire, and North America. It contains over 90,000 pages.
No login required on campus. Off campus access is via Desktop Anywhere only.
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Irish Newspaper Archives
A complete digitisation of Ireland's newspaper heritage - fully searchable. Titles include the Irish Independent (1905 - current), Sunday Independent, The Freeman's Journal, the Nation and many of Ireland's leading regional newspapers.
No login required on campus. Off campus access is via Desktop Anywhere only.
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The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction
Offers diverse views from all regions of the U.S. 150 newspapers, including
the Baltimore Sun, Charleston Mercury, Milwaukee Sentinel, National
Intelligencer, New Orleans Picayune, New York Herald, New York Tribune,
Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Bulletin and others Approximately
50,000 government documents and 4,000 rare broadsides and pieces of
ephemera Created from the acclaimed Readex Archive of Americana. Detailed
news articles and illustrations, editorial perspectives and eyewitness
reporting. Cross-search the text of newspapers, broadsides and government
documents. Extensive local and national coverage of American culture,
politics and society during this tumultuous period.
Access with university username/password.
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American Civil War Letters & Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Contains 2,009 authors, approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs and includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts.
No login required on campus. Off campus access is via Desktop Anywhere only.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers
The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every
page from every available issue of 5 U.S. Newspapers.
The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945).
The Boston Globe (1872-1979).
The Chicago Tribune (1849-1987).
The Historical New York Times (1851-2006) with Index (1851-1993)
provides searchable full text, full page, and article-level
images.
The Washington Post (1877-1993).
Access with university username/password.
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19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life among other subjects.
No login required on campus. University username/password off campus
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19th Century British Pamphlets
This collection contains the most significant British pamphlets from the
19th century held in UK research libraries. The pamphlets provide users
with a wide focus on the political, social, and economic issues of 19th
century Britain. More than 20,000 pamphlets are available in this new
collection.
No login required on campus. Off-campus, click
login, then "Access Jstor through a participating institution", select
"Northumbria University" as your institution, then enter your university
login details.
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Databases or the Library
Catalogue
Ireland Collection on JSTOR
The Digital Library of Core Resources on Ireland is a
comprehensive, multi–disciplinary digital library of research materials
relating to Ireland, spanning the 18th century to present. Content includes
both current and ceased journals, over 200 monographs, and 2,500 manuscript
pages. The collection covers a wide range of disciplines, including music,
art, history, literature, archaeology, sociology, mathematics, and science,
among many others.
No login required on campus. Off-campus, click
login, then "Access Jstor through a participating institution", select
"Northumbria University" as your institution, then enter your university
login details.
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British Library Archival Sound Recordings now available
Explore 21,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word and human
and natural environments. From foghorns to Bach, from Strawberry Frogs to
interviews with the History of the Common Cold Unit, there's definitely
something of interest for everyone. Search facility is available, and you
can create a favourites list for later listening. Most of the recordings
can be downloaded, but the following collections are available as streamed
content only:
Accents and dialects
Ethnographic wax cylinders
British wildlife recordings
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British Newspapers 1600-1900
The British Newspapers 1600-1900 is the most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. New conservation and imaging techniques and a new cross-searchable platform adopted by the British Library offers unparalleled access and discoverability to this valuable historical and cultural archive. In addition one will find specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis.
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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
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IEEE Explore (Comprising IEE / IEEE / IET )
The world's core collection of engineering, electronics, and computer science periodicals and conferences, from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) including archives . Articles and papers available in full text. Also includes access to IEEE standards (excluding drafts). This collection is available on campus or via DESKTOP ANYWHERE
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IBSS Database now hosted on the CSA platform
Compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of the
London School of Economics & Political Science. This database contains
bibliographic information from an international selection of publications
(incl. over 2600 journals) in the fields of economics, political science,
sociology, and anthropology.
No password required on campus. Off campus use University username
and password
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We now have access to this resource. It contains approximately 1120 recordings generated by the Independent Local Radio Programme Sharing Scheme 1983-1990.
Try browsing under terms such as Newcastle and hear what you find...
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LION
Literature Online is a web based library containing over 350,000 literary texts of English and American poetry, drama and prose together with full-text journals, author biographies, bibliographies and other critical and secondary sources. This resource is available via NORA or via the library catalogue. Off campus a university login and password will be required.
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INTUTE
Intute (formerly Resource Discovery Network) is a free online service providing access to the very best Web resources for education and research. Subject specialists from universities select and evaluate the websites in the database and write descriptions of the resources.
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ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracting service)
Highly recommended by one of our Information Specialists.
ASSIA has wide coverage for the social sciences. The advanced search is really easy to use and, best of all, it retrieves peer-reviewed articles.
It is a British service, although it does have an international coverage; a good database for the topics of social sciences, sociology, economics, politics, psychology, social work education, health, human resource management, consumer behaviour and organisational change.
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GMID (Global Marketing Information Database) has been improved to include...
access to Global Consumer Trend Monitoring and Country Insights Global Consumer Trend Monitoring spots emerging trends in 37 national markets. Updated on a daily basis it tracks trends shaping consumer attitudes, opinions, activities and spending habits.
Used by the world’s leading manufacturers, retailers and suppliers to understand consumer markets and support business decisions.
Contains articles, rankings, and strategic briefings that report on similarities and differences across countries, judges the impacts of trends and predicts consumer markets in the future.
Country
Insight provides in-depth analysis of economic, political, social
and demographic trends affecting 71 countries and 8 regions
worldwide.
Articles are succinct and
explore topical issues and interesting socio-economic trends, while the
Features section examine issues in depth.
Clearly presented datafiles
containing graphs, charts and rankings linking relevant data. They often
provide backup to articles and features but also provide an excellent
graphical overview of a topic. Country profiles are standardised
country reports that provide background economic and political data and
analysis. Updated on a rolling basis, they are always
current.
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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) 18th, 19th & 20th century now available
HCPP currently covers the period 1688 -2003. Search by keywords, or browse the subject index to retrieve the full text House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, Bills and Reports of Committees. Between 1801 and 2000, around 9.5 million pages for over 184,000 parliamentary papers were published. Since 2001, the number of papers has grown by approximately 4,000 for each parliamentary session. HCPP delivers searchable full text for each paper, along with a detailed subject index.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Fulltext database of materials published in the 18th Century covering the disciplines of history and geography, social sciences, fine arts, medicine science & technology, literature & language, religion & philosophy and law.
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Nexis UK
Nexis UK is a full text database including UK national and regional newspapers and trade press plus many newspapers and magazines published worldwide. It also includes full text information covering companies, industries, countries and people.
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Date posted: August 27, 2010
