New Library Subscription: English Historical Documents Online

Keele University Library now provides access to English Historical Documents Online, one of the most comprehensive, annotated collections of documents on British history ever compiled.

Use English Historical Documents Online to:

• Search documents from British history spanning the years 500 to 1914, plus American history to 1776
• Locate relevant material easily with quick and advanced searches - all documents are fully indexed by the Institute of Historical Research
• Find documents based on time periods with a scrolling timeline
• Annotate, download and print documents.

All Keele staff and students can access EHD online both on and off-campus at: http://www.englishhistoricaldocuments.com. You will need your Keele username and password to log-in from off-campus.

ProQuest Upgraded

We’ve recently improved and upgraded our subscriptions to academic databases on the ProQuest platform. Look out for both new databases and expanded full-text coverage amongst Natural Sciences and Social Sciences collections. 

The new ProQuest Natural Sciences Collection includes access to seven themed database collections: Agricultural Science; Aquatic Science; Atmospheric Science; Biological Science; Earth Science; Environmental Science and ProQuest Illustrata: Natural Sciences. 

And the new ProQuest Premium Social Sciences Collection expands on the content available before with new collections in subjects such as: Criminology & Criminal Justice; Education; Political Science and Sociology.

All Keele staff and students can access the databases from both on and off-campus at: http://search.proquest.com. For more information or help accessing ProQuest please contact the Library InfoPoint or your Liaison Librarian.

Over a thousand more full-text e-journals now available!

Over the summer Keele University Library has increased the number of full-text e-journals which Keele students and staff can access. Over 1500 e-journals are now accessible through Taylor & Francis Online as the Library has subscribed to their full journals collection. 

You can access the full-text of these journals from on and off-campus at: http://www.tandfonline.com. For off-campus access you will need to sign in using your Keele username and password. As well as the latest issues you can browse back through the archives, accessing content from 1997 onwards for most titles.

The Taylor & Francis full collection covers multiple subject areas across Humanities, Social Sciences and Science and Technology.

For more information or help accessing the journals please contact the Library InfoPoint or your Liaison Librarian.

DawsonEra ebooks - New Platform

All our eBook content on DawsonEra has now got a new, improved interface. This interface is hopefully more intuitive, with improved searching and reading capabilities. You now have the ability to save your notes and favourite titles and to share these with other Keele users. We hope these changes will improve your experience, please feel free to share any feedback with the Library.

Dawsons have produced a very in depth user's guide on the new platform.

Access 1,200 extra journals online!

The Library is pleased to announce that all Keele University students and staff can now access 1,200 additional journals online. Following extensive negotiations, the Library has reached an agreement with Wiley to subscribe to their full journals collection. This means all Keele University users can access the full-text of 1,400 Wiley journals both on and off-campus via Wiley's Online Library at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com. As well as the latest issues, you can browse back through the archives, accessing backfile content from 1997 onwards for most titles. 

The Wiley journals full collection includes titles from a wide range of subject disciplines across Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, many of which are high impact-factor, peer-reviewed journals.

The titles will be fully integrated with Library discovery software, making it easier for you to find and access content. 

For more information or help accessing the journals, please contact our Info Point or your relevant liaison librarian

Science and Nature - new electronic titles

The Library is pleased to announce that we have now converted our subscriptions for the journals 'Science' and 'Nature' from print-only to online access. These titles are available from both on and off campus.

To access the subscriptions, go to the eJournals AtoZ and enter the name of the journal that you wish to locate:

We have purchased e-access to 'Nature' as part of a bundle (from 2010 onwards) which also includes:

Nature Genetics, Nature Neuroscience, Nature News, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology and Nature Reviews: Cancer

EBSCO Databases - Off-campus access - Update

Off-campus access to EBSCO should now be fully available again. To access go to http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=shib&custid=s5040751&profile=ehost and use your Keele log-in details.

EBSCO Databases - Off-campus access - Update

While off-campus access to EBSCO is still not working as we would like users can now access the databases again. First access as normal, and when the error message appears enter the url
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib in your browser's address field. Hopefully users should then have access to Keele's databases.

EBSCO Databases - Off-campus access

EBSCO databases are currently unavailable off-campus as there are difficulties with their log-in system. These problems are not just confined to Keele and EBSCO are working urgently to reactivate our access.

Free webinar: Using doctoral theses in your research

If you're interested in finding and using doctoral theses, why not sign up for this free webinar to learn how EThOS works?

EThOS (http://ethos.bl.uk) is a fantastic resource for researchers, with over 100,000 UK theses freely available to download, and another 200,000 to search and scan on demand. The webinar also explains how EThOS works with UK universities to support the whole research cycle.

Hosted by Sara Gould and Melissa Byrd on Thursday 13 February 2014, 15:00 GMT, this is a repeat of the session held on 10 December 2013. To attend, register now at:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5974661878725146370

Web of Knowledge ... now Web of Science - major upgrade (Jan 2014)

The service we knew as Web of Knowledge has changed its name - to Web of Science - as part of a recent service upgrade. 

The Web of Science database itself is now called the "Web of Science Core Collection" and, don't forget, also includes the multi-disciplinary Book Citation Indexes and the Index Chemicus.    

There are changes to the searching experience.  There's a simplified search screen for the databases and a prominent link for checking full-text availability ... click the Full-Text button to bring up @Keele, our e-journals checking service; this service checks for full-text availability through both Keele e-journal subscriptions and a range of major Open Access journal collections such as PubMed Central Open Access.

And finally ...

Don't forget, we also now have access to two additional databases to support your research: Current Contents Connect and the Data Citation Index.  For more Information view the "Web of Science" tab on this web page: http://www.keele.ac.uk/library/find/databases/

Environment Digimap - Free Trial

Environment Digimap is available free of charge until 31 July 2014. This new Digimap collection offers land cover map data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). More details are available in the Environment Digimap Help Pages.

Free webinar: using doctoral theses in your research

If you're interested in finding and using doctoral theses, why not sign up for this free webinar to learn how EThOS works?

EThOS http://ethos.bl.uk is the national database for PhD theses, managed by the British Library. It's a fantastic resource for researchers, with over 100,000 UK theses freely available to download and use for your own research, and another 200,000 available to search and scan on demand.

Sara Gould,  who manages the EThOS service, will host and answer questions after the webinar on 10 December 2013, 11.00am GMT.

Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5131544266794515713

Oxford Medical Handbooks Online: new titles and editions

We are pleased to announce that we have new editions - and a number of new titles - from the popular series of Oxford Medical Handbook online.

For easy access, a list of the titles that are currently available has been compiled: view it here.