OUP e-journals

The Library now offers access to a further 250 electronic journal titles from Oxford University Press. This includes titles across many subject areas, from the Humanities, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Medicine, Law and Mathematics & Physical Sciences. Access is from 1996 to the latest issue for all titles. 

A list of titles is available at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/resource/image/collection.pdf and they are all accessible via http://www.oxfordjournals.org

They are also available via our e journals A -Z and the @Keele button.

Dawson e-books - current lack of access

Unfortunately there is currently no access to our Dawsonera ebooks. The platform providers, Dawson, are having severe problems with their content and its delivery and they anticipate the full Dawsonera service to continue to be unavailable throughout the weekend.

They are working to restore access to the most frequently used titles in the first instance and then will progressively load additional titles based on accesses and year-to-date usage over the weekend. We'll try to keep you informed about progress as we hear from them.

Springer Protocols

A new resource to Keele Unviersity library users, to access go to http://www.springerprotocols.com/index.vm


Used primarily in the life sciences, protocols provide individual sets of instructions to allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratories.  These documents provide written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments that describe the safety, bias, procedures, equipment, statistical methods, reporting, and troubleshooting standards to be used in order to successfully conduct the experiment.

SpringerProtocols combines the world’s largest collection of protocols with advanced search functionality.  Each protocol is in four sections—Introduction, Materials, Methods, Notes—so that information will always be exactly where you expect to find it.

SpringerProtocols contains more than 28,000 protocols, most of which come from the classic book series Methods in Molecular Biology.  Each protocol is a chapter of a book, and each book is a collection of protocols on a given research topic.

It's Spring ... new look for Dawsonera e-books. Click here to read more

Have you noticed that some of our e-books look a bit different?

That's because one of our e-book suppliers (Dawsonera) has changed the way their website looks, so things look a bit different.  

Here are a few hints to help you use a Dawsonera e-book effectively once you've accessed it via (for example) the Keele Library Catalogue:



Click this icon to read a book online (the button was previously labelled "Read Online").

Alternatively ...

You can scroll down the page once you've accessed the e-book, looking out for the image shown left;  choose a section from the contents list displayed beneath.  If you click any of the headings you should next see the corresponding text on the screen.


Handy Hints:

• If you see this button (see right), click it to view sections within chapters: ;
• Once you are viewing an e-book on-screen, click the blue arrow (example shown below) to view sections within chapters:

Looking for information?

Looking for information and don't know where to start? Why not try our new discovery service Encore?

This combines searching the library catalogue with some of our major journal databases at the same time, saving you time and complication.

Give it a try here, and let us know what you think.

Campus Library YouTube Channel

If you're looking for help on how to use our e-resources and Refworks there are a selection of video guides on the Campus Library YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/KeeleCampusLibrary

More videos will be added shortly so subscribe to get all the latest updates.

SAGE Journals Premier

The library has purchased electronic access to the Sage Premier suite of journals, these are now live and accessible to all Keele users. The Sage Premier collection includes leading international peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies. This deal provides the University with:

• Electronic access to over 645 peer-reviewed, full-text journals, with content dating back to 1999. 
• igh-quality, interdisciplinary content – almost two thirds of the content in the SAGE Premier package is ranked in the 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012) 

Click here for a full list of the titles in Sage Premier

These titles are available from our AtoZ of Journals, via the @Keele button or by going directly to Sage's platform. They can be accessed off-campus using your Keele username and password.

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England: Available Online

The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272 - 1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485 - 1509), after which they were superseded by the journals of the lords and, somewhat later, of the commons. 

The rolls, which amount in total to over four million words, were first edited in the eighteenth century and published in 1783 in six folio volumes entitled Rotuli Parliamentorum (RP) under the general editorship of the Reverend John Strachey. 

From the Keele network you can now access the rolls as edited in RP in their entirety, from: http://sd-editions.com/PROME/home.html

Web of Knowledge 3.5 due to be available soon!

A new version of Web of Knowledge (known as "version 5.3") is due to become available from 17 July 2011; the updated version is the one you should see when you access the database from this date.

The existing version (known as "version 4.10") is to be made available until the end of 2011.  From 17 July 2011 you should be able to access it via a link on the right-hand side of the updated Web of Knowledge screen.

Look out for more news/information from the Library about this ...