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SpringerImages
By Catherine Sharp, on 9 May 2012
UCL has a trial of SpringerImages until 9 July 2012.
SpringerImages is a growing collection of images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from images.MD. The continually updated collection – currently over 3.3 million images – contains photos, graphs, histograms, figures and tables. You can search by caption, keywords, context and more. Users can create personalized image “sets,” and can export images for almost all noncommercial purposes, including integration into presentations and PDF documents.
Please send feedback on this resource to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk
Book Citation Index
By Catherine Sharp, on 8 May 2012
UCL has a trial of the Book Citation Index – Science and Book Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities in Web of Science until 6 August. These two options now appear in the databases list in the main Web of Science search screen. Both indexes start in 2005.
Recorded training on the Book Citation Index is available to view here. You can also download the following training materials:
Book Citation Indexes Factsheet
Information on how books are selected for inclusion
Book list
Please send feedback on this resource to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk
Transportation Research Record
By Lesley A Rogers, on 24 April 2012
UCL students and staff now have access to Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board which contains technical papers that have been accepted for publication through a rigorous peer-review process refereed by TRB technical committees.
Oncology journals collection
By Catherine Sharp, on 30 March 2012
UCL has a trial of the Future Medicine Oncology journals collection until 29 May 2012. This collection includes:
Future Oncology
Colorectal Cancer
Biomarkers in Medicine
Pain Management
The collection will also include Breast Cancer Management and Lung Cancer Management (to be launched in May) and CNS Oncology (to be launched in August.)
Please send feedback on this collection to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk
New databases
By Lesley A Rogers, on 26 March 2012
UCL now has access to the following resources which can be accessed via the databases list:
Safari Books Online is the premier on-demand digital library providing over 19151 technology, digital media, and business books and videos online to academic and library users.
Science of Synthesis is a reference work for preparative methods in synthetic chemistry. Its product-based classification system enables chemists to easily find a solution to their synthetic problems.
Collection 2 which contains early printed volumes from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence). The selection of works focuses on four collections of particular historic and bibliographic importance within the library’s holdings from this period:
1.The Nencini Aldine Collection
2.Marginalia.
3.Incunabula
4.Sacred Representations
Collection 3 is substantially larger than the previous collections, containing 3 million pages in total, from volumes scanned at four different libraries, encompassing works in all major European languages:
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence, Italy)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)
The Wellcome Library, London
Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library, Copenhagen)
Biomedical and Life Sciences ejournals
By Lesley A Rogers, on 26 March 2012
UCL now has access to the following resources:
Genome Biology which publishes research articles, new methods and software tools, in addition to reviews and opinions, from the full spectrum of biology.
Peritoneal Dialysis International which welcomes original contributions dealing with all aspects of peritoneal dialysis from scientists working in the field around the world.
Springer Biomedical and Life Science backfiles
All of these titles are accessible via the ejournals list.
Business Source Complete
By Catherine Sharp, on 23 March 2012
UCL currently has a trial of Business Source Complete.
This database includes around 3,700 full-text journals and magazines. List of available titles.
Please send feedback on this resource to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk
New JSTOR collections
By Lesley A Rogers, on 15 March 2012
UCL students and staff now have access to two more JSTOR Arts and Sciences collections.
They are Arts & Sciences VIII , this collection includes a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
and
Arts & Sciences IX, a collection which widens JSTOR’s coverage in business and the social sciences.
The titles contained in these new JSTOR collections are available using the ejournals list or using the link to JSTOR via the databases list.
SPIE Digital Library
By Lesley A Rogers, on 5 March 2012
UCL now has access to SPIE Digital Library, which can be accessed via the databases list.
The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.
Judaic Scholar Digital Reference Library
By Lesley A Rogers, on 2 March 2012
UCL has a trial of the Judaic Scholar Digital Reference Library until August 15, 2012.
The Judaic Scholar Digital Reference Library contains full-text, searchable books.
Book topics include Biography/Memoirs, General Jewish-Interest Literature, Hebrew, History, Holocaust, Israel, Jewish Religious Thought, Modern political thought, Torah/Bible and Reference material such as The Jewish Encyclopedia and the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia
There are also collections including Sepharad: The Essential Library, The War against Israel, Rabbinic Bookshelf and the Judaic Scholar Digital Reference Library.
If you would like access to this trial, please contact ejournals@ucl.ac.uk
Please send feedback on this resource to ejournals@ucl.ac.uk
