January 16, 2012 – 5:11 pm
This trial will end 31 January 2012
Knovel has just released two new databases and made them available to all Knovel customers until January 31st. Both databases, new and exclusively available via Knovel, are discoverable via Knovel’s Data Search and include highly interactive tables, graphs and data compiled from authoritative sources.
Magnesium Alloy Database , developed by J. Gilbert Kaufman, covers properties of magnesium alloys – of particular interest to automotive and aerospace engineers as pressure grows to identify new ways of lowering fuel loads and consumption.
Optical and Filter Glass Database, offers a unique compilation of properties of commercial optical and filter glasses from commercial manufacturers around the world.
December 16, 2011 – 4:01 pm
This trial will end on 14 February 2012
The Library has trial access to Index Islamicus on EBSCOhost. The Library also subscribes to Index Islamicus on the CSA Illumina platform. The purpose of this trial is to evaluate the database on the different platforms and within the Library’s Discovery interface.
Index Islamicus, produced by Brill Academic Publishers, is an international bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. It covers their history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures. It includes material published by Western orientalists, social scientists and Muslims writing in European languages. The file contains indexing for over 3,400 titles with coverage dating back to 1906.
December 16, 2011 – 2:44 pm
The Oxford Index (beta) is a free search and discovery tool from Oxford University Press, now available to all OUP customers and their users as a public beta. The Index is designed to help users begin their research journey by providing a single, convenient search portal for trusted scholarship from Oxford and publishing partners, and then directing them to the most relevant related materials – from journal articles to scholarly monographs.
This inaugural release includes a cross-searchable set of nearly 250,000 free ‘index cards’, each representing a single OUP article, chapter, journal or book. Index cards display key information (including abstracts and keywords) about a work, thereby helping users judge its relevance to their research before following links into the full-text.
The Oxford Index currently includes metadata for:
All content (more than 80,000 chapters from 7,200 titles) from University Press Scholarship Online (including Oxford Scholarship Online), a collection of academic monographs from leading university presses worldwide
All content (over 3,400 chapters from 100+ titles) from Oxford Handbooks Online
A collection of more than 150,000 recent articles from 235 Oxford Journals
Over the coming months, hundreds of thousands of new items of content and new functionality will be added, including content from other acclaimed OUP resources and indication of and filtering by full-text access rights, as the Oxford Index evolves in direct response to user and librarian feedback. Oxford University Press welcomes your thoughts and suggestions during the beta period via a brief survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/TJDJK77; or, contact OUP directly with your comments and questions at oxfordindex@oup.com.
Over the course of beta development there will be regular updates on new content and functionality, all leading up to the main launch of the Oxford Index in the first half of 2012, after which the service will continue to grow regularly alongside the Oxford University Press expanding online program.
December 2, 2011 – 5:24 pm
This trial will end on 14 December 2011
The Shun Pao (1872-1949), also known as the Shenjiang New Post, is the newspaper with the longest history and the greatest influence in old China. Shun Po started publication on April 30, 1872 (that is on March 23rd of the Tongzhi Reign of the Qing Dynasty), and ceased publication on May 27th, 1949. This online archive contains the total of 25,600 issues published over those 78 years.
Shun Po, covering various information on politics, military, economy, culture and society for nearly 80 years from the end of Qing Dynasty to the Republican Period, is named as the encyclopedia of contemporary and modern China for its high historical value. This newspaper witnessed China’s history from the period of imperialism to democracy, and the revolutionary course from anti-imperialist to anti- feudalism. With the hard work and continuous exploration of several generations of journalists, Shun Po became a great famous paper with glorious achievement in the history of China.
**Please note: A trial Username and Password is required to access this resource. Please post a comment below (using your unimelb email address) to request the username and password.
November 28, 2011 – 4:26 pm
This trial will end on 25 December 2011
The China Gazettes and Bulletins Database from CNKI contains 162 titles of official gazettes and bulletins from local and central level Chinese government agencies. Coverage is from 1949 onwards. This database features images of the original documents.
November 28, 2011 – 9:24 am
This trial will end on 22 January 2012
Eureka Report is an online publication for investors in self-managed super funds, property, retail managed funds, direct shares and fixed interest securities. Its mission is to inform, advise, guide and educate independent investors in a timely, reliable and cost-effective way.
The content, usually published on Monday night, Wednesday night and Friday afternoon, consists of investment ideas, broad strategic analysis, timely commentary on events relevant to investors and simplified access to investment research, support, advice and education.
**Please note: A trial Username and Password is required to access this resource. Please post a comment below to request the username and password.
November 25, 2011 – 8:57 am
This trial will end on 23 December 2011
Credo Reference is a perfect starting point for students, researchers and lifelong learners who are creating research projects, writing topic papers or just doing research. It contains hundreds of subject-specific encyclopedias, biographies, chronologies, dictionaries. In addition to this traditional content, Credo offers DRM-free access to over 200,000+ images and audio files and nearly 100 videos.
Credo Reference content covers every major subject, from art to medicine, psychology to history and technology to literature. The titles in Credo Reference are from over 80 of the world’s most respected reference publishers. In addition to the thoughtfully selected content Credo Reference offers an innovative platform through which users can narrow and focus their search and easily continue their search in other library resources such as the library catalog and periodical databases. There are multiple options for searching: general search, image search or visual search.
For the purposes of this trial we see a partially customised Credo Reference page with links to the University of Melbourne Library catalogue, the A-Z Database list, and additional search results found in other subscribed databases such as JSTOR. These customizations are only limited examples of the full range of options available to subscribing institutions.
November 22, 2011 – 2:45 pm
This trial will end on 20 December 2011
Art Films Digital is a unique collection of contemporary art films ideally suited for coursework, research and reference. Powered by world class streaming technology, in HD where available, artfilms have never been so accessible. This unique collection of documentaries, independent films, archival footage and training videos delivers invaluable resources directly to you. Whether for research, for enhancing teaching, for reference, or for inspiration, Artfilms is educating imagination.
Artfilms and its parent company, Contemporary Arts Media, is proudly associated with independent artists and film producers, leading contemporary theatre and dance companies, researchers, lecturers, university departments, contemporary art galleries and archives across the world.
**Please note: The Library has trial access to a selection of 227 films. This is only a portion of the full list of available films.
November 22, 2011 – 2:18 pm
This trial will end on 15 January 2012
World Politics Review is an online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals working primarily within government, military, academia, intelligence and diplomacy, as well as academic researchers with a serious interest in international relations, foreign affairs, world politics and geostrategy. Updated daily, this resource publishes international affairs analysis that provides in-depth background material on global issues that are not deeply covered by mainstream media sources.
World Politics Review includes more than 3,000 articles, and produces more than 75,000 words of original content per month. Its original articles are written by a network of more than 400 contributors from around the world, including subject-matter experts from journalism,research organizations, academia, government and elsewhere. Additional proprietary content includes editorials, opinion pieces, interviews and proceedings.
In addition to access on EBSCOhost, subscribers will have full access to content on the World Politics Review website. Web content includes:
- Personalized sub-accounts for individual members of the institution;
- Options for individual users to sign up for specific services, including e-mail newsletters, user preferences, etc.;
- Optimized user interface for daily reading;
- Additional aggregated content not found via EBSCOhost
November 22, 2011 – 10:14 am
This trial will end on 20 January 2012
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (MECAS) is a systematic and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
This EBSCOhost database contains more than 639,000 records and coverage spans from 1900 and earlier to the present. Over 15,000 records of recently published and grey literature are added annually. Subject coverage includes: political affairs & law, international relations, economic affairs – business & industry, cultural heritage, arts & humanities, society & social welfare, ethnic diversity & anthropology, significant religious events & movements and recent history (1900 – present) & archaeology.
MECAS includes the following:
- Middle East Bibliography (1946 – 2001),
- Middle East Book Bibliographies,
- Theses & Dissertations,
- MECAS Citations Database,
- School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) Library Catalogue (1900 – present).