The new Book Citation Index in Web of Science is available on a trial basis until 7th August.

30,000 books published between 2005 and the present in all subject areas are indexed.

The books’ bibliographies are included.   You can use the Master Book List at http://wokinfo.com/mbl/ to search a list of all the books indexed.

You can select the Book Citations Index individually, selecting it from the options at the bottom of the Web of Science search screen, or else search it together with the other parts of Web of Science.

Web of Science (within Web of Knowledge) is at http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/

The British Council has this week made publicly available on the Internet a searchable collection of short documentary films from the 1940s, most of which were made during the Second World War.   At present 80 films can be viewed and downloaded.  The site includes information about each film.The website’s url is http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-council-film-collection

The films, as the website states, were “designed to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played”.  They will obviously be of considerable value to historians of the period.   An essay on the website at  http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-council-film-collection/essays/british-made-for-the-global-village gives a good introduction to the collection.  

Created by the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Google, the collection can be searched of browsed for free through seven online “exhibits”.  It includes everything from his Methodist Church membership cards from 1929 – the oldest documents in the archive – to his handwritten notes taken during the talks to end apartheid.

Many of the documents are housed at the Centre of Memory, but are rarely available to the public.  With the Nelson Mandela Digital Archive, anyone can flip through his desk calendars from his years in the apartheid prison on Robben Island, see rare photos of him as a young man, and find videos of luminaries like Desmond Tutu as well as ordinary South Africans speaking about their experiences with him.

Access the collection here

We have trial access on campus to the British Politics and Society part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

British Politics and Society contains a vast number of primary sources, including manuscripts, maps, drawings, newspapers, periodicals, government correspondence, letters, diaries, photographs, posters and pamphlets. It includes papers of British statesmen, Home Office records and working class autobiographies.  When it is completed in August, following preservation and conservation work at the British Library and the National Archives, it will contain over 1.7 million pages.

The url is: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uows?db=NCCO.  No username and password are needed.

It is available to us until 31 May, so it is worth taking advantage of the trial if the content is of relevance to you.

We have increased the number of ebooks you can access for Arts and Humanities subjects.  To find ebooks in your subject area, go to iFind Discover, the library catalogue and enter some keywords for your topic into All Fields.  In the Refine Search panel on the left of the screen, under Format, you will see that you can limit your results to Online  and Book.  Click on these and the results you are left with will all be ebooks.  We have also tagged some collections of ebooks, just click on the links below:

• American Studies
• Classics
• English Language and Applied Linguistics
• History
• Literature
• Media Studies
• Philosophy
• Politics and International Relations
• Study Skills
• Theology

We’ve got full trial access to the UK Pressonline newspaper archive until 31 March.  It can be used (without a username and password) on campus at this url:http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk  The site includes the Mirror (1903 onwards) and Daily Express (1900 onwards) It also has The Watchman 1835-1885 (the precursor to the Methodist Recorder), Church Times (currently 1863-89, 1939-45 and 2000-present) and Morning Star (currently 2007-present).

We have a free trial access to French language journals online within CAIRNS until 22 March.  CAIRNS, supported by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Centre national du livre, contains the full text of about 260 French language journals in French in the humanities and social sciences.  It has at least 80,000 articles.   In general all volumes are included from 2001 to the present.   Earlier volumes of some of the journals are also available.  Bibliographic details (but not the full text) are included for other publications besides the Revues.It is available (without a username and password) at computers on campus.  Go to www.cairn.info.

The Advanced Search option in JISC Historic Books is now working. This database contains all the books within Early English Books Online and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) together with 65,000 books (containing 25 million pages) from the long 19th century in the British Library. You can search each database seperately or search across databases. There are links to JISC Historic Books from iFind Discover the library catalogue, our ebooks page and iFind Research. The direct url is:

http://jischistoricbooks.ac.uk/

We now have access to JISC Media Hub.  This database contains a wealth of moving and still images copyright-cleared for educational use.   It has material which we already had by means of Newsfilm Online and Film and Sound Online and also a vast amount of material not available to us previously. There are links to JISC Media Hub within iFind Discover and iFind Research.  The direct url is http://jiscmediahub.ac.ukJISC Media Hub contains ·         Over 3,000 hours of digitised news stories from the ITN/Reuters archives (including the complete Gaumont and Paramount newsreels, dating from 1910 onwards and 1934 onwards respectively) ·         17 collections of documentaries and sound (such as the Imperial War Museum film footage)

·         Over 56,000 still images (many depicting events in the last 25 years) from sources such as Getty Images, the Imperial War Museum and the Royal Geographical Society.

The Collections within JISC Media Hub are listed and described at http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/about/inside

Coverage is from 1910 to 2010.

We currently have free trial access to a new database entitled ‘Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest’. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia. The trial will last for 4 weeks until 5th January. To access it, go to:

http://www.rockandroll.amdigital.co.uk/