Showing posts with label Social Sciences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Sciences. Show all posts

Monday, 3 April 2017

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences - new edition now available


 
Access to the online 2nd edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Elsevier, 2015) is now available. Fully revised and updated, this new edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, comprises over 3,900 articles and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.

Key Features:

•Provides authoritative, foundational, interdisciplinary knowledge across the wide range of behavioral and social sciences fields
•Discusses history, current trends and future directions
•Topics are cross-referenced with related topics and each article highlights further reading

Access is available here.
 

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Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Artemis Primary Sources: cross-search Gale's Primary Source Collections


Artemis Primary Sources is a new easy-to-use interface which cross-searches our Gale Primary Sources databases and allows users to discover and analyse content in new ways. It includes the following collections:

  • 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
  • Archives Unbound
  • British Library Newspapers (Part I: 1800-1900)
  • The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2011
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
  • The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
  • The Making of the Modern World
  • Nineteenth Century Collections Online
  • The Times Digital Archive
  • Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

Note: State Papers Online is not included but it can be searched via the library catalogue.

Artemis includes the following key features:
  • Subject indexing
  • Term frequency
  • Term clusters

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