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Try out BrowZine journal discovery
The Library is currently running a trial of the BrowZine journal discovery tool. BrowZine allows you to browse ejournals available in the Library’s collection, arrange your favourite titles on a virtual bookshelf and monitor current content. It is available as … Continue reading
New statistics database on trial: Statista
The Library is running a trial of a new statistics database for six weeks. Statista is a Google-like search tool for numbers and statistics with facts and figures easily displayed in charts and graphs. Statista contains: Data dossiers with key … Continue reading
Alexander Street Press – Free access We are pleased to announce that we have been granted a year’s free access to the four online collections listed below. The sources include: 5,000 videos 500 business e-books 600 case studies 1,600 … Continue reading
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All the words you could ever need
Words are my thing. My first degree is in languages (French and Russian) and I enjoy writing. So my book of the week choice is the Oxford English Dictionary Online. This is a record of all the known words in … Continue reading
Community Care Inform Adults: new resource for social work/policy
The Library now subscribes to two separate strands of the social work/policy database, Community Care Inform – these are: Community Care Inform Children and our latest addition, Community Care Inform Adults, in which the following themes are covered: Care & Support Disability Family support Management Mental Capacity Mental … Continue reading
Sage Research Methods: new case studies
The Library has enhanced its subscription to the database, Sage Research Methods. The database provides a wide range of ebooks and videos on the subject of research methodologies and its coverage has now been extended to also include a collection of “case studies“. The database describes the value … Continue reading
Practical Action ebooks: international development
A number of “international development” ebooks are now available through a package from “Practical Action Publishing”, to which the Library has just started subscribing. Specific subject areas are listed as including “agriculture, climate change, energy, disaster risk reduction, enterprise and business development, … Continue reading
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