Posts by Sarah
On Trial: Empire Online
November 22, 2021
We are pleased to bring you access to Empire Online from Adam Matthew. This resource brings together manuscripts, printed and visual primary sources for the study of “Empire”. It covers five centuries of material, and includes scholarly essays, maps, and interactive chronology Discover key dates and events in history, or browse the image gallery to discover …
On trial: SAGE Research Methods: Medicine and Health Video Collection
November 3, 2021
We are pleased to bring you trial access to SAGE Research Methods: Medicine and Health Video Collection The collection covers primary clinical and epidemiological research, both interventional and observational, as well as systematic review and meta-analysis. Examples of studies are drawn from across all major medical specialties, as well as public health, nursing, dentistry, health …
Discover our collections: Open Access Books
October 28, 2021
Academic monographs continue to play an important role in the humanities and social sciences. For International Open Access Week 2021, we’re taking a look at publishing monographs open access. UK Research and Innovation recently announced a new Open Access policy. This includes a new requirement for monographs, book chapters and edited collections published from 1 January …
Discover our collections: Black History Month
October 22, 2021
October is Black History Month in the UK, an event that has been celebrated nationwide for more than 30 years. To borrow this year’s Black History Month theme, the Library is ‘proud to be’ working towards improving the diversity of our collections to support Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for our academic community. This blog offers an introduction to just some of the related resources that …
On trial: Church Missionary Society Periodicals and Archive
August 26, 2021
We are pleased to bring you trial access to Church Missionary Society Periodicals and Church Missionary Society Archive. Church Missionary Society (CMS) Periodicals covers items from 19th to 21st century from the CMS, Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, and the South American Missionary Society. CMS Archive is for use by scholars of missiology and global …
Discover our collections: responding to a changing climate
June 3, 2021
The University of Nottingham is committed to environmental sustainability and is seen as a global leader in driving forward the environmental agenda. In this blog, we introduce resources from our library collections to help you better understand the issues and discover actions you can take. Books and Journals Staff, students and researchers can access a wide range of books and journals related to climate change and environmentalism topics in our physical and online …
On trial: Elgaronline
April 28, 2021
We are pleased to bring you trial access to Elgaronline, the online content platform for Edward Elgar Publishing. As well as access to their journal and books collections, the platform includes access to research monographs in Law, Business, Economics, and the Social Sciences. In addition to leading handbooks in the Social Sciences, Elgaronline contains reference works …
Discover our collections: William Shakespeare
April 23, 2021
William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. Considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time, this blog (published on 23 April, the date most commonly celebrated as his birthday) provides an overview of Shakespeare’s works and related resources which can be found in our …
On trial: Cold War Eastern Europe
April 19, 2021
We are pleased to bring you trial access to Cold War Eastern Europe. Ranging from 1953 – 1982, Cold War Eastern Europe provides access to over 16,000 files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for reporting on the Soviet Union and the socialist states of Eastern Europe. Sourced from the National Archives …
Gale – temporary additional online resources
March 22, 2021
In addition to the vast range of online resources that we already provide access to via NUsearch, during the first lockdown some publishers offered extended or additional access to their content. Gale have kindly opened up additional historical newspaper titles. These are free to access until 15 May 2021. British Library Newspapers IV & V …
