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On trial: News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive
October 16, 2020
We are pleased to bring you trial access to News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive. This collection of digitized consumer magazines provides rare content dating back to 1918. Primary source material covers social and political topics with diverse political orientations and international perspectives. Research areas also include gender studies, ethnic studies and media history. Titles in …
Reading Well @ UoN Libraries: Books and resources to improve your health and wellbeing
October 14, 2020
Libraries have worked with colleagues across the University to create a new reading list of books and resources to help improve health and wellbeing. We’ve produced the Reading Well@UoN Libraries reading list with the help of: University of Nottingham Health Service Support and Wellbeing Service University Counselling Service HealthyU The starting point for this list was the …
On trial: Food and Drink in History
October 12, 2020
We’re pleased to announce a four week trial for Adam Matthew’s Food and Drink in History. This resource charts the history of food and drink from 1514-1980 using material such as cookbooks, government reports, ephemera and films from around the world. It illustrates the main issues like agriculture and nutrition, as well as examining the …
On trial: CABI Global Health
June 15, 2020
We are pleased to announce a trial of CABI Global Health. We already have access to the archive of this resource and this trial gives us access to more up to date content, which is of particular relevance at this time. CABI Global Health provides a resource for the study, research and practice of regional, …
On trial: ProQuest One Literature
May 4, 2020
We are pleased to announce trial access for ProQuest One Literature. This database gathers the largest literature collection which includes multi-media resources with a focus on diversity. The resource acts as a single destination for research, learning and teaching with millions of sources. Highlights include: Access to more than 3 million literary criticism citations, dissertations, …
Temporary additional online resources
March 27, 2020
In addition to the vast range of online resources that we already provide access to via NUsearch, some publishers offered extended or additional access to their content. Since March, we updated this blog post as more online resources became available. Now that we are in November, we have removed the majority of entries as access …
On trial: Making of the Modern World
March 9, 2020
We are pleased to announce a trial of The Making of the Modern World This resource covers The Goldsmiths’-Kress Collection 1450-1850 and supports research across various disciplines by looking at trade and wealth and how they contributed to the development of the modern Western world. It gives access to primary sources and rare books, some …
On trial: Women’s Studies Archive
March 6, 2020
International Women’s Day (IWD) is a worldwide annual event which celebrates women’s achievements, raises awareness against bias and encourages everyone to take action for equality. To mark IWD on 8 March, we’re pleased to bring you trial access to the Women’s Studies Archive from Gale Cengage. This primary source archive traces the path of women’s …
On trial: Political Extremism and Radicalism
March 4, 2020
We are pleased to announce a trial for Political Extremism and Radicalism from Gale Cengage. The archival collections cover a wide range of fringe political movements. It focuses on political extremism and radical thought, with material from groups in the far right and radical left. The collections cover the period from the 1900s to 2010s …
On trial: Theology, bible and religion resources
February 14, 2020
We are pleased to bring you trial access to a number of theology and religion resources from a range of publishers (Oxford University Press, Brill, Bloomsbury, and de Gruyter). Oxford Handbooks Online: Religion Oxford Handbooks Online: Religion provides new essays on critical topics and emerging issues in the study of religion, complementing hundreds of …
