On trial: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text
December 18, 2020
We are pleased to bring you trial access to Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text. The trial provides access to an extensive collection of rare, primary source periodicals from the Early Romantic to the Modern period. This is a unique collection which is not available anywhere else online, with over 1 million, full …
Nine top tips for the winter break
December 16, 2020
Our nine top tips for making the most of our online library resources over the winter break and to start preparing for January. 1. Browse our online resources Our collections contain thousands of online resources including ebooks, ejournals and even leisure reading titles. When searching on NUsearch you can filter to ‘Available online’ to narrow your search to just items that are …
Try the experimental discovery tool Yewno
December 9, 2020
University of Nottingham Libraries are trialling an experimental resource discovery tool Yewno. Read on to find out more about how to access it and get help using it in your research. Helping you find the resources you need is a core part of Libraries’ mission. We already provide NUsearch as a one-stop-shop for searching our collections and accessing online resources. But do you ever wish it did more to help you understand topics or explore connections between them? Or …
Discover the School of Geography Map Collection on NUsearch
December 8, 2020
Are you a student or staff member or somebody who just loves maps? Maps in the School of Geography’s extensive collection are now searchable via the University’s library discovery tool, NUsearch. About the collection The School of Geography map collection is the main cartographic holding within the University and one of the largest in the East Midlands, comprising over 85,000 paper …
New interface to SciFinder now available
December 1, 2020
A new interface to make it easier and faster to search SciFinder is now available. With SciFinder-n it’s now possible to search across reactions, substances and references all in one go, use familiar searching techniques like Boolean or truncation, combine keyword/topic searches with structure searches, use improved filters and conduct citation mapping. In addition, it includes …
On trial: additional JoVE video content
November 20, 2020
We are pleased to bring you trial access to JoVE Research and Education Video collections. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) is the leading producer of science videos for research, teaching and learning, bringing to life detailed examination of cutting-edge experiments. The videos give an in depth understanding to STEM subjects, increasing student engagement and learning …
On trial: Newspaper resources
November 9, 2020
We are pleased to bring you trial access to two current newspaper resources. PressReader offers digital access to over 7,000 newspapers in more than 60 languages. Gale OneFile: News offers full-text access to more than 2,300 major newspapers around the world. Both trials will run from 1st November for one month. Please send your feedback to the Libraries Collections team: collections@nottingham.ac.uk
On trial: Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online
November 5, 2020
Currently available on trial is Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) from TannerRitchie Publishing. MEMSO covers Britain and its place in the world during the medieval and early modern period (c. 1100-1800). It combines key printed sources for English, Irish, Scottish and Colonial history with original manuscripts. Whether your specialism is political, ecclesiastical, social, …
On trial: Liverpool Shipping Records
October 26, 2020
We’re pleased to announce a trial for the Liverpool Shipping Records: Imports and Exports, 1820-1900 – Parts 1-4 from the British Online Archives. This collection contains bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships that docked in the port of Liverpool between 1891 and 1900, which are divided into …
Open Access Week: Full open access – a change of scenery
October 22, 2020
In our fifth and final blog for Open Access Week, Natalia Tsiva, Research Library Advisor, provides an overview of full open access publishing, outlines what fully open access journals and platforms are, what are their advantages for authors and the public and how Plan S is going to change this publishing model from 1 January 2021. On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisations, with …
