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Who’s been reading your books??

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We all know how to find out who’s been reading our journal articles via journal citation tools, but now we can do the same with our books!  For a short time only the Library has obtained a free trial to Web of Science’s Book Citation Index.  

There are two databases: the Science and Social Science & Humanities Citation Indices, but you can search them both together.  On there you will currently find 657 books or chapters written by Loughborough authors and they have 525 citations between them (accumulating from 2007 onwards).  Somewhat suprisingly, whilst the book is principally our Social Sciences and Humanities friends’ dissemination medium of choice, only two of our top 20 most-cited titles are SSH-related. 

To access the trial for yourself, please go to http://www.webofknowledge.com/  Select the Web of Science tab and use the databases limiters at the bottom of the screen to limit your search to the Book Citation Index of your choice.

 Feedback most welcome to your Academic Librarian.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) – trial

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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete is the world’s most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.

(The trial has been set up as a replica of our account and includes the main EBSCO Abstract and Index resources such as INSPEC and PsycINFO.  You will notice that when these Abstract and Index resources are searched individually Full Text will appear in the result lists due to EBSCO’s SmartLinking feature which seamlessly adds the Full Text from Academic Search Complete to the Abstract and Index record). 

The trial will run until the end of December 2011 and can be accessed via http://trial.ebscohost.com with the username and password available from the Electronic journal and information services passwords web page (use your University username and password to access this page).

We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please contact Steve Corn mailto:S.C.Corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments

Passport GMID

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“Passport GMID, the global market information database, is an award winning online business information resource providing intelligence on industries, countries and consumers”.

To begin searching go to this link http://www.portal.euromonitor.com

The trial is available until 30th November 2011 (and can also be accessed from off-campus if you install the University’s Cisco AnyConnect VPN client on your machine).

We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please contact Steve Corn mailto:S.C.Corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments.

British Online Archives – trial

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 BOA offers five collections of primary sources relating to British history that will support study and research in all areas of the humanities:

Colonial and Missionary Records

Documents in this collection include records made by the East India Company and the records of missionaries from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, c. 1650-1950, covering Colonial America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia.

British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900

A collection of currently 13 titles focusing on Britain’s varying relationships with West Africa and the Americas.

Twentieth Century Political History

Labour Party papers (1968-1994), British Union of Fascists newspapers and secret files and anti-Fascist newsletters from the International Transport Workers’ Federation.

Communist Part of Great Britain Archive, 1920-1991

British Broadcasting Corporation Archive

Includes Annual Reports and listener research (c. 1937-1950)

To begin using the trial please go to http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/

The trial is available until 19th October 2011 (and can also be accessed from off-campus if you install the University’s Cisco AnyConnect VPN client on your machine).

We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please contact Steve Corn mailto:S.C.Corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments.

China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 – trial

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“China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 is based on substantial collections of unique manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the British Library in London, supplemented by additional sources from Cambridge University Library, the Church Missionary Society Archive, the Council for World Missions Library, Duke University, the National Archives at Kew, the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand and Yale Divinity Library.  In addition we have included a range of rare printed materials including missionary periodicals, atlases and books which help to contextualize the other sources.”

It comprises:

  • A large body of maps, colour paintings, photographs and drawings depicting people, places, customs and events that will enliven any study of China.
  • Substantial papers of key individuals involved in the Chinese Maritime Customs service from ECM and CAV Bowra to Robert Hart and Frederick Maze.
  • Records of major diplomatic missions to China ranging from the late 18th and early 19th century missions of Macartney and Amherst to those of Nixon and Heath in the 20th century.
  • Papers of missionaries active in all regions of China from Canton and Macao to Shanghai and Peking.
  • Extensive, fully searchable run of the Chinese Recorder, 1867-1941
  • Recently opened files from the National Archives at Kew relating to the thawing of relations with China in the 1970s.

 To access the trial please go to: www.china.amdigital.co.uk

The trial will run until 6th July 2011 (for off-campus access please login to the Library pages via the Remote Working Portal at https://vpn.lboro.ac.uk/+CSCOE+/logon.html )

Please note that the ‘download entire document in PDF’ option is not available during four-week trials. However, you are still able to view and print images from the collections.

We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please contact Steve Corn mailto:S.C.Corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text – trial

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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text™ is the full-text counterpart of Criminal Justice Abstracts™, formerly a SAGE database. This resource includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. The increasing globalization of criminology is reflected in Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text’s coverage of hundreds of journals from around the world.

To begin using the trial please go to http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,shib&group=main&profile=ehost&defaultdb=phl and follow the Criminal Justice Abstracts link.  Access is available until June 30th 2011.

We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please contact Steve Corn s.c.corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments

RSC Gold – trial

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Access to all RSC journal, database and magazine content that is available online.

Further details and search tips are available at www.rsc.org/platformvideo

To begin using the trial please go to http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals?key=Title&value=Current access is available until June 11th 2011.

 Most material is available at the URL above but the following have yet to migrate to the platform so you may also wish to browse:

http://www.rsc.org/Education/EiC/index.asp
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/CurrentAwareness/index.asp

We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please contact Steve Corn s.c.corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments

Mintel GMN (Global Market Navigator) – trial

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Mintel Global Market Navigator is your fast–track to global market data. Global Market Navigator is a trusted database containing market size, market share and forecast data for thousands of consumer goods categories worldwide.

To begin using the trial please go to http://gmn.mintel.com/ 

Access is available until April 5th 2011.

We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please contact Steve Corn s.c.corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments

Database trials of interest to Social sciences, English & Drama and History

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The Library has trial access to the following databases until April 1st 2011.

Archives Unbound
British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance
Picture Post Historical Archive
State Papers Online, 1509-1714 (Part 3)

To begin searching please go to 

http://www.galeuk.com/trialsite/

and login with the username and password which is available from the Library’s Electronic journal and information services passwords at https://internal.lboro.ac.uk/diss/lb/uniwide/webpages/epassword.html

We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please contact Steve Corn s.c.corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments

IBISWorld trial

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“Welcome to IBISWorld, the UK’s richest source of business and industry information. IBISWorld Industry Reports are used by students as a tool to write business plans, marketing plans, understand business strategy and to understand supply chain. We provide independent, accurate, comprehensive, and current research on 100s of Industries in the UK, USA, Australia, China and Global Industry, including statistics, analysis and forecasts.”

To access the trial please go to: http://www.ibisworld.co.uk/launch.aspx(for off-campus access please login to the Library pages via the Remote Working Portal at https://vpn.lboro.ac.uk/+CSCOE+/logon.html )

Access is available until 21st June 2011.

We welcome feedback – good or bad – on this trial, please contact Steve Corn mailto:S.C.Corn@lboro.ac.uk with your comments