Remember ye olde Chadwyck-Healey interface? You’re most likely to recall it, if you’ve been using collections such as Early English Books Online (EEBO), which contains about 100,000 digitized titles from the earliest days of English publishing. There was always a little irony in using an interface that seemed nearly as […]
Hi all, just alerting you to an interesting new book: Serving Library Users from Asia: A Comprehensive Handbook of Country-Specific Information and Outreach Resources. https://search.library.ualberta.ca/catalog/8708199 The book is focused on the United States, but much of it may be of interest. From the description: Rather than a generalized overview of Asians […]
Hi all, CSU is running an ebook trial for Manchester University Press, now through August 31. This publisher has strengths in areas such as film studies, religious studies, political science, and history (including history of medicine). Please take a look at the content and platform (known as “Manchesterhive”) and let […]
Everyone, an update on the Elsevier/University of California situation. If you’ve been following this story, you’ll recall that in February, UC announced that it would not renew its Elsevier subscriptions. In brief, in their negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to recognise (and then compensate for) the nearly one million dollars paid […]
Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions (VSIs) are pocket-sized introductions written at an approachable, but scholarly, level, by recognised experts. We have some, but not all, VSIs in print in our collection, so you can check out titles such as Drugs: A Very Short Introduction,Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction, or, hey, why not,Teeth: A […]