Oxford Ebooks Migration

The former Oxford Journals asset on the A-Z database list has been renamed as Oxford Academic (Journals, Books, and Handbooks), effective July 19, 2022. Along with Oxford University Press journal content, this platform now hosts books formerly found on Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Scholarship Online, and University Press Scholarship Online. The assets for those three ebook collections will […]

New Databases from ProQuest

Access has been enabled for some new collections from ProQuest and Alexander Street. Please note that these are not new purchases, but rather additions related to a multi-year agreement with ProQuest that provides access to all primary source and archive collections on these platforms: New to ProQuest’s Digital National Security Archive: U.S. […]

Research News

Ground-breaking Open Research Platform, Octopus, to Launch (Jisc, June 24)“Octopus aims to enable fast, free and fair publishing of research that is open to all and focuses on the intrinsic quality of research. It sets out to avoid researchers being tempted to ‘sell good stories’ in their work, and instead rewards […]

June 2022 removals of ebooks from EBSCO and ProQuest subscription collections

Hello everyone, as you know, the Library collection includes several subscription ebook packages. Two such packages are EBSCO Academic North America, and ProQuest Academic Complete. Books are added to these collections throughout the year (and their accompanying records to the catalogue), but removals happen only twice each year. This is an update […]