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 […]

New Database Content

Two new scholarly indexes have been added to Eight Centuries (formerly 19th Century Masterfile) from Paratext: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, a detailed insight into 17th-Century Restoration London 1.5 million records from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Catalog More information on these new resources can be found on the Paratext blog.  […]