Electronic Resources Blog News about University of Exeter Library e-resources

The University now has trial access to A+ Education until 17th June, 2013.

A+ Education brings together over thirty years of content indexed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), providing one central access point to information of relevance to the education sector worldwide. The database encompasses all aspects of learning from early childhood through to tertiary, adult learning, assessment, distance learning, phonics, Rasch measurement, international education, indigenous education and literacy. A+ Education will benefit everyone from teachers and training professionals to curriculum advisers, policy makers, psychologists and social workers.

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The University now has trial access to Political Science Complete and World Politics Review until 2^nd April 2013.

Political Science Complete provides a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse and designed specifically for students, researchers and government institutions.   

World Politics Review includes multiple areas of study, with thousands of articles in its archives and more than 75,000 words of original content produced each month. This robust and authoritative database covers topics of key relevance to foreign policy, international politics and foreign affairs.

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The University now has trial access to the Sustainable Organization Library until 31^st March 2013.

The Sustainable Organization Library (SOL) is a focused library of key texts (almost 400 volumes) in governance, sustainability and environmental management. Available either to own outright or to rent on an annual basis, SOL gives instant access to the world’s best writers in the area; case studies on best practice from international organizations; evidence-based research and in-depth analysis from thinkers around the globe. 

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The University now has trial access to the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950) until 15^th March 2013.

RIPM was established to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. While the importance of this monumental documentary resource has long been recognized by the musicological community, RIPM represents the first effort to undertake and to coordinate retrospective periodical indexing on an international scale.

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The University now has trial access to L’Année philologique until 28th February 2013.

This database includes more than 810,000 records, with over 15,000 new records added every year, and indexes more than 1,000 journals—making it essential for providing comprehensive coverage of classical scholarship throughout the world. Records include abstracts for articles, reviews for monographs, and lists of content for edited volumes.

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In addition to our existing Springer content, the University now has trial access to Springer Physics eBooks until 31^st March 2013.

The Physics Collection includes monographs, textbooks, multi-authored volumes and brief introductions to emerging new topics. It also includes the Lecture Notes in Physics series and a number of key astrophysics book series such as Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. A particular strength of the collection is the selection of major reference works.

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The University now has trial access to SPIE Digital Library until 5^th March 2013.

SPIE is an international not-for-profit society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light. The SPIE digital library provides access to ebooks, conference proceedings and journals on applied research in optics, photonics and optical engineering.

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The University now has trial access to Encyclopaedia of Ancient History  until 22nd February 2013.

This landmark resource will offer the only comprehensive collection of twenty-first century scholarship available on the entire ancient Mediterranean world. The board of experienced and internationally diverse editors has collected over 5,000 original entries spanning the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE. Entries extend to all Mediterranean civilizations, including the Near East and Egypt, and represent an unprecedented level of coverage of the ancient world.

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The University now has trial access to Sinica Sinoweb until 28th December 2012.

Sinica Sinoweb is a collection of pre-eminent journals with deep archives from the Academia Sinica in Taipei. With content primarily in Chinese, the platform interface is in English and Traditional Chinese. The titles are cross-searchable, and also permit searches  on archaic characters that cannot normally be entered on a PC keyboard or searched in electronic text, by using a technology developed by Academia Sinica itself.

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The University now has trial access to Ethnographic Video Online, Volume II until 31st December 2012.

Building on the foundational content in the first volume, Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II introduces high-value archival material while also focusing on the state of the discipline today. Current issues such as environmental crises, refugee migration, and endangered languages are well documented, and every sub-discipline of anthropology will be represented, including cultural, linguistic, applied, social, visual, urban, medical, and physical anthropologies, as well as archaeology.

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