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Improvements to Lexis®Library

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A number of changes are scheduled for Lexis®Library.

These changes take effect on Saturday 5th December 2015.*

The update will bring a number of cosmetic changes enabling easier searching and presenting results in a clearer format. There are also significant improvements to the search results and better integration between LexisLibrary and LexisPSL. Please see the attached document LexisLibrary – Academic User Guide for updated guidance.

Highlights:

A more intuitive search experience.
The Explore search box moves to the heart of the homepage and includes content filters.

A tidier, bigger, better display of results.
Single results list opens up the page, with filtering in one place and the option to deliver multiple documents.

The option to search across ALL subscribed UK legal content.
In one place for the first time, including both LexisLibrary and LexisPSL content included in the search results.

Glossary searches move to the home page
Get quick access to over 3,300 legal terms.

Cochrane Library: 7th November essential maintenance

The Wiley Online Library will be unavailable for up to 6 hours on Saturday 7th November 2015 from 10:00-16:00 GMT / 05:00-11:00 EST / 18:00-00:00 SGT due to essential maintenance.

This will impact on the Cochrane Library as detailed below

 1. Date and time activity to commence between

Saturday 7th November 10:00 – 16:00(UK)

2.            Duration of activity

6 hour

3.            Reason for incident

This maintenance involves upgrades to critical infrastructure components as part of Wiley update and stabilization efforts.

 4.            Who/what the incident affected

The Cochrane Library users will experience intermittent website functionality, plus their returned search results may be delayed.

Error messages and apologies maybe returned during this time.

 5.            Impact on other systems.

Cochrane Library publishing system, will remain available, though delays to publishing may occur why systems are restarted. No content will be lost during this work.

 

Ebooks from Cambridge

cboAccess thousands of Cambridge ebooks through the Library

Your library currently has access to over 25,000 ebook titles from Cambridge University Press. Subject ranges from law, medicine, history, literature, politics, engineering and many more. We have books available for instant access across 57 subject areas.

Ebook access includes:

Over 1,500 titles in Law

Over 1,000 titles in Medicine

Over 1,300 titles in Literature

Over 2,700 titles in History

How to access

These titles can be accessed instantly via your library catalogue, and are available online now. You can browse by subject or search for a specific topic or title. Click here to access the full list of all Cambridge titles now. Unlimited access to these important titles is available until end of September 2016. Usage of these ebooks will inform the purchasing decision of your library for permanent use. 

Please note that a small number of ‘premium textbooks’ are not available in full text.  To exclude these items from your search and find only full text titles on Cambridge Books Online, restrict your search as shown below:

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Need more information?
If you need any help accessing any content via Cambridge Books Online, please get in touch with

Recent Highlights Include:

Natures Trust

Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age

Mastering Communication with seriously ill patients

Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope

Networked Life

Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers

July Crisis

July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914

The Hidden Jane Austen

The Hidden Jane Austen

Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking: a global perspective

Dominion Law Reports Online

We now have access to the Dominion Law Reports Online.  You can access the series via the link on the library catalogue.

The services is provided by Carswell and Canada Law Book online and you login with your usual IT services username and password.  Choose Dominion Law Reports from the listing – shown highlighted below.

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Then you can either browse for the material you want or run a search.  Note the highlighted areas below for browsing and search options.

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Browse Table of Contents

You may use the table of contents to browse for a case or a section that you wish to review. Click on the Table of Contents tab which appears on the left side of the screen. You can then expand the menu by clicking on the small “+” symbol, or collapse the menu by clicking on the “-” symbol.

Searching

Catchlines Search

This form will search for term(s) in the index documents. Index documents consist of a collection of catchlines from similarly classified cases, including a link to the full-text judgment. To search, you can enter a word or phrase, and/or a court, and/or a date range and click ‘search’.

The ‘or search’ check box option allows you to expand your search to include search results for at least one of your terms. The ‘phrase search’ check box option will treat your search terms as a phrase.

To show words around hits, select the number of words to include in the pull-down box.

Case Law Search
The Case Law Search will search for term(s) within the cases. To search the Case Law, you can enter a word or phrase, and/or a court, and/or a judge, and/or a date range and click ‘search’.

The ‘or search’ check box allows you to broaden your search to find cases in which at least one of your search terms appears. The ‘phrase search’ check box will treat your search terms as a phrase.

To show words around hits, select the number of words to include in the pull-down box.

Case Name Search
The Case Name Search allows you to locate a case by party name. If you know the name of the case, simply enter the name in the box provided and click ‘search’. A ‘date range’ option is also provided to further narrow the search to a specific date range, as there can be cases with the same name.

Citation Search
The citation search allows you to go to a particular case or page of a case. Simply enter the Volume number, Page number, choose the relevant series from the pull-down menu and then click ‘search’.

Advanced Search
This option allows you to narrow your search to a particular folder, case or section. When you select the Advanced Search form, the Table of Contents will display check boxes next to the headings. The check boxes allow you to limit your search to the folders or sections that you wish to search. Simply enter the words you wish to search for, check the appropriate box(es) in the Table of Contents and click ‘search’.

The Advanced Search includes a Query Syntax Summary to help you enter your query correctly.

To show words around hits, select the number of words to include in the pull-down box.

DLR in print

We have access to print versions of the DLR up to Volume 375 of the Fourth Series in the Lasok Law Library – all subsequent volumes will be available online only.

A number of free resources are also available if you are interested in additional Canadian Case Law.  The CanlII  and the Lexum online services are recommended.

The CanLII website provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions.

The Lexum collection contains the Supreme Court of Canada judgments since its creation in 1875 and judgments in leave applications since 2006. The collection is updated within minutes of the public release of the judgments by the Court.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey: 1674 – 1913

GSSlide3The Old Bailey Proceedings Online are a rich research resource,  making available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate’s Accounts between 1676 and 1772. It allows access to over 197,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 2,500 men and women executed at Tyburn. Access is available free of charge for non-commercial use.

In addition to the text, accessible through both keyword and structured searching, the website provides digital images of all 190,000 original pages of the Proceedings, 4,000 pages of Ordinary’s Accounts, advice on methods of searching this resource, information on the historical and legal background to the Old Bailey court and its Proceedings, and descriptions of published and manuscript materials relating to the trials covered.

Full details about the project which was developed through a collaboration between the Universities of Hertfordshire and Sheffield and the Open University, and was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Big Lottery Fund is available online.

If your research relates to historical issues of crime, justice or punishment then you will want to explore this resource.  You can search by name and also by crime, verdict or punishment.  Online research guides are available to help you search effectively. The Getting Started guide will help you jump in and start exploring.

The trials contain much information of relevance to social and cultural historians as well as legal and criminological scholars.

New term, new simpler library borrowing

20140909_112222You told us that our library borrowing rules could be made simpler – so that is exactly what we have done!

New, rules are now in place to make it easier and simpler to understand and manage your library borrowing.

We also took the opportunity to change library fines, following our consultation with staff and students last academic year.

You can now see at a glance how many items you can borrow, how long you can keep them and also check on things like renewals, recalls and fines, all in one ‘at a glance’ table.

  Exeter Libraries

borrowing

  • Standard : Print book or print journal
  • High Demand : Print book, print journal, DVD, other – Shelved in entrance area, marked with red dot

Cornwall Libraries

Standard loan periods are the same with slight variation in High demand and Audio-visual material. please see Penryn Campus Library – Loan periods.

For more detail about managing your library account, take a look at the Using the Library section of the Library website.

Digital Library 2015 New Resources

newIn addition to all the individual print and electronic books and journals that were added to Library collections during the course of last year, a number of significant online resources have been made available.

The Library announces all new online resources via the E-Library blog as soon as they come online, but as we head into a new academic session we thought it useful to highlight the significant online purchases made to date during 2015.

All resources are accessible via the Library Catalogue and Electronic Library.

E-book Packages

Bloomsbury

  • Anthropology 1993-2013 Archive & 2014 Collections
  • Classical Literature Archive 1994-2012
  • Classical Studies & Archaeology 2013 & 2014 Collections
  • History 2014 Collection
  • Literary Studies 2013 & 2014 Collections
  • Philosophy 2013 & 2014 Collections
  • Shakespeare Archive 2003-2012 Collections

Brill: International Law & Human Rights 2014 Collection

EBSCO: Education Ebook Collection

Elgar: Law 2014 Collection

Health Press Facts: ebook collection

Palgrave

  • Business & Management 2015
  • Economics & Finance 2015
  • History 2014 & 2015
  • International Relations & Development 2014 & 2015 Collections
  • Literature 2015
  • Media & Culture 2015
  • Politics 2014 & 2015 Collections
  • Social Sciences 2014 & 2015
  • Theatre & Performance 2013-2015 Collections

 

 Journal Packages

ACM Digital Library

American Physiological Society – Journals Digital Library

  • Upgrade to full package: all 10 APS journals plus 2 review journals

Annual Reviews

Brill Journals Package: Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law and selected Sciences

British Periodicals Collection III – ‘Great Eight’ illustrated periodicals of early 19th Century

Environment & Planning journal archive: A-E (from first issue through 2003)

IOS Press Journals

JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII, XIII & XIV Collections

Maney Journals Package

  • Archaeology,Conservation & Heritage Collection
  • History, Literature and Culture Collection

Nature – additional content

  • New titles: Protocols & Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Archives: Nanotechnology, Photonics, Physics

Palgrave Macmillan Journal Package: Health, Business & Social Sciences

Progress in Human Geography & progress in Physical Geography: journal backfiles

Research Synthesis Methods

SIAM Journals

Taylor & Francis Journals Backfiles: selected content from HASS / STEM areas

Wiley Journal Backfiles: Humanites, Social Sciences and Sciences & Medicine

 

Research Databases / Resources

Agcensus: agricultural census dataset

American Film Scripts Online

BMJ Best Practice

British Online Archives – Papers of Charles Bradlaugh

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Drama Online

Empire Online

Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics

First World War Archives: two new modules added:

  • Propaganda and Recruitment
  • Visual Perspectives and Narratives

GeoScienceWorld

Loeb Library of Latin texts

Marketline Advantage

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics

Oxford Handbooks Online

  • Business & Management
  • Classical Studies
  • Criminology
  • Economics & Finance
  • History
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Politics
  • Religion

Oxford Islamic Studies Online

Oxford Legal Research Library

Proquest Dissertations and Theses

World Treaty Library

 

News & Newspaper resources

Artemis Primary Sources: brings together Gale’s primary source collections for cross searching. The resources integrated into Artemis are:

  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
  • Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCC)
  • Burney Newspaper Collection (17th-18thCentury Burney Collection Newspapers)
  • Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
  • Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Online
  • Financial Times Historical Archive
  • Illustrated London News Historical Archive
  • Times Digital Archive
  • Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004

FT.com

Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports 1941-1996

Proquest Historical Newspapers:

  • Chinese Newspaper Collection
  • Irish Times and Irish Weekly
  • Times of India

 

OpenStax College Books

openstax books: book covers

Image from OpenStax College website. https://openstaxcollege.org/books

OpenStax College is a nonprofit organization committed to improving student access to quality  learning materials.   It offers professional-quality textbooks that are free online and low-cost in print in a range of areas. The content is aimed at supporting introductory US College courses, but could be useful for introductory undergraduate modules studied in the UK.

The books are also customisable so can incorporated into modules by lecturers  – at chapter or book level.  Or students can use these as free additional materials to support their recommended reading.

OpenStax College textbooks are licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY 3.0). This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon our works, even commercially, as long as they credit the authors for the original creation.

For more information, take a look at the OpenStax College website.

The subject coverage is growing. At present the following titles are available:

  • Algebra and Trigonometry
  • Anatomy and Physiology
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • College Algebra
  • College Physics
  • College Physics for AP® Courses
  • Concepts of Biology
  • Introduction to Sociology 2e
  • Introductory Statistics
  • Precalculus
  • Principles of Economics
  • Principles of Macroeconomics
  • Principles of Macroeconomics for AP® Course
  • Principles of Microeconomics
  • Principles of Microeconomics for AP®
  • Psychology
  • U.S. History

Audio Resources from Oxford University Press

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Oxford University Press makes sound recordings available for free via Soundcloud.  You’ll find a wide range of academic insights there that will be of interest to students, scholars, researchers, and anyone who has an interest in works published by OUP.

For example, you can hear:

Roger Luckhurst, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birbeck, University of London, introduce and discuss Henry James’ ‘Portrait of a Lady’.

Dominic Berry, senior lecturer in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Edinburgh University and the translator of this volume, introduce Cicero and his world.

Fiona Stafford of Somerville College, Oxford, introduce and discuss Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’

A 1988 H.L.A. Hart  interview with the legal historian David Sugarman, remastered and released in full to celebrate the 3rd edition of Hart’s Concept of Law.

Have a look around and see if there are any recordings there that are of interest to you.  There are lots more to choose from.

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law

5-OPIL-MPEPILThe July 2015 update to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEIL) is now live, bringing 18 new articles and 9 updated articles to the collection.

A range of different topics are covered including; war crimes, non-performance of treaty obligations, bioethics and much more.  A full listing of the update content is available here

MPEIL is part of the online Oxford Public International Law collection. You can search it alongside Oxford Reports on International Law and Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law.

For full text access, you will need to be logged in as a University of Exeter user.  Select University of Exeter when prompted, or login via the Library Catalogue or the Electronic Library.

Learn more about OPIL from the online video