Wiley downtime Saturday 24 May 2008

Wiley Interscience will be down for maintenance on Saturday 24th May for a period of 4-8 hours from 9:00pm.

New trial – Human Rights Documents

Trial available until 17th June 2008.

Human Rights Documents Online (HRDO) will ultimately contain all human rights documents collected by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa in Canada since 1980.

These documents emanate from 417 non-governmental human rights organizations (NGOs) worldwide, some of which have a universal scope, whilst others focus on the attainment of human rights in a specific area of the world.

The first phase of the project was the digitization of the documents of 2003. This part was released in December 2007. The scanned microfiches from the period 1980-2004 will be added in 2008/2009. In this period we will also add new documents from the period 2005-2006.

Go to: Human Rights Documents trial

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New trial – Martinus Nijhoff – Collected Courses Online

Trial available until 17th June 2008.

The Academy is a prestigious international institution for the study and teaching of Public and Private International Law and related subjects. The work of the Hague Academy receives the support and recognition of the UN. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law.

All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law.

Go to: Martinus Nijhoff Collected Courses Online trial

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New trial – China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)

Trial available until 15th June 2008

China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) is a key national project of China. Its purpose is knowledge sharing throughout China and the world. From its beginning in June, 1996, the global reach of CNKI full-text databases has grown substantially. CNKI now serves more than four hundred universities, public libraries, research institutions, enterprises, and hospitals in more than twenty countries.

Articles could offer two formats: CAJ and PDF.

Please download the CAJViewer in the main search interface when you first login or simply download here http://services.cnki.net/download/index.asp?classid=4&Nclassid=21.

For PDF file downloading, you NEED Adobe Reader 7.0 or above and its affiliated Chinese font (simplied or traditionl) installed. The fonts can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrasianfontpack.html.

Go to: CNKI trial (English)- click on IP login.

Go to: CNKI trial (Chinese) – click on IP login.

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New trial – CAB eBooks

Trial available until 31st March 2008 – trial extended until 30th June 2008

CAB eBooks is a collection of currently 140 electronic books on the applied life sciences. Topics covered include Agriculture; Animal & Veterinary Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Human Health, Food & Nutrition; Leisure & Tourism; and Plant Sciences.

Go to: CAB eBooks trial

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Wiley downtime Saturday 3 May

Wiley may be unavailable for up to 2 hours from 8:00pm Saturday 3rd May 2008, while necessary maintenance is carried out.

Open Stack re-opens!

Open Stack is open once again.  Open Stack, on level 1 of the Auchmuty Library, is accessible via the Information Common.  It now contains the journals temporarily relocated from the Flowers Room while the refurbishment takes place.

A new journal display area with a selection of the latest issues of some of the most popular journals, is now available in the Law Library.