The Library Newsletter, October edition, is now available.

In this issue

• Flowers Room re-opening
• BONUS+ Goes International
• OIC First Birthday
• Laptop Lockers
• News from the City
• Library Plans For 2010
• Encore – A New Way to Search

Online resources available via ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance from 11:00am-8:00pm on Sunday 1st November 2009.

Previously a trial, the Library has now subscribed to this database.

The Gilded Age brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together into a searchable collection that is an important  electronic resource for students and scholars researching this period in American history.

Includes an extensive selection of key treatises that reflect the social and cultural ferment of the late nineteenth century, as well as a wealth of rare materials, including songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera.

Covering such themes as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage, these essays illuminate the rapidly changing cultural landscape of America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt.

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Newly added to the Library’s list of online resources, the Digital Karl Barth Library combines comprehensiveness with a set of text-analysis tools to support innovative research into the works of one of the twentieth century’s most influential theologians.

The collection features the entire corpus of Barth’s Gesamtausgabe. Published under the TVZ imprint, this definitive edition of Barth’s works in German currently comprises more than 40 volumes of sermons, letters, lectures, conversations, and academic writings. Also slated for inclusion in The Digital Karl Barth Library is Barth’s magnum opus, the 14-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik.

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Due to site maintenance, access to Wiley Interscience may be interrupted on Monday 19th October 2009 between 7 pm and 8 pm.

Trial available until 6th November 2009.

Informa Healthcare offers a growing selection of e-books in the medical and life sciences disciplines, including such famous imprints as Marcel Dekker, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Martin Dunitz, Parthenon, and the new Informa Healthcare imprint.

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Trial available until 10th November 2009.

Proquest Public Health includes the core literature in the field of public health, including biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, behavioral sciences, international public health, and more.

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Trial available until 31st December 2009.

Informit Health Collection is a new full text online database which delivers cover-to-cover access to core content from the Australasia region. Many of the peer reviewed titles are unique to Informit and offer new perspectives to allied health professionals and students. Over twenty years of backfiles also means that users don’t overlook important archive content.

This collection will replace Meditext from the beginning of next year.

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Trial available until 31st October 2009.

SAGE Reference Online provides online access to80 SAGE encyclopedias and handbooks.  The subjects covered include business, communication, education, family, history, politics, social welfare, sociology, and more.

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Trial available until 1st November 2009.

Best Practice is a decision support tool that combines the latest research evidence with guidelines and expert opinion – presented in a step-by-step approach, covering diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention. With Clinical Evidence content incorporated and seamless link to Martindale: the complete Drug Reference, it serves as an invaluable learning, reference and support tool for doctors.

Register to to get full access to Best Practice content and to access “My Best Practice”, where you can bookmark your favourite articles and save your frequent searches.

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User Guide

Video Introduction to BestPractice

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