Good News - Additional Library Content
Following significant additional investment of nearly £200,000 by the University in Library digital resources an extended range of electronic books and online collections are available in 2021/22. This is a major enhancement to our collections and improves our ability to support both research and teaching.
Products were carefully selected to support research and teaching across many disciplines and include databases, collections, major reference works and individual book titles. Selection criteria included turnaway statistics, discipline interest and cost. The products identified fall into two categories: outright purchase for perpetual access and trial access to June/July 2022 with evidence-based purchase to follow.
I am delighted that this investment has allowed us to expand our digital collections in this way and hope this will both improve the experience of our students and offer new opportunities for digital scholarship. I will be very happy to hear any feedback or questions, and to discuss how we might further enhance our online collections in ways that support Aberdeen 2040.
I am particularly interested in hearing from researchers with ideas for innovative research methods which could be applied to the Library’s digital content.
Simon Bains, University Librarian
Outright Purchase
Turnaway statistics from major publishers help identify demand for titles that we do not subscribe to. Based on supplied reports and known discipline interests we have purchased perpetual access to five journal backfiles including Nature (1950-1996) and the Soil Science of America Journal (1921-1996).
We also purchased perpetual access to selected major reference works published by Elsevier, Oxford University Press and Wiley. These include more than 80 titles in the Oxford Handbooks Online series, encyclopedias in Medical Sciences and Geography, and a legacy collection of books in Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Further title details are available below. All titles can be accessed from the publisher platforms. Primo records will follow shortly.
- Outright Purchase - Elsevier
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Book Title Link Encyclopedia of Food and Health www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780123849533 Encyclopedia of Immunobiology www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780080921525 International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2nd Edition) www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780081022962 Encyclopedia of Toxicology (3rd Edition) www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780123864550 Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics (2nd Edition) www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780080961569 Earth and Planetary Sciences Online collection of nearly 400 titles covering Earth and Planetary sciences. The titles will be added to Primo. - Outright Purchase - Oxford Handbooks Online
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We have purchased 85 titles in the Oxford Handbooks Online series - see below for full list. Primo records are not yet available, but they are already available directly from their site. Browse or search here.
Title The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature The Oxford Handbook of Banking (2nd Edition) The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens The Oxford Handbook of Christology The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology The Oxford Handbook of Community Music The Oxford Handbook of Consumption The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology The Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, Volume 1 The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, Volume 2 The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History The Oxford Handbook of Exercise Psychology The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Multicultural Counseling Psychology The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology The Oxford Handbook of History of Ethics The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law The Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication The Oxford Handbook of International Business The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology The Oxford Handbook of Legal History The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology The Oxford Handbook of Oral History The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks The Oxford Handbook of Politics of Development The Oxford Handbook of Polling and Survey Methods The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research The Oxford Handbook of Regulation The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements The Oxford Handbook of Social Psychology and Social Justice The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology The Oxford Handbook of the Book of Revelation The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination The Oxford Handbook of The Early Modern Sermo The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire The Oxford Handbook of the Five Factor Model The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality and Gender The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology - Outright Purchase - SpringerNature
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An online archive of Nature has been added to our collection, covering 1950-1996, to supplement those already available.
Full details of our holdings for this journal can be found in Primo.
- Outright Purchase - Wiley
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11 books and 4 journal titles on the Wiley platform have been added to our collection, with Primo records appearing shortly. Title details and links to online access given below.
Journal Title Years Included Link AIChE Journal (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) 1955-1997 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1547-5905 Biotechnology and Bioengineering 1959-1995 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-0290 Journal of Fish Biology 1969-1996 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1095-8649 Soil Science Society of America Journal 1921-1996 https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14350661
Trial Access and Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA)
Staff and students will have trial access to more than 80 specialist full-text databases and collections from Alexander Street Press, Gale, History Vault, and ProQuest. These databases will be available until June/July 2022 and include British Library Newspapers (Parts 3-5), Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2016, the Cecil Papers, State Papers Online (1579-1823), and Colonial State Papers (1574-1757).
The Library will carry out a consultation exercise on these products in Spring 2022 to aid decision making on future access to selected collections. Database usage and access figures will provide useful background data in that process. Following the consultation exercise and analysis of usage data some of the resources from these collections will remain accessible beyond the trial period.
Details of the collections and databases are available below. All can be accessed from the Find Databases option within Primo.
- Trial Access and EBA - Alexander Street Press
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Collection Title Link African American Music Reference https://search.alexanderstreet.com/aamr African Diaspora: Cultural, Social and Political History https://search.alexanderstreet.com/afdi American Film Scripts Online, Volumes I and II https://search.alexanderstreet.com/afso Anthropological Fieldwork Online https://search.alexanderstreet.com/antf Anthropology Online https://search.alexanderstreet.com/anto Black Thought and Culture https://search.alexanderstreet.com/bltc Classical Music Reference Library https://search.alexanderstreet.com/bakr Classical Scores Library: Volume I https://search.alexanderstreet.com/shmu Classical Scores Library: Volume II https://search.alexanderstreet.com/shm2 Classical Scores Library: Volume III https://search.alexanderstreet.com/shm3 Classical Scores Library: Volume IV https://search.alexanderstreet.com/shm4 Disability in the Modern World https://search.alexanderstreet.com/disa Early Encounters in North America https://search.alexanderstreet.com/eena Engineering Case Studies Online https://search.alexanderstreet.com/engv Environmental Issues Online https://search.alexanderstreet.com/envi Ethnographic Sound Archives Online https://search.alexanderstreet.com/etsa Ethnographic Video Online, Teaching Edition https://search.alexanderstreet.com/antt Human Rights Studies Online: Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, and Conflict Resolution https://search.alexanderstreet.com/huri Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music https://search.alexanderstreet.com/glnd Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century https://search.alexanderstreet.com/mu19 North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories https://search.alexanderstreet.com/imld North American Indian Thought and Culture https://search.alexanderstreet.com/ibio Psychological Experiments Online https://search.alexanderstreet.com/pexp Revolution and Protest Online https://search.alexanderstreet.com/revo Royal Shakespeare Company Collection https://search.alexanderstreet.com/shon Security Issues Online https://search.alexanderstreet.com/secu Twentieth Century Religious Thought https://search.alexanderstreet.com/tcrb Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume I, Christianity https://search.alexanderstreet.com/tcrt Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume II, Islam https://search.alexanderstreet.com/tcr2 Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume III, Judaism https://search.alexanderstreet.com/tcr3 Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume IV, Eastern Religions https://search.alexanderstreet.com/tcr4 Women and Social Movements, International https://search.alexanderstreet.com/wasi Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820 https://search.alexanderstreet.com/wasg Women and Social Movements in the U.S. - Scholar's Edition https://search.alexanderstreet.com/wass - Trial Access and EBA - Gale
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Collection Title Link Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I https://link.gale.com/apps/AHSI?u=abdn Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part 2 https://link.gale.com/apps/AHSI?u=abdn British Library Newspapers: Part 3 https://link.gale.com/apps/BNCN?u=abdn British Library Newspapers: Part 4 https://link.gale.com/apps/BNCN?u=abdn British Library Newspapers: Part 5 https://link.gale.com/apps/BNCN?u=abdn Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2016 https://link.gale.com/apps/DMHA?u=abdn Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2016 https://link.gale.com/apps/FTHA?u=abdn Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part I https://link.gale.com/apps/SAS?u=abdn Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part 2 https://link.gale.com/apps/SAS?u=abdn State Papers Online: The Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives, Windsor Castle https://link.gale.com/apps/SPOL?u=abdn - Trial Access and EBA - History Vault
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Collection Title Link Cross-Searching From Landing Page http://congressional.proquest.com/historyvault American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=51459#51459 American Politics in the Early Cold War: Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, 1945-1961 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=70641#70641 Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=28990#28990 Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records, Supplement https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=74807#74807 Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=23138#23138 Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=24911#24911 CIA Cold War Research Reports and Records on Communism in China and Eastern Europe (1917-1976) https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=34929#34929 Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Africa and the Middle East https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=73157#73157 Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Asia https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=14865#14865 Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Europe and Latin America https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=393#393 Creation of Israel: British Foreign Office Correspondence on Palestine and Transjordan, 1940-1948 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=83408#38906 FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=57016#57016 Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=48990#48990 NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=22789#22789 NAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files and Youth Department Files https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=47846#47846 NAACP Papers: Special Subjects https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=92064#92064 NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns—Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=14309#14309 NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=91549#91549 NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns—Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=85489#85489 Nazi Looted Art and Assets: Records on the Post-World War II Restitution Process, 1942-1998 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=79026#79026 New Deal and World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office Files and Records of Federal Agencies https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=2326#2326 Office of Strategic Services (OSS)-State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=67084#67084 Southern Life and African American History, 1775–1915, Plantations Records, Part 1 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=17810#17810 Southern Life and African American History, 1775–1915, Plantations Records, Part 2 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=14243#14243 Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960–1975 https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=77400#77400 World War I: British Foreign Office Political Correspondence https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=17422#17422 World War I: Records of the American Expeditionary Forces, and Diplomacy in the World War I Era https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=86144#86144 World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees https://hv.proquest.com/historyvault/hv.jsp?pageid=browse&mid=34319#34319 - Trial Access and EBA - ProQuest
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Further Content
We now subscribe to EDINA’s full collection of mapping products (the “Ultimate” package) providing access to Aerial + Lidar, agCensus, Environment, Geology, Geomni, Global, Historic, Marine, Ordnance Survey, Pilot, and Society. Four of these are new to us and two have been supported by research funds in previous years. All can be accessed from the Find Databases option within Primo or from the Digimap site.
JSTOR has added 46 journal titles to the Life Sciences collection with 19 of these new to us. The JSTOR database can be accessed from the Find Databases option within Primo.
How to access these additional resources
Primo is the portal to the University’s print and online holdings. Signing in (top right) at the beginning of your search often reduces the need to login or sign in at the supplier/publisher site. If using a non-Primo route to access subscribed content look for the Institutional login option.