International Studies Encyclopedia

A new important resource has been added to stock.
The International Studies Encyclopedia and its online version, International Studies Online, published in association with the International Studies Association (ISA), is the most comprehensive reference work of its kind for the fields of international studies and international relations. The 12 volume print version is arranged in A-Z format and brings together specially commissioned, peer reviewed essays, written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers (including staff of University of Leeds). Core for POLIS but of relevance to other Schools across the faculties with related interests (History, Earth & Environment, Law, etc.)
Key features:
Over 400 peer reviewed essays of up to 10,000 words focusing on the most important topics and issues
The essays are designed to allow readers to be brought quickly up-to-date on the current state of debates
Comprehensive coverage of the field
Extensive index volume

International Studies Online arriving soon will be updated twice annually and enhanced by live links to archives, datasets, cases, pedagogical aids, and other relevant materials.

Lexis Library

LexisNexis Butterworths has been rebranded as Lexis Library. The content and login details are exactly the same as before, and we'll leave links to both on the website until the Summer.

International law books

Over the last few weeks we've reorganising the law books. The main changes are that international law books (Law H, I, L and M) are now with the law collections in the main building on level 3. We hope this will make access to these collections much easier.

Commonwealth law and American law remain in the West Building on level 2, and we've created a new Stack Law sequence in the Annexe for older and less used material.

The locations in the catalogue should all be updated in the next few days, and we'll have the correct signs in place as soon as possible

LexisNexis Butterworths

An updated version of this database has been launched today. The interface has been simplified and the most commonly used search boxes are now much more prominent.

Two of the best new features are:

• The "Find a source" search on the homepage, that makes accessing international materials much easier than using the sources directory.
• The results pages now make it much more obvious what related content is available for a document without having to use a drop down menu

There have been no changes to the content of the databse, and links to training tutorials are available on most pages of the database.