Refugee Voices: an e-resource now available

Refugee Voices is a collection of 150 filmed interviews with former refugees from Nazism now living in Britain. It was commissioned by the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) in 2003, and consists of more than 450 hours of filmed interviews.

All interviews have been fully transcribed enabling a researcher to be able to see an interview and then to read a transcript of the words spoken in it, or vice versa. Both films and the transcripts are time-coded, making it possible to locate specific passages with a minimum of effort. Each interview is also accompanied by still shots of photos of family members, friends, and places of importance for the interviewee, along with items or documents of special significance in the interviewee’s life. These filmed photographs, artefacts, and documents provide a rich resource.

Refugee Voices is now available in Special Collections. Please look for it in the catalogue.

New German literature database goes live

We've just taken out a new subscription to the database Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) Online. We've always had it in paper form, but have now got the online version as well. This will mean faster searching and being able to search all years together. It covers all aspects of German language and literature, and is in German.
Give it a go and let me know what you think! It's available through our Library Catalogue at: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=e1001155

Maureen Pinder,
Faculty Team Librarian for German.

Bankscope

The Library now has access to the database Bankscope.

Bankscope provides detailed financial information, ratings and ownership information for 28,000 banks worldwide. Up to 16 years of information is included for each bank.
Log on to Bankscope by following the link from the Library Catalogue. The first screen is the quick search, enter the name of the bank you are searching for and click on search. The expert search allows you to combine several search criteria to search for a group of banks. Data can be exported as Word or Excel files.

Changes to the Nexis database search facilities

Due to new licensing conditions, the ability to search the Financial Times within source groups on the database Nexis has now been removed. You can still search within the Financial Times but it means that searches using any of the News groups such as All News, UK Broadsheets, UK Newspapers, UK National Newspapers or Major World Newspapers will exclude the financial Times. You must now either search the Financial Times on its own or add it to other source groups.

Please note that to search the Financial Times you must use the Power Search within Nexis.

Instructions

To search the Financial Times on its own:

After logging into Nexis select the Sources tab.

Select the Find Sources option and type Financial Times in the keyword search, then select the Find Sources button.

Select the Financial Times (London) from the list of sources and select the OK – Continue button.

The Financial Times will then appear in the list of Selected Sources within the Power Search.

To combine the Financial Times with other source groups:

After logging into Nexis select General Search from the red menu at the top of the page and then select the Power Search tab. Go to the Select Sources drop down list, scroll to the top and select Edit this Source List.

All your currently combined source groups will be displayed. Select Edit/Rename for the source group that need to include the Financial Times.

The sources currently included in this group will be displayed. To add a source choose the Select More Source button. You will be taken to the Source tab and the Find Sources option.

Enter Financial Times in the keyword search, select the Find Sources button, and then select Financial Times (London) from the list of sources. It will now be added to the source group that you selected. To view the sources in the group select View. To save this select the OK – Continue button.

Repeat these steps for every combined source group to which you would like to add the Financial Times. Select the Done button to return to the Power Search screen.

Alerts

Under these new arrangements it is currently not possible to combine the Financial Times with any other sources to update existing alerts or to create new alerts. Alerts will need to be set up specifically for the Financial Times as a single source. For information on how to create alerts please see the online help within Nexis (linked to from the top right of any page).

New Image Databases

We are pleased to announce the Library now provides access to two new major image databases: ArtStor and Land of Lost Content. Both art databases allow you to search, browse, select and download images into folders that you create. They can be found in the catalogue or from the new Image Databases page which lists interdisciplinary resources, available to everyone at the University of Leeds.

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.

Web of Science changes

The Web of Science interface has now changed.
After typing in your ISS username and password, you will be taken to the Web of Knowledge homepage. Click on the yellow Select a Database tab at the top of the page. You then need to select Web of Science from the list of database products.



At the bottom of the screen, you have the option to Change Limits and Settings. Click this link and the following options will appear:

Tick the check boxes to search across each of the databases. By default it searches across all three.

For more information about Web of Science there are online tutorials and workbooks available at : http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/databases/indexguides/wos.htm or you can book online onto a Web of Science library training session http://www.skillscentre.leeds.ac.uk/workshops.php

New Resources

Public Information Online http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2894036

This new database provides access to all parliamentary papers from the 2006/07 session onwards. It contains PDFs of all House of Commons Bills, House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, House of Lords Bills and House of Lords Papers. Updated daily, papers are available on the day of publication, significantly quicker than the paper copies reaching the Library. All content is fully searchable, and it is possible to browse numerically, alphabetically or by author. Public Information Online is available via the Library Catalogue, both on- and off-campus.

World Advertising Research Centre (WARC).

One of the largest sources of intelligence for marketing, advertising and media communities worldwide, providing access to over 45,000 papers, case studies, research reports, news items and statistical information.

New Resources

New Full Text Resources

These are all available from the Library Catalogue at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/

Burney Collection, 17th and 18th Century Newspapers. The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), some 1,270 titles, all in full text and fully searchable.

19th Century British Library Newspapers. The full text of the full runs of 48 British papers, national and regional.

19th Century UK Periodicals Online. The full runs, in full text, of nearly 600 periodical titles sourced from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and other specialist libraries.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers. Now expanded, this covers papers in full text back to 1715, with some supplementary material from 1688 onwards.