New app for Bridgeman Education images database

University of Leeds staff and students can access the Bridgeman Education's database with over 330,000 images from galleries, museums and private collections with a new app. The app allows you to search, view images and their metadata, and create and save slide shows (once you have created a profile and registered on your computer).

Bridgeman Education is available in the library catalogue. To get the app, visit the app store on your iPhone 4, iTouch, or iPad or via iTunes. (Requires iOS 4.1 or later.) Then come to the Arts and Social Sciences office in the Brotherton Library so that library staff can activate it for you. To make an appointment to see the fine arts and design librarian, email: r.v.roberto@leeds.ac.uk.

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.

19th Century British Pamphlets Trial

The library currently has trial access to Research Libraries UK’s 19th Century British Pamphlets collection.

The collection covers over 26,000 pamphlets and over 1 million pages of some of the most significant 19th Century pamphlet collections, covering the social, economic and political issues concerning Britain in the 19th Century.

The records are integrated into JSTOR and can be browsed chronologically and searched by text up until June 30th 2009.

JSTOR’s page describing the collection in detail can be accessed from here: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=e1001083

If you do make use of the trail the library would welcome your feedback via the E-resource trials feedback form here:

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/databases/trial_feedback/index.htm

British Cabinet Papers 1915 - 1978

The library now has electronic access to the Cabinet Papers for 1915 – 1978 provided by the National Archives.

They contain a core collection of over half a million government records covering the years 1915-1978. All of the records are fully searchable as scanned PDFs but can also be browsed by thematic and historical overviews covering three main themes of British Governance in the 20th century:

The United Kingdom and the world
The economy, business and resources, and
Society and the Welfare State

The National Archives plan to add to the collection in the future by releasing and digitising more papers as they become available for release to the public.

The catalogue link can be found here

The library also currently provides a microfilm run of earlier cabinet papers for the years 1880-1916 which can be found here

19th Century British Pamphlets Trial

19th Century British Pamphlets is now available through JSTOR as a trail until the 30th June.

19th Century Pamphlets Online will provide access to some of the most significant collections of pamphlets held in UK research libraries.
This includes the personal collections of Joseph Hume (from UCL) and Joseph Cowen (Newcastle), the family collections of the Earls Grey
(Durham) and Earls of Derby (Liverpool), the Foreign Office and Colonial Office collections (Manchester), and selections from the large collections held by LSE and the University of Bristol. In all, more than 1 million pages (about 23,000 pamphlets) will be digitised and made freely available to UK users via JSTOR in early 2009.

You can access this resource here through the Library catalogue.

Cabinet Papers, 1915-1978 from the UK National Archives

The full text of UK cabinet papers from this period is now freely available from the National Archives website. You can either search (for example by date and keyword) or you can browse papers on specific themes. There is a link to these papers from the E-Resources for Hisory Guide.

NewsFilm Online

Selected news from the ITN/Reuters archive is now available via NewsFilm Online at: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2999437~S4 NewsFilm Online is a JISC-funded service comprising a selection of news stories and programme scripts – some 3,000 hours of footage; c. 60,000 stories. Video playback and downloading are available to staff and students.
You can access the service via the Library Catalogue or the list of databases for Communication Studies. You then need to select the University of Leeds from the Federated Search screen, and then log in with your ISS username and password.

The John Johnson Collection

The John Johnson collection of printed ephemera from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, is now freely available online at: http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b2999119~S4 It contains some 65,000 printed items produced in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and covers many different types of printed document, including posters and handbills for various entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and a range of printed advertising material. The collection is a rich source of material on life in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Trial of the Electronic Enlightenment

The Library is currently offering trial access to OUP’s newest online resource, the Electronic Enlightenment. You can find this listed in the Library Catalogue or under ‘Use e-resources’ in the listing under ‘Trial e-resources’. The trial lasts until 3 December 2008.

OUP describes the EE as “The online gateway to the long 18th century”, offering unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers.

It includes the full critical editions of the letters of more than 3,800 writers including Addison, Bentham, Boswell, Defoe, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Locke, Pope, Rousseau, Smith, Swift, Sterne and Voltaire but in total covers nearly 6,000 correspondents and over 80,000 document sources, both manuscript and printed.

We should need to give very careful thought to the (recurrent) cost implications in considering a subscription to a resource of this kind. Your comments on the EE’s potential usefulness, especially in relation to your own teaching and/or research, would be very much appreciated. You can send them directly to me (a.c.farr@leeds.ac.uk) or use the online feedback form for e-resource trials.

The Guardian

The library now has electronic access to the Guardian Newspaper archive through the Proquest Databases.

The Proquest Guardian archive offers scans of full pages, text, articles and images with full searchable text for the years 1821 - 2003. The link on the catalogue can be found here.

The library also has access to the full text of the Guardian for the years 1980 - present as provided by Nexis here alongside the rest of Nexis' worldwide news coverage.

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.

The Making of the Modern World

The Library now has access to The Making of the Modern World database.

The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850 provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

The link on the catalogue can be found here.

British Periodicals Collection Part II

We have recently updated our early online journal collection with the second part of the British Periodicals Collection.

British Periodicals covers 460 journals published between the seventeenth century and the early 20th century. Access to the full text of the journals is available through page images and through full text searching. All titles are indexed in C19 nineteenth century index.

It is available through the catalogue here.

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.

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

Leeds poetry 1950-1980

The Leeds Poetry 1950-1980 website is now available online following the completion of a joint AHRC-funded project by Special Collections and the School of English. A series of web pages gives detailed information on poets and poetry at the University between 1950 and 1980, including the Gregory Fellowships, poetry publishing, literary maps and biographical sketches. The site also provides access to a multi-level catalogue, enabling the cross-searching of archives held in Special Collections relating to poets connected with the University.

Available at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/leedspoetry/

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.