Posted on Thursday, 1 January 1970

New Service from Key Note

Posted on Friday, 5 December 2008

Key Note provides commercially relevant industry analysis reports to businesses, libraries and academia.
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Services from BUVFC: TVTiP & This Week

Posted on Wednesday, 19 November 2008

TVTiP is a database of the programme information contained in the television listings magazine TV Times between 1955 and 1985.
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Services from BUVFC: TRILT (Television & Radio Index for Learning and Teaching)

Posted on Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT) is a database of UK television and radio programme information available to BUFVC members.
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Services from BUVFC: Radio

Posted on Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Radio at BUFVC will cover a variety of radio-related databases. Currently it holds the Independent Local Radio Sharing Archive, a database of programmes made by local radio stations which were made available to other stations for rebroadcast.
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Surpop from MIMAS

Posted on Friday, 14 November 2008

The Surpop interface allows access to a set of population estimates for 200m cells derived from the 1981 Census of Population in England, Wales and Scotland, and the 1991 Census in England, Wales, Scotland andNorthern Ireland.
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LCT from MIMAS

Posted on Friday, 14 November 2008

The 'Linking Censuses Through time' interface provides access to data from the 1971, 1981 and 1991 Censuses of Population for Great Britain.
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New Service from Alexander Street Press

Posted on Tuesday, 11 November 2008

SOCIAL THEORY offers an extensive selection of influential writings that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behaviour and organisation.
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Ebook collection from Dawson Books

Posted on Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Dawsonera is a web-based collection of ebooks designed for use in libraries. There are many thousands of ebooks in the catalogue, produced by academic publishers around the world.
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InfoTrac from Gale/Cengage

Posted on Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Serving the research needs of millions of students around the globe, InfoTrac provides easy access to a wealth of periodical, reference and primary source information.
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New service from Exact Editions

Posted on Thursday, 16 October 2008

Exact Editions is a customisable magazine and e-book service for libraries and their users.
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Training materials from Netskills

Posted on Thursday, 9 October 2008

A range of Netskills material is available for you to meet your training, teaching, support and self-learning needs.
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UKSG from MetaPress

Posted on Monday, 29 September 2008

The UK Serials Group (UKSG) exists to encourage the exchange of ideas on printed and electronic publishing and the process of scholarly communication.
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SpringerLink from MetaPress

Posted on Monday, 29 September 2008

SpringerLink is one of the world's leading interactive databases for high-quality STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection.
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New Service from MetaPress

Posted on Wednesday, 24 September 2008

MetaPress is one of the world's largest electronic content hosts with over 31,000 publications from over 180 publishers worldwide.
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ZEPHYR from Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing

Posted on Friday, 12 September 2008

Now with information on over 550,000 M&A deals with links to company data and regularly cited in the business press.
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ORBIS from Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing

Posted on Friday, 12 September 2008

Global database of approaching 50 million public and private companies.
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MINTUK from Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing

Posted on Friday, 12 September 2008

MINT UK combines company information, news and market research with a streamlined interface for quick and easy searching.
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BMJ journals now available

Posted on Tuesday, 9 September 2008

BMJ Journals Collection comprises of 22 leading medical titles on specialist clinical areas, public health and evidence-based medicine.
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Another new service from LexisNexis

Posted on Thursday, 4 September 2008

The complete, fully customisable, online news and business research service bringing together in a single source, all news, financial and business information licensed by LexisNexis for the academic market from around the globe.
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New service from LexisNexis

Posted on Thursday, 4 September 2008

The complete, fully customisable, online legal research service bringing together in a single source, all case law, legislation and commentary materials published and distributed by LexisNexis Butterworths.
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Adept Scientific Plc presents Adept4Education

Posted on Wednesday, 3 September 2008

We offer a broad range of software for students, lecturers and staff in education establishments including tools for reference management, engineering mathematics, mathematical problem solving, system simulation, statistics, and much more.
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ISI Web of Knowledge from Thomson Reuters

Posted on Thursday, 28 August 2008

ISI Web of Knowledge is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
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EndNote Web from Thomson Reuters

Posted on Thursday, 28 August 2008

EndNote Web is a web-based reference organizer and writing solution, fully integrated with ISI Web of Knowledge.
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Engineering Village from Elsevier Engineering Information

Posted on Thursday, 28 August 2008

The Engineering Village search platform equips researchers with the information and tools they need to gain insight and answers from their results.
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HeinOnline now available

Posted on Wednesday, 27 August 2008

William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has been serving the library community for nearly 90 years as a legal publisher, periodical subscription agent and the world’s largest distributor of legal periodicals.
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PLANEX from IDOX Information Services

Posted on Wednesday, 27 August 2008

PLANEX provides online access to the most comprehensive collection of bibliographic abstracts on all aspects of best practice and governance in the UK public sector.
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New service from ProQuest

Posted on Wednesday, 27 August 2008

History Study Centre is an online resource providing a vast collection of digitised primary and secondary sources for the study of history.
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JSTOR

Posted on Tuesday, 19 August 2008

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use, and build upon a wide range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive.
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Scopus from Elsevier

Posted on Friday, 15 August 2008

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources, with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
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SARs from MIMAS

Posted on Wednesday, 13 August 2008

The Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) are samples of individual records from the 1991 and 2001 Censuses.
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GeoConvert from MIMAS

Posted on Wednesday, 13 August 2008

GeoConvert is an online geography matching and conversion tool which aims to simplify and expand the use of the information contained in the UK postcode directories.
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ESDS International from MIMAS

Posted on Wednesday, 13 August 2008

ESDS International disseminates and supports both aggregate and survey international datasets.
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CIDER from MIMAS

Posted on Wednesday, 13 August 2008

CIDER provides access to the interaction data from the UK Census.
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Casweb from MIMAS

Posted on Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Casweb is a web interface to the UK Census aggregate outputs and digital boundary data.
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New service from SAGE Journals Online

Posted on Tuesday, 12 August 2008

SAGE Journals Online is the award-winning delivery platform that allows users to search over 500 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine, and their related backfiles to retrieve peer-reviewed articles crucial to their research.
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New Service: Capacity Builder

Posted on Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Capacity Builder is an online Community Development and Social Policy information resource targeted at academics, students and those who are responsible for community development.
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UK Data Archive

Posted on Monday, 11 August 2008

The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is an internationally-renowned centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion; and is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK.
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Economic and Social Data Service

Posted on Monday, 11 August 2008

The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes.
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Childlink Information Service

Posted on Monday, 11 August 2008

Childlink is a fast growing innovative online database focusing on Legislation, Policies and Practices regarding children, young people and families who live in the UK and Ireland.
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Landmap Service from MIMAS

Posted on Thursday, 7 August 2008

The Landmap Service provides web-based access to a range of spatial datafor research, learning and teaching. The service also supports the spatial science community with a range of learning materials and a dedicated helpdesk.
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New service from Keesing's

Posted on Thursday, 7 August 2008

Keesing's World News Archive is a fully searchable database containing over 100,000 reports and expanding at a rate of over 1,500 articles per year.
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New service from Credo Reference

Posted on Thursday, 7 August 2008

Credo Reference is a completely customizable general reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.
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OSIRIS from Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing

Posted on Monday, 4 August 2008

OSIRIS has 55,000 listed companies worldwide, now containing regulatory filings from Perfect Information (PI).
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FAME from Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing

Posted on Monday, 4 August 2008

FAME is the definitive academic UK company information product containing information on over 3.6 million UK and Irish companies, ideal for financial analysis and teaching.
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Bankscope from Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing

Posted on Monday, 4 August 2008

Bankscope is a global database containing information on public and private banks - ideal for courses with banking options.
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AMADEUS from Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing

Posted on Monday, 4 August 2008

AMADEUS is a pan European database of over 10 million public and private companies in over 40 countries.
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EDINA UKBORDERS

Posted on Friday, 1 August 2008

UKBORDERS provides digitised boundary datasets of the UK, available in many Geographic Information System (GIS) formats (MapInfo MIF/MID, ArcView Shape, Arc/Info Export and several others), for teachers and researchers in the UK Higher and Further Education community to download and use in their work.
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EDINA GetReF

Posted on Friday, 1 August 2008

GetRef is a fully functional cross-searching tool that enables the user to present a simple search string to multiple services and receive the matching results from each.
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Archival Sound Recordings service from the British Library

Posted on Thursday, 31 July 2008

The Archival Sound Recordings service currently makes over 4,000 hours of digitised audio recordings available freely to the Higher Education and Further Education communities within the United Kingdom.
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Newsfilm Online

Posted on Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Online delivery of about 3,000 hours of downloadable video news stories (in 60,000 segmented encodings) and about 24,000 programme scripts from the ITN and Reuters archives.
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New Service from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Posted on Tuesday, 29 July 2008

MedicinesComplete provides online access to some of the world's leading drug and healthcare references including Martindale: The complete drug reference, the British National Formulary, Stockley's Drug Interactions and the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology.
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DreamSpark from Microsoft

Posted on Monday, 21 July 2008

DreamSpark enables students to download professional-level Microsoft developer and design tools.
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Another New Service from IOP Publishing

Posted on Tuesday, 15 July 2008

IOPscience is a unique platform for IOP-hosted journal content. It provides site-wide electronic access to over 300,00 articles in physics and related sciences, and incorporates innovative technologies to enhance your user experience.
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New Service from the IOP Publishing

Posted on Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Our Electronic Journal Service comprises over 50 popular journals in physics and related sciences, including the renowned Journal of Physics series. You can find them at journals.iop.org, or under their own journal homepages.
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Go-Geo! now available

Posted on Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Go-Geo! is an online resource discovery tool which allows identification and retrieval of metadata records describing the content, quality, condition and other characteristics of geospatial data which exist within UK tertiary education and beyond.
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Another New Service from ProQuest

Posted on Wednesday, 9 July 2008

NewsUK is an online service developed to provide international, national and regional news, combining the 115 most popular British newspaper titles in one database.
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New Service from ProQuest

Posted on Wednesday, 9 July 2008

KnowUK is a unique online service developed to provide libraries with a complete collection of current, useful and UK-specific reference information from over 100 of the most widely used reference publications in the UK.
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Jorum from EDINA

Posted on Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Jorum is a JISC-funded collaborative venture in UK Higher and Further Education to collect and share learning and teaching materials, allowing their reuse and repurposing, and standing as a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials. It is run jointly between the EDINA and Mimas national data centres.
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New Service from HW Wilson

Posted on Monday, 7 July 2008

The H.W. Wilson Company is one of the leading companies providing content discovery and delivery. An icon in the library community for 110 years, H.W. Wilson is dedicated to providing the highest-quality Web and print resources in the world.
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Another New Service from ProQuest

Posted on Monday, 7 July 2008

The Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications was established by the Printing Act of January 12, 1895.
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New Service from ProQuest

Posted on Monday, 7 July 2008

Documents on British Policy Overseas provides users with access to a wide range of primary source documents from Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, shedding light on throughout the twentieth century.
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New Shibboleth-Enabled EDINA Service

Posted on Friday, 4 July 2008

The EDINA agcensus service provides online access to data derived from the Agricultural Censuses for England, Scotland and Wales giving realistic estimates of what was produced, how much was produced and where it was produced.
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Rock's Backpages

Posted on Wednesday, 2 July 2008

Rock's Backpages is an online database of rock music writing, with material dating from the early 1960s to the present day.
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EduCoMS service

Posted on Wednesday, 25 June 2008

EduCoMS is the higher and further education community website for IT professionals using Microsoft technologies.
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New service from ProQuest

Posted on Monday, 26 May 2008

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.
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New service from ProQuest

Posted on Wednesday, 21 May 2008

CSA Illumina is designed to provide a simple, more user-friendly approach to searching for novice users while maintaining powerful options for users who require them.
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New Service from Scran

Posted on Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Authenticated access for subscribing institutions to Scran's online learning resource collection of over 360,000 images, movies and sound files from museums, galleries, archives and the media.
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New service from ProQuest

Posted on Wednesday, 2 April 2008

This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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New Service from the BBC

Posted on Tuesday, 1 April 2008

BBC Motion Gallery provides staff and students access to a vast selection of clips covering many subjects including History, Science, Geography, News and Current Affairs, Medicine and Sport.
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European Sources Online

Posted on Tuesday, 18 March 2008

European Sources Online (ESO) is an online database which provides access to information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions and other international organisations of Europe, and on the issues of importance to European citizens and stakeholders.
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Periodicals Index from ProQuest

Posted on Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
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ProQuest's Periodical Archive

Posted on Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.
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New Service from ProQuest

Posted on Tuesday, 29 January 2008

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) is a historical database providing academic researchers with a detailed primary source on Britain and its colonies over the last three centuries.
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British Periodicals available from ProQuest

Posted on Tuesday, 29 January 2008

British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond.
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Digimap from EDINA

Posted on Friday, 4 January 2008

Digimap is a collection of EDINA services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain to UK tertiary education.
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JVCS videoconferencing service

Posted on Monday, 19 November 2007

The JVCS Conferencing OnDemand Booking Service enables registered users to launch videoconferences or schedule videoconferences in the near future.
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Booking service for Access Grid

Posted on Monday, 19 November 2007

The Access Grid Booking Service enables registered users to arrange meetings with Access Grid nodes.
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MIMAS Crossfire service

Posted on Tuesday, 2 October 2007

The two CrossFire databases, Beilstein (organic) and Gmelin (inorganic), collectively contain data on structures, reactions, facts and citations for more than 12 million organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds.
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New service from Ovid

Posted on Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Provides access to databases and full text for the HealthCare and Academic communities. Accessible databases include AMED, British Nursing Index, Cinahl, Embase, IBSS, Inspec, Medline, PsycInfo & Journals@Ovid.
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New service from EBSCO Publishing

Posted on Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Approximately 250 full text and abstract & index databases from Archaeology to Zoology, serving the academic community with collections including: Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, Communications and Mass Media Complete, Computer and Applied Sciences Complete, International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text, Film and Television Literature Index with Full text, RILM, RIPM.
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JISCmail service shibbolised

Posted on Wednesday, 4 July 2007

JISCmail provides an e-mail and web based mailing list service for learning, teaching and research communities.
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New service from JANET

Posted on Tuesday, 19 June 2007

The JANET Videoconferencing (JVCS) Booking Service enables registered users to create videoconference booking requests and to view the details of videoconferencing facilities at any of the JANET registered organisations.
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Ovid's SilverPlatter service

Posted on Monday, 11 June 2007

Provides access to SilverPlatter's collection of databases for Engineering, Environment, Humanities, Languages and Cultures, Library, Maths, Medicine and Health, Physical Sciences and Social Studies. Accessible databases include AMED, BNI, Cinahl, Embase, IBSS & MIDIRS.
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New service from Atomwide

Posted on Monday, 22 January 2007

Atomwide’s Networked Weather Station monitors the weather at several different locations and records the information centrally.
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Education Media Online becomes Film & Sound Online

Posted on Friday, 1 September 2006

Offers online delivery of film, video and sound collections with associated materials for many subject areas.
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ScienceDirect now available through the Federation

Posted on Wednesday, 5 April 2006

Provides access to over 1500 scientific, technical & medical peer-reviewed journals from Elsevier Science and other publishers – search over 40 million abstracts from scientific articles, link out to articles from over 80 other publishers.
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Statistical Accounts of Scotland

Posted on Thursday, 23 February 2006

Provides access to digitised and full text versions of the two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and 1830s, based on information supplied by each parish church minister - history, geography, industry and society.
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EDINA CAB Abstracts

Posted on Thursday, 23 February 2006

Provides references to research and development literature in agriculture, forestry, veterinary sciences and human health.
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MIMAS Hairdressing Training

Posted on Friday, 10 February 2006

Hairdressing-Training is an online training system for the hairdressing industry.
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New Shibboleth-Enabled EDINA Service

Posted on Wednesday, 28 September 2005

Provides an index to articles in The Times from 1790 to 1980, with bibliographic details of editorial content.
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New service from MIMAS

Posted on Friday, 16 September 2005

Provides an email-based alerting service in conjunction with the Zetoc Search service (see next item), to enable you to keep up-to-date with relevant new articles and papers.
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Education Image Gallery now available

Posted on Wednesday, 1 June 2005

Provides thousands of images from the world-famous Getty archive covering diverse subject areas such as Sport, Fashion, Major Events, Buildings, Politics, Social History, Key Personalities, Transport, Industry, Work, Leisure, Music
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MIMAS' Zetoc Search available

Posted on Friday, 1 April 2005

Provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis.
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Internet2 Shibboleth Wiki available

Posted on Friday, 25 February 2005

The I2 Shibboleth Wiki is a community-maintained repository for deployment, configuration, and production information.
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EDINA launches Land, Life and Leisure

Posted on Thursday, 4 November 2004

rovides a weekly digest of press releases, reports and articles with an archive back to 1990.
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