Wednesday, June 28, 2006


Trial of Knovel Library

The Knovel Library provides online access to 889 handbooks and databases in science and engineering subjects.

Full access to Knovel is available until Saturday 22nd July.

To access the database: Go to Knovel Library. Registration is NOT required: all users from University of Bath have instant access.

We would welcome your feedback as to how useful this product is and whether we should subscribe.

Friday, June 23, 2006

Additional journals from BMJ Publishing

The Library has subscribed to a package of all 22 journals from BMJ publishing. The titles have been added to the A-Z list of electronic journals on the Library web pages. Dates from which they are available are given below:

Annals of the rheumatic diseases 1997
Archives of disease in childhood 1997
Archives of disease in childhood. Education and practice edition 2004
Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition 1997
British journal of ophthalmology 1997
British journal of sports medicine 1998
Emergency medicine journal 2000
Evidence-based medicine 2000
Evidence-based mental health 1998
Evidence-based nursing 1998
Gut 1997
Heart 1997
Injury prevention 1998
Journal of clinical pathology 1998
Journal of epidemiology and community health 1998
Journal of medical ethics 2000
Journal of medical genetics 1999
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry 1997
Occupational and environmental medicine 1998
Postgraduate medical journal 1999
Quality & safety in health care 1998
Sexually transmitted infections 1998
Thorax 1997
Tobacco control 1992

Friday, June 09, 2006

Oxford Journal archives coming soon

An agreement between Oxford Journals and JISC will mean that archive content from 140 titles dating back to 1849 will be available in perpetuity. Most of the journals have been digitised from volume one through to about 1995. The OUP Journal archive website gives links to the complete list of archives available. I will add a note to the weblog when access is activated.
Titles included in the science archive include (with start date):
Annals of Botany - 1908
Behavioral Ecology - 1990
Bioinformatics - 1985
Biometrika - 1914
Brain - 1878
Carcinogenesis - 1980
Cerebral Cortex - 1991
Chemical Senses - 1976
Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research - 1928
Glycobiology - 1991
Human Molecular Genetics - 1992
Human Reproduction - 1986
IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics - 1938
IMA Journal of Management Mathematics - 1990
IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information - 1984
IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis - 1981
Integrative and Comparative Biology- *2002. (First published in 1961 as American Zoologist)
International Immunology - 1989
IT Now (formerly the Computer Bulletin) - 1957
Journal of Biochemistry - 1937
Journal of Electron Microscopy - 1952
Journal of Experimental Botany - 1950
Journal of Heredity - 1910
Journal of Logic and Computation - 1991
Journal of Molluscan Studies - 1935
Journal of Petrology - 1960
Journal of Plankton Research - 1979
Logic Journal of the IGPL - 1924
Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA - 1984
Molecular Human Reproduction - 1995
Mutagenesis - 1986
Nucleic Acids Research - 1973
Philosophia Mathematica - 1964
Plant and Cell Physiology - 1960
Protein Engineering - 1988
Quarterly Journal of Mathematics - 1930
Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics - 1948
Teaching Mathematics and its Applications - 1982
Toxicological Sciences - 1991