Electronic Resources Blog

There is currently trial access to PYMCA the Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive, a unique archive of over 40,000 photographs, documenting the lifestyles, fashions, hairstyles, music and subcultures of young people from the 1960’s to the present day. In addition to images it comprises essays, text, video and links to youth culture content to subscribed members for research purposes. The trial runs until 25th June 2010.

Please email e.mailbox@hud.ac.uk  for login details.

We currently have trial access to Collection 3 of Morgan & Claypool e-books.  Subject areas covered include artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, civil engineering, digital multimedia, electronic engineering, electrical engineering, environmental science, mechanical engineering and mobile computing.

To access the trial click here. The trial will run until June 14. Please note, this trial is on-campus only.

Although the majority of journals articles you’ll find in Summon are available online, we still have some journals that aren’t available in an electronic format and you can only read them by visiting the library.

Unfortunately, at the moment, articles from those print-only journals are displaying as “full text online” in Summon…

When you click on the result, the only link you’ll see is through to the library catalogue (where you’ll find details of where to locate the journal)…

We’re working with the company that develops Summon to see if we can find a way of making the print-only journal articles display differently to the ones you can read online. In the meantime, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this causes you.

Want to find out about Summon, the replacement for MetaLib? We’re running a series of lunchtime sessions to tell you all about it!

Starting either at 12:15pm or 1:15pm, we have introductions to Summon on:

- Tuesday 18th May
- Wednesday 19th May
- Thursday 20th May
- Monday 24th May
- Tuesday 25th May
- Wednesday 26th May
- Thursday 27th May

To book one of these sessions, just email library.learn@hud.ac.uk and tell us when you’d like to come!

The Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus will be unavailable due to maintenance from 23rd to 25th May.  Apologies for the inconvenience.

There’s currently a problem with access to the ‘Which?’ web site.  We are looking into this and hopefully access will be restored soon.

Do you want to keep up-to-date with the latest off-air recordings that have been added to UniTube by the Library? If so, we’ve got a few RSS feeds for you:

- all recordings
- recordings selection by the Floor 2 Subject Team
- recordings selection by the Floor 3 Subject Team
- recordings selection by the Floor 5 Subject Team
- recordings selection by the Floor 6 Subject Team

Upgrades to the ISI Web of Knowledge service will be applied on Sunday May 16th from 14.00. There may be disruptions to the service throughout the day until the upgrade is completed.

Maintenance work on SPRESIweb’s server on May 17th 2010 will mean that this service will not be avaialble after at 10am.

InfoChem apologise in advance for any inconvenience.

STOP PRESS

This trial has now been extended until 18th May

Trial access to Frost and Sullivan, a market research/emerging markets database is currently available.

Please contact the Business and Comuting & Engineering team for further details.

library.computing&engineering@hud.ac.uk