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Featured library resources
These are Library resources that we've recently acquired, or existing ones which we want to highlight for students and staff. They're a curated combination of:
February
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Every day, millions raise their voices for justice - blogging, podcasting, and documenting. They craft digital spaces alive with art, music, and culture. They analyse data, write reports, and share their experiences. LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture captures this dynamic movement - highlighting the media that drive change. |
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Provides specialised real-life case content that can be used as teaching tools within management and business education. 90% of the cases come with teaching notes which have been reviewed to ensure they support key learning objectives. |
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An educational and cultural research resource of primary sources. It explores 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, and sounds that forged them. From Rave, Punk, Rockabilly to Grime. |
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Offers primary sources dating to the 16th century for studying sex, sexuality, and gender. This expanding collection enables researchers to explore evolving norms, sexology, activism, and gender roles across human history. |
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A staple of animation instruction for decades. These accessible video masterclasses focus on timeless techniques and principles. They are as applicable to CGI animation as they are to stop-motion and traditional hand-drawn methods. |
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Provides an international forum for all those writing, reading, translating or publishing the short story, in all its diversity. It looks at the short story from the practitioner’s viewpoint. Its concern is with the ongoing process and philosophy of composition rather than the ‘post-event’ dissection of literary texts. |
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Examines writing for film and television from a global academic perspective. The publication explores scriptwriting through diverse methodologies including:
The Journal connects international scholarly research with screenwriting practice and theory. |
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Aims to present current knowledge about the impact of pregnancy, birth and early parenting. Offers best practice guidelines for working with new and pregnant families. |
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January
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The ultimate research tool for nursing and allied health studies. It provides fast and easy access to:
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Provides comprehensive full-text access to:
This foundational resource supports university-wide research with discipline-specific content, enhanced by video, ebooks, and primary sources. |
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Traditional databases capture formal scientific publications. However, the sector also publishes other born-digital resources, such as:
None of which are captured by traditional publishing services even though increasingly cited by researchers. Applied Science Commons Complete redresses this. |
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An online education platform incorporating The Practising Midwife Journal and The Student Midwife. The resources are aimed at supporting student learning and staff teaching across a range of health and social care programmes, including midwifery, health visiting, and medicine. |
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A series of guides, written by experts, providing introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods. The collection includes 350 Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics, 70 Cambridge Companions to Music |
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Includes more than 875 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights, as well as exciting new voices. It offers a varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays and is continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres. |
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Provides students and researchers with cross-cultural and interdisciplinary scholarly content on the study of sound. Subject areas include art, aesthetics, architecture, contemporary music, history, philosophy, technology, and cultural studies and the growing literature of sonic and auditory theory, methodology, and practice. |
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Digitised documents which cover the civil defence of Britain dating from World War I to the Cold War. Provides a unique look into the changing technology of warfare which posed a risk to civilian life and the responses to that. It goes beyond military history and provides insights into the social dynamics and group psychology of the times. |
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Digitised documents from the Allied occupation of Germany following World War II. It focuses on British efforts to dismantle Nazi influence and promote democratic values through political re-education, media reform, and institutional restructuring between 1944 and 1948. |
December
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A multimedia collection within the Alexander Street Global Issues Library platform. It explores global population aging - from 1900 to 2020. Topics include:
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A curated database offering in-depth analysis of how global events are portrayed across various media platforms. It explores the framing, bias, and narrative strategies used in news coverage. There is a focus on political, humanitarian, and cultural crises. |
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Business case studies on subjects such as:
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Provides in-depth interviews and videos with business experts from around the world. Topics covered include:
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Tracks and reviews the latest advances and innovative practices in the field of mechanical engineering. |
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Offers titles that cover the latest research in AI from many angles. Includes theoretical foundations and ethical implications. |
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Covers key subdisciplines and emerging fields such as:
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Offers the latest research in the fields of:
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Provides interdisciplinary research on Intelligent Technologies with the potential to change the fundamental principles of society. |
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Provides interdisciplinary research on engineering. It has core books covering topics such as:
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November
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Every day, millions raise their voices for justice - blogging, podcasting, and documenting. They craft digital spaces alive with art, music, and culture. They analyse data, write reports, and share their experiences. LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture captures this dynamic movement - highlighting the media that drive change. |
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A digital resource dedicated to historiography and historical methodology. It contains peer-reviewed articles, academic eBooks, and reference works exploring key concepts, thinkers, and debates in global historical theory and practice. |
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Brings the history of dress to life for students through crafted videos using historically accurate period costume. Provides case studies and articles to go alongside each video making it a great resource for both teaching and study. |
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Provides in-depth interviews and videos with business experts from around the world on topics as varied as innovation management, corporate social responsibility, and social media marketing |
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Features scholarly and professional books, ranging from authoritative, traditional works to cutting edge reports on developing areas of research. Some popular titles include: & . |
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Contains eBooks which address the rapidly evolving areas of Criminal Justice and International Law. Some popular titles include: & . |
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The backfiles of more than 30 20th and 21st-century magazines, each aimed at ethnically specific audiences. Titles range from political publications to those concerned with lifestyle, fashion / beauty, culture, and identity. |
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Provides interdisciplinary research on Intelligent Technologies with the potential to change the fundamental principles of society. |
October
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An authoritative digital reference work exploring the contributions of women in architecture from 1960 to 2020. This two-volume encyclopedia includes over 1,000 entries and 600 images, covering architects from more than 135 countries. |
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Introduces students to the process of using data to make better business decisions. Each exercise, or ‘Data Challenge’, is designed to give students practical experience applying data analysis to real-world scenarios. |
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A multimedia database based on the 17 sustainable goals as identified by the United Nations. |
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This collection features 800 academic books from the prestigious and imprints. Together they offer invaluable critical, contextual and pedagogic content. |
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Essential medical books to support clinicians, clinician-researchers, medical students and teachers across the world. |
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Serves as an exhibition space that embraces every aspect of photography: from documentary to fashion, from contemporary to historical, from world-famous photographers to young talent. |
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The world’s longest-running photography magazine, has been showcasing pioneers of the art form since 1854. |
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The leading rheumatology journal publishing a combination of high-quality scientific papers, including original research, reviews, recommendations, viewpoints, and more. |
September
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A peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes experimental methods in video format. JoVE Research provides access to the methods collections, the journal, and the Encyclopedia of Experiments. |
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Policy organisations around the world publish tens of billions of dollars of research in the form of grey literature. Hundreds of thousands of reports, studies, white papers, data sets, and other materials, all peer or expert reviewed. But the material is often not citable and tends to be underused. Policy Commons Complete finds, indexes and hosts a large selection of this content, curating, disseminating and preserving important research output from organisations around the world. |
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A magazine for cultural criticism, contemporary art and unconventional ideas. Spike has enjoyed a profound impact on art and its discourse in Europe and North America for two decades and counting. |
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a British not-for-profit consumer magazine which publishes information on the social, ethical and environmental behaviour of companies. |
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An interdisciplinary journal at Rutgers University that brings together scholars, technologists, and professionals from diverse fields to advance accountable technology in the public interest through critical research methods. |
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An interdisciplinary journal facilitating dialogue among stakeholders invested in using AI to transform medicine. |