The Global Health database from CABI provides bibliographic and full text access to international literature on public health research and practice. CABI state: “54% of the journals contained in Global Health are not in PubMed; around 70% are not in Medline or Embase”. You can search Global health via our current trial to CAB Direct. Trial available until 9 December 2020.
Please send any feedback on this trial to Liz Clarke, Academic Librarian, e.clarke@uea.ac.uk .
Are you looking for published literature and reports on agriculture and land use? Take a look at our current trial to CAB Direct brought to us by CABI. CABI is an international, inter-governmental, not-for-profit- organization that provides information and scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and environment. Via this trial we also have access to CABI’s Distribution maps of plant diseases and plant pests. Trial available until 9 December 2020.
If you would like continued access to any of these resources beyond the trial, please feedback your comments to Liz Clarke, e.clarke@uea.ac.uk, Academic Librarian.
In the summer we blogged about a new preprint repository, bioRxiv, that openly shares research papers in the Life Sciences prior to publishing in peer-reviewed journals. Physicists have been freely posting preprints for many years, but this is a new trend for biologists. Chemists can now also share their preprints on ChemRxiv. If you’d like to know more, the journal, Science, recently published an editorial (DOI: 10.1126/science.aaq0167) and a News item (DOI: 10.1126/science.357.6358.1344) discussing the pros and cons of posting in preprint servers. [Note- the full texts of these articles are only available on campus via UEA Library’s subscription]
bioRxiv is an open access repository from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that contains unpublished preprint (before peer-review) research articles in the Life Sciences.
There was an interesting discussion of this repository earlier on in the year in Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/biologists-urged-to-hug-a-preprint-1.19384
Posted in New resources, Research, Science
Tagged Articles, open access publishing, sciences
UEA Library has recently subscribed to the full Lyell collection – so you can now easily read articles in all 7 journals from the Geological Society of London and access material in their key book series too: Special Publications, Memoirs and Engineering Geology Special Publications. The Geolo
gical Society of London was founded in 1807 and is the UK national society for geosciences with over 12,000 members.
Posted in New resources, Research, Science
Statista is our new statistics portal enabling you to discover more than 1.5 million statistics from over 18,000 sources. It’s really quick and easy to use, and you can view the results in a range of formats including PDF and PowerPoint. Best of all, the source of the information is always displayed, enabling you to refer to the original statitcs and feel confident using the statitics in your work.
Statista is great for all sort of applications from business need, context setting, industry research or just your own curiosity. There are also loads of other features to Statista, including industry reports, consumer insights, and opinion polls, all with the source data clearly detailed. They also generate some neat infographics which you can use to make an impact, such as this one:
If you have any questions or would like some more help using this resource please get in touch with the Social Sciences Librarian Carly Sharples: c.sharples@uea.ac.uk
Get started searching at Statista now: http://www.statista.com/
Posted in Health, Humanities, Library services, New resources, Research, Science, Social sciences
Tagged Information Skills, New resource
Starting today the library will be running a new promotion to showcase 12 exciting academic resources for use in teaching and research. Unwrap a new information tool each day between 1st-12th December and find out more about what the library has to offer you. Click the image below to see which gift has been brought to you today…
Posted in Health, Humanities, Library services, New resources, Research, Science, Social sciences, Uncategorized
Tagged Library, New resource
There is a project this summer to create some additional group study rooms and refurbish the postgraduate study space in the Library building. We spoke to students and used your feedback in the designs.
Postgraduate silent study room on floor 2
Group study rooms, floor 01, bookable by students
There will be some disruption in the Library over the summer both with moving books and shelving between floors and construction work on floors 2 and 01.
We apologise in advance for the disruption – but the refurbishment should provide much improved study facilities for students over the coming years.
We’re putting plans into place which we hope will help with dealing with the distruption, but if you got feedback – please get in touch with us online, by email lib.helpdesk@uea.ac.uk or call us on 01603 592993.
Information about the project including what is planned, latest news on progress and opportunities for feedback are available here.
Posted in Breaking news, Developments, Refurbishment, Research
Excellent information & video from BioMedCentral explaining the RCUK Open Access policy
Last week saw the launch of a new e-journal eLife Now, new journals are being launched all the time, but this one is a bit different. It’s been designed to make use of the social/interactive aspects of the web, and be a new direction in science communication.
It includes links to videos, or other material to support the article, and these are all open access, so available to anyone.
The presentation is uncluttered, and there is an eLife digest for each article – a summary in less specialist language to help make the research accessible to a wider audience.
We’ll be following this with interest, it looks to be an exciting new addition to science communication.
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