We have trial access to OECD's new iLibrary product, the successor to SourceOECD, until the end of the year.
OECD iLibrary is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. Access is available for titles published from January 1998 onwards.
Offering fascinating insight into the philosophy and writing of the founders of the modern world, Electronic Enlightenment provides unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers.
Explore this resource and cross-search letters from more than 6,500 writers, scientists, philosophers, politicians, political thinkers and others, including Addison, Bentham, Boswell, Boyle, Catherine the Great, Mme du Châtelet, Defoe, Descartes, Ferguson, Flamsteed, Frederick the Great, Gustavus III,Halley, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Locke, Muratori, Newton, Pendleton, Pope, Price, Richardson, Rousseau, Smith, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Mrs Thrale, and Voltaire.
On trial until 23rd October 2009. Please let us have your feedback.
Spotted on Resourceshelf
The internet library sub-Saharan Africa (ilissAfrica) is a portal that offers an integrated access to relevant scientific conventional and digital information resources on the sub-Saharan Africa region. Information scattered on private or institutional websites, databases or library catalogues are brought together in order to facilitate research.
ilissAfrica is a project of the Africa Department of the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt on the Main in cooperation with the GIGA Information Centre: Africa Library in Hamburg.
Spotted on E-Views (Library Journal blog)
The World Bank e-Library is “an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.”Go to:
http://www.worldbank.org/newelibrary
and click on "sign in," then insert this username and password:
Username: freetrial@worldbank.org
Password: Newyear
Access is until 31 March 2009.
Picked up off E-Views (a Library Journal blog):
GALE/Cengage Learning has just released Global Issues in Context, an e-resource with a non-U.S.-centric view that examines global issues and events and attempts to help students “… develop the framework to better understand 21st-century issues, helping them think critically about global connections and the interdependence of all nations.” The site includes: “background information and explanations of the impact of issues and events, expert perspectives analyzing issues from cultural, religious, political, social, economic, scientific and health standpoints, full-text international magazines, academic journals and news sources, primary sources (such as legislation and court proceedings), statistics (including interactive graphs, tables and charts)…,
Free Access through this link until 9th February 2009.
We have a trial access to the Economist Historical Archive until 11 July 2008.
"The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. New full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week - all combine to offer a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries. "
Sabinet Full Open Access Journal Collection - Beta Release
This will be the largest collection of South African Full Open Access Journals consisting of more than 6000 full-text PDF articles.
Initially, 44 South African journals will be available, of which 14 are Approved South African Journals or appear on the IBSS or ISI lists.
The journals are individually searchable. The coverage per journal varies, with some journals having full-text issues available from 2000 onwards.
These Open Access journals are available from
http://www.sabinet.co.za/open_access.html
Any publishers interested in making their journals available as Open Access journals are welcome to contact Sabinet at Client Services on (012)643-9500 or email info@sabinet.co.za.
TDNet provides a new interface for our A-Z journal list. The list enables you to search for any of our more than 36 000 electronic journals by their title or subject. You can also search this list for individual articles by title or subject going back for five years.
You can also use the "My Journals" option on the A-Z list to set up a personal list of keywords or selected journals. This means that you will be sent the table of contents by email whenever a new volume of that journal appears, or whenever an article appears that matches your keywords, with in the journal you have selected, or if you prefer, in any of the more than 36 000 journals on the list.
There is a link on the Humanities Library webpage to a guide to using TDNet.