What’s new

Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge(SM) Trial Access

The University will be able to access Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge to 27 March 2012. The URL is: http://webofknowledge.com

The following products and back years will be available:

  • BIOSIS Citation Index: 1969-present
  • Journal Citation Reports® on the Web:
    • Science Edition 2008
    • Social Sciences Edition 2008
  • Medline®: 1950 – present
  • Web of Science:
    • Science Citation Index Expanded 1975-present
    • Social Sciences Citation Index®   1975-present
    • Arts & Humanities Citation Index® 1975-present
    • Book Citation Index: 
      • Science: 2005-present
      • Social Science & Humanities: 2005-present
    • Conference Proceedings Citation Index™
      • Science: 1990-present
      • Social Science & Humanities: 1990-present
    • Current Chemical Reactions (CCR)
    • Index Chemicus (IC)

Scopus

Trial access to Scopus for one month commencing 27 Feb 2012.

Your access for Scopus at http://www.scopus.com/home.url

For detailed information on Scopus, please visit the Info site: http://www.info.scopus.com/ or read the Scopus introduction (PDF format).


EBSCO Discovery – one stop shop for Library resources under development.


IEEE Xplore: Full text access to technical literature in engineering and technology.


A new Family Law Online database giving access to all Jordans journals such as Child and Family Law Quarterly, Family Law and Family Law Reports is available for a one month trial on campus at http://www.jordanpublishingcpd.co.uk/JPLPortal/login.aspx?pub=Family


The Library has purchased ebooks via Dawsonera. Click on the link below to read these books online and also have 5-minute previews of the other books that are available for purchase:
http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/Home.html
You will need Athens authorisation to access Dawsonera from home.


We are enhancing our online catalogue with new Library Resources. Go to the Library Resources link on our catalogue to find Rooms for subjects (most still under development). Library Resources via Athens is a completed link and if working from home you may find this Room useful with all the databases.


Edward Legg local history collection opened on 9 December 2008.

Edward Legg bequeathed his collection of local history material to the University of Buckingham on his death. The collection at the Franciscan Library, Verney Park, includes local books on the following counties:

  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Essex
  • Hertfordshire
  • London
  • Northamptonshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • Cambridgeshire – limited coverage
  • Warwickshire – limited coverage
  • Lincoln – limited coverage

All maps, journals and pre-1900 local history materials are available for reference use only at the Hunter Street Library. Reference use of both Libraries is available free, to anyone, on completion of an external visitor’s form.

External users who wish to borrow up to 5 books from the Library, including the Edward Legg local history books, would need to pay the external visitor borrowing fee of £60 p.a. (£40 p.a. for Friends / Alumni). This would entitle them to week loan borrowing from the Legg collection and month loan of the general loan collection.

The Edward Legg collection is open Mon-Fri 09:00-17:00 at the Franciscan Library for the books, and at Hunter Street Library for the reference material.


Inderscience Journals trial for the University of Buckingham. Follow the link to view available titles.

Inderscience is a publisher of international journals in the fields of engineering and technology, management and business administration, and energy, environment and sustainable development.


You can test yourself on the LexisLibrary database and gain a Certificate that proves you have reached a level of competence in online research – see the Lexis Online Research Certificate Scheme.