Dear all,

Invitation to Trial 12 Online Resources at the National Library of Scotland - 19th Sep to 13th Oct

The National Library of Scotland is carrying out 4 weeks of trials to 12 online resources, covering the Sciences, Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences (full list below).

Access to the trials is available within the Library's reading rooms in Edinburgh, and I would like to invite those who are able to visit the Library during this period to take part.  For those titles we select following the trials we will aim to provide remote access to users within Scotland wherever possible, in line with the Library's strategy.

If you are not currently a registered member of the Library you can register when you visit (see http://www.nls.uk/info/readerstickets/ for details).

For those of you who are unable to visit the Library to take part in the trials, we would still value your comments.  We would especially welcome feedback from those of you who have experience of the titles on trial.

For the list of subscribed online resources currently available at the NLS - a number of which are available remotely - please visit: http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/er/

I hope you will take part in the trials, and I look forward to your feedback.

Many thanks,

Paul Cunnea
Digital Collections Development Co-ordinator
National Library of Scotland
Tel: +44 (0) 131-623-4671
Fax: +44 (0) 131-623-3999
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

Online Resources on Trial at the National Library of Scotland, 19^th Sep to 13^th Oct

SCIENCE
NB Some of these collections also cover the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. We will decide whether to subscribe to the complete collections, or to the science collections alone, so give us your feedback.

• ALPSP Journals Collection provides full-text access to 320 journal titles from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers covering Science, Arts, Humanities, Law, Medicine and Technology. ¯


• Annual Reviews provides full-text access to 32 review titles in the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. ¯ & ¯¯


• Oxford Journals Online provides full-text access to 200 academic and research journal titles, covering Science, Humanities, Law, Medicine and the Social Sciences.  NB Trial available for 3 months.  ¯ & ¯¯


• Science Full-text provides full-text access to 330 journal titles from HW Wilson covering a broad range of science subjects.  Full-text available from late 1990s.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

• ALPSP journals collection

See above

• Blackwell Compass Journals provides full-text access to peer-reviewed survey articles across the disciplines of Literature, History and Philosophy. NB Trial available for 2 months.  ¯


• Oxford Journals Online

See above

• The Shakespeare Collection provides full-text access to the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works, primary sources, historical editions, and related texts. 


• Women, War & Society, 1914-1918 provides access to primary source material of women’s role in the war effort of WWI, drawing on photographs, press cuttings, posters, correspondence, diaries, and much more.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Annual Reviews

See above

• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers provides full-text access to Parliamentary Papers from 1801 to 1945, plus indexing to 2004.


• The Making of Modern Law provides full-text access to over 22,000 British and American legal treatises from 1800 to 1926.


• The Making of the Modern World provides full-text access to over 60,000 printed works covering economic, political, business and social history from 1460 to 1850.


• Oxford Journals Online

See above

• Periodicals Archive Online provides full-text access to over 480 journal titles in the Social Sciences, from the 18^th to 20^th century.¯

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• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspaper and Periodicals, 1800-1900, Series 2 provides a comprehensive index for Victorian periodical research (and includes major Scottish titles).

¯       Subject collections are available separately
¯¯      Archive (1932-2001) and current subscription (4-year back file) available separately

You can provide feedback using forms available in the Library's reading rooms, or by sending your views direct to me at: [log in to unmask]