Dear Colleagues
JISC Collections is pleased to announce a new agreement to offer access to ProQuest Annual Register.
The Annual Register is a year-by-year record of world events from James Cook's landing on the shores of Australia to the unveiling of the human genome. This reference work provides historians and students with information on the major and minor events for 250 years, with historical context and perspective and with a mass of biographical information.
The new electronic version of The Annual Register 1758-2007 transforms this collection of printed volumes into a single database making it easy to search and browse 250 years of world history. It enables you to search in any or all volumes at the same time and to search for words in the text itself as well as in the index. You can immediately find all references to a person, country or event. It is a goldmine of material for the student, the teacher and the researcher.
The database contains the complete scanned images of the printed volumes together with the tables of contents and the index. Pages have been scanned so that you can view the image as well as search the complete text. You can move from the table of contents to a selected year or search the indexes for the entire collection and link to relevant page images. When viewing the scanned pages, you can browse backwards and forward through the pages just as you would with the printed volumes.
The online version enables many libraries to offer the complete collection for the first time.
ProQuest Annual Register is available as a subscription. Full details are now available on the JISC Collections website: https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/epi/edit/default.aspx
Please contact me if you require any further information
Regards
Catherine John
Licensing Manager
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