Monday, November 6, 2017

Earth and Environmental Sciences journal archive from Springer Nature



The Library has recently purchased the Earth and Environmental Sciences archive from Springer Nature. This is a collection of backfiles from over 80 high quality academic journals with coverage dating from the 1920s to the 1990s.


The journals can be accessed from Library Search and directly from: link.springer.com/

Friday, November 3, 2017

Dawsonera ebooks move to Adobe Digital Editions for downloading

Dawsonera have rolled out the use of Adobe Digital Editions for downloading their ebooks onto a device such as a laptop or PC.

The most common way of reading the ebooks is their online web reader, which remains unchanged - to use the web reader just choose the 'read online' option.

If you want to download the ebook for a PDF type format, then just make sure you have Adobe Digital Editions on your laptop or PC.
It is a free plugin and Dawsonera have created a Help Guide for downloading, which can be found at:
https://libraryservices.bertrams.com/DawsonBooks/DownloadingeBooksfromDawsoneraNov17.pdf

and is part of their overall Help guides at: https://www.dawsonera.com/helpPage

If you have any problems downloading Adobe Digital Editions please contact IT Connect.
Or for any ebook queries please contact us the library.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

New ACM eBook collection for the computer science community


The Library now provides access to ACM eBooks - a new series of high quality titles for the computer science community, published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in collaboration with Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

The series includes books from across the spectrum of computer science subject matter, appealing to computing students, educators, researchers and practitioners.

A direct link to the collection can be found on the Computer Science Subject Resources page of the Library website, whilst the individual titles can be discovered using Library Search.