Database trials for July

MIDIRS databases

Ovid have gathered a range of valuable resources for Midwifery which adds to the already strong midwifery collection available through UTS Library.

Previously only available in print the Midirs Digest is a major midwifery journal from the UK and Midirs Informed Choice is a unique resource designed to meeting specific information needs of midwifery practitioners and their clients.

Trial ends 11 July 2009
Feedback to John.Mueller@uts.edu.au


RefAware

RefAware is a web based current awareness service. If the sources you use are not included in the source coverage list, you can Request a Source for Inclusion.

  1. Create a New Account using your UTS email address and Enter user information and create password.
  2. An email will be sent confirming registration. Follow the instructions to activate your account.
  3. Customize your "Account Preferences" under the User Profile area within the program
  4. Create a Search Profile (up to 30)

Trial ends 21 July 2009
Feedback to John.Mueller@uts.edu.au


Social Theory

Social Theory provides comprehensive coverage of major social thinkers together with seminal texts from lesser figures.

The collection includes the works of Max Weber, Karl Marx, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, George Herbert Mead, Auguste Comte, Jean Baudrillard, Georg Hegel, Herbert Spencer, Antonio Gramsci, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harriet Martineau, Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, to name a few. Anthony Giddons, Simone de Beauvoir, Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Theodor Adorno

Trial ends 29 July 2009
Feedback to Jemima.McDonald@uts.edu.au


Faculty of 1000 Biology

Online research service that comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 2300 selected leading researchers ("Faculty Members").

Trial ends 2 August 2009

Feedback to Janet.Chelliah@uts.edu.au


NetLibrary audiobooks

Access over 180,000 eBooks and 10,000 eAudiobooks fiction and non fiction, from over 450 publishers on the OCLC NetLibrary site.

To access the trial you will need to follow these steps

At top left side of screen select

Log In

Username: technology11
Password: opera10door

Trial ends 11 August 2009
Feedback to John.Mueller@uts.edu.au


Springer Protocols

Laborary research protocols

Trial ends 30 September 2009
Feedback to Patrick.Tooth@uts.edu.au


CountryWatch

Provides current socio-demographic, cultural, historical, economic, political, environmental and corporate information, along with news, analysis, maps, data and statistics on all of the 191 countries of the world. It offers features to meet the needs of educators and students of political science, international relations and economics, available through Standard or Premium Services.

Username: caul
Password: caul

Trial ends 30 September 2009
Feedback to Jing.Li@uts.edu.au


Web of Science

Trial expanded access - Expanded backfile coverage to Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). (Already have full coverage of Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present)

Time Span
Science Citation Index Expanded, 1950-present
Social Sciences Citation Index, 1956-present

Trial ends 31 December 2009
Feedback to John.Mueller@uts.edu.au

 

14 Jul 2009 | Databases