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JISC Collections
December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Recently the Library has taken out a subscription to the newly released JISC eCollections, a high quality range of book, journal and multimedia archives. The collection comprises:
JISC Historic Books: full text of over 350,000 books published from 1475-1900. The collection is made up of Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Nineteenth Century Books from the British Library.
JISC MediaHub: over 725,000 multimedia items including more than 3,600 hours of film and over 50,000 images from NewsFilm Online, FilmĀ & Sound Online and the new Digital Images for Education archive.
JISC Journal Archives: more than 3.7 million journal articles from Oxford University Press, BRILL, Proquest, Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, Institute of Civil Engineers. Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis will be added soon.
The three databases may be accessed from the Portal’s Learning Resources tab.