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ECA Library Image Collection
| Access information: | Available on campus. Access off campus via the VPN. |
| Description: | The ECA Library Image Collection is a database of over 6,000 high-quality images, selected to support study and teaching at Edinburgh College of Art. The subject areas covered include Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art and Design, including contemporary practice. |
ECA Photography Collection
| Access Information: | Available on campus. Access off campus via the VPN. |
| Description | The ECA Photography Collection consists of nearly 20,000 high-quality digital images, the majority of which are photographs of Edinburgh College of Art students' work from 1999-2010. The collection also includes internal and external views of the College buildings, photographs of College events, reproductions of items from the College Archive and general views of Edinburgh. |
Early American Imprints Series I - Evans, 1639-1800
| Access | Access on and off campus. |
| Description | Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. Digitized from Early American Imprints, Series I is based on Charles Evans' "American Bibliography" and Roger Bristol's supplement. Series I also offers new imprints not available in microform editions. |
| Coverage | 1639-1800 |
Early American Newspapers Series 2, 1758-1900
See entry for America's Historical Newspapers.
Early English Books Online
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Fully searchable and full text available. |
| Coverage: | 1473-1700. |
Econlit
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | The database version of Journal of Economic Literature and Index of Economic Articles indexing international literature in the field of economics. Abstracts are included. |
| Coverage: | From 1969 to date. |
Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
Users are required to register with ESDS to use this service.
| Access information: | Available on and off-campus from ESDS. Choose Login via UK federation. Also requires separate registration with ESDS. |
| Description: | ESDS provides access and support for extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, including: ESDS Government, ESDS International, ESDS Longitudinal and ESDS Qualidata. Guides are available. |
Additional information
Please refer to the Data Library for more information on statistics and data.
Economic Botany Bibliography Database
| Access information: | Access on and off campus |
| Description: | 33,000 references to publications relating to the uses by humans of flowering plants, gymnosperms and ferns. Entries date from the late nineteenth century to 2003, when data entry stopped. Subjects covered include the ethnobotany of plant use in traditional societies, medical and industrial uses of plants, and their domestication and history. Coverage focuses on wild plants and minor crop plants. About half of the citations on EBBD derive from recent data entry and are accurate, and consistently keyworded. Other citations derive from an older dataset and contain obvious spelling errors and inaccuracies. |
The Economist
| Access information: | Available from Business Source Premier: click on publications tab and search for ‘Economist’ and select to add to search. Also available via Factiva: click on ‘Source’ and select Economist from A-Z list. |
| Description: | Full text of the weekly publication which covers international politics and business news and opinion. |
| Coverage: | Business Source Premier: Bibliographic Records: 30th June 1990 to present; Full Text: 7th July 1990 to present. |
| Factiva: Full text from 4th January 1981 to present. |
Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA)
| Access Information: | Freely available. |
| Description: | Digital institutional repository of research published by the members of the University of Edinburgh. Includes full-text Theses and Dissertations, book chapters, working papers, technical reports, journal pre-prints and peer-reviewed journal reprints. |
Education Image Gallery
| Access information: | Available from JISC MediaHub. On campus: Login via direct access. Off campus: Login via UK federation. |
| Description: | Thousands of images from the world-famous Getty archive covering diverse subject areas such as Sport, Fashion, Major Events, Buildings, Politics, Social History, Key Personalities, Transport, Industry, Work, Leisure, Music. |
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Contains 150,000 books published during the 18th Century, covering a range of subjects including history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, and science. The full text of the collection is searchable, from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements. |
| Coverage: | 18th Century. |
Eighteenth Century Journals I
| Access: | Access on campus. |
| Description: | Eighteenth Century Journals I contains material from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, one of the finest surviving collections of eighteenth-century periodicals. This resource contains images of 95 rare journals printed between 1693 and 1799, combining major publications with more ephemeral works to underline the broad variety of eighteenth century print journalism. |
| Coverage: | 1693 and 1799 |
Eighteenth Century Journals II
| Access: | On and off campus |
| Description: | Eighteenth Century Journals II comprises material held by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center collections of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals. |
| Coverage: | 1699-1812 |
Eighteenth Century Journals IV
| Access: | Access on and off campus |
| Description: | Eighteen Century Journals IV consists of material sourced primarily from Chetham’s Library in Manchester. From its 18th century holdings, a collection of rare magazines and newspapers, literary periodicals and political journals have been included to chart the transformation of Manchester during a time of rapid industrialisation and political turmoil. These varied sources are supplemented by a selection of periodicals, many European, from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. |
| Coverage: | 1709-1820 |
Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
| Access information: | Access information: Single user CD-ROM workstation, Information Services, Main Library. |
| Description: | Contains 300,000 bibliographical records for items printed in Britain and the British colonies in the years 1700-1800, and items printed anywhere in the world in English in that period, providing both a description of each item and locations of the material. |
| Coverage: | 18th century. |
Electronic Enlightenment
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | This scholarly research project of the University of Oxford Humanities Division provides online access to correspondence between 18th-century thinkers and writers, from over 53,000 primary sources. |
eLexicons
| Access information: | Access on campus. |
| Description: | Unique learning resources for the visual arts. With biographies, work examples, bibliographies and glossaries, the eLexicons provide the complete foundation for study in higher education, covering graphic design, typography, illustration, lettering, art and craft. Support material includes lecture guides, indexes and reading lists. |
EMBASE
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | The Excerpta Medica database, a major pharmacological and biomedical literature database covering about 3,300 journals from110 countries. Covers mainly journal literature (plus some book reviews and conference proceedings) with strong coverage of European journals. |
| Coverage: | From 1980 to date. |
Additional information
NHS Staff and other authorised users:
Emerald Intelligence
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Access to over 130 MCB University Press journals. Full text available for many journals. Option to search subscribed content only. |
| The journals cover general management, human resource management, information management, library & information services, marketing, operations, production & economics, property, quality, training and education and engineering & material science. |
Empire Online
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Collection of 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material with accompanying thematic essays. The content comes from library and archive collections worldwide, and can used to support teaching and learning. Full details of how to incorporate images into course materials are provided. |
| Coverage: | 1492-1962. |
Encyclopaedia of Islam & Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. Choose Brill Online Reference Works to access this database. |
| Description: | Comprehensive reference work on the Islamic World. Widely recognised as hugely important in its field, it is a unique and invaluable reference tool not only on the religion, but also on the believers and the countries in which they live. |
| Articles cover distinguished Muslims of every era and origin, tribes and dynasties, crafts and sciences, opolitical and religious institutions, the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. |
| In its geographical and historical scope it encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, as well as the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries. |
Encyclopaedia Judaica
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Second edition is a comprehensive reference work on the culture, history and religion of the Jewish people. The 22,000 articles include coverage of gender issues, the Bible, Jewish Law, community life, popular culture and the Holocaust. |
Encyclopaedia of the Qu'rān
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'ānic studies. |
| With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the Encyclopaedia of the Qu'rān is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qu'rān to appear in a Western language. |
Encyclopedia of Hinduism
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. Access via Brill Reference Online. |
| Description: | Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions in essays written by the world's foremost scholars on Hinduism. The encyclopedia encompasses a variety of regional traditions as well as the global world religion. |
| The fully searchable, dynamic digital format currently includes volume I of ultimately five volumes - further volumes are due to be added. |
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | 2005, second edition covers comprehensively the fundamental linguistic disciplines, with their applications to the study of language and other related disciplines. The online version supplements the written text with additional illustrative material, samples of spoken language or signed langague and videos of the use of language in context. |
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. |
| The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a groundbreaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world. |
English Poetry Full-Text Database
| Access information: | Single user CD-ROM workstation, Main Library. |
| Description: | A database of the works of 1,350 poets from 600 to 1900. |
English Short Title Catalogue
| Access information: | On campus access via FirstSearch. |
| Description: | ESTC lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 mainly, but not exclusively, in English that were published mainly in the British Isles and North America from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries. |
| Coverage: | 1473-1800. |
English Verse Drama Full-Text Database
| Access information: | Single user CD-ROM workstation, Main Library. |
| Description: | A database comprising 2,284 plays by 524 different authors. |
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
| Access information: | Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN |
| Description: | An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. |
| The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theatre are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. |
| Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution colour, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews. |
ERA (Educational Research Abstracts) Online
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. Username and password required. Follow Authorization required link for details. |
| Description: | Files on educational technology, multicultural education, research into higher education, sociology of education, special educational needs, educational management, and technical education and training, which can be search individually or as one database. |
| Coverage: | From 1995. |
Additional information
ERIC
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Indexes the journal and technical literature in the field of education and corresponds to the printed Resources in Education and Current Index to Journals in Education. It covers over 775 journals, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, and monographs. Scope is international. |
| Coverage: | From 1966 to date. |
Additional information
Free information system available funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences:
ESDS
See entry for Economic and Social Data Service.
EThOS - Electronic Theses Online Service
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. Registration required for full-text access and there may be a delay of some days in receiving required copy. |
| Description: | British Library service providing full text of thousands of UK Higher Education theses (free to staff and students of the University of Edinburgh). |
| Items unavailable from EThOS may be available through the Inter-Library Loan service (ILL). For more comprehensive searches of theses awarded in your subject area, use Index to Theses and Dissertations and Theses. |
Additional information
Europeana
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Funded by the European Commission, the Europeana portal provides access to millions of digitised books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records from all over Europe. Use Europeana to explore major European collections including collections from Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library and the Louvre as well as regional archives and local museums from every member of the EU. |
This article was published on Apr 16, 2013
