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Landmap Spatial Discovery
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Spatial data resource which can be used for a wide range of applications within many disciplines. Optical, Radar and Elevation satellite datasets are available. |
Late Qing Dynasty Full Text Periodicals 1833-1911
| Access information: | Available on and off campus. |
| Description: | The database contains the full text of over 300 periodicals published in the late Qing Dynasty of China. This represents an almost complete collection of the Chinese periodical publications during that period, the beginning of such literature in China. |
| It is an important resource on the history, literature and social conditions of the late Qing dynasty. |
Learning Exchange
| Access information: | Free access on and off campus from The Learning Exchange Note: 1st August 2008 - there is currently only access to the free version of this resource. |
| Description: | The Learning Exchange is a repository of digital learning resources for social care educators. |
LexisLibrary (formerly LexisNexis Butterworths)
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus (Working off-campus click on Academic Sign-In. In the Select federation drop-down menu choose UK ACCESS MANAGEMENT FEDERATION and click Go. Scroll down list provided and click on link to University of Edinburgh). |
| Description: | The complete, fully customisable, online legal research service bringing together in a single source, all case law, legislation and commentary materials published and distributed by LexisNexis. Also contains world press including most UK national and regional newspapers. |
Library and Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
| Access information: | Freely available from EBSCOhost |
| Description: | Searchable database of librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval and information management abstracts from the contents of nearly 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Email and RSS alerts available. |
| Coverage: | Mid-1960s - present. |
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Abstracts 2000 journals worldwide with coverage of books, papers. technical reports, dissertations and book reviews in language, linguistics and their various subdisciplines. |
| Coverage: | From 1973 to date. |
Literature Online (LION)
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | The Literature Online English Corpus provides access to the Annual bibliography of English Language and Literature from 1920 to 1997 and also includes full-text of selected articles from 200 literary journals, over 160,000 works of English poetry since 600, more than 3,900 works of English drama from 1280 to 1915, 300 works of English prose from 1500 to 1900, and links to relevant Web resources. |
This article was published on Mar 15, 2012
