APPENDIX 1 - EDINA services
Bibliographic Services
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
- Art Abstracts
- Bibliographic references and abstracts of articles from 280 periodicals - journals, yearbooks and museum bulletins - published in English and other major languages, from 1984 to the present. Art Abstracts is published by H.W. Wilson.
- Art Index Retrospective
- Index of art reproductions and helps researchers study the body of work of an artist or track down reproductions. Provides searchable indexing spanning 55 years of art journalism from 420 noted publications around the globe, reflecting coverage provided from 1929 to 1984. Art Index Retrospective is published by H.W. Wilson.
- EconLit
- Indexes and abstracts more than 550 international economic journals. Source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. Contains more than 350,000 records and covers subjects from accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labour, marketing, demographics, modelling, economic theory, planning, and more. Produced by the American Economic Association.
- Index to The Times 1790-1980
- Providing coverage of The Times between 1790-1980, this service comprises Palmer's Index to The Times (covering the years 1790 to 1905), and the Official Index to The Times (covering the years 1906-1980). It is a valuable reference for historians of all areas of British life and international affairs. Published by Chadwyck-Healey.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials. Includes all records indexed from 1963 to the present, approximately 1,400,000 records, and is updated ten times a year. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America.
- PAIS International
- Bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Topics covered include economic, political, and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, political science, and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. Covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, government documents, and microfiche. Produced by the Public Affairs Information Services, Inc.
- Palmer's Index to The Times
- The only index to articles in The Times for every issue from October 1790 to December 1905 (After which the indexing of the Times was continued as The Official Index of The Times). Palmer's Index is published by Chadwyck-Healey.
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland
- Online version of the two accounts of all Scottish parishes conducted in the 1790s and 1830s and published as the First and New Statistical Accounts of Scotland. Together they provide an invaluable record of all aspects of life in Scotland at the time. Run on behalf of a consortium set up by SCURL, the Scottish Confederate of University and Research Libraries.
Agriculture, Environment & Life Sciences
- AGDEX
- Extensive database of over 85,000 article titles or abstracts from the agricultural press, compiled since 1971 by the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC).
- BIOSIS Previews
- Electronic version of Biological Abstracts (BA), the largest printed reference publication for life sciences information; and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings), the companion printed reference to books, meetings and research reviews. BIOSIS Previews database covers data from 1985 onwards.
- CAB Abstracts
- Bibliographic database compiled by CAB International. Covers the significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources.
- UPDATE
- Bibliographic database of land-based literature that covers the popular press as well as scholarly journals on; agriculture, countryside management, environmental change, equine studies and leisure and tourism. UPDATE data is supplied by the University of Wales Aberystwyth with contributions from the Royal Agricultural College and Harper Adams University College.
Engineering, Informatics & Physical Sciences
- Ei Compendex
- Most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering information database in the world, with almost 7 million summaries of journal articles and conference proceedings, referencing 5,000 journals and conference material from the 1970's onwards. Users are presented with a choice between EDINA's interface for Compendex which includes cross-searching of the web resources catalogue from EEVL, the Internet guide for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing and the Ei Village 2 interface. Additional user support for Ei Village 2 is subcontracted to EEVL. Produced by Engineering Information Inc. (Ei).
- Inspec
- Regarded as the premier database for access to the world's leading scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing and information technology. Produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
General Reference
- SALSER
- Scottish Academic Libraries Serials, SALSER, a World Wide Web-based virtual union catalogue of the serials holdings of all Scottish universities, the municipal research libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow, numerous smaller Scottish research libraries and the National Library of Scotland. Facilitates access to information on serials and thereby ensure their fuller and more effective use by students and researchers in Scotland.
Geo-spatial Services
- Digimap
- Delivers Ordnance Survey Map Data to UK Higher Education. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Allows users to view and print maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales. Advanced tasks that Digimap enables are: downloading map data for use, for example, in GIS software on a user's own desktop; advanced cartographic tasks, such as user-specified scale, combining datasets on a map, large format; printing; gazetteer functions on place names
- UKBORDERS
- UK Boundary Outline and Reference Database for Education and Research Study, offers access to database of UK digitised boundaries. Includes coverages relating to population census, administrative, electoral and postal areas. Web-based Interface provides digitised boundary datasets in many GIS formats (MapInfo MIF/MID, ArcView Shape, Arc/Info Export and several others), for users to download. Also hosts historical boundary data relating to the 19th and 20th centuries.
Multimedia
- Education Media OnLine (EMOL)
- EMOL is a service providing access to ten collections of film and video, digitised through the JISC's Managing Agent and Advisory Service (MAAS), who have also produced the associated metadata. There are over 1,000 film titles in the collections, representing about 300 hours of playing time, and they cover a range of disciplines which include 20th century history and medicine. The films are of high quality, and are fully downloadable, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research.