APPENDIX 1: EDINA Services

Bibliographic Services

CAB Abstracts

CAB Abstracts is a bibliographic database compiled by CAB International. Covers the significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, certain aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources.

Index to The Times, 1790-1980

The Index to The Times, 1790-1980, 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). This service is a valuable reference for historians of all areas of British life and international affairs.

Inspec

Inspec is a bibliographic database for access to leading scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing and information technology. Inspec is produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Land Life Leisure

Land Life Leisure covers current developments in agriculture and all rural topics, conservation, estate management, forestry, horticulture, recreation and tourism. The database originates from the academic and research communities mainly from Aberystwyth, with contributions from five other land based colleges.

Statistical Accounts of Scotland

Statistical Accounts of Scotland is an online version of the full text of the first two accounts of Scottish parishes conducted in the 1790s and 1830s, published as the First and New Statistical Accounts of Scotland. Together they provide a record of many aspects of life in Scotland at the time.

General Reference

SALSER

Scottish Academic Libraries Serials (SALSER) is a union catalogue of serials holdings for Scottish universities, the municipal research libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow, numerous smaller Scottish research libraries and the National Library of Scotland. SALSER facilitates access to information on serials and thereby ensures their fuller and more effective use by students and researchers in Scotland.

SUNCAT

SUNCAT is a UK national catalogue of serials. It has two principal aims: to be the key resource for locating serials titles in UK research libraries, and to be a source of high quality records to help upgrade local catalogues.

Geospatial Services

Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection

This service delivers Ordnance Survey map data to UK HE and FE. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as geographical information systems or computer aided design, 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 geographical information systems 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, postcode area and attribute look up.

Historic Digimap

Historic Digimap offers historic Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain to UK HE and FE. These have been generated by Landmark Information Group. The collection includes the following maps:

• All available County Series maps at 1:2500 and 1:10 560 scales published between 1843 and 1939.
• All available National Grid maps at 1:1250, 1:2500, 1:10 560 and 1:10 000 scales published from 1945 and before the introduction of the OS digital Land-Line product.

From Historic Digimap it is possible to print maps and download them as geo-referenced images for use in geographical information systems or image processing software. The facility also allows you to view up to four maps simultaneously, enabling you to see how the maps have changed over time.

Geology Digimap

Geology Digimap Delivers geological maps and data from the British Geological Survey (BGS). Users can view maps through a web browser, save maps for printing and download the geological map data for use in geographical information systems.

Marine Digimap

Marine Digimap delivers marine and coastal zone mapping and data products from SeaZone Solutions Ltd. Users can browse, view and print online marine maps and download thematic marine geographical information for use in geographical information systems

UKBORDERS

The UK Boundary Outline and Reference Database for Education and Research Study (UKBORDERS) offers access to a database of UK digitised boundaries, and includes coverage relating to population census, administrative, electoral and postal areas. The service provides digitised boundary datasets in many GIS formats (MapInfo MIF/MID, ArcView Shape, Arc/Info Export and several others) for users to download. It also hosts historical boundary data relating to the 19th and 20th centuries and contemporary and historical postcode directories.

agcensus

agcensus delivers agricultural census data for Great Britain as grid square estimates for a geographic area for a particular year at a specified resolution. The spatial distribution of census items for a given region and resolution for a particular year can also be mapped.

Multimedia

Education Image Gallery

The Education Image Gallery is a JISC-funded service that provides access to a collection of 60,000 images. The images are drawn from the vast resources of the Hulton Archive, Photodisc and the Getty Images® News Service (current events and sport) and they cover key events and multiple subject areas including history, entertainment, sport, science, fashion, politics, music, conflict, film, art, leisure and women’s studies.

Film & Sound Online

Film & Sound Online is a JISC-funded set of collections of film and video, hosted by EDINA and cleared and digitised through JISC's Managing Agent and Advisory Service (MAAS), who also produced associated metadata. 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.

Middleware Services

OpenURL Router

The OpenURL Router helps service providers solve the appropriate copy problem by routing an OpenURL query to the OpenURL Resolver being used by a given user’s institutional library. The OpenURL Router links bibliographic services to full text via OpenURL Resolvers.

Repositories

The Depot

The Depot is a national facility that enables all UK academics to deposit e-prints for safe keeping whilst their institution has no e-print repository in place. As with all UK repositories, its contents are harvested and searched through the Intute Repository Search project, allowing academics to share in the benefits of open access exposure for their research outputs. The Depot also offers a UK Repository Junction to enable users to discover if they have a local repository, and then redirects the user to that repository.