APPENDIX 1: EDINA Services

Reading and Reference

Article References

CAB Abstracts

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.

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.

Journal Catalogues

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 upgrading of local catalogues.

SALSER

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. Through SALSER, users can not only discover which serials are held where; they can also connect to the participating libraries' catalogues for more detailed holdings information.

E-books

Statistical Accounts of Scotland

Online version of the full text of 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.

Deposit Academic Papers

OpenDepot.org

An international facility to deposit peer-reviewed papers, articles, and book chapters (e-prints).

E-Journal Preservation

UK LOCKSS Alliance

An international initiative to ensure libraries remain central to the process of scholarly information management. The UK LOCKSS Alliance is a cooperative movement of UK academic libraries that are committed to identify, negotiate, and build local archives of material that librarians and academic scholars deem significant.

CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS is an international preservation scheme for scholarly publications based on a distributed long term archive network of publishers’ current and past content. The content is stored in secure LOCKSS-managed storage under the stewardship of globally distributed research and university libraries.

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.

Maps and Data

Geo-data Portal

Go-Geo!

The Go-Geo! portal is the place to start to discover geospatial information and services for education and research. Go-Geo! enables users to find data, geospatial services and resources, learn about geospatial metadata and access tools to create and publish standards-compliant geospatial metadata.

Maps & Datasets

Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection

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. The maps have been generated by Landmark Information Group. The collection includes maps at a range of scales published between 1843 and 1996.

From Historic Digimap it is possible to print maps and download them as georeferenced images for use in geographical information systems or image processing software. The facility also allows users to view up to four maps simultaneously thereby showing changes 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./p>

UKBORDERS

TThe UK Boundary Outline and Reference Database for Education and Research Study offers access to database of UK digitised boundaries. It includes data relating to population census, administrative, electoral and postal areas. The web-based interface provides digitised boundary datasets in many GIS formats for users to download and also hosts historical boundary data relating to the 19th and 20th centuries and contemporary and historical postcode directories.

Agricultural Census Data

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.

Deposit Data

ShareGeo

ShareGeo is a facility within Digimap Collections providing a place for users to deposit research-generated content for sharing with other Digimap users.

Web Services

Unlock

A service for georeferencing placenames and geographic data searching.

Multimedia and Education

Film, Images & Sound

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.

NewsFilm Online

NewsFilm Online is a collection of some 3,000 hours of downloadable television news, cinema newsreels and associated materials, selected from the ITN/Reuters archives including several key cinema newsreels. The content depicts selected events from the last 100 years through contemporaneous media reports and allows users to download and manipulate news footage for their learning, teaching and research.

Learning Materials

Jorum

Jorum is a national online repository service. It is helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials. Jorum supports two services Jorum contributor; enabling content to be deposited for sharing with others; and Jorum User; providing user access to those resources.