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Investment in resource collections

Our investment in resource collections to enhance Warwick’s teaching and research

As well as buying in reading list materials to support Warwick’s academic modules, throughout the 2015/16 academic year the Library also acquired a host of top quality resources to help facilitate further studies and research.

In response to academic demand – and to enrich the student experience – we have been fortunate to be able to get for you:

E-book collections

  • Wiley Usage Based Collection Management (Evidence Based Acquisition), July 2016 – September 2017
  • Cambridge Books Online (EBA), July 2016 - July 2017
  • Elsevier Freedom Collection E-books (EBA), July 2016 - July 2017
  • SAGE Knowledge E-books (EBA), July 2016 - July 2017
  • Taylor & Francis E-books Evidence Based Selection, July 2016 - July 2017
  • Oxford Scholarly Editions Online – 19 collections
  • CRC E-books (300 titles)
  • JSTOR ebooks (Books @ JSTOR) – 23 subject collections (>3,800 titles)
  • Academic Complete E-book package subscription (>100,000 titles from multiple subjects)
  • Wiley-Blackwell Companions – all the titles we didn’t already have
  • Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online II (15 titles)

Other perpetual access purchases

  • Godey's Lady's Book (parts II-IX)
  • SAGE Deep Backfile 2013-16
  • Taylor & Francis Backfiles (Upgrades to 13 different subject areas)
  • Historical Statistical Abstracts of the US
  • Eighteenth Century Drama (Adam Matthew)
  • Church Missionary Society Periodicals I & II (Adam Matthew)
  • Shakespeare in Performance (Adam Matthew)
  • Archives of Sexuality & Gender Part 1: LGBTQ History & Culture since 1940
  • Journal of Roman Archaeology Archive online (1988-2012)

Other subscriptions

Single titles:

  • Comparative American Studies
  • Philosophy of Photography
  • Nottingham French Studies
  • New York Review of Books
  • Teaching Philosophy
  • Foundations and Trends in Finance
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • Critical Studies on Security
  • Global Responsibility to Protect
  • International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics
  • JoVe Chemistry
  • Geotechnique Letters
  • Journal of X-ray Science and Technology
  • Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Disease
  • Journal of Material Culture
  • Journal of Urban History
  • Journal of Sport and Social Issues
  • History of Philosophy Quarterly (currently setting up access)
  • Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (currently setting up access)
  • London Review of Books (on order)
  • Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (on order)

Databases / packages

  • JSTOR Arts and Sciences XI
  • JSTOR Arts and Sciences XIII
  • The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot
  • Chinese Academic Journals Set G (Politics/Military Affairs/Law) and Set J (Economics and Management)
  • SAGE Premier e-journals package

To support our academic and student communities further, we have again invested in patron driven acquisitions, enabling our users to help select the e-books that we add to our collections.

We hope you find all this useful and that our extended resource collection – along with all the other services the Library offers – will aid you in your studies and research.

Tue 08 Nov 2016, 11:36

Student takeover!

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