Date: 7 November 2008
Location: University of Manchester, Humanities Bridgeford Street

This free workshop “aimed at social science research staff and students, will discuss the data resources available for the analysis of the UK at a national level and within a European context. It will include presentations on accessing British survey data and international comparative data from surveys, including issues relating to accessing data from Eurostat, and will explore the range of international time series data available from intergovernmental organisations such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund”.

Further details and a registration form are available online. [Source: email from Sharon Jack, UK Data Archive, to ESDS-NEWS, 29-09-08]

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,athens,shib&profile=ehost&defaultdb=teh

Until the 29th of October, MMU has a free trial (on-campus only) of this resource which indexes and provides “abstracts for more than 460 periodical titles and for thousands of titles from books, conferences, theses, technical reports and trade literature … [It] also includes full text for more than 50 journals as well as over 50 books and monographs. Subject areas include manufacturing techniques, textiles, chemicals and dyes, the properties of natural and synthetic fibres and yarns plus environmental issues along with chemistry, biology and physics”. Feedback on whether or not TTC would be a useful addition to the MMU electronic library should be sent to my colleague Oscar – o.courtney@mmu.ac.uk. In particular we’d like to know how it compares with the version we currently provide, the Textile Technology Index.

http://www.electionstudies.org/

ANES “produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation and has conducted national surveys of the American electorate since 1952. The website contains a data center where users may download zip files of surveys, questionnaires and associated documentation from 1948 onwards. Topics covered include: voter turnout, political involvement and participation amongst the American electorate”. [Source: Intute: Social Sciences, 26-09-08]

http://www.foodbase.org.uk/

This is “the open access repository of the Food Standards Agency. It provides free access to research findings, reports and papers funded by the UK government. Key topics include food safety, food regulation, diet and health (including materials on obesity and weight issues), and the delivery of government food policy. It is possible to search the database by keyword or browse by title, date, organisation. Each record contains project codes, summaries and links to full text where available”. [Source: Intute: Social Sciences, 17-09-08]

http://www.nextbio.com/b/home/home.nb

“Enables researchers and clinicians to find correlations in scientific data more easily and to discover powerful connections and inferences between the publicly available data and their own proprietary experimental results. It allows searches across different experimental platforms, organisms and data types. NextBio will also search across millions of publications to find articles related to the user’s query. On registration (free), researchers can import their own experimental data into the NextBio search engine, share it with the community and collaborate with others.” [Source: Intute: Health & Life Sciences, 27-09-08]

http://www.cbmjournal.com/home/

“An open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of research aimed at developing a comprehensive, policy relevant to understanding of the global carbon cycle … This demands interdisciplinary research and new approaches for studying geographical and temporal distributions of carbon pools and fluxes, control and feedback mechanisms of the carbon-climate system, points of intervention and windows of opportunity for managing the carbon-climate-human system.” [Source: Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology, 24-09-08]

http://www.library.mmu.ac.uk/eresource/rbknovel.html

Knovel now supplies MMU with more than 1500 online books. Recently added titles include Solar Technologies for Buildings; Computing Risk for Oil Prospects: Principles and Programs; Making Time: Time and Management in Modern Organizations; and Glass Science (2nd Edition). For a complete list of new content, follow the New Titles link on the Knovel website.

http://www.library.mmu.ac.uk/eresource/rbsageej.html

“The official journal of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers … provides a forum for the latest original research and scholarly reviews on both clinical and theoretical aspects of sexual abuse. Unlike other publications that present a mix of articles on sexual abuse and human sexuality in general, Sexual Abuse is the only one to focus exclusively on this field, thoroughly investigating its etiology, consequences, prevention, treatment and management strategies.” Available from Volume 1, 1988 via SAGE (CSA Illumina) Full-text Journal Collections.

“This autumn the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw 2008 http://www.campaignfordrawing.org/bigdraw/
We would like you to create and submit drawings throughout October on the theme of The Big Wheel - Fairgrounds and Playgrounds, or Cycling and Recycling. Just scan your drawings and send them to us by email archiveshub@mimas.ac.uk. Everyone who submits a drawing will receive an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil. And the first name out of the ‘cycle helmet’ will receive colouring pens, a pencil case and a notepad - all made from recycled car tyres! All the drawings will appear on the Archives Hub Blog http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/. Note: If you send us your postal address, we won’t use it for anything else.
You can see all the fantastic drawings we were sent last year at http://tinyurl.com/35gxds.” [Source: email from Paddy Collis, Archives Hub Data Editor, 26-09-08

http://www.library.mmu.ac.uk/eresource/rbbsp.html

Now available to MMU via the Business Source Premier service, this scholarly journal offers “peer reviewed coverage of empirical research from major areas of psychology, including social psychology; small groups and personality; human development; sensation; perception and cognition; clinical and abnormal psychology; and methodology and field research”. Full-text access begins with issue 9(4) 1990 and is available to the present with a 6-month delay, an embargo imposed by the publisher. However, bibliographic records including abstracts are available for the most recent 6 months.