Trial - Filmakers library online

Filmmakers Library Online can be accessed from any network PC until 6th May 2011 It provides award-winning documentaries in a number of subject areas:

• race and gender studies,


• human rights,


• globalization and global studies,


• multiculturalism,


• international relations,


• criminal justice,


• the environment,


• bioethics,


• health,


• political science and current events,


• psychology,


• arts,


• literature

It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 708 titles, equaling approximately 585 hours.

Try it and let us know what you think - send feedback to Cath Marlowe

English, Media and Journalism students - trials to new resources

We have arranged trials to two new resources:

The Listerner Historical Archive 1929 - 1991
Developed as the medium for publishing broadcasts, The Listener was the weekly newspaper of the BBC

Picture Post Historical Archive
Picture Post contains every issue of the pioneering photojournalism newspaper.

The trial will last until 4th May 2011 - to access goto: http://www.galeuk.com/trialsite

Username: xLiv
Password: LJMU

Who said what when?

Who said "beware the ides of March" ? - Find this out and more by using Oxford Reference Online available from the Databases A-Z


Oxford Reference Online is a great way to start your research as it contains over 1.4 million facts and definitions, thousands of illustrations, maps and lnks to other web resources.

Crossfire now Reaxys

Chemistry students - Do you need to access the Beilstein and Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases?


You do?


Then the service you want is Reaxys formally known as Crossfire. It's available from the Databases A-Z

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E-resources disruption - Sunday 30th Jan

The following resources will be unavailable from 3am on Sunday 30th January for 12 hours:

ASSIA (Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts)

British Periodicals

Design and Applied Arts Index

International Bibliography of Social Science

Guardian and Observer

This is due to maintenance by the provider. All other resources are unaffected by this work.

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Scientists on the move - Annual Reviews goes mobile

Annual Reviews offers comprehensive collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists in the disciplines of Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences, including Economics.

Now you can access all this from your mobile. For further details take the tour of the mobile website and then download the free AR mobile app from the Apple App Store or Android Market

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