SIRIUS interruption

Service interruption to UNSW Library electronic resources next Monday

UNSW’s Electronic Resources & Journals Portal (SIRIUS)  will be temporarily unavailable on Monday 12/12/2011 between 8am – 9am due to essential maintenance.

There will also be reduced services via SearchFirst during this time.

New Resource – Women, War & Society 1914-1918

 Women, War & Society 1914-18 is now available at the UNSW Electronic Resource Portal. The database is a mixed media archive and includes press-cuttings, minutes, reports, correspondence and photographs as well as essays for researchers and students new to digital primary source historical documents. Use this archival collection to research every aspect of British women’s war effort.

The First World War had a revolutionary and permanent impact on the personal, social and professional lives of all women. Their essential contribution to the war in Europe is fully documented in this definitive collection of primary source materials brought together at London’s Imperial War Museum.

The documents form an indispensable resource for the study of 20^th Century social, political, military and gender history.

Update to Mass Observation Online

 

Mass Observation Online Update II – Now available

 

The second update to Mass Observation Online brings the following new content:

Diaries, 1943-1945
Completing the series of personal diaries submissions during the war period and up to December 1945.

Directives, 1943-1945
Completing the series of directive responses during the war period and up to December 1945.

Topic Collections
Three investigations of habits regarding Smoking, Drinking and Gambling. It also covers a survey of wartime attitudes to Posters used for public information from 1939-1947 and a study of the ‘Britain Can Make It’ design exhibition which took place in the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1946.

Worktown Collection
The Worktown Project was a major Mass Observation study carried out in Bolton and Blackpool during the period 1937-1940 and is complemented by the collection of 100 photographs from the Worktown Project already available in the resource.

New features on Knovel

Knovel now has new platform features! The beta version is available now via Knovel with a view to the new platform being live January 2012. 

Knovel provides leading science and engineering books and databases, embedded with productivity tools. Over 550 e-books and databases are available with an average of 20 titles added annually. Interactive tables, graphs and equations are provided in both Flash and Java applet formats. Subjects covered include; Aerospace & Radar Technology , Civil Engineering & Construction Materials ,  Optics & Photonics and many more.

 

You can access Knovel via Sirius or look for individual titles via UNSW Library catalogue at

http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/

Limited access to online resources

We have received notification from UNSW Library that there will be limited access to online resources via Sirius and SearchFirst on Wednesday, 7th September between 8:00am and 9:00am due to system maintenance.