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Lextenso – accès à 9 revues supplémentaires

Consortium Luxembourg a le plaisir de vous annoncer que vous avez, dès aujourd’hui, accès à 9 revues supplémentaires de Lextenso.  La base en ligne de Lextenso.fr propose un accès au 18 titres de référence publiés chez Lextenso éditions.  Notamment:

  • Bulletin Joly Bourse
  • Bulletin Joly Sociétés
  • Cahiers sociaux du Barreau de Paris
  • Cahiers de l’Arbitrage | The Paris Journal of International Arbitration
  • Gazette du Palais
  • L’ESSENTIEL Droit bancaire
  • L’ESSENTIEL Droit de l’immobilier et urbanisme
  • L’ESSENTIEL Droit de la famille et des personnes
  • L’ESSENTIEL Droit de la propriété intellectuelle
  • L’ESSENTIEL Droit des assurances
  • L’ESSENTIEL Droit des contrats
  • L’ESSENTIEL Droit des entreprises en difficulté
  • Petites affiches
  • Répertoire du notariat Defrénois
  • Revue des contrats
  • Revue du droit public
  • Revue française de finances publiques
  • Revue générale du droit des assurances

Plus de 600 000 décisions (constitutionnelles, judiciaires et administratives), issues des bases de jurisprudence Légifrance, sont également disponibles en texte intégral et reliées, le cas échéant, vers les commentaires présents sur le site.

Lextenso est disponible sous la lettre “L” de l’onglet “Bases de données” du portail du Consortium Luxembourg ou en cliquant ici.

(Note: Lextenso est accessible uniquement en interne à la Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg ou l’Université du Luxembourg).
 

European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of a new database to the Consortium Luxembourg Electronic Documentation Portal.

European Views of the Americas contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846, is a foremost repository of rare books and materials and is a center for advanced research in history and the humanities.

The database can be found under the letter “E” in the “Find Database” tab or by clicking here.
 

Springer e-Books

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of Springer e-books to the Consortium Luxembourg Electronic Documentation Portal.

Access is provided to all English and German language Springer e-books from 2005 to 2010 inclusive.  The books cover a variety of subjects including:

  • Behavioral Science;
  • Biomedical and Life Science;
  • Business and Economics;
  • Chemistry and Materials Science;
  • Computer Science;
  • Earth and Environmental Science;
  • Engineering;
  • Humanities, Social Science and Law,
  • Mathematics and Statistics;
  • Medicine;
  • Physics and Astronomy; and
  • Professional and Applied Computing.

Topics covered in the German collection include:

  • Medizin;
  • Technik & Informatik;
  • Natur- und Basiswissenschaften incl. Mathematik;
  • Wirtschaftswissenschaften; und
  • Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

The e-books are accessible in one of two ways:

1.  If the print edition of the book is in bibnet.lu catalogue, then access to the electronic version is automatically provided from book’s details screen.

2.  Connect directly to SpringerLink e-books using the link that can be found under “S” in the “Find Database” section of the portal or by clicking here.

 

New Emerald Journals Added to the Portal

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of two sets of Emerald journals to the Consortium Luxembourg Portal:

  • Emerald Accounting and Finance Journals – A collection covering quantitative and qualitative research across the field, including in sustainability, financial regulation, accounting education and Islamic finance.  For details on the journals included in this collection, click here.
  • Emerald Information and Knowledge Management Journals – A collection representing important perspectives within today’s knowledge economy, with over a quarter of its titles indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI).  Foro details on the journals included in this collection, click here.

These journals are available via the “Find e-journal” (or “Périodiques”) option in the Consortium Luxembourg Portal.
 

Oxford Art Online / Grove Art Online

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of Oxford Art Online to the Consortium Luxembourg Portal.

Oxford Art Online is an innovative gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location.

With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.

Oxford Art Online can be found under the letter “G” (for Grove) in the “Find Database” tab or by clicking here.
 

World Bank’s Annual World Development Report Online

Access to the World Bank’s open access collection, World Development Report Online, is now available directly from the Consortium Luxembourg Portal.

First published in 1978, the “World Development Report,” or WDR, is the World Bank’s annual flagship publication on development. Each report provides in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of development—from agriculture, the role of the state, transition economies, and labour to infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty.

A free optional individual user account allows users to take advantage of tools such as bookmarking and saving selected chapters or reports, saving searches, and taking notes.

It can be found in the Find Database tab under the letter “W” or by clicking here.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) to the Consortium Luxembourg Portal.

Founded in 1972, the TLG represents the first effort in the Humanities to produce a large digital corpus of literary texts. Since its inception the project has collected and digitized most texts written in Greek from Homer (8 c. B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453 and beyond. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. TLG research activities combine the traditional methodologies of philological and literary study with the most advanced features of information technology.

The Online TLG contains more than 105 million words from over 10,000 works associated with 4,000 authors and is constantly updated and improved with new features and texts.

TLG can be found under the letter “T” in the “Find Database” tab or by clicking here.

Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)

The OAPEN Library is now available in the Consortium Luxembourg Portal.

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe.

It can be found under the letter “O” in “Find Database” or by clicking here.

Two Reference Works from de Gruyter Now Available

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of two reference works from de Gruyter to the Consortium Luxembourg Portal:

  • Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World : The database Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online / Artists of the World Online is the world’s most contemporary, reliable and extensive reference work on artists. It contains authoritative, up-to-date biographical information on more than 1 million artists.
  • Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie / Dictionary of German Biography : This online edition of Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie / Dictionary of German Biography provides information about people from all aspects of public life: men and women from the entire German-speaking area from the time of the very earliest written records right up to the present. The biographies inform the reader about the person´s origins, education, influential encounters, professional development, places of influence, significant works and achievements, friendships and relationships, membership of groups and associations, reception and, in special cases, prizes and honours. To be able to evaluate the life and work of a person in its completeness, DBE only contains people who are already dead.

Access to Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online / Artists of the World Online is via the “Find Database” header under the letter “A” or by searching on any of the words in its title.

Access to Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie / Dictionary of German Biography is via the “Find Database” header under the letter “D” or by searching on any of the words in its title.