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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.

Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (REP) to the Consortium Luxembourg PortalREP provides a dynamic on-line resource for researching, teaching and studying in the philosophy arena and related disciplines.  It covers a wide breadth of subject matter, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. Regularly upgraded with new material, revisions, and bibliographic updates, REP provides access to the latest scholarship and major developments in philosophical inquiry worldwide.

Access to the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy is via the “Find Database” header under the letter “R” or by searching on any of the words in its title.