In addition to our large number of hard copy library books on study skills we also now have many e-books on the subject available on our Dawsonera database. These include the following titles:
Biggam, J. – Succeeding with your Master’s dissertation (2008)
Creme, P. – Writing at University (2008)
Denscombe, M. – The good research guide (2007)
Gilbert, G. – From [...]
Archive for the 'e-books' Category
Study Skills E-Books
November 30, 2009New E-books Online
October 14, 2009The following E-books are now available on the Dawsonera E-book database:
Price, F. – Revolutions in Taste, 1773-1818
Whitworth, M.H. – Virginia Woolf (Authors in Context series)
Dolin, T. – George Eliot (Authors in Context series)
Ingham, P. – The Brontes (Authors in Context series)
Thomas, K. – Changing conceptions of National Biography: the Oxford DNB and historical perspective
Fisher, B.F. [...]
Other Worlds…
March 17, 2009Please note this book can now be found on the Ebrary e-book database:
The ivory tower and Harry Potter – ed. by Lana A. Whited
The following book has been ordered from the Dawsonera e-book database and should be available shortly. Keep checking back with the blog and I will let you know as soon as it is accessible.
Re-reading Harry Potter [...]
Shakespeare Quartos from the British Library
January 12, 2009The British Library holds 93 Quartos of Shakespeare’s plays which are available to view online at the following website: Treasures in Full- Shakespeare in Quarto. Click the Texts link to view digital images of each quarto or to compare any two quartos against each other.
The site also includes useful links to other websites with digital resources.
New E-books
October 6, 2008Please note a couple of new e-books are now available on the Dawsonera e-book database:
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and and Fairy Tales (2007) ed. by Haase, D., and
The Contemporary British Novel – (2005) Acheson, N. & Ross, S.
Also note Dawsonera has:
Contemporary British Novelists (2004) Rennison, N., and
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (2005) ed. [...]
New E-books on Dawsonera
April 21, 2008Further to earlier posts on Dawsonera, our electronic book collection is growing fast. The latest additions are:
British fiction of the 1990s – N. Bentley
The gothic – D. Punter & G. Byron
Gothic literature – A. Smith
A poetics of postmodernism – L. Hutcheon
A concise companion to contemporary British fiction – ed. J.F. English
Contemporary British novelists – N. [...]
COPAC links to Google Book Search
April 11, 2008For those of you who use COPAC to widen your searches for books, you will now see links to Google Book Search where a record contains an ISBN (a book identification number) in the Full Record Display. The link should appear on the right of the Full Record Display screen. The links may not show in [...]
Nice New Feature on Ebrary
March 5, 2008Hopefully by now you’ve all looked at our full-text e-book database Ebrary. Well now there’s a new feature that should help you browse your list of results to find which e-books would be useful. As you’ll see from the graphic below Ebrary has added a link to Show Table of Contents within the results list.
If the Table [...]
