McMaster University Library has grown its electronic resources during the pandemic, providing access to a treasure trove of materials for students, faculty and staff.
Electronic resources, or eResources, include such materials as electronic journals, databases, electronic books (e-books), streaming videos and audio, and more.
“Library staff worked to ensure increased access to online resources while parts of the campus, including Mills and Thode libraries, were closed due to the pandemic,” said Janice Adlington, head, collections and content strategy at McMaster University Library. “As a result, we have a larger collection of eResources than ever before.”
The new eResources span an array of topics, from science and engineering databases to humanities and social sciences online videos.
“Whether it’s SpringerMaterials, Social Work Online, or Times of India, we know eResources support learning, research and instruction at McMaster,” said Wei Zhang, eResources and collection analysis librarian at McMaster University Library. “We encourage the McMaster community to experience all that our eResources have to offer.”
Below are just a few of the new eResources available through McMaster University Library’s website.
Major additions
- Dimensions Analytics: Explore research produced at McMaster and other institutions, including grants, publications, citations, clinical trials and patents.
- O'Reilly for Higher Education (Safari Tech E-books): Learn ‘how to’ with O’Reilly’s e-books and videos for technology professionals, software developers, web designers, business and creative professionals.
Science & Engineering
- SciFinder-n: The upgraded SciFinder provides new synthesis planning and retrosynthetic analysis tools, chemically annotated patents, curated step-by-step synthesis methods and procedures, and biosequence searching and analysis.
- Springer Nature Experiments (Springer Protocols): The largest database of reproducible laboratory protocols in biomedicine and life sciences, bringing together content from Springer Protocols, Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, and Protocol Exchange.
- SpringerMaterials: The largest resource for physical and chemical data in materials science, which incorporates all volumes of Landolt-Börnstein New Series with 250,000 substances and material systems, 3,000 properties, and 1.2 million literature citations.
- Science Robotics: The newest to join the Science family of journals, with a goal to select the most ground-breaking advances in robotics across applications, systems and scales.
- Soft Robotics: Publishing world-class, peer-reviewed research on the emerging technologies and developments of soft and deformable robots.
Humanities & Social Sciences
- Oxford Bibliographies Online & Oxford Handbooks Online: Identify the best scholarship in nine broad disciplines with Oxford bibliographies, and read current overviews in the handbooks.
- Social Work Online: View documentaries, clinical demonstration videos, and lectures that illustrate the complex and challenging issues faced by social workers.
- A selection of primary sources:
- Archives Unbound: Includes 30 collections in African studies; American studies; British and European history; business and economic history; cultural studies; Holocaust studies; international relations; Latin American and Caribbean studies; law, politics, and radical studies, and religious studies.
- Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement: Includes primary sources, supporting materials and archives, and videos covering history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are often overlooked.
- New historical newspapers: Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2016), Le Monde (1944-2000), The Times of India (1838-2010), and Montreal Gazette (1857-2010).
Visit the library website to see the full list of new resources.
