Issue number 30 of the University Library Readers’ Newsletter, dated April 2005, has arrived in the library. It is also available online as the above link indicates. It contains an interesting (from our point of view) article on SUNCAT, a project to create a single tool for researchers to locate serials [journals] held in libraries throughout the UK. Basically, SUNCAT is created to make clean unified high quality journal catalogue records from the mixture of cataloguing standards and journal holdings spread around the UK, so that we can actually find stuff - quickly.
The University is one of of 22 major UK research libraries to contribute data to the pilot service which was launched in February. Try it out. Or visit the SUNCAT site for more information.
The spring 2005 edition AHDS Newsletter from the Arts and Humanities Data Service, a JISC and AHRC funded online resource.
“Includes articles on the Digital Picture, an AHDS project reviewing image use in the visual arts; De Montfort University’s ARIA project, which attempts to introduce arts and humanities researchers to basic methods of ICT research; new digital collections relating to war in 19th- and 20th-century Spain; and details of historical maps now supplied via EDINA. Beside the newsletter articles, you should also find details of the latest AHDS collections, with particular reference to resources relevant to the study of the Reformation”
The AHDS “collects, preserves and promotes electronic resources in the arts and humanities”, specifically covering the five areas of:
- archaeology
- history
- literary, linguistic and other textual studies
- visual arts
- performing arts.
A hard-copy version of the newsletter is available in the library.
