• GeoScienceWorld
We have subscribed to GeoScienceWorld which consists of high impact geoscience journals and is inter-operable with GeoRef. Journal titles have been added to the Journals page and articles are findable in MultiSearch. Records will be added to the Catalogue next month.

• Non-Fiction Connection
We have been given access to Non-Fiction Connection for 2011, as part of our subscription to GBIP. “Discover titles similar to books you already enjoy” – you can use this database to find book suggestions based on books you have already read, authors you like, or topics of interest. Browse by topic, genre, setting, character, location, or timeframe.

• OUP Training Resources
Oxford University Press has a useful Training Resources page with quizzes, demos, fact sheets and more… Find short powerpoint introductions and factsheets for products, test your knowledge with an OED or ORO quiz and access user guides for OED and ORIL.

• Leisure Tourism Database
CABI now includes its Leisure & Tourism e-books in the Leisure Tourism Database at no extra charge. This gives us access to full text PDFs of about 85 titles from 2000 to present. These titles will be added to the Catalogue asap.

• Literature Online
Six new journal titles have been added to LION. Also, 58 new or revised biographies and over 900 video clips of poets reading their own and others’ works (audio recordings at The Poetry Archive) have been added. More information

If you know of primary works that are not included in LION and think they should be, visit the Suggest a Text page and you could win a USD20 Amazon voucher.

• Springer Realtime
“Realtime.springer.com is a special service that gives you insight into what content is being read by the scientific community, all over the world, as it is happening.” Realtime feeds from SpringerLink, SpringerImages, and SpringerProtocols and shows when articles are downloaded by users, giving an up-to-date view of the topics that are of most interest to readers.

Deirdre