New Resources for Medicine, Health, Law and more

Over the last few months we've gained access to a number of new resources that might be useful to researchers, so here's a round-up for you:

BenchSci

Built by a team of scientists, BenchSci was developed with one thing in mind: to quickly and easily identify published data that support the use of antibodies.

For more information about BenchSci: https://blog.benchsci.com/7-features-to-find-antibodies

Learn how to use BenchSci with this short video: https://youtu.be/EFaDwTtqlv4

Campbell Collaboration Online Library

The Campbell Collaboration Online Library (Campbell Library) contains the full text of published systematic reviews and protocols in

Crime and Justice
Disability
Education
International Development
Knowledge Translation and Implementation
Nutrition
Social Welfare

There is also a series of research methods papers.

CINAHL

CINAHL indexes more than 5000 journals in nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, operating department practice, health promotion and health librarianship, and other areas of allied health.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text, the version of the database accessible through the University, includes the full text of 770 of those journals.

Allied Health
Health Librarianship
Health Promotion
Midwifery
Nursing
Operating Department Practice
Physiotherapy

Maternity and Infant Care Database (MIDIRS) Guide

Trial available until 18 October 2017

The University of Leicester has trial access to the Maternity and Infant Care Database (MIDIRS) Guide via OVID.

This database contains over 225,000 bibliographic references with abstracts to articles from over 400 international English language journals, books, guidelines and grey literature relating to the midwifery profession, pregnancy, labour, birth, postnatal care, infant feeding and neonatal care up to the second year of an infant’s life.
Click here to access - on campus only.

Practical Law

Practical Law is an online legal know-how service which provides practice area overviews, practice notes, standard documents and current awareness services for lawyers.

Resources (including practice notes, standard documents, checklists and current awareness services) are arranged in practice areas from agriculture to tax, with specialism in business, company and commercial law.

Complete integration with the Westlaw UK database for access to full-text legislation, case law and journal articles.
Current issue of PLC Magazine, the leading monthly magazine for business lawyers advising companies active in the UK, and all journal back issues from June 1990.
Brexit Resource Centre with timelines, trackers, flowcharts, practice notes, articles and glossary on the legal implications of Brexit.
Law School Resource Centre with articles and videos to enable law students to develop their employability and commercial awareness skills.

Oral history at the University of Leicester

As announced recently, we will be hosting the CILIP Local Studies conference on July 9, which will be themed around oral history and sound collections. We choose oral history thanks to the University's, and the region's, strengths in this area. East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) Based in the Centre for Urban History, East Midlands Oral History Archive is one of the largest regional collections of its kind. It was o riginally funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to establish an archive of oral history recordings for Leicestershire & Rutland. It includes the collections of the Leicester Oral History Archive, the Mantle archive from North West Leicestershire, the Community History archive of Leicester City Libraries, the Market Harborough Museum collection, and the sound archive of BBC Radio Leicester, along with smaller collections donated by local organisations or individuals. Following a major digitisation project, the Library's Special Coll...

Research Elevenses in July

Throughout July we are running a series of 30 minute talks on key issues for Leicester researchers. There’s no need to book - just turn up! If you are off-campus you can join in live via Adobe Connect. Simply click the link and choose ‘Enter as Guest’ on the day. A recording of each session will be made available after the event. 6th July Discovering the University’s unique archives 11am, Fielding Johnson, Ogden Lewis Seminar Room 3 This session will explain what archives are and give an overview of the archives held by the University of Leicester library. Participants will also be introduced to the online archive catalogue and effective ways to locate archival sources to support teaching and research. Join the webinar 13th July Publishing your own Open Access journal 11am, David Wilson Library Seminar Room, Floor 1 The Library has developed an online publishing platform (Open Journals System) that enables researchers at Leicester to set up and run their o...

You can now export multiple citations from Google Scholar

You can now export multiple citations from Google Scholar if you have a Google Account. Go to Google Scholar and sign into your Google Account. Conduct your search. Click on the Star icon (Save) under each reference you want to export. Then click on My Library in the top, right of the screen. Select all the references and click on the Export option: Click the Star/Save Icon Choose Export Option To Export into EndNote Choose the EndNote option. Open the EndNote file that is created. The references should automatically import into EndNote. To Export into RefWorks Choose the RefMan option. Save the RIS file that is created. Login to your RefWorks account. Click on the plus (+) button. Choose Import References. Add the RIS file you just saved. Set the file import option to RIS - Reference Manager. Click import and your references will be imported. --- Good Practice Tip: Always check that all the reference information you need has been...

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