Link to April 2013 Collection Development News

Introduction

UQ Library welcomes new title suggestions, and recommendations for subject expansion. Please contact your librarian, or send your thoughts via the Library feedback form.

Requests are assessed by librarians with subject expertise. Some are referred to UQ Library's Collections Management Group. The latter meets ten times each year. Collection development policy is determined by the Library's Collection Priorities Directorate.

UQ Library's collection development policy is available for consultation.

The Library's What's New To UQ Library Collections page lists all titles new to the Library in the previous month, arranged by Library of Congress classification groups.

Collection Development News (your current location) lists successful requests referred to the Library's Collections Management Group since 2011, grouped under seven general areas. Changes to the collection are also noted.

Cross-disciplinary titles appear together, ahead of six subject groups. Project and other collections news follows at the end of the page.

Resources listed under "New Subscriptions" are leased and must be renewed (generally annually) if still relevant to UQ needs. "Purchases" are resources owned by UQ Library in perpetuity.

Titles are available now. More will be added as they become live.

To the best of our knowledge, titles are available online, unless otherwise noted, e.g. (print).

Please do not hesitate to alert the Library to access issues.

Cross-disciplinary resources

Academic Video Online (VAST), Alexander Street Press
Book citation index. Science
Book citation index. Social science and humanities
Cambridge University Press journals online archive
Oxford language dictionaries online
ScienceDirect ebooks. Archive subject collections, and all 2012 (2009-2012)
Taylor & Francis Fresh journal collection (start-up titles)
World higher education database

Arts and humanities

New subscriptions

Australian book review online
Berg fashion library
Complete works / Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach (print)
Early Christianity
Electronic enlightenment
Inside history magazine (print)
Intellect journals online
International journal of technology enhanced learning
Journal of animal ethics
Kill your darlings: new fiction, essays, commentary and reviews (print)
Mediaeval journal (online & print)
Opus artis novae (4 vols, staggered release) (print)
Sartre studies international
Verandah (print)

Purchases

African writers series online
Anthropology online
ArtStor
Berg cultural histories online
Brepols miscellanea online archive
Brill ebooks: Asian studies (2007-2010)
Brill ebooks: Biblical studies, Ancient Near East & Early Christianity (2007-2010)
Brill ebooks: Classical studies (2007-2010)
Brill ebooks: European history and culture (2007-2010)
Brill ebooks: Religious studies, theology & philosophy (2007-2010)
Classical scores library, Vol. 2
Context of scripture
Documents on British foreign policy (incl. British documents on the origins of the war (1898-1914); Documents on British foreign policy (1918-1939); Documents on British policy overseas (1946-))
eDuke books scholarly collection (2008-2011)
Edward Elgar ebook collection on EBL (2000-2001)
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an online
Encyclopedia of women and Islamic culture
First World War: personal experiences
Foreign office files for India, Pakistan & Afghanistan (1947-1980)
Green's dictionary of slang
Gutai (complete reprint, 1955 to 1965; Japanese)
India, Raj and empire
KISS. Korean classic ebooks
KISS. Language & literature journal package
Latin American women writers
Listener historical archive
Literary manuscripts from the Berg Collection
Literary manuscripts from the Brotherton Library
London lowlife
Mass observation online update II
Medieval family life
New Jacoby online
New Pauly online
Proquest history vault: Vietnam War
Religion past & present online
Rock & roll, counterculture, peace and protest
Romanticism
Slavery, abolition and social justice
Springer ebooks (2012)
Supplementum epigraphicum graecum online
Times digital archive extension
Translated texts for historians e-library
World newspaper archive: South Asian newspapers (1864-1922)

Changes

Foreign Broadcast Information Service daily reports (microform upgraded to online)
Oxford art online (upgraded to 3 concurrent users)
The following subject areas have been targeted for expansion:

• Southeast Asian history, especially Islam in S-E Asia & Thai history
• Materials to support ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
• European and Latin American contemporary literature

Cancellations

None.

Business, economics and law

New subscriptions

Australian accounting and auditing standards
Berg fashion library
Business source complete
Economist
Hill & Redman's law of landlord and tenant - 18th ed. (looseleaf print)
History of international law library collection
Leisure tourism (CAB)
Mann's annotated insurance law
Tradelawguide.com
Who's Who in Business in Australia

Purchases

CAB ebooks (2005-2013)
eDuke books scholarly collection
Edward Elgar ebook collection on EBL (2000-2001)
Hart Publishing law ebook collection (2009-2010)
History of international law
Journal of international maritime law (1994-2003) (looseleaf print)
Springer ebooks (2012)

Changes

Westlaw AU (25 looseleaf titles; format changed from print to online)

Cancellations

None.

Engineering, architecture and information technology

New subscriptions

Applied rheology
ASCE journals
ASCE library
ASM failure analysis center
ASM micrograph center
Home cultures
iMechE journal collection
Knovel
OnePetro
Presence: teleoperators and virtual environments (print and online)

Purchases

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics legacy education series
Annual book of ASTM standards - 2011 ed. (print)
ASME ebooks package (2011)
ASME digital library conference proceedings
ASME digital library journal archive
Journal of international maritime law (1994-2003) (print)
Springer ebooks (2012)

Changes

SAI Global (2 additional seats to improve simultaneous access)

Cancellations

None.

Health sciences

New subscriptions

3DAnatomy: resistance training
Australian injectable drugs handbook online
Dental update
EMBO molecular medicine
Expert reviews
Faculty of 1000 (paid trial)
Future medicine
Future science
Henry Stewart talks. Biomedical and life sciences collection
Intermid (inc. British journal of midwifery)
Internurse
International journal of older people nursing
International journal of sports physiology and performance
International journal of sports science and coaching
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine
Procedures consult
Psychosis
Science translational medicine
Seminars in radiation oncology
Virulence

Purchases

Jones and Bartlett nursing practice ebook collection (2008-2010)
Karger journal archives 1, 2 & 5
LWW Doody's core collection (2011) (Ovid)
Psychiatry ebook collection (2007-2010) (Ovid)
Scientific American archive (1910-2005)
Wiley ebooks: obstetrics and gynecology (2009-2010)

Changes

American journal of health promotion online (upgraded to print and online)
Journal of visualized experiments (JoVE) (upgraded)
MedicinesComplete expanded to include Martindale (moved from Micromedex, to consolidate with other titles on this platform, to facilitate access)
Oxford medical handbooks (Oxford medicine online) (additional titles)
StatRef (8 additional titles)

Cancellations

BioMed Central subscriber membership (gave 15% discount for open access publishing, to UQ authors)
John Murtagh's General Practice Series (Access to this resource withdrawn by the publisher from 12th June 2012)

Life and physical sciences

New subscriptions

Advances in clinical chemistry
Conservation letters
Crop protection compendium
Current protocols in bioinformatics
Ecosal
EMBO molecular medicine
Equine veterinarians Australia collection
Future medicine
Future science
Expert reviews
Journal of agriculture, food systems, and community development
Journal on chain and network science
Science translational medicine
VetMed
World mycotoxin journal (print and online)

Purchases

American Chemical Society publications symposium series online
American Chemical Society legacy archive
Animal health journal package
CSIRO ebook collection (2011)
Encyclopedia of magnetic resonance
Journal of zoology (1965-1996)
Karger journal archives, 1, 2 & 5
Lyell collection (Geological Society of London special publication archives)
Macromolecular symposia (1986-1999)
Oxford scholarship online (Mathematics) - (Content to Jan 2012, 2009 & 2010 updates)
Oxford scholarship online (Physics) - (Content to Jan 2012, consolidation, 2009 & 2010 updates)
Royal Society of Chemistry ebook collection (2011-2012)
Scientific American archive (1910-2005)
WorldScientific ebooks (2005-2011)
WorldScientific journal archive

Changes

Journal of visualized experiments (JoVE) (upgraded)
SAI Global (2 additional seats to improve simultaneous)

Cancellations

None.

Social and behavioural sciences

New subscriptions

Citizenship, social and economics education
Policy futures in education
Teaching professor (print)

Purchases

APA handbooks
Berg cultural histories online
Education in video
Edward Elgar ebook collection on EBL
eDuke books scholarly collection
Emerald social science ebooks (2010-2012)
Foreign office files for India, Pakistan & Afghanistan (1947-1980)
India, Raj and empire
International journal of sports science and coaching
Springer ebooks (2012)
Teaching statistics
World newspaper archive: South Asian newspapers (1864-1922)

Changes

Foreign Broadcast Information Service daily reports (microform upgraded to online)

Cancellations

None.

Projects and other collections news

Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA): Library patrons are helping to select ebooks without realising! UQ Library is running a three year PDA trial with two aggregators: ebrary and EBL. Titles fitting predefined profiles have been added to the Library's catalogue, and when selected by patrons, open immediately for reading. The Library is then billed. Uptake has been outstanding, with titles being purchased in academic areas not previously targeted for expansion.

Subject Assessments by FoR Code: Branch and subject collection development policies have been re-written around ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) FoR (Field of Research) codes. We invite you to take a look.

Two Year Subscription Review: Librarians are reviewing all print and online subscriptions, checking their relevance to current UQ research and teaching needs. The project runs on a two year cycle. Your librarian may contact you to fine tune your area's requirements.

e-Textbook FAQs: The Library has complied a list of frequently asked questions around the rapidly emerging e-textbook landscape.

UQ Library welcomes your feedback. Please contact your librarian, or send us your thoughts via the Library feedback form.