Tag Archives: British Education Index (BEI)
Service Interruptions #2
Please note the following service interruptions scheduled for this weekend – ProQuest (BEI, ERIC, ASSIA etc) – Sunday, 25th March at 03:00 until Sunday, 25th March at 15:00 (postponed from last weekend). UK Data Archive (Census.ac.uk Portal, CDU, CIDER, SARs etc) … Continue reading
Service Interruptions
Please note the following service interruptions scheduled for this weekend – ProQuest (BEI, ERIC, ASSIA etc) – Sunday, 18th March at 02:00 until Sunday, 18th March at 14:00. SciVerse (ScienceDirect eJournals) – Saturday, 17th March at 12:30 until Sunday, 18th March at 01:30. Apologies … Continue reading
The BEI and turbulent times
I have to stop myself from becoming too evangelical about the British Education Index, but as a librarian and a recent MA student, the BEI is one of the education resources I could not do without (the IOE library catalogue … Continue reading
Database news
The recent upgrade to the new ProQuest platform has resulted in the following enhancements – Lingering problems with the ERIC thesaurus have now been resolved. A new ‘Education Level’ limit can now be applied within advanced search in ERIC. Direct links … Continue reading
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Databases unavailable on Sunday 6th November
Proquest, who host a number of our online databases will be carrying out infrastructure maintenance this weekend so some of our databases, including British Education Index (BEI) and IBSS, will not be available from 2.00 am to 2.00 pm on Sunday … Continue reading
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New guides
If you’re new to the IOE and haven’t yet browsed around our library website you may have missed our Guides page. We have guides to all kinds of resources and help with using them and in particular we suggest you have … Continue reading
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A new look for British Education Index
British Education Index, ERIC and Australian Education Index are now available to IOE students and staff on the new ProQuest Professional Platform. Access to over 20 other leading datasets including Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), International Bibliography of … Continue reading
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A new guide to Athens and more….
Sadly your Athens username will not take you to a real place but is purely for use in the virtual world, but the resources it provides access to are rich beyond measure. If you haven’t yet tried to access resources … Continue reading
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Doing a dissertation?
Digging, delving and drilling down for that elusive information to create 20,000 fascinating words? If so, for reliable and specific research, you’re going to have to go beyond Google and start digging in databases. As librarians, we usually advise a search … Continue reading
Online journals go from strength to strength
IOE students and staff downloaded online full text journal articles a total of 240,577 times during 2010. This total represents both PDF and HTML onscreen views. Our ‘top ten’ most popular online journals in terms of full text downloads, accounted for 31,469 of these views. These titles … Continue reading
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