0303, 2014

Free access to ALL Palgrave Macmillan Journals during March!

By Victoria Bird|March 3, 2014|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Free access to ALL Palgrave Macmillan Journals during March! From March 1-31, 2014 Palgrave Macmillan is offering FREE online access to all its journals. All current and archival content spanning the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business will be available. Just click through to articles of interest and start reading! You can search by topic or browse titles including: Business Economics Comparative Economic Studies Development Eastern Economic Journal European Journal of

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2002, 2014

10th anniversary of Journal of Institutional Economics

By Victoria Bird|February 20, 2014|Economics, Financial and Management Studies|0 comments

To mark the 10th anniversary of Journal of Institutional Economics (JOIE), Cambridge University Press are making an online anniversary collection of papers freely available. This online only collection of papers features prominent articles from across the 10 volumes of the journal, including: What is an institution? John R. Searle Challenges and growth: the development of the interdisciplinary field of institutional analysis Elinor Ostrom Institutions and economic development: theory, policy and history Ha-Joon Chang

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3001, 2014

Practical (eBook) Action

By Victoria Bird|January 30, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, Development Studies, Economics, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

For the next 30 days, the Library invites you to trial Practical Action’s eBooks, the well-known publisher that specialises in the area of International Development. Titles available in the trial include Achieving Water Security; Aid, NGOs and the Realities of Women’s Lives and Bridging Research and Policy in Development Access is via this link: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://practicalaction.metapress.com/books/ [on or off-campus] During the trial, you can view books online by clicking the cover

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2101, 2014

North Korea in the news

By Victoria Bird|January 21, 2014|Politics and International Relations, South East Asia|0 comments

The British Library is currently trialling NK News (North Korea News).  From 13th January to 12th February 2014 users onsite in British Library reading rooms will be able to access the site from BL computer terminals. User feedback is welcomed and will be used to determine the business case for taking out a subscription to the site, so get yourselves down there if you are interested! Further information can be found

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1612, 2013

World Bank needs your feedback!

By Victoria Bird|December 16, 2013|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Just a reminder that the World Bank eLibrary is still available until 31st December 2103. The access is free of charge and the only requirement from the World Bank is that a number of users will give feedback through a questionnaire when the access has concluded. The Bank would greatly appreciate if you might take a few minutes to provide feedback via the World Bank eLibrary Evaluation Feedback Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wbelibrary2013trialsurvey. Access from here: https://ezproxy.soas.ac.uk/login?url=http://elibrary.worldbank.org.

2810, 2013

Palgrave Pivot 100 Hours 100 Titles promotion

By Victoria Bird|October 28, 2013|Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

To celebrate 1 year since the launch of the Palgrave Pivot format, Palgrave Macmillan are offering free access to the first 100 titles for free for 100 hours. Titles cover topics in Humanities, Social Sciences and Business. From 9am (GMT) on 28th October to 1pm (GMT) on 1st November you can access the first 100 Palgrave Pivot titles FREE on Palgrave Connect. For more details on the Palgrave Pivot publication model,

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2310, 2013

World Bank eLibrary Trial: Now Live!

By Victoria Bird|October 23, 2013|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

To celebrate the launch of a new platform, the World Bank eLibrary is being made available to us from 30th October 2013 until 31st December 2103. The access is free of charge and the only requirement from the World Bank is that a number of users will give feedback through a questionnaire when the access has concluded. This database provides access to the complete collection of research and information from the

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2609, 2013

Selected African Economics articles available for free

By Victoria Bird|September 26, 2013|Africa, Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

To celebrate the start of the new academic term, Wiley have kindly provided free access to a selection of articles on African Economics from across our social science and humanities journals. All articles are freely available until 31 December 2013. Access the full list of articles are on Wiley’s website. A total of 50 have been made available for use, and can be read online, downloaded, printed and saved. Examples of available

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1706, 2013

Your passport to global market information- try it now!

By Victoria Bird|June 17, 2013|Development Studies, Economics, Financial and Management Studies|0 comments

Passport, provided by Euromonitor International offers global, regional and country level online market research, monitors industry trends and gives you strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for products. Subscribers use the system to support a wide range of academic research projects: · Global Trend monitoring · Cultural change in the 21st century · Economic development in developed and developing countries · Market and Company analysis ·

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0904, 2013

Trial ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection

By Victoria Bird|April 9, 2013|Economics, Financial and Management Studies, Law, Politics and International Relations|0 comments

We currently have trial access to the ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection until 7 July 2013. The trial provides access to the following resources, in addition to those the Library already currently subscribes to from ProQuest: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) (1987 – current) ERIC (1966 – current) PAIS International (1914 – current) PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress (1871 – current) ProQuest Criminal Justice (1981 – current) ProQuest

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