HeinOnline
HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 188 million pages and 292,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,800 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
Nature
From major discoveries in the last 175 years to today’s breakthroughs – you can find important research from across science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities. Nature is a flagship portfolio of high quality journals, products and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences.
For more information on these resources please contact AskaLibrarian@hope.ac.uk
The following online resource is currently available for trial access:
The British Union of Fascists: Newspapers and Secret Files 1933-1951
These chart the rise and fall of fascism in Britain during the 1930s and 1940s, with a particular focus on Oswald Mosley’s blackshirt movement.
The bulk of the documents are official BUF publications, including Fascist Week¸ The Blackshirt, The East London Pioneer, and Action. In addition, there are hundreds of government documents relating to Mosley’s internment under Defence Regulation 18B during the Second World War.
The series covered include: CAB 127 (Cabinet Office: Private Collections of Ministers' and Officials' Papers); HO 45 (Home Office: Registered Papers); HO 262 (Ministry of Information: Home Intelligence Division Files); HO 283 (Home Office: Defence Regulation 18B, Advisory Committee Papers); KV 2 (The Security Service: Personal Files); PCOM 9 (Prison Commission and Home Office, Prison Department: Registered Papers: Series 2); and PREM 4 (Prime Minister's Office: Confidential correspondence and papers).
Trial access to this resource is available until 5th February 2021 both on and off campus for all Hope students and staff by clicking on the following link:
The British Union of Fascists
Drama Online
Drama Online is a fast-growing study resource which now features 2,750 playtexts from 1,000 playwrights, 400 audio plays, 345 hours of video, and 370 scholarly books from leading theatre publishers and companies, offering a complete multimedia experience of theatre.
Trial access to this resource is available until 28th February 2021 both on and off campus for all Hope students and staff by clicking on the following link:
Drama Online
British Online Archives
As part of their response to COVID-19, British Online Archives (BOA) has provided Liverpool Hope University with free access to their entire database of digital primary resources for 30 days from 1st February.
The website hosts over 4 million records drawn from both private and public archives. These records are organised thematically, covering 1,000 years of world history, and are of use to undergraduate students and experienced academics alike.
Themes include:
• American Studies, 1621-1952
• British Broadcasting Corporation, 1927-2002
• The Industrial Revolution in Britain and the World, 1635-1970
• British Communism at Home and Abroad, 1944-1986
• Global Governance in the 20th Century
• Governing Africa: British Records from African Countries under Colonial Rule, 1808-1995
• Politics and Protest: From Major Party Politics to Popular Protest and Parliamentary History, 1102-1994
• India under Colonial Rule, 1752-1933
• Representing Britain: International Relations and Diplomacy, 1796-1962
• British Records from West Indian Countries under Colonial Rule, 1678-1950
• Spreading the Word: Missionary Work Around the World, 1808-1967
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1675-1907
• World Wars, 1863-1974
Trial access to this resource is available until 28th February 2021 both on and off campus for all Hope students and staff by clicking on the following link:
British Online Archives
To help us decide whether this resource would be useful for Liverpool Hope, please send any feedback to AskaLibrarian@hope.ac.uk
Recommended browsers for OneSearch
When using OneSearch it is recommended that the following browsers are used:
Chrome
Firefox
Microsoft Edge
From May 2021 OneSearch will not be compatible with Internet Explorer and you should upgrade to Microsoft Edge or use one of the other recommended browsers.
I’m having problems when I try to download the full text of a journal article; what should I do?
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Go to Tools and select ‘clear recent history’. Tick everything and choose the timeframe to clear (e.g. a day), then click ‘clear now’.
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Go to Tools, and select ‘Internet Options’. Under Browsing History select ‘delete’. Tick everything, then click ‘delete’.
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Click on the spanner icon and select ‘Settings’. Click ‘show advanced settings’ and under Privacy choose ‘clear browsing data’. Tick everything and choose the timeframe to clear (e.g. a day), then click ‘clear browsing data’.
Close the browser and then re-enter the online resources.
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Covid-19 related research
BMJ
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BMJ's covid-19 hub supports health professionals and researchers with practical guidance, online CPD courses, as well as the latest news, comment, and research from BMJ. The content is free and updated daily.
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EDP Sciences
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To support all researchers during the Covid-19 pandemic, EDP Sciences has made all journal content from 2018-2020 open access, so it is freely available for all to read.
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Elsevier
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Access to 326 textbooks plus access to 20,000 Coronavirus related articles via Science Direct.
Available via the link or OneSearch
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IEEE Xplore
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Articles and standards from the IEEE Xplore digital library that may help researchers understand and manage different aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic are free to access. All content in this collection is now free to access for the duration of the global health crisis, with additional rights for all types of reuse, including full text and data mining, and analysis. IEEE are continually monitoring the developments and will update the content of this page periodically.
Available via the link or OneSearch
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Science
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The Science journals are striving to provide the best and most timely research, analysis, and news coverage of COVID-19 and the coronavirus that causes it. All content is free to access.
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Springer Nature
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To support urgent research to combat the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the editorial teams at Nature Research have curated a collection of relevant articles. Their collection includes research into the basic biology of coronavirus infection, its detection, treatment and evolution, research into the epidemiology of emerging viral diseases, and our coverage of current events.
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