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Trial — Ebrary Academic University Presses Collection (trial to 31 January 2016)

proquest2 Ebrary Academic University Presses Collection (trial to 31 January 2016)

ProQuest have included 8,000 additional eBook titles from 193 university press partners into Ebrary Academic Complete, as an add-on. This is being trialled until January 31, 2016, when a decision will be made whether to include the add-on to the Ebrary Academic complete package (which runs until August 2016)

Trial — Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online (trial to 16 February 2016)

Brill’s Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online series provides access to the digitized contents of several world-famous collections of Middle Eastern manuscripts.

memo MEMO 1: Pioneer Orientalists (trial to 16 February 2016)

MEMO 1 “Pioneer Orientalists” is a platform for the Manuscript Collections of Scaliger, Raphelengius and Golius from Leiden University Libraries consisting of 267 Arabic manuscripts in 303 volumes, with 109.517 pages, in full-colour and high-definition images.

MEMO 2: The Ottoman Legacy of Levinus Warner (trial to 16 February)

MEMO 2 “The Ottoman Legacy of Levinus Warner ” from Leiden University Libraries consists of 140 volumes from the Warner Collection, totalling 45,809 pages of Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian texts.

MEMO 3: Arabic Manuscripts from the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest (trial to 16 February 2016)

MEMO 3 “Arabic Manuscripts from the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest” consists of 200 manuscripts with just over 300 works.

Please send feedback about the trials to lydia.wright@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

New Resource — BYU-BNC

BYU-BNC BYU-BNC The British National Corpus is a 100 million word corpus of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, including newspapers. The sources are British English and include dialects and accents used in Britain from 1960-1993. The Brigham Young University (BYU) online interface is easy to use, good for quick queries (with or without wordclass tags), overall frequencies, searches in different written genres and collocations. To use the BYU-BNC you must first register, then you need to join the Oxford University group account under ‘Academic Site License’, the password for the group account is available on WebLearn. Registering will give you access to unlimited searches.