Soilscapes

January 30, 2009

soil2The National Soil Resources Institute is offering free access to “Soilscapes”, a 1:250,000 soil dataset covering England and Wales. It provides an excellent basis for understanding many of the environmental conditions affecting any site in England or Wales and the reports are useful for geographers, geologists, archaeologists, environmental scientists, biologists, ecologists and more.


Changes to Intute: Health and Life Sciences

January 9, 2009

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In January, Intute: Health and Life Sciences (HLS) will be introducing a change to the presentation of subject headings on the HLS Home Page. The Bioresearch and Natural History headings will be combined into a single new heading: Biological Sciences.

The content has been combined and is cross searchable but the browse structure will remain the same (with some minor modifications). These changes have been informed by user feedback and an Advisory Group including academics and a librarian in the subject area and the Higher Education Academy for Bioscience. Read the rest of this entry »


Emerald Management Xtra

January 8, 2009

The Emerald web site will be unavailable for up to 2 hours on Friday between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. due to essential maintenance work aimed at providing a more stable platform for users.