New SUNCAT Contributing Library - University of Strathclyde

We are pleased to announce that the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow has now been loaded into SUNCAT. This is our fourth new library for 2012. It has contributed over 48,000 serial records, just over 35,000 of which are for electronic journals. The Library's aim is to provide access to materials and information resources which will help with studies and research in a supportive learning environment. The University of Strathclyde also hosts the Royal Scottish Geographical Society Library.

The University of Strathclyde is the 12th Scottish library to be added to SUNCAT. Currently SUNCAT contains 9 Scottish university libraries: Aberdeen; Dundee; Edinburgh Napier; Edinburgh (including Edinburgh College of Art); Glasgow; Robert Gordon; St. Andrews; Stirling; and Strathclyde. It also contains the records of the National Library of Scotland, and the libraries of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh and the Scottish National Gallery.

There are now 88 libraries, plus CONSER, ISSN Register and the Directory of Open Access Journals in SUNCAT. Take a look at the full list of the 88 Contributing Libraries. For more news and information on SUNCAT see the SUNCAT blog, SUNCAT on Twitter (@suncatteam), or contact the EDINA Helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk. 

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Birmingham University (22 Oct 12)
• Bristol University (22 Oct 12)
• Cranfield University (20 Oct 12)
• Edinburgh University (21 Oct 12)
• ISSN (13 Oct 12)
• Liverpool University (19 Oct 12)
• Manchester University (05 Oct 12)
• Newcastle University (18 Oct 12)
• Royal College of Music (17 Oct 12)
• Southampton University (21 Oct 12)
• Swansea University (15 Oct 12)
• University of the West of England (UWE) (23 Oct 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Happy Hallowe'en!

On the 31st October it is Hallowe'en. To mark this occasion here are some weird and wonderful Hallowe'en titles which can be found in SUNCAT. There are some really fascinating records, especially the one for the first title below!

• Interviews in the realms of death: or, Dialogues of the dead between several great personages deceas’d. ...
• Sabrina’s halloween spoooktacular.
• Gold digger Halloween special.
• Marge’s Lulu and Tubby Halloween fun.
• Batman, legends of the dark knight Halloween special.
• The folklore round table. No.9: Special Halloween issue.
• City slab : urban tales of the grotesque.
• How to haunt your house.
• Modern witch.
• Wacky Witch.
• Wendy’s witch world.
• The witch’s almanac ... : practical magic and spells for every season.
• Witch’s brew.
• The crooked path.
• Llewellyn’s ... witches’ spell-a-day almanac : holiday & lore, spells & recipes, rituals & meditations.
• Ghost voices : the magazine of all things haunted.
• The Haunted House, or the Revelations of Theresa Terence ... Being the Christmas number of the Pearl ... Illustrated with six ... colored plates.
• Hotwire. Requiem for the dead.
• The psychic mirror.
• Uri Geller’s encounter : the world’s most paranormal magazine.
• Pumpkin variety evaluation.
• 2006 2011 World Outlook for Canned Pumpkin and Squash.
• Black sun / PHAT...Pumpkin Hollow Anarchy Tribe.
• Brian Pulido's Lady Death: A Medieval Tale.
• The cauldron : pagan journal of the Old religion.
• Dragons well : newsletter for pagans in Oxfordshire.
• Frostfire.
• Pagan edge lifestyle & passions of the modern pagan.
• Nightveil’s cauldron of horror.

For more spooky titles and other weird and wonderful serials take a look in SUNCAT.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• CONSER (17 Oct 12)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (10 Oct 12)
• Edinburgh Napier University (08 Oct 12)
• Glasgow University (08 Oct 12)
• Leeds University (11 Oct 12)
• Liverpool University (12 Oct 12)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (08 Oct 12)
• Manchester Metropolitan University (09 Oct 12)
• Natural History Museum (09 Oct 12)
• Oxford University (04 Oct 12)
• Reading University (09 Oct 12)
• Royal Society of Medicine (09 Oct 12)
• Sheffield University (14 Oct 12)
• Southampton University (14 Oct 12)
• University College London (08 Oct 12)
• Warwick University (05 Oct 12)
• Wiener Library (08 Oct 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberdeen University (01 Oct 12)
• Bath University (26 Sep 12)
• CONSER (10 Oct 12)
• Dundee University (04 Oct 12)
• King's College London (01 Oct 12)
• Southampton University (07 Oct 12)
• Trinity College Dublin (02 Oct 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Chocolate Week AND National Cake Week!

From the 8th to 14th October it is both Chocolate Week and National Cake Week. Perfect for those wanting comfort food to help keep away the cold, but not so good for those on a diet! Here are some cake and chocolate weird and wonderful titles.

• Baked & delicious : international classics to make at home.
• The baking sheet. 
• Baking with the American harvest. 
• Squires Kitchen bake school. 
• 2006 2011 World Outlook for Cake Mixes Made from Purchased Flour. 
• Annual review / The Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate & Confectionery Alliance. 
• Brazil cakes and pastries Datamonitor. 
• The “B.B.” Album of Cake Designs. [With plates.] 
• 2006-2011 World Outlook for Seasonal Chocolate Father’s Day Candy. 
• Archives of cocoa research. 
• Chocol8 Inc. 
• Chocolate addiction. 
• Cocoaroma. 
• Hotel Chocolat: Establishing a Market Presence with Super-Premium Chocolate. 
• Nestle & Cadbury Case Study: Adapting to the Growing Demand for Dark Chocolate. 
• Report of the cocoa conference. 
• Unwrapped / Cadbury Ltd. 
• Haribo Case Study: Reinvigorating the Sugar Confectionary Market by Focusing on Health & Comfort.

For more baking and confectionary titles take a look in SUNCAT.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberystwyth University (17 Sep 12)
• Birmingham University (22 Sep 12)
• British Library (28 Sep 12)
• Cambridge University (01 Oct 12)
• Cardiff University (26 Sep 12) 
• CONSER (03 Oct 12)
• Cranfield University (20 Sep 12)
• Durham University (01 Oct 12)
• Kent University (01 Oct 12)
• Liverpool University (28 Sep 12)
• Loughborough University (01 Oct 12)
• National Art Library (25 Sep 12)
• National Library of Scotland (01 Oct 12)
• Nottingham University (01 Oct 12)
• Open University (01 Oct 12)
• Robert Gordon University (01 Oct 12)
• St Andrews University (02 Oct 12)
• Senate House Libraries, University of London (20 Sep 12)
• School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (12 Sep 12)
• University of the West of England (UWE) (23 Sep 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

James Bond Day!

Happy 50th Anniversary James Bond! Today (5th October) is James Bond Day , so here is the perfect excuse to bring to you James Bond titles found in SUNCAT. 

• 007 dossiers secrets.
• 007 extra : the newsletter of the James Bond 007 Fan Club.
• 007 spy files.
• Bondage / James Bond 007 Fan Club.
• Double-0-seven magazine.
• Goldeneye : the magazine of the Ian Fleming Foundation.
• The James Bond car collection.
• James Bond’s DB5.
• Shaken not stirred / a publication of the Ian Fleming Foundation.
• James Bond - 007 premiere crossword puzzles.
• James Bond for your eyes only

Your mission, should you accept it, is to search SUNCAT for more weird and wonderful espionage and secret intelligence titles. Report to M for debriefing when you are done, but make an appointment with Miss Moneypenny first!

Celebrate National Poetry Day

Today (4th October) is National Poetry Day. In celebration of this fact here are soem weird and wonderful poetry titles found in SUNCAT.

• Amethyst arsenic : poetry and art.
• Bad poetry quarterly.
• The Bibelot, a Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part From Scarce Editions and Sources Not Generally Known.
• Bumble jacket miscellany : a miscellany for poetry and fiction.
• Coconut poetry magazine.
• Half drunk muse.
• Oddrot : the journal of funny bizarre and subversive poetry.
• Poetry is dead.
• Symtex & grimmer : a magazine of contemporary poetry.
• Waifs and strays. A terminal magazine of Oxford poetry.
• The ballot, a political poem, by a snob.
• Echoes of Gilgamesh the long poem magazine.
• TRUTH -LONDON- POEM-.
• Affection’s keepsake.
• Anarchist angel youth poetry quarterly.
• Brittle star.
• Cabinet of curiosities.
• Deliberately thirsty.
• Grilled flowers. Special issue series
• Hot gun!
• Moodswing.
• PigeonBike.
• Ploplop.
• Poetmeat.
• Poor old tired horse.
• The quiet feather.
• The Stinging fly.
• The ugly tree.
• Unmuzzled ox.
• Verbal abuse.
• Water from the moon.
• A wigman to wind the sun up.
• The Windless orchard.

 For more poetry titles and other weird and wonderful serials take a look at SUNCAT.