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The objective of this resource is to inform the UNSW community of changes to the Library Collection and open access publishing agreements in which the University participates.

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Collection news lists newly subscribed or purchased content for 2025, as well as changes to the Library Collection. It will be updated as changes are made throughout the year. All content is listed by faculty.

To access the comprehensive suite of scholarly resources available please search the UNSW Library Collection.

Collection news

New to the Collection

Bloomsbury: Encyclopedia of New Media Art

The Library began a subscription to The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art, an eBook in 3 volumes exploring new media art from its birth in the 1950s to the present. The text examines a wide array of artworks as well as mediums and technologies, integrating history, theory, practice, curation, and culture. Some of the mediums and technologies covered include, digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, interactive art, video games, computer robotics, 3D printing, and art as biotechnology.

  • Volume 1 covers the history and theory of new media art. 
  • Volume 2 covers artists and practices in new media art; and
  • Volume 3 covers the curation and culture of new media art. 

Bloomsbury: Berg Fashion Library 2025 Content Updates

The Library previously acquired the Berg Fashion Library and new content continues to be added each year. Content updates for 2025 include:

  • New eBooks, including - The Women of 'Little Paris': Fashion in Interwar Bucharest, Fashion Under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt and Thinking Through Fashion: A guide to Key Theorists.
  • New additions to the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion.
  • A new bibliographic guide and lesson plan covering the environmental impact of the fashion industry and sustainable fashion alternatives; and
  • New video essays for Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive.

Bloomsbury Drama Online: Core Collection 2025 Update

The Library acquired the Bloomsbury Drama Online 2025 Core Collection Update - This annual update added 66 new playtexts to the Drama Online core collection.

Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method 2025 Content Updates 

The Library previously acquired the Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method content. Each year the Library acquires content updates for this platform, part 1 of the 2025 annual content update is now available and includes 14 newly published articles and 4 eBooks.

Bloomsbury Video Library: Arts & Humanities 2025 Content Update

The Library subscribes to Bloomsbury Video Library, as a result the Arts & Humanities content update for 2025 is now accessible. The update includes 40 new videos from the publisher 'Ideas Roadshow' - a collection of conversations with leading researchers in a variety of subject areas including history, politics, philosophy and the environment.

Some of the available videos include China: Up Close and Personal, Science and Pseudoscience, Improving Human Rights and Turning the Mirror: A View From the East

Bristol University Press eBook Collection

The Library acquired the Bristol University Press eBook Collection, including new titles published throughout 2025. This acquisition added 1,383 new titles to the Library collection, covering a variety of topics including Education, Health and Social Care, and Community Development.

Some new titles added to the Library collection include Toxic Education: How Schools Are Damaging Young People's Health and Wellbeing and How We Can Fix ThemFairer Welfare Systems for Better Mental Health: A New State of Mindand Hashtag Activism and Women's Rights: Are Social Media Campaigns Really Making Laws Better for Women and Girls?

Wiley 2025 eBook Collections

The Library acquired Wiley's 2025 eBook collection update, adding 680 new titles to the Library collection as they are published over the course of the year. The new titles cover a broad range of subjects including Architecture & Planning, Arts & applied Arts, Humanities and Social & Behaviour Sciences.

Access Continuing for 2026

ACLS Humanities eBook Package

Acumen

ArtBiogs

Art History Research net (AHRnet)

Asia-Studies Full-Text Online Database

Australian Jazz Real Book

Australian Music Centre

Bloomsbury Video Library: Arts & Humanities Collection - Australia

Bristol University Press Journal Package

BuildingGreen

Digital Theatre+

Macquarie Dictionary 

Medici.tv

Naxos Music Library

Philosophy Documentation Centre - Poiesis journal bundle 

Project MUSE Journal Package

SIL International: Ethnologue

University of California Press Journal Package

New to the Collection

Bristol University Press eBook Collection

The Library acquired the Bristol University Press eBook Collection, including new titles published throughout 2025. This acquisition added 1,383 new titles to the Library collection, covering a variety of topics including Business, Management & Economics.

Some new titles added to the Library collection include Dollar Dominance: Why it Rules The Global Economy and How to Challenge it, and Creative Construction: Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond.

JoVE Business

JoVE creates animated video series providing insights into key concepts and principles of selected topic areas. JoVE have recently extended their content beyond STEM into Business with a Marketing module, Finance module and a Microeconomics module. These new modules provide real-world scenarios for fundamental concepts and principles within these subject areas.

Wiley 2025 eBook Collections

The Library acquired Wiley's 2025 eBook collection update, adding 680 new titles to the Library collection as they are published over the course of the year. The new titles cover a broad range of subjects including Business, Economics, Finance & Accounting.

 

Access Continuing for 2026

American Economic Association Journals

China Data Online Census + Statistics Database

Euromonitor - Passport GMID

Global Data - MarketLine

IBISWorld

Kogan Page eBooks

Morningstar DatAnalysis Premium

Statista

Thomson Reuters Connect 4: Annual Reports, Boardroom & Prospectuses

New to the Collection

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2025 new titles

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers publish annual collections of eBook titles covering established and emerging fields of interest to mechanical engineers including new and classic titles on design, manufacturing, energy, robotics, bioengineering, pipelines, and pressure technology. The Library has acquired the 2024 Frontlist eBook titles.

Begell House Digital Portal

The Library now has access to the Begell House Digital Portal.

The Begell House Digital Portal is an online multimedia platform that hosts full-text peer-reviewed journals, databases, references, eBooks, conference proceedings, and multimedia products that provide the latest research data and information across a broad spectrum of engineering and biomedical sciences and applied works.

The digital portal consists of:

  • 50 journal titles devoted to engineering (32 titles) and biomedical/biological sciences (18 titles)
  • Databases including Thermopedia, an A-Z source for thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid flow science, and 
    technologies
  • Conference Proceedings
  • 135 eBook titles.

JoVE - New Product

The Library now has access to the recently released JoVE Core Electrical Engineering.

This collection comprises six chapters with 70 animated videos. These easy-to-understand videos cover concepts of electric circuits and circuit analysis techniques such as nodal and mesh analysis.

Design Example lessons at the end of each chapter showcase real-life scenarios which provide a practical application of the concepts covered in the chapter. These lessons aim to facilitate understanding of circuit analysis and the comprehension of the intricacies of circuit design. 

JoVE - Updates

JoVE have recently announced some updates and additions to their collections.

  • The JoVE Core Mechanical Engineering Collection has been expanded with a focus on two subsections of Mechanical Engineering:
    • The Dynamics of Objects
    • The Mechanics of Materials
  • New Products - Four more books have been released in late 2023/early 2024 in the JoVE Core section which expands the offering found in JoVE Education. These additions can be found in:

Scopus AI

The Library has acquired Scopus AI, a generative AI search tool available through Scopus.

Scopus AI employs natural language processing to generate responses from trusted content, synthesising abstracts of articles, books, book chapters, reviews, short surveys, and data papers published from 2013 - present. Its features include Expanded Summary, Concept Map, Foundational Papers Menu, and Topic Experts, which offer additional insights and enhance research capabilities. Value is added to the Large Language Model (LLM) via RAG-Fusion technology (Retrieval Augmented Generation). This is a technique which takes the original query and creates variations to find more articles to create an in-depth response with citations.

Researchers wishing to access Scopus custom data are encouraged to read the information found on the Library's AI and Scholarly Content guide.

Wiley 2025 eBook Collections

The Library acquired Wiley's 2025 eBook collection update, adding 680 new titles to the Library collection as they are published over the course of the year. The new titles cover a broad range of subjects including Physical Sciences & Engineering.

Access Continuing for 2026

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) ASCE Library Complete Collection Database Subscription

ASM International Database Subscription

ASME Journals Subscription

Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library

Elsevier Knovel Database Subscription

McGraw-Hill AccessEngineering

SAE International SAE Digital Library Technical Documents Database Subscription

SAGE iMechE Database Subscription

Society of Petroleum Engineers OnePetro Database Subscription

SPIE Digital Library 

MIT Press eBooks

New to the Collection

Bristol University Press eBook Collection

The Library acquired the Bristol University Press eBook Collection, including new titles published throughout 2025. This acquisition added 1,383 new titles to the Library collection, covering a variety of topics including Law, Criminology and Social Justice & Human Rights.

Some new titles added to the Library collection include The Legal and Political Geography of Pluralism: Supporting Diverse Public and Private Spaces in Contemporary Cities, Sentencing Serious Sex Offenders: How Judges Decide When Discretion is Wideand Human Rights Compliance in Europe: The Local Politics of Culture and Legitimacy.

LexisNexis - Practical Guidance: Intellectual Property module

The Library now has access to the ⁠Practical Guidance: Intellectual Property module. This module contains information about managing IP matters including registering, maintaining, commercialising, challenging and defending intellectual property rights. It features various topics such as Indigenous Cultural IP and Artificial Intelligence and IP. It covers Australian, New Zealand and some international content.

The module also provides updated coverage across various topics previously addressed in the now legacy LexisNexis text The Law of eCommerce.

Oxford Law Pro

Oxford University Press introduced their new Oxford Law Pro database this year. The database contains over 600 eBooks and more than 9,000 journal articles covering a variety of Law topics, and supported by an AI Research Assistant tool. This release followed the retirement of Oxford Legal Research Library and Oxford Scholarly Authorities of International Law.

As the Library held active subscriptions to the retired resources, access was shifted to 3 relevant Oxford Law Pro modules. The 3 modules have been renewed for 2026: 

  • Arbitration, Litigation, & Dispute Settlement
  • Financial, Corporate & Commercial Law
  • International Law & International Organisations

The Library has also extended subscription to the remaining 2 Oxford Law Pro modules:

  • Competition Law
  • Technology, Intellectual Property & Media Law

All content is now accessible via Primo.

Wiley 2025 eBook Collections

The Library acquired Wiley's 2025 eBook collection update, adding 680 new titles to the Library collection as they are published over the course of the year. The new titles cover a broad range of subjects including Law & Criminology.

Access Continuing for 2026

CCH iKnowConnect

HeinOnline Law Database

ICLR Online Library

Investment Arbitration Reporter

LexisNexis

Manupatra

OUP: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Law

OUP: Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law

OUP: Oxford Constitutions of the World

Oxford LawPro: Arbitration, Litigation & Dispute Settlement

Oxford Law Pro: Financial, Corporate & Commercial Law

Oxford Law Pro: International Law & International Organisations

Thomson Reuters Westlaw

vLex

New to the Collection

ClinicalKey Neurology - Australian Package

The Library has subscribed to ClinicalKey Neurology - Australian Package. This platform provides a suite of eBooks, journal titles, procedural videos and multimedia specifically within the discipline of neurology. This package also provides access to a key neurology text: Bradley and Daroff's Neurology in Clinical Practice (8th ed.). The addition of ClinicalKey Neurology complements the exisitng suite of ClinicalKey packages the Library already subscribes to: ClinicalKey Medicine, ClinicalKey Pharamcy, and ClinicalKey Physiotherapy. 

Australian Medicines Handbook

The Library has subscribed to two new components of the Australian Medicines Handbook.

The AMH Children’s Dosing Companion is Australia's national independent dosing guide for prescribing and administering medicines to children from birth to 18 years. Designed for health care practitioners in hospital and community settings, it presents evidence-based, peer-reviewed, and current dosing information. The AMH Children’s Dosing Companion also offers inter-product linking to AMH Online.

The AMH Aged Care Companion is a reference source for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who work with older people. The AMH Aged Care Companion contains the latest evidence-based information on the management of more than 70 conditions common in older people, including dementia and its behavioural symptoms, delirium, cardiovascular diseases, fall prevention, osteoporosis, COPD, insomnia, depression and wound management.

JoVE - New Content for Anatomy & Physiology

JoVE have announced the latest addition to the JoVE Core Anatomy and Physiology series. Unit III, Set 1, is now live. This collection is designed to provide insights into the anatomy and physiology of the human body through video animations. The new content includes 85 animated videos, on three specific areas:

* Blood
* The Heart
* Blood Vessels and Circulation

Also covered is blood typing, transfusions, bone marrow sampling, systemic and pulmonary circulation, and the cardiovascular response to exercise. 

JoVE - Updates and Additions

JoVE have recently announced some updates and additions to their collections.

Scopus AI

The Library has acquired Scopus AI, a generative AI search tool available through Scopus.

Scopus AI employs natural language processing to generate responses from trusted content, synthesising abstracts of articles, books, book chapters, reviews, short surveys, and data papers published from 2013 - present. Its features include Expanded Summary, Concept Map, Foundational Papers Menu, and Topic Experts, which offer additional insights and enhance research capabilities. Value is added to the Large Language Model (LLM) via RAG-Fusion technology (Retrieval Augmented Generation). This is a technique which takes the original query and creates variations to find more articles to create an in-depth response with citations.

Researchers wishing to access Scopus custom data are encouraged to read the information found on the Library's AI and Scholarly Content guide.

Wiley Advanced eText Collections

The Library acquired Wiley's new Advanced eText Collections. These collections consist of over 350 advanced-level textbooks covering the Medicine, Psychology, Social Sciences and Humanities subject areas.

Wiley 2025 eBook Collections

The Library acquired Wiley's 2025 eBook collection update, adding 680 new titles to the Library collection as they are published over the course of the year. The new titles cover a broad range of subjects including Medicine, Healthcare and Psychology.

Access Continuing for 2026

American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Journals Subscription

American Medical Association JAMA + 8 Specialty Journals Journals Subscription

American Psychiatric Association Publishing PsychiatryOnline Premium + Psychotherapy Library

American Psychiatric Association - PsychiatryOnline Premium

BMJ BMJ Learning

BMJ Case Reports

BMJ Best Practice 360 + Comorbidities

BMJ Premier Collection Journals Subscription (Open Access Agreement)

Brill Journals Subscription (Open Access Agreement)

Elsevier ClinicalKey Medical, ClinicalKey Pharmacy, ClinicalKey Physiotherapy, ClinicalKey Neurology

Elsevier Complete Anatomy

European Respiratory Journal Subscription

JoVE Unlimited Videos of Experimental Procedures and Protocols

McGraw-Hill AccessMedicine AccessWorldMed

Ovid Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins Journals Subscription (Open Access Agreement)

Ovid American Psychological Association Database Subscription

Ovid New England Journal of Medicine Journals Subscription

Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Journals Subscription

Royal Pharmaceutical Society MedicinesComplete

SAGE Royal Society of Medicine

MIT Press eBooks

New to the Collection

Reaxys - AI Search

Reaxys has now added Reaxys AI Search to its platform. This AI function seraches 121 million+ documents and 46 million patents across chemistry, pharmacology, and materials science.

Reaxys is a unique web-based chemistry database consisting of deeply excerpted compounds and related factual properties, reaction and synthesis information as well as bibliographic data, navigated and displayed via an actionable interface. 

Begell House Digital Portal

The Library now has access to the Begell House Digital Portal.

The Begell House Digital Portal is a comprehensive online multimedia platform that hosts full-text peer-reviewed journals, databases, references, eBooks, conference proceedings, and multimedia products that provide the latest research data and information across a broad spectrum of engineering and biomedical sciences and applied works.

The digital portal consists of:

  • 50 journal titles devoted to engineering (32 titles) and biomedical/biological sciences (18 titles)
  • Databases including Thermopedia, an A-Z source for thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid flow science, and 
    technologies
  • Conference Proceedings
  • 135 eBook titles.

Canadian Science Publishing Journals

The Library has subscribed to the full suite of Canadian Science Publishing journals for 2025. Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) publish 22 journals that cover multiple subjects across the spectrum of natural and physical sciences and engineering. These include three open access journals that are multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. The Library subscribes to these journals in an Open Access Agreement.

Scopus AI

The Library has acquired Scopus AI, a generative AI search tool available through Scopus.

Scopus AI employs natural language processing to generate responses from trusted content, synthesising abstracts of articles, books, book chapters, reviews, short surveys, and data papers published from 2013 - present. Its features include Expanded Summary, Concept Map, Foundational Papers Menu, and Topic Experts, which offer additional insights and enhance research capabilities. Value is added to the Large Language Model (LLM) via RAG-Fusion technology (Retrieval Augmented Generation). This is a technique which takes the original query and creates variations to find more articles to create an in-depth response with citations.

Researchers wishing to access Scopus custom data are encouraged to read the information found on the Library's AI and Scholarly Content guide.

Wiley 2025 eBook Collections

The Library acquired Wiley's 2025 eBook collection update, adding 680 new titles to the Library collection as they are published over the course of the year. The new titles cover a broad range of subjects including Chemistry, Computer Science & Information Technology, Earth, Space & Environmental Science, Life Sciences and Mathematics & Statistics.

Access Continuing for 2026

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Journals Subscription

American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals Subscription

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Journals and Meeting Papers Subscription

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Open Access Journals Agreement

American Mathematical Society MathSciNet Database Subscription

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journals Subscription

American Physical Society (APS) Journals Subscription

American Society for Microbiology Journals Subscription

Bioscientifica Journals Subscription

CAS SciFinderN Database Subscription

Clarivate Web of Science Database Subscription

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) Journals Subscription (Open Access Agreement) 

Company of Biologists Journals Subscription (Open Access Agreement)

Cornell Lab of Ornithology Birds of the World Database

CSIRO Journals Subscription (Open Access Agreement)

Duke University Press Journals Subscription

EDP Sciences Journals Subscription (Open Access/Subscribe to Open Agreement)

Elsevier Scopus & Scopus AI Database Subscription

Elsevier Reaxys Database Subscription

GeoScienceWorld Journals Subscription and GeoRef

Informs Pubs Suite Subscription

MIT Press eBooks

National Academy of Sciences PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Phoenix Bioinformatics Repbase

Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Subscription (Open Access Agreement)

Springer Nature Protocols

The Royal Society Journals Subscription (Open Access Agreement)

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