New subscriptions: Choice Reviews Online* and Art full text (includes Art Index Retro)
* The CRO technicians are looking in to the issue with emailing records.
Trials: Mideastwire.com until 7 December 2008 and Stat!Ref until 12 December 2008
Enhancements and Updates: ACS Publications, SciFinder, EBSCO, Gale, Factiva, JSTOR
General OneFile – a few news services added include American Morning (CNN), CBS News Sunday Morning, CNN Presents, CNN Sunday Morning News, Face the Nation (CBS News), NBC Nightly News (Video) (ShadowTV) and Today Show (Video) (ShadowTV). Also the journal Teaching and Learning (University of North Dakota, College of Education & Human Development).
Factiva – 88 new sources released, including Newspapers and industry news from Al-Bawaba covering Middle Eastern and African countries; Market reports from India; Economic reports from South Korea; Transcripts from Fox Business Network programs; Newspapers from Japan, Australia and the Netherlands; Barron’s magazine translated into Japanese language, in text and PDF formats; Business and political news from Kazakhstan; A daily newspaper from Brazil, Jornal da Tarde; Transcripts of a U.S. political and pop culture television program, MSNBC: The Rachel Maddow Show. The full title list is available on the Proquest website.
SciFinder – some of the new features include: Direct links to data; Keep Me Posted enhancements; Improved search precision; Session history retention; Index term linking; New layouts.
New content enhancements include: 23.8 million predicted proton NMR spectra; A total of 1.9 billion predicted and experimental properties, spectra and data tags, making this the largest collection offered; More than 29 million preparations, including single- and multi-step reactions, including reactions from several Wiley evaluated reference works, such as the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis; Access to catalog information for more than 24 million commercially available chemicals.
JSTOR – Daedalus [1955- ] Vol. 1 (May, 1846/1848) – Vol. 85, No. 4 (May, 1958); Vol. 86, No. 1 (May, 1955) – Vol. 131, No. 4 (Fall, 2002) Previous Title: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [1846-1958]
JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall for the following title from 5 years to 3 years: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 147, No. 1 (March, 2003) – Vol. 148, No. 4 (December, 2004)
EBSCOhost interface enhancements:
- A new Image Quick View limiter replaces the Articles With Images limiter
- The Image Quick View limiter includes multiple sort options by image type
- Direct link to the Basic Search Screen from both the Basic and Advanced Search Screens
- Keyword renamed New Search
- Result List mouse over text changed from Refine Search to Search Modes and Limiters
- Entire phrase for cited references on Result List replaces the number of references in parentheses
- Search mode specified on Result List green bar
- Search History View Results anchor positioning improved
- Date Slider Bar with original search date ranges
- Additional Help link added to Choose Databases Screen
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