A few recent changes and additions –
New subscriptions:
- Blackwell Reference Online, 16 eBooks from the Classics Collection
- ENGnetBASE, 1110 engineering handbooks and reference titles from CRC Press
- Literature Online (LION), updates our individual literature collections from Chadwyck-Healey to a suite of 21 literature collections and reference resources, all searchable via LION
Additions to resources:
- Web of Knowledge can now be used in a Chinese Simplified interface (select the link next to the View in text that appears at the bottom of any product page)
- Royal Society eJournals have moved to the Highwire Press platform where all journal content, 1665 to present, is loaded
Other resources:
- AuthorMapper: Springer has launched AuthorMapper, “a free interactive tool that visualizes scientific research areas and trends in an easy and refined way. It will assist the scientific research community by plotting authors, subjects and institutions on a world map as well as identifying scientific trends through timeline graphs, statistics and regions.”
- Gale has put together free resources for Womens history month
- Scitopia, a portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies, has added an alerting service
Coming enhancements:
- EBSCO
- OvidSP
(Details to follow)
Deirdre