A few recent changes and additions –

For news about MEDLINE, ProQuest and Summon enhancements, free resources from IOP, SAGE, ebrary and others, as well as competitions…

Ovid MEDLINE
We now have access to MEDLINE on OvidSP. Our access includes Medline and Medline In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations (previously called PREMEDLINE) 1948 to present. More information

ProQuest Enhancements
You can now view your selected records before adding them to your My Research account. Simply, run your search, mark your records and click View Selected Items. Then you can view your list, email, print, cite, export, save, or delete items without adding them to your My Research account. See more

Summon Enhancements
Summon support for native German searching has been developed:
• ä, ö and ü can be searched for as ae, oe, and ue
• ß can be searched for as ss
• Stemming allows searching for either the singular form or the plural form of most nouns
• Compound terms can be searched for in their decompounded form, for example:
a search for ‘Behandlungsanlage’ or ‘Abwasseranlage’ will find a document containing the term Abwasserbehandlungsanlage.
• Relevancy improvements enable documents with the exact form of the search terms to be ranked higher than the alternate/derived forms.
• Intelligent stop word handling of German stop words, for example:
“und der Dichter” will return relevant results even though “und” and “der” are stop words in the German language

Earthquake Resources
Access to most of our ‘earthquake resources’ ends at the end of this month: databases from Alexander Street Press and EBSCO and eBooks from Blackwell Reference Online, CRCnetBASE, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Palgrave Connect, SpringerLink, Taylor & Francis and Wiley Online Library.

A trial of 6 eBook Collections from ScienceDirect will be active from tomorrow until 8 July: 2008 and 2009 Collections for Computer Science, Engineering and Materials Science Titles list

Open Access
Open access publishing options have been announced for:
• IOP Publishing – 23 subscription-based journals. Authors will now be able to make the final versions of their articles freely available upon publication. Titles include the Journal of Physics series, Classical and Quantum Gravity and Nanotechnology.
• SAGE Open – publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.
• Open Biology Journal – publishes original research articles, reviews and short letters in all areas of biology and at the interface of related disciplines.

Mobile Interfaces
• SAGE Journals will soon be available in a mobile-optimized format, taking advantage of the HighWire Mobile Web interface. Each of SAGE’s 600+ mobile journal sites will feature the essential aspects of the online site, including the full-text content of the current issue, archives, and OnlineFirst articles, and will offer a simplified search, authentication, and sharing tools.
• SciFinder now supports the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system. More information

Free Resources
• ebrary Blog – “Academic E-books—The Shifting Landscape,” is a new blog series in which Leslie Lees, our Vice President of Content Development, will discuss changes that are occurring within e-books, as well as implications for you and your patrons.
• Australian Poetry Library – The Australian Poetry Library (APL) aims to promote a greater appreciation and understanding of Australian poetry by providing access to a wide range of poetic texts as well as to critical and contextual material relating to them, including interviews, photographs and audio/visual recordings.
• Digital Hansard – the complete Hansard of the Australian Parliament is now available online, from the first sitting day – 9 May 1901.

Competitions
• Library Photo – RSC would like to feature an international library on the front of their 2012 Catalogue and is looking for an image depicting Science in the Library. Deadline is Friday 24th June 2011
• SciVerse Applications Apps for Library Idea Challenge – to encourage librarians and information professionals to conceptualise solutions to the challenges that they and their constituents face in addressing the search and discovery of information. The deadline for submissions is 2 September 2011
• SciFinder Mobile Photo Contest – Where do you use SciFinder Mobile? Capture the spirit of mobile computing and research in a photo and enter it in our monthly SciFinder Mobile Photo Contest. There’s a chance to win a $50 Visa gift card each month and an Apple iPad will be awarded for the best photo of the year.

Deirdre