There are some changes to our database and journal subscriptions this year:
Cancelled databases:
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre (will cease at the end of March)
Economist archive
Informit Families and Society collection
Informit Health collection
Informit New Zealand collection
Māori Land Court minute book index (Knowledge Basket) – we have access to an open access version
National Business Review Online (will cease mid-March)
NZ time series database
Safari
SIRCA
New databases:
IBISWorld
Rock Fracture Knowledgebase
SNL global data
Platform change
MLA international bibliography has moved from ProQuest to Ebsco.
A note about the cancellations:
Some of the databases have been cancelled because of overlap with other resources that we subscribe to. Some alternative access possibilities also exist – please let LAC know if you have any questions. The Economist, NBR and Safari have been cancelled because of very substantial price increases. The savings from not renewing SIRCA and the NZ time series database have made it possible for us to subscribe to IBISWorld and to add global data to the SNL subscription.
Cancelled journal subscriptions:
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology
Fundamental and applied limnology
Journal of cell biology – we continue to have access through PubMed up to 6 months ago
Wood and fiber science
New journal subscriptions
Australian environment review
Case studies in the environment
Event management
Manufacturing & service operations management
Format changes for 2019
Academy of Management journal (e-only)
Academy of Management review (e-only)
Academy of Management perspectives (e-only)
Afterimage (e-only)
Employment today (e-only)
Journal of philosophy (e-only)
Journal of the Warburg & Coutauld Institutes (e-only)
New Zealand journal of ecology (e-only)
Tasmanian reports (e-only)
Taxation today (e-only)
Western Australia reports (e-only)
NB: I have just been doing a quick check for links in LEARN to articles in databases we have cancelled. There are some for articles we no longer have any access to, e.g. Informit databases, others will need to be re-linked to use different databases. If you know lecturers that drew material from the cancelled databases for their courses it might pay to give them a heads up to check their Learn resource URLs. Unfortunately the dead links are hard to identify via report because for some of the journal titles there is overlap with other databases in the same platform (e.g. Ebsco, Informit) that we do still have access to.
Ngā mihi,
Romy
In some cases where we no longer have access to an article we may have a print sub as an alternative, e.g. we have print for North & South with holdings back to 1986.
PH