Kia ora koutou
We have had a few reports of people not getting directly to articles when clicking full text links in Multisearch, instead they are taken to the journal homepage. This is a consequence of delays in getting new 2019 database packages linking indexed in the knowledge base that Multisearch uses for most full text linking. It happens every year around this time as we de-select the previous year’s package and select the new ones in Intota (our e-resource management system).
The table below gives some indication of affected publishers – I’ve marked the ones I know we are tracking with an *. The main database packages currently affected are the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection 2019, Wiley Online Library Database Model and Oxford Journals Current Collection. If you are teaching Multisearch to students it may pay to avoid examples from these packages where possible. In theory Wiley should come right by the end of Feb.
The table comes from an Ex Libris knowledge centre article – https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/360_KB/Knowledge_Articles/Annual_Collections_2019
| Provider Name | Annual Collection Available from Provider | Expected Release |
| Oxford University Press 2019* | Yes | February 10th 2019 |
| SAGE Journals 2019
haven’t turned this on yet but will be soon. |
Yes | February 10th 2019 |
| Springer-Verlag 2019 | Partial | February 10th 2019 |
| Ovid 2019 | Partial | February 2019 |
| IGI Global 2019 | Yes | February 2019 |
| Wiley 2019* | Yes | February 2019 |
| Cambridge University Press | Yes | February 2019 |
| Taylor & Francis 2019 | Partial | March 2019 |
| Walter de Gruyter 2019 | Partial | March/April 2019 |
| Elsevier 2019 (e.g. ScienceDirect Freedom 2019) * | No | Q1 2019 |
| Scholars Portal | No | Q1 2019 |
| SAGE Knowledge 2019 | No | Q1 2019 |
| Bloomsbury Academic 2019 | No | Q1 2019 |
| Duke University Press 2019 | No | Q1 2019 |
| Karger AG 2019 | No | Q1 2019 |
| Project MUSE 2019 | No | Q1 2019 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry 2019 | No | Q1 2019 |
Ngā mihi,
Romy (on behalf of e-services)