Our access to JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association is not working at present. A number of Australasian libraries are reporting the same problem.

Peter H

The following subscriptions have been ordered for next year:

Economist archive (online)
Film Quarterly (online)
Foam : International Photography Magazine (print)
Halsbury’s Laws of Australia (online)
Journal of World Trade (online)
National Business Review (online)
New Zealand Lawyer (print)
Philpapers (online)
Scientific American (online)
Wai-te-ata Music Press publications (print standing order)

Access to Journal of World Trade and NBR is available now. Access to the other online subscriptions will be activated early in 2015.
The print subscriptions will commence with the first published issue in 2015.

A Harvard Business Publishing subscription has also been approved for 2015 but some software development work in Moodle is required before the articles and case studies can be made available through LEARN.

Peter H

There seems to be a problem with Emerald’s website and we are unable to access the full text of the journals we subscribe to.

We have reported this to Emerald and hope it will be resolved soon.

Peter H

The Datasets Group is considering purchasing some journal backfiles and will be discussing options and establishing a priority list at the next meeting in October. If you would like to recommend a journal backfile for purchase please send an email to Library Access and Collections by Wednesday 8 October.

The file attached is a list of journal archives which can be purchased individually. The titles in this list have been selected because they have received 20 or more turnaways. Some of the titles have also had interloan requests.

It may be possible to purchase some of the journal archives in this list, so we are interested in any comments about the titles and if they would be worthwhile purchases.

Peter H

Library Support Services staff have been preparing the subscription lists for this year’s review and shortly we will be making the lists available to Liaison Librarians for checking. The timeframe for the review is as follows:

11 April – subscription lists are available to the Liaison Librarians for checking
2 May – subscription lists sent to IRAG
mid May – LLO meetings and subscription lists sent to Colleges
mid July – recommendations due from LLOs for cancellations and new subscriptions
Late July – cancellation lists go out to all LLOs for final comment
Early August – final confirmation with IRAG and LLOs of the changes
mid-late August – cancellations finalised and vendors notified

Questions at any stage should be sent to collections@libr.canterbury.ac.nz.

Peter H

We are now subscribing to a new video streaming service called Videatives.

This product has more than 330 video clips about general principles of child development and early education, and it
includes a feature to make, edit, and share playlists. The playlists can also be embedded in faculty members’ online courses and presentations.

For more information see http://videatives.com/

The video clips can be accessed at: http://ezproxy.canterbury.ac.nz/login?url=http://streaming.videatives.com

Peter H

The following journal backfiles have recently been purchased and are now available:

AIChE Journal 1955-1997
Aquatic Conservation 1991-1995
Biotechnology & Bioengineering 1959-1995
Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics 1972-1995
Freshwater Biology 1971-1996
International Journal of Climatology 1981-1995
Journal of Communication 1951-1996
Journal of Food Science 1936-1996
Journal of Time Series Analysis 1980-1996
Molecular Ecology 1992-1996

Peter H

The format of the following subscriptions will change from print to online only for 2014:

L’annee philologique
Built environment
Bulletin of marine science
European foreign affairs review
Ethnology
Exceptional children
Geotechnical testing journal
German studies review
Harvard educational review
Herpetologica
Hesperia
History of education review
International journal of engineering education
Journal of accounting literature
Journal of crustacean biology
Mathematics teaching
Perspectives of new music
Phoenix
Seminars in hearing
Seminars in speech and language
Sociology of sport journal
Sojourn
Teaching exceptional children
Zeitschrift fur geomorphologie
Zeitschrift fur geomorphologie. Supplement

The subscription for Journal of philosophy has been upgraded from print to print + online.

Peter H.

The minutes of the Datasets Group meetings of 14 October and 11 November are available at K:\LIBR-Library\meetings_and_minutes\datasets_group\Minutes\2013\131014.docx and K:\LIBR-Library\meetings_and_minutes\datasets_group\Minutes\2013\131111.docx

Some noteworthy decisions at the meetings include:
• JSTOR Business IV
• Nature communciations added to the Nature Gold package
• trials approved for Henry Stewart Talks and Videatives
• Primal Pictures: SLP package approved for purchase
• Wiley-Blackwell journal backfiles – 10 journal backfiles approved for purchase

Peter H.

A number of new journal subscription recommendations were received this year. The following have been approved and will commence when the first issue is published in 2014.

• Advanced materials research
• American journal of psychology
• Cultural and social history
• Comparative European politics
• Ganita Bharati : bulletin of the Indian Society for History of Mathematics
• International journal of disaster resilience in the built environment
• International journal of speech language and the law
• Journal of nervous and mental disease
• Journal of strength and conditioning research
• Neurology
• SCIAMVS
• Speech language and hearing

Also approved:

• BBC College of Journalism (available now)
• Travel and tourism as an add on to GMID Passport.

Two journals which were recommended will be included in journal packages next year:

• First World War studies (Taylor & Francis package)
• Nature communications (Nature Gold)

Peter H