A summary of a communication from EBSCO re H.W. Wilson databases:

After EBSCO acquired the H.W. Wilson databases last June they found areas that they needed to address –

• full-text licenses with publishers that were no longer valid
• titles that were no longer contributing active full text
• gaps in backfile coverage

To counter inaccurate suggestions, EBSCO wants it known that there are no instances where EBSCO has proactively removed full-text
content from an existing Wilson database where EBSCO has the contractual right to include the full text. EBSCO has either entered into new agreements with publishers, reinstated ongoing full text and filled gaps, or added new full-text titles to replace those that were not able to be validly included. The result is that these databases now have equal or greater full-text coverage than prior to the Wilson/EBSCO merger.

EBSCO is now in a position to provide definitive title lists for the Wilson full-text databases. We subscribe to the following:
• Art Full Text
• Art Index Retrospective

Deirdre

Adobe Reader X is causing problems viewing PDFs. Where we know of affected databases, a note has been added to the record on the databases pages.

Some suggestions that have been posted via Adobe Forums include:
• right-click and save to My Documents. And, if this is a problem, the following workaround:
• When you click on the PDF symbol, you get the following message “To help protect your security, IE blocked this site…” Users should “Click here for options..” then choose “Download file”. This usually results in a blank screen. Leave this blank screen open and then go back and click on the PDF symbol again (from the original webpage) and the PDF will download. Subsequent PDF downloads should also be enabled after that.
• a way round the problem is to use a non-standard PDF viewer, such as the PDF viewer integrated into Google Chrome.

See also: Tips from SciVerse

Deirdre

Electronic Purchasing in Collaboration (EPIC) has announced the following additions:

Gale Cengage will provide 2 extra products at no additional cost:

• Global Issues In Context (watch YouTube video)
• Science In Context (watch YouTube video)

Oxford University Press

• The Oxford Index will be launched in April 2012. This will enable searching across all Oxford products in one simple search.
• Oxford Reference Online will be migrating to a new platform in April. The URLs will remain the same and the old platfom will run concurrently for 6 months.

BTW, have you looked at OxfordWords blog? Find “articles about words, language, and dictionaries, plus English grammar and usage tips, interactive features, games, competitions, and more…” Try the Book quiz: do you know these classic first lines?

Deirdre

From March 1st to 31st 2012 Palgrave Macmillan is providing free, online access to their journals and to a selection of online resources and ebooks content.

Palgrave Macmillan publish high quality, scholarly journals across the core disciplines of the humanities, the social sciences and business and management.

Access Palgrave Macmillan via our subscribed journals (we currently have 13 titles) or via Palgrave’s Access all Areas site.

Deirdre

ProQuest Discover More Corps is a social network for librarians. It is a starting point for access to Quantum2 professional development series and, for the rest of the year, to explore a different complimentary resource that relates to featured 2012 Anniversaries each month.

For access, sign up for an account and select Database of the month. ProQuest will also be offering webinar topics through this site.

Deirdre

ScienceDirect recently introduced a new article design and Scopus has a new, one-click graphical analysis of your search results.

ScienceDirect
A new online article format will provide easy navigation, new and valuable types of content, and topical and relevant context in a 3 pane format optimized for online reading.

The first enhancements have just been released and other changes are due in the second half of 2012. Read more

Scopus
Use the new Analyze results button to transform your search metrics into a tabbed organization of graphs and charts. Users can determine the growth of interest in an area, including overall document publication by year, source title activity, top authors and more. Data points on the graphs include contextual boxes with additional relevant information.

Scopus searching has been improved. Results now include both variations, where US/UK spelling and Greek letter spelling/symbol are involved. Using Advanced Search it is now possible to combine terms with OR when using the proximity operator so that you can specify the distance of the two terms for a much more targeted search. Read more

Deirdre

Factiva has recently regained access to the full text of Australian Financial Review (AFR) and Business Review Weekly (BRW). Latest content is available and the archives will be added to Factiva over the next few weeeks – AFR from Sep 1987 and BRW from Jan 1989.

These are the first of six titles to return to Factiva. Others are: Financial Review Asset (Jun 2001) Financial Review CFO (Jun 2001) Financial Review Smart Investor (Dec 2005) Financial Review MIS (Jun 2001)

I’ve added records to the Catalogue for AFR and BRW. It’s not possible to link directly to these titles so I have included a search hint in the Catalogue record to help with browsing the latest issues.

Deirdre

You may have noticed that Summon search results that involve ScienceDirect titles are going to the Article Linker screen rather than
directly to the article. This is because we have moved to a new collection – ScienceDirect Freedom Collection 2012 – which has not yet been set up for article-level linking.

This means that until article-level linking is available, the Article Linker screen will only provide a link to the journal from which the required volume/issue will need to be selected. Article-level linking will return as soon as possible.

Deirdre