Records for over 10,000 titles in Cambridge Books Online are now in the Catalogue. These are not tracked by Serials Solutions so titles will appear in MultiSearch but not as eBooks. They will be treated as ‘books’ with the status ‘Check Availability’. In many cases we also have print copies so when search results indicate identical titles, the eBook will be the one showing as Check Availability:
(Palgrave Connect eBooks are also treated as books and have the status Check Availability)
We now have access to the Engineering pre-2007 eBook package from ScienceDirect. Records for all 834 titles will be added to the Catalogue asap. You can see the titles in ScienceDirect – we don’t have access to all of the engineering eBooks so use the filter in the left panel to include full-text available only.
A PDF of the presentation from the 2010 Thomson Reuters Product Development Roadshow is available on the Q Drive. URLs for products mentioned are below:
Cambridge Journals Online was been updated last month with a new appearance and navigation features. The latest enhancement is a faceted search functionality which means you can now search across Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) and Cambridge Books Online (CBO) simultaneously.
Start your search from either CJO or CBO and the results will include journal articles and book chapters as the default. The results are displayed on the same page, from where you can click through to whichever site hosts the content. Options to exclude books, journals and facets, or to drill down, are available.
EBSCO has obtained permissions from 9 leading ebook publishers to enable 22,000+ ebooks to be made freely avilable via NetLibrary. The publishers are:
• AMACOM Books
• Earthscan Ltd.
• Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
• Icon Group International, Inc
• IGI Global
• MIT Press
• Oxford University Press
• State University of New York Press
• World Scientific Publishing Co.
Access will be available until April 2011. Titles have been added to Serials Solutions and are findable in Summon. However, about 2,000 of the titles included in Serials Solutions are not available to us. NetLibrary indicates this with the message “This eContent is not included in your library’s collection and is unavailable for viewing.” While there will be some false hits for our users, the advantage is that we can make over 22,000 titles available.
See the New Online Resources page in Camelot for details of eBook access in MultiSearch.
To help keep up with changes in the extra online resources granted to us (especially problems with finding eBooks in Summon) we have put 2 pages in Camelot:
Please check the New Online Resources page as it summarises what is findable in Summon and in the Catalogue and what should be looked for elsewhere. The page is linked from the Earthquake Recovery page on Camelot and will be updated as changes occur.
If you have any queries, please let me know or post any comments here.
We have received more offers of free access to eBooks (all until 31 December): all SpringerLink eBook Collections, Oxford Scholarship Online and Cambridge Books Online (to be activated)
Access to SpringerLink eBooks is indicated within Springer by a green icon and should be appearing in Summon. Oxford Scholarship Online needs password access until mid October. Details are available on the Journal Logins page (linked from the Catalogue record) and these will be removed once our direct access has been set up.
eBook records for most of the (earthquake) extra titles are being progressively loaded into the Catalogue. This means that you will be able to use the option on 360 Link to “Search Library Catalogue for print copy” (Search by title is usually the best option) to see if we do have alternative access.
Reminder: not all eBook packages will be found in Summon. You need to go to the collections themselves for Palgrave, Taylor & Francis, CRCnetBase and Emerald. (These don’t have records in the Catalogue for individual titles yet either)
Theatre in Video and American History in Video (part of the new earthquake resources) are asking for login details to view videos. Alexander Street Press has been contacted and access will be available asap.
