If you are adding titles to your subject guides, please be aware that you may need to contact Library Support Services to have the necessary tags added to records before you use the “Add bibs to a dynamic page” tool.

If your page is a straight list of journal titles taken from the Catalogue (see example) no additional tags are required. However, for a more annotated list of databases or journals (see example) if tags are not added the Access label will read “No access restrictions”. Lack of tags on these pages automatically adds an unrestricted access qualification to the record. LSS adds the tags needed to display all other fields.

Open Access resources will rightly show “No access restrictions” but if you have titles for Library subscribed resources showing this phrase, please contact LSS to have tags added. Please also include the wording you would like for the Coverage label.

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Access to The Times Literary Supplement website is now only available to current valid personal subscriptions, not institutions. Links to TLS have been removed from the Catalogue. The only online access we have is via Factiva, from June 2010 to present.

This also applies to Harvard Business Review and The Economist (see previous post)

Deirdre

A reminder of the free content available from RSC Publishing:

• 2,400+ articles from the first two volumes of all new journals from RSC Publishing since 2008 (for 2012 this includes Catalysis Science & Technology, RSC Advances and Toxicology Research)
• 3,500+ articles from the first issue of each volume of RSC journals back to the year 2000 (except Faraday Discussions, Annual Reports and Issues in Environmental Science & Technology)
• First chapter of 1,050+ RSC eBooks on the RSC Publishing Platform
• Articles part of a special promotion
• Chemistry Education Research and Practice (open access)
• RSC Open Science – articles that authors have paid to be made freely available.

RSC has also launched a new RSC Journals Archive, which will cover content from 1841 to 2007.

The first two volumes of new journals remain accessible to subscribers, even after they come off the free access new journal content model (this currently includes Analytical Methods, Chemical Science, Energy & Environmental Science, Food & Function, Integrative Biology, MedChemComm, Metallomics, Nanoscale and Polymer Chemistry)

Deirdre

The latest update has added two new titles —

• Oxford reader’s companion to Conrad
• Oxford reader’s companion to Trollope

and 3 new editions —

• A dictionary of astronomy
• A dictionary of British place-names
• World encyclopedia

“Oxford Reference Online will be re-launched in the first half of 2012 as Oxford Reference. This will be the essential hub to all Oxford University Press reference content – re-launching with improved functionality and a new design.” ORO Update

Deirdre

American Geophysical Union journals are presenting a login/password screen for 2012 issues.

AGU is aware of the problem and are making system changes to rectify it asap.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library will have a new look from 7 January 2012.

A preview site, with a small selection of business titles, has been made available on Cengage Learning. (username/password details are available on the Camelot Electronic Resources Trials page)

Or, see the GVRL brochure for more details.

The current selection of EPIC titles on GVRL is also being reviewed. Some titles will be withdrawn (all of the literature series titles can be found in Literature Resource Centre) and NZD20,000 worth of new titles will be added – see spreadsheet for details.

Deirdre

Oxford University Press has released Oxford Index, a free search and discovery tool for searching across Oxford University Press content. Initially, Oxford Index includes approximately 250,000 free ‘index cards’, each representing a single OUP article, chapter, journal or book. Index cards display key information (including abstracts and keywords) about a work and serve as a starting point for finding relevant material.

The Oxford Index currently includes:
• All content (more than 80,000 chapters from 7,200 titles) from University Press Scholarship Online (including Oxford Scholarship Online)
• All content (over 3,400 chapters from 100+ titles) from Oxford Handbooks Online
• A collection of more than 150,000 recent articles from 235 Oxford Journals

Oxford Index Beta will continue to evolve, with the addition of hundreds of thousands of new content items and further enhancements to site functionality, leading up to the official launch of the Oxford Index in March 2012.

OUP would like feedback. You can fill out their survey form or contact OUP at oxfordindex@oup.com

Deirdre

The Library has recently purchased perpetual access to 5 subject collections on Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO): Classics,
Criminology, Islamic Studies, Philosophy and Renaissance and Reformation.

Any forthcoming updates to these modules will also be included, up to January 2012 (for Classics, Criminology, Islamic Studies) and
May 2012 (for Philosophy and Renaissance).

For full details about OBO subject areas, including details about the contributors and a full list of articles within each subject
area, see OBO Subject Modules page.

Sign up for email alerts to keep up-to-date with the latest information about OBO

Access is from the Catalogue and the Databases-O page. (Our free access to the other 2 collections, Atlantic History and Social Work, will remain until the end of the year)

Deirdre

Another JSTOR collection, Arts & Sciences X, has been added to our subscription.

“With a minimum of 125 titles available by the end of 2013, the Arts & Sciences X Archive Collection features broad coverage in Business and the Social Sciences. Sociology, Education, Public Policy & Administration, and the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine are all represented in this collection, and titles that are cross-listed in the Business III Collection contribute scholarship in the fields of Business, Economics, and Finance. The Arts & Sciences X Archive and Current Collections also include titles from new JSTOR disciplines, such as Transportation Studies and Development Studies. The titles included in the Arts & Sciences X Collection will serve researchers, scholars, and professionals in disciplines that rely on science and social science theory, data, and analysis to support their work in the field.”

All titles are immediately available via JSTOR and will appear in the Journals page tomorrow. Articles will be findable via MultiSearch shortly afterwards but titles will not be included in the Catalogue until mid-January (now available).

Deirdre

Nature Publishing Group has opened up access to more than 75,000 articles from classic issues featured in the Scientific American 1845-1909 archive collection. Explore 65 years of scientific history, breakthroughs, inventions, and triumphs:

Scientific American 1845-1909 archive collection – to December 31, 2011

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