The latest update has added three new titles —

• A-Z of plastic surgery
• Magic universe: a grand tour of modern science
• The Oxford companion to the American musical

and 7 new editions —

• The concise Oxford dictionary of mathematics
• A dictionary of law
• A dictionary of British history
• A dictionary of geography
• A dictionary of political biography
• A dictionary of the Internet
• The Oxford companion to British history

Deirdre

Natlib is having network problems so all National Library Databases (Te Puna, INNZ, etc) are inaccessible at the moment.

Deirdre

Find out more about recent or upcoming enhancements and additions to content from:

• JSTOR
• ProjectMUSE
• ProQuest
• Books in Print
• EBSCO Research Starters

Continue reading E-Resources Updates →

Recent enhancements:

EBL EBook Library:
• Dictionary added
• Highlighting of Search Terms added
• Titles accessible via the Sony Reader, iPhone and iPod Touch

Journal Citation Reports:
• Journal Citation Reports 2008 Science and Social Sciences Editions now available
• New functionality includes Rank-in-Category Tables (evaluate journals in the context of multiple categories); Journal self-citations (see how self-citations affect Impact Factor); Impact Factor boxplots (visualize Impact Factor by journal category)

WorldCat:
• Advanced search – There are now three dropdown boxes that contain index choices such as OCLC number (also called Accession Number), Author, ISBN, ISSN, Keyword, Title and Subject.
• WorldCat Identities – Get to a WorldCat Identities page from the “Find more information about” drop-down in the “Details” section of a detailed record.

WorldCat Identities pages show information about writers and characters such as genre, subject headings, audience level recommendations, associated subjects, links to biographical-type information and much, much more.

Deirdre

World Book has developed 3 new Digital Libraries — Early Peoples, Living Green, and Inventions & Discoveries — to act as an interactive complement to their newest print reference sets. Each digital library includes all the content from the print set, PLUS animations, videos, interactive activities, Web sites, lesson plans, and links to encyclopedic content. The libraries are designed to appeal to those learners who do well in an interactive environment.

And you can try all three here for free, through July 6th —

Just go to: World Book Online and use these codes:

User ID: americas
Password: swan

From E-Views (Library Journal)

Deirdre

The following 8 titles have just been added to JSTOR:

• Arion Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1962) – Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter, 1970); New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1973) – New Series, Vol. 3, No. 4 (1976); Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1990) – Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Winter, 2005)

• The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art Vol. 1, No. 1 (April, 1914) – Vol. 81, No. 10 (December, 1994) Publication ceased in 1994.

• Historia Mexicana Vol. 1, No. 1 (July/September, 1951) – Vol. 57, No. 2 (October/December, 2007)

• The Iowa Review Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1970) – Vol. 35, No. 3 (Winter, 2005/2006)

• The Journal of Infectious Diseases Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 2, 1904) – Vol. 188, No. 12 (December 15, 2003)

• The Journal of Pacific History Vol. 1 (1966) – Vol. 38, No. 3 (December, 2003)

• Minnesota History [1925- ] Vol. 1, No. 1 (February, 1915) – Vol. 59, No. 8 (Winter, 2005/2006) Previous Title: Minnesota History Bulletin [1915-1924]

• The North American Review [1821- ] Vol. 1, No. 1 (May, 1815) – Vol. 290, No. 6 (November/December, 2005) Previous Title: The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal [1815-1821]

Titles will be included in the Journals page early next week and in the Catalogue mind July.

Deirdre

Deep Web Technologies has relaunched ScienceResearch.com. “Originally released in 2005 as a search engine focused on providing access to publicly searchable journal literature, ScienceResearch.com now boasts a greatly expanded set of searchable collections and Deep Web Technologies’ next-generation federated search engine.”

Other Federated Search Research Sites Powered by Deep Web Tech:

• Scitopia.org a free federated vertical search portal to the digital libraries of leading worldwide science and technology societies.
• Science.gov is a gateway to more than 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results.
• WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway, accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases.
• The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Technical Information Center’s (DTIC) online research portal’s interface, known as MultiSearch, offers four defense search channels from a single drop-down menu.
• Mednar.com is a health portal for medical researchers.
• Biznar.com searches 60 collections for news, patents, business intelligence, and information in real time.

From Information Today

Deirdre

We can now use the E-Journal Portal and 360 Link (Article Linker) to display password information. This means that users will have login/password details readily available at point of need.

You will see the following changes:

• the Catalogue record has a link to the journal and a link to the Journal Logins page – see example
• the E-Journal Portal has login and password details listed underneath the title – see example
• the Article Linker results screen has a link Resource information, passwords, etc. which opens in a new tab to display login and password details – see example

Not all of our password access journals can be treated this way. Some titles are not available via Serials Solutions and others are not for public access. Password details for titles for which a Catalogue record says “Password needed for access, ask a Librarian” can be found on UC Wiki. These are resources whose terms and conditions prohibit us from displaying the information or require a librarian to search the resource for the user.

Please let me know of any problems.

Deirdre