As part of our subscription to EMX, we have been given free access to the Emerald Engineering Database. This will continue through to 2011.

There are 18 journals included, 8 of which we already have access to via Emerald. The 10 new titles are:

• Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials
• Circuit World
• COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Engineering Computations
• International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology
• International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics
• International Journal of Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow
• Microelectronics International
• Sensor Review
• Soldering & Surface Mount Technology

These will appear in the Journals page tomorrow and in the Catalogue mid-May.

Deirdre

EBSCO is providing free access to swine flu information from DynaMed.

“The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak. DynaMed Editors will continue to monitor information and update this topic as needed throughout this global crisis.”

Deirdre

Alexander Street is offering a 48 hour sneak peek to Counseling and Therapy in Video until Saturday, May 2nd. [username: therapy password: sneakpeek]

“Ideal for training in social work, psychology, education, and all of the helping professions, Counseling and Therapy in Video lets you access hundreds of cross-searchable therapy sessions, case consultations, training videos, demonstrations, lectures, discussions, and workshops in streaming video together with dozens of classroom and discussion guides.”

NB. You don’t need to register to see the videos; just click the browse or search tabs when the registration screen comes up.

Deirdre

Emerald’s Journal of the Week feature provides free weekly access to two of Emerald’s high quality journals. You will be able to access, free of charge, all content from the featured journals, which are available as part of Emerald Management Plus. We will have access to some titles, but others will be outside our subscription.

This week’s title is Social Enterprise Journal

Find which journals will be featured in future weeks on Emerald’s Journal of the Week page.

Deirdre

Encyclopaedia Britannica has given us access to Britannica Online School Edition, in addition to our Academic Edition of EB. This will allow trainee teachers to see the version school students use and will be a big help to them in their preparation of classroom resources, etc.

Britannica school is part of Encyclopædia Britannica online and offers content for preK-12 at three levels: Senior High School, Middle School and Primary School. Includes magazines, journals, web sites, multimedia, as well as Merriam-Webster dictionary and world atlas. Find access via the Catalogue and the Databases-E page.

The School Edition has been made available via EPIC at no extra charge (with a sub to EBO).

Deirdre

We now have access to the Business Insights and Access Asia range of reports.

Business Insights provides market research reports for consumer goods, drug discovery, energy, financial services, healthcare and technology. Each report is “…based upon unique market research and provides detailed analyses of major markets. While examining the market dynamics and assessing the relative strengths and weaknesses of the key players, your users will be provided with forecasts for market size, growth and composition.” More information

Access Asia provides Asian market intelligence and includes “…detailed industry and consumer market reports; company profiles of industry leaders in the region; biographies of key business and political figures and Asian country profiles.” More information

The interactive functionality of the BI site allows you to translate reports into 9 languages, including Spanish, German, French, and more, design your own report and compare graphs and datasets in a split screen display.

Access Business Insights via the Catalogue or the Databases-B page

Deirdre

The latest update has added three new titles —

• A Dictionary of Hinduism
• The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History
• The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors

and 7 new editions —

• A dictionary of psychology
• A dictionary of physics
• The concise Oxford dictionary of politics
• The kings and queens of Britain
• A dictionary of business and management
• The Oxford dictionary of art and artists
• The Oxford guide to United States Supreme Court decisions

Deirdre

Currently, we are unable to link directly to newspaper titles in the EBSCO Australia/NZ Reference Centre. EBSCO are aware of this but have not yet made available persistent URLs for newspapers in the same way as they have for journals. In the meantime, a member library of EPIC (Electronic Purchasing In Collaboration) has made available the URLs they constructed. I have tweeked them, checked them and added them to the Catalogue.

Titles include all NZ (that are in ANZRC) and most major Australian and Pacific newspapers, a few Asian titles and the UK Times. If you know of any other titles, please let me know.

Continue reading Australia/NZ Reference Centre links →

The following OvidSP enhancements will be available tomorrow:

• Customizable Search Fields – Display frequently used fields in a new MyFields tab. Easily add or remove all other fields, now located in a Show All tab, based on your preferences.
• New Limits – Limit to Star Ranking (i.e., generate results with a specific ranking) and Date Last (i.e., select current, as in 2006-Current)
• Quarterly AutoAlerts – Set up saved searches, journal eTOCs and AutoAlerts to arrive on a quarterly basis.
• Improved highlighting in search results – User-entered terms will be highlighted in bold red and expanded terms will be highlighted in bold green.
• New Links – Links to PDFs of full-text articles, when available, in citations. Links to full text or the citation are now included when you export a citation to your citation manager or email to colleagues.
• Knowledge Base – Link in upper-right corner now reads Support & Training

Deirdre