When our Springer subscription was changed this year (see last year’s post) we lost the ability to have our Springer titles displaying a direct link to the article in Article Linker search results. Now only a Journal link will appear for virtually all searches involving Springer titles.

The reason for this is because it is a consortial account – Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) – outside the scope of the Serials Solutions knowledgebase. I’ve contacted Serials Solutions about it and they are investigating if it is possible to add the CAUL account to the existing Springer linking mechanism so that we regain article-level links.

Until this happens, Article Linker will take you to the Journal table of contents instead of to the article itself.

Deirdre

The following journals have been added to JSTOR:

• The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1942 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 64)
• Études Rurales 1961 – 2003 (Nos. 1 – 167/168)
• International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1970 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 58)
• Machine Translation 1989 – 2005 (Vols. 4 – 19)
• Mississippi Review 1972 – 2006 (Vols. 1 – 34)
• The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 1877 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 127)
• The Review of Metaphysics 1947 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 59)
• By publisher request, JSTOR is decreasing the moving wall for Ethnology from 5 to 3 years 2004 – 2005 (Vols. 43 – 44)

Titles will be available via the Journals page next week, and added to the Catalogue mid-April.

Deirdre

A few recent changes and additions –

New subscriptions:

• Blackwell Reference Online, 16 eBooks from the Classics Collection
• ENGnetBASE, 1110 engineering handbooks and reference titles from CRC Press
• Literature Online (LION), updates our individual literature collections from Chadwyck-Healey to a suite of 21 literature collections and reference resources, all searchable via LION

Additions to resources:

• Web of Knowledge can now be used in a Chinese Simplified interface (select the link next to the View in text that appears at the bottom of any product page)
• Royal Society eJournals have moved to the Highwire Press platform where all journal content, 1665 to present, is loaded

Other resources:

• AuthorMapper: Springer has launched AuthorMapper, “a free interactive tool that visualizes scientific research areas and trends in an easy and refined way. It will assist the scientific research community by plotting authors, subjects and institutions on a world map as well as identifying scientific trends through timeline graphs, statistics and regions.”
• Gale has put together free resources for Womens history month
• Scitopia, a portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies, has added an alerting service

Coming enhancements:

• EBSCO
• OvidSP

(Details to follow)

Deirdre

19 titles have been added to JSTOR:

• The Brookings Review 1982 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 21) Publication ceased in 2003.
• The Chaucer Review 1966 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 38)
• College Literature 1974 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 32 )
• Crustaceana 1960 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 76)
• Ecological Bulletins [1975- ] 1970 – 2001 (Nos. 4 – 50) Previous Title: Bulletins from the Ecological Research Committee [1968-1973]
• Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 1998 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 8)
• Journal of American Ethnic History 1981 – 2003 (Vols. 1- 23)
• Journal of Business and Psychology 1986 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 20)
• The Journal of Ethics 1997 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 9)
• Journal of New Zealand Literature: JNZL 1986 – 2005 (Nos. 4 – 23)
• The Journal of Religious Ethics 1973 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 31)
• Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 1928 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 78)
• Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine [1989- ] 1970 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 34) Previous Title: The Journal of Zoo Animal Medicine [1970-1988]
• Latin American Literary Review 1972 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 33)
• The Massachusetts Review 1959 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 44)
• Plant Ecology [1997- ] 1948 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 176) Previous Title: Vegetatio [1948-1996]
• Rhetorica 1983 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 23)
• Studies in East European Thought [1993 – ] 1961 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 57) Previous Title: Studies in Soviet Thought [1961-1992]
• Synthese 1936 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 147)

Titles will be available via the Journals page next week, and added to the Catalogue mid-April.

Deirdre

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project.

“The Public Knowledge Project is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research. It operates through a partnership among the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, the Simon Fraser University Library, the School of Education at Stanford University, and the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University. The partnership brings together faculty members, librarians, and graduate students dedicated to exploring whether and how new technologies can be used to improve the professional and public value of scholarly research.” Read the complete description at About PKP

Serials Solutions has recently included this provider in their Knowledgebase. Please have a look at the OJS Journals list and let me know of any titles you would be interested in having access to via the Catalogue and Article Linker. The list is by no means exhaustive, so if you know of other titles, please let me know the title(s), coverage dates, and URL(s). We should show our support for such projects by adding good quality open access titles to our Catalogue whenever possible.

Deirdre

Changes are coming to Factiva:

• Search
The Factiva.com Search Builder page and Search 2.0 will be merged onto one page, which will provide the option of three search forms, Simple Search, Search Builder, and the new Search Builder form.

Simple search offers the search that was found in Search 2.0, with the addition of being able to search the complete content archive and can use all the printing, sharing and publishing options of Factiva.com.

Search Builder is designed for experienced researchers and allows you to use Boolean search logic, fields and Factiva taxonomy. No changes have been made to this, but discovery and multimedia will be included in search results. You can choose options such as all of these words, one or more of these words and the exact wording or phrase when building a search.

The Factiva Discovery Pane will be included in all search results so users will have the benefit of the traditional textual search results and the visual results.

• Article De-duplication
Article de-duplication has been enhanced in Search and Alert to include the following languages: French, German, Russian, and Spanish.

These enhancements will be available in Factiva early next week.

Deirdre

23 titles have been added to JSTOR recently:

• Archives of Asian Art [1966- ] 1945 – 2005 (Vols. 1-55)
• Brookings Trade Forum 1998 – 2005
• Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2000 – 2005
• Bulletin of the Committee on Canadian Labour History / Bulletin du Comité sur l’histoire ouvrière canadienne 1976 – 1980 (Nos. 1 – 7 + Special Bibliography Issue) Publication ceased in 1980.
• Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 1996 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 9) Publication ceased in 2005.
• Contemporary European History 1992 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 12)
• Ériu (Ireland) 1904 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 55)
• Gadelica: A Journal of Modern Irish Studies (Ireland) 1912 – 1913 (Vol. 1) Publication ceased in 1913.
• International Journal of Hindu Studies 1997 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 9)
• Journal of Business Ethics 1982 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 60) Note: The content for 2004-2005 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
• Journal of Coastal Conservation 1995 – 2004 (Vols. 1 – 10) Note: The content for 2005 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
• Journal of East Asian Linguistics 1992 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 14)
• Journal of Southeast Asian Studies [1970- ] 1960 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 34) (Previous Title: Journal of Southeast Asian History [1960-1969])
• Journal of World History 1990 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 16)
• The Massachusetts Historical Review [1999- ] 1791 – 2007 (Previous Title: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society [1791-1997])
• Narrative 1993 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 13)
• Review of International Studies [1981- ] 1975 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 29) (Previous Title: British Journal of International Studies [1975-1980])
• Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle [1978- ] 1961 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 36) (Previous Title: R.M.A. Research Chronicle [1961-1976])
• The Southern Literary Journal 1968 – 2005 (Vols. 1 – 38)
• Tax Policy and the Economy 1987 – 2000 (Vols. 1 – 14) Note: The content for 2001-2003 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
• Transactions of the American Entomological Society (1890) [1890- ] 1867 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 129) (Previous Titles: Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences [1878-1889] Transactions of the American Entomological Society (1867) [1867-1877])
• Victorian Periodicals Review [1979- ] 1968 – 2003 (Vols. 1 – 36) (Previous Title: Victorian Periodicals Newsletter [1968-1978])
• Victorian Literature and Culture 1991 – 2003 (Vols. 19 – 31)

Titles are available via the Journals page and will be added to the Catalogue mid-March.

Deirdre

Five of ACM’s magazines are now available in the ACM Digital Library in a new digital format, in addition to the standard html and .pdf options.

ACM magazines now available in Digital Edition format in the ACM DL:
– Communications of the ACM
– Queue
– interactions
– netWorker
– Crossroads

The Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC) will become ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) beginning with the February 2009 issue (Volume 9, Number 1). Topics covered will expand to cover “…diverse aspects of computing education: traditional computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, information technology, and informatics; emerging aspects of computing; and applications of computing to other disciplines, such as computational biology.”

Research MUSEings vodcasts (video podcasts) are now offered by Project MUSE. The latest vodcast is Discovering Linked Subject Headings, a “quick tutorial about the benefits of using MUSE’s linked subject headings and a lighthearted approach to demystifying the concept of Library of Congress Subject Headings as they appear in MUSE.”

If you are interested in social networking tools, MUSE has a page on Facebook and is also tweeting on Twitter.

Chadwyck-Healey Individual Literature Collections are being made available via the Literature Online platform, where they will be cross-searchable and linked to EEBO texts and JSTOR. Our upgraded subscription also includes 236 full-text literature journals, criticism and reference resources, and Poets On Screen (poets reading their own and other poets’ work). More information

Ovid has created an Understanding Basic Search Information Sheet (PDF). “The sheet is designed to provide end users with all they need to know to make the best use of Basic Search, and features details on relevancy ranking, best practices, as well as screenshots of a sample search…” A full list of Training Resources can be found in the Training section of the OvidSP Resource Center.

Finally, for a reminder of solutions to common problems encountered by students see a previous post covering Factiva, SciFinder and IE security warnings.

Deirdre