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Electronic Resources Updates

Access is now available to all titles in the Annual Reviews series. Some access goes back to volume 1 but generally we have access from 2005-

Access to Haworth Press journals included in Informaworld is freely available until 22 January. See the Haworth Press site for a list of titles.

All Springer journal titles to which we have access are now included in the Catalogue.

Geology, GSA Bulletin and Geosphere have moved to HighWire Press. Lithosphere will begin publication in February.

Russian mathematical surveys and Sbornik mathematics are now available in IOP.

Edinburgh University Press is withdrawing journals from Project MUSE. Content already included in MUSE will remain accessible and free access to all journals via EUP is offered in January and February 2009. The only title which will affect us is Scottish Historial Review.

Deirdre

PsycARTICLES

Title-level links to PsycArticles will not currently work. Please direct people to the database itself to get to particular titles. Access via the Journals page will be okay tomorrow and the Catalogue links are being progressively changed.

Please let me know if you have a title you would like to have access to and I’ll change the link immediately.

Deirdre

Database Updates

A few changes for 2009:

  • PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO and RILM have been moved to EBSCO
  • Anthrosource has begun a phased move to Wiley InterScience – more information
  • Haworth Press journals are now available at Informaworld. No new content with a 2009 volume year will be added to the Haworth Press site, which will be closed after 30th March 2009.*
  • Portland Press journals are displaying a message that access will cease on 19 January 2009. Please ignore this standard message; our access will continue uninterrupted.
  • Academic OneFile is available for trial until 6 February 2009. There is a large amount of content in AONE which is not in General OneFile or Expanded Academic. See the Electronic Resources Trials page for access.

*Informaworld has provided access back to 1997, where available, to our subscribed content

Please let me know if there are any problems

Deirdre

Literature Online

We now have access to 13 LION collections:

I’ve added records to the Catalogue and the Databases pages for the 9 new ones and records for individual titles within these databases will be progressively added to the Catalogue from next year.

Deirdre

Knowledge Basket Databases

Newztext now has new search screens and capabilities. The main change is that users may now email search results. Other changes have been done behind the interface to provide more power for searches.

Three alternative links are now available:

New Zealand Index has been using the new system for several months but now also has a new URL for access.

LegislationNZ is being similarly upgraded and a new database Niustext, covering the South Pacific, is being built. Free access to this will be provided for an initial period.

This year a lot of new information has been added to Newztext (including APN Regional Newspapers) and new collections have been added to New Zealand Index – INZART (Index to NZ Art), along with NZWW (NZ Womens Weekly) index.

Please let me know if there are any problems.

Deirdre

Expensive Acquisitions Fund

The following titles have been bought with expensive acquisitions money:

Deirdre

NISC Databases

NISC BiblioLine has been taken over by EBSCO and our 2 NISC databases are now available on EBSCOhost:

I have changed the Catalogue links and left an alternative link to Biblioline on the Databases pages. NISC databases via BiblioLine will not be available beyond April 2009, at which time they will be available via EBSCOhost only.

Deirdre