Wiley InterScience is returning a Service Temporarily Unavailable message when using the All Content search option.
There are no problems with the Publication Titles option and links from the Catalogue/Journals page.
Access to Cochrane Library PDFs is also unavailable. Wiley has been contacted and is restoring access as soon as possible.
Deirdre
The OvidSP trial (see previous post – Ovid resources on trial) is available again until 17 September.
Also, a reminder of the OvidSP training session being held tomorrow, Thursday September 4th at 3-4pm, L4 seminar room.
Deirdre
The first scientific wiki system of the Mememoir project has been released online at WikiGenes – “Reporting in Nature Genetics, scientist Robert Hoffmann develops the first Wiki where authorship really matters. Based on a powerful authorship tracking technology, this next generation wiki links every word to its corresponding author. This way readers can always know their sources and authors receive due credit.”
A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters / Robert Hoffmann, Nature Genetics 40, 1047 – 1051 (2008) Published online: 27 August 2008 | doi:10.1038/ng.f.217
The Scholarship 2.0 blog has a detailed post: Mememoir: The Radical Scientific Wiki Engine
Deirdre
Access to the Ovid resources we had on trial has been turned off a couple of days earlier than expected. However they will be available again for a short time after the training session next month.
Ovid has offered a training session via Webex:
If you are interested in attending, please let me know asap.
Deirdre
A trial of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law has been set up until 21/09/2008.
This is a fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print between 1991 and 2001 under the general editorship of Rudolf Bernhardt. The online edition includes search functionality and click-through cross references to other Encyclopedia entries as well as related content in the online service Oxford Reports in International Law. A print edition will become available in 2010. The 1,700 articles include more than 700 new topics not covered in the previous edition.
Deirdre
We have ProQuest Central on trial until the end of September. This is an upgrade from our current PQ5000 subscription and gives extra content, as listed on the Library Trials page. Included with PQ Central is ANZ Newsstand.
Also part of the trial is ProQuest Newspapers – a selection of 10 US newspapers, 8 of which are not available in Factiva.
Please encourage users to try these resources and submit an evalution form.
Deirdre
New features and enhancements were added to OvidSP overnight:
Many of the screens will continue to change over the next few weeks as Ovid responds to customer comments. There are also improvements coming to personalisation features; a My Projects Workspace Area will be released next month.
If you would like more information on these features or would be interested in a Webex training session with Ovid please let me know.
Deirdre
A few changes to note:
ERIC has a new look and expanded coverage and includes a new area just for librarians. More than 130 new comprehensively indexed journals have been added, with plans to increase coverage even further to include both journal and non-journal literature.
Project MUSE has released a list of new titles to be added in 2009. All new titles are included in the MUSE Premium Collection. Some, including American Music and JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology, will also be added to the MUSE Standard Collection. Title lists for 2009 for all collections will soon be available on the MUSE web site. Some Edinburgh University Press titles have been withdrawn from MUSE and will be archive-only status.
Books & Authors, the replacement for What do I read next, is now available. Our access has not yet been confirmed but you will be able to have a play around before it is pushed out to users.
ABI-INFORM has begun using new Article Types and a new indexing field this year, with articles retrospectively indexed to capture this information going back several years. Market Research (and the associated Market Segment field), Business Case and Literature Review article types are new and can be found using the Document type limiter.
Please let me know if you would like more information about any of these things.
Deirdre
We currently have a problem with Westlaw. After running a search the screen defaults to a log in requirement. Westlaw has been contacted and this is being fixed asap.
In the meantime, I have placed an alternative URL in the Databases pages for on Campus use only.
Deirdre
A couple of user queries have been cropping up a lot lately:
Problem: Factiva is presenting a log in screen
Solution: Authenticated users should not see a log in screen. When this happens, note the red text at the top of the screen and the message “The user ID and password you have entered are already in use. Please try again later or click on the Having trouble logging in link next to the login button of your product for assistance. (Error:131005)”. This means that our 3 user limit has been reached. Users need to try again later; ignore the login links. Remind people to logout after use.
Problem: SciFinder is presenting a log in screen
Solution: A personal log in is required
Note: We now have 2 versions of SciFinder, the Web version and the client (SciFinder Scholar) which are essentially the same. Users need to register for their own log in for SciFinder, so they will see a log in screen. There is a link in the Catalogue and on the Databases page for people to register for 1st-time use. There’s also a PDF (on the Databases page) explaining the user registration requirement.
Also, once logged in, a user may see a message about all seats being currently in use. Users will need to log in later (or use SFS client version) because we have 1 seat available for SF Web and 3 for SFS client (this can/will be changed as more usage of the Web version occurs).
Both of these databases, and many resources being accessed with IE, may present a further snag:
Problem: IE shows the message “There is a problem with this website’s security certificate”
Solution: Click the option “Continue to this website (not recommended).” Users can safely choose this option when connecting to our resources.
Deirdre