We have a trial to Oxford Reports on International Law (the extra 2 modules that we don’t have access to) set up until 3 September. I’ve put information on the Trials page

Deirdre

Trial access is available to the New Palgrave dictionary of economics until 14 August 2008.

You may get messages about fonts. The Dictionary contains a large amount of mathematical equations, which are represented as MathML. We have the recommended browsers and content displays reasonably correctly (except for the most complex examples) as MathML but the fonts can be installed for optimum viewing (don’t do this without consulting Library IT). You can set MathML preferences to MathML, which will receive MathML instead of images.

Please let me know of any problems

Deirdre

Access added to EBSCOhost: (to end of September)

• Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management Library
• CINAHL (both standard and optimized)and Pre-CINAHL
• Communication and Mass Media Complete
• Film and Television Literature Index (with full text)
• GeoRef
• Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
• MegaFile Premier
• Mental Measurements Yearbook
• MLA International Bibliography
• Music Index Online
• PEP archive
• PsycBOOKS (to 30 August)
• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
• PsycINFO (to 30 August)
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
• Social Work Abstracts
• Tests in Print

Note:
* PsycBOOKS & PsycINFO – as stipulated by the APA, trial access for these databases is only available for 30 days
* CINAHL – has also been setup for ‘optimised searching’ of CINAHL. This directly maps the keyword terms to the CINAHL thesaurus and displays the search history first.
* MegaFile Premier – available in the separate components: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Computer Source, Health Business Elite, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MAS Ultra – School Edition, Newspaper Source, Professional Development Collection, Regional Business News, Religion & Philosophy Collection and The Serials Directory.

See the Library Web trial page for information and links.

Please encourage users to try these resources and submit an evalution form.

Deirdre

Access added to OvidSP: (to end of August)

* Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
* International Political Science abstracts
* MEDLINE
* Mental Measurements Yearbook
* PsycBOOKS
* PsycINFO
* RILM
* Social Work Abstracts Plus

See the Library Web trial page for information and links.

Please encourage users to try these resources and submit an evalution form.

Deirdre

An update on Blackwell journals on Wiley InterScience –

• loading of new journal issues, books, major reference works, and database content to Wiley InterScience has resumed
• Blackwell Synergy OpenURL links are successfully redirecting to their equivalent pages, down to the article level, on Wiley InterScience
• UC access rights are now set up correctly
• some OnlineOpen articles are showing as ‘free’ but are not actually free to users, as they should be
• good progress is being made in uploading the missing content

Please let me know of any problems. An Excel file of missing content has been made available.

Deirdre

The following journals have been added to JSTOR:

Biological Sciences; Life Sciences

• In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology (Previous title: In Vitro) Vols. 1 – 29A 1965-1993
• In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal Vols. 29A – 40, 1993-2004

Note: In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal continues in part In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology split into In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant in January 1991 and split into In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal in March 1993.

• In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant Vols. 27P – 40, 1991– 2004

Note: In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant continues in part In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology (1985-1993). In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology split into In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant in January 1991 and split into In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal in March 1993.

• Journal of Coastal Research Vols. 1 – 20, 1985– 2004
• Journal of Field Ornithology (Previous title: Bird-Banding) Vols. 1 – 75, 1930– 2004
• Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Vols. 1 – 24, 1981– 2004

Arts & Sciences Complement

• Middle Eastern Studies Vols. 1 – 36, 1964– 2000
• Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana Vols. 1 – 30, 1975 – 2004
• Social History Vols. 1 – 25, 1976– 2000
• T’oung Pao Vols. 1 – 10, 1890-1899 Second Series, Vols. 1-88, 1900-2002

Health & General Sciences; Life Sciences

• Clinical Infectious Diseases (Previous title: Reviews of Infectious Diseases) Vols. 1 – 35; 1979-2002

Deirdre

Elsevier (ScienceDirect) is holding a seminar at the Millennium Hotel on Friday 8 August 2008 from 9 am – 2 pm.

The theme for the seminar is “THE LIBRARY AS STRATEGIC INVESTMENT” and university librarians from US, Singapore and NZ will be speaking about costs, and justifications, of providing resources for libraries.

For a programme and information about the speakers see LibraryConnect Seminar 2008

Please let me know asap if you would like to attend (please don’t use the link on the agenda to register)

Deirdre

The new EBSCOhost 2.0 interface is now available. Learn more about the new features on the EBSCOhost Online Research Databases page.

Coming soon:

* Narrow By Hit Counts: Hit counts will display next to items in the clustering Narrow By area of the result list.
* Image Quick View Enhancements: A new limiter for types of images (e.g. charts, photos, diagrams, etc) as well as an enhanced search screen for searching image titles and captions.

Deirdre

The complete back archives of:

• Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
• Journal of Clinical Pathology
• Heart
• Gut
• British Journal of Ophthalmology

have now been released, right back to volume 1, issue 1.

All content older than 12 months is available (on campus only) to subscribers and registered users of BMJ until 31 December 2008.

Deirdre

Access to our subscribed Blackwell titles in Wiley Interscience has been restored and all Catalogue URLs are being redirected correctly.

Some back issues, ceased journals, and other content is still to be loaded – there is an Excel file of missing content on the Wiley/Blackwell transition site. Some Synergy features will not be restored until the new Wiley platform is implemented early next year.

Please let me know of any problems

Deirdre