We have a few EBL titles returning an “internal error” message when trying to access content. EBL is aware of the problem and is working to restore access asap.

Deirdre

Our Taylor & Francis eBook titles are now available on the MyiLibrary platform. We currently have 89 titles (see these with the Browse all e-books link)

Also provided is a page of Reference Tools (under the Resources tab). Records for titles will be in the Catalogue on Monday.

Please have a look and report any problems to collections@libr. Note, we only have a 5 user licence for the 8 textbook titles (unlimited users for the rest).

Deirdre

“Project MUSE has released a beta web site previewing its combined digital book and journal content. The beta site will be available through the end of this year, allowing scholars, librarians, and students to become familiar with the newly enhanced platform before the changeover to accommodate MUSE’s forthcoming eBook Collections on January 1, 2012.”

More details are available on Project MUSE eBooks Collections page.

Deirdre

The following 61 journals have been added to JSTOR…

More detailed information about titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from the Archive Collections page on JSTOR.

Continue reading JSTOR Additions →

Encyclopaedia Britannica has made available to EPIC member libraries a trial to their new resource Image Quest.

“With the emphasis very much on copyright and the issues arising from the misuse of images from the internet, Britannica has provided institutions with a perfect solution in Image Quest. With over 2 million high quality images reproduced at 150 dpi from over 50 providers and 30 subject categories, Image Quest provides a fast, safe and simple search across broad or specific search terms. All images are rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use — great for teacher lesson plans, assignments, activities, and whiteboards; student reports and projects; or university/school Web sites, newsletters, newspapers, flyers, and bulletins.”

Promotional pamphlet

This has been added this to the Electronic Resources Trials page on the Library Web.

Deirdre

Early next week Summon search results will display differently in order to “improve the scanability of the search results, provide linkable subject terms, enable further configurability of call number display and provide correct wording for the availability of non-textual items such as music and photographs.”

This means that the labels (author, subjects, content type, availability) will be gone; subjects will be clickable links; the call no. (currently found on the preview screen) will display beside the availability message (if configured); the graphic will read “Online” (rather than “Full Text Online”) and be a better depiction of content type.

See example search

Deirdre

The title-level links for selected Gale databases are either not working or else are not working properly. Serials Solutions is aware of the situation, and is currently working with Gale on a fix. The databases affected are as follows:

* Academic OneFile
* Expanded Academic ASAP
* General OneFile
* LegalTrac

Thus, if a link from Summon fails, please direct people to go directly to Academic OneFile or General OneFile and search for the article from there. Also, in the meantime, some links are being directed to the old InfoTrac platform.

Deirdre

All 2009 and 2010 content on Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) has been made free to access between 15th July and 30th August 2011.

Access is available alongside our subscribed content at Cambridge Journals Online

Deirdre

Project MUSE has released more back issues:

• Eighteenth-Century Fiction Vol. 1, 1988-current issue
• Late Imperial China, Vol. 1, 1965-current issue
• Northeast African Studies, Vol. 1, 1994-current issue
• Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 111, 2007-current issue

See Journal Archival Issues for the complete list.

Deirdre

Our expired earthquake resources have been removed from the Catalogue and MultiSearch so our correct entitlements should now be showing.

We do have a few remaining earthquake resources:
• Alexander Street Press databases (to 31 August)
• Blackwell Reference Online (to 31 August)
• Wiley Online Library eBooks (to 31 August)
• Informit databases (to 7 September)
• Oxford Bibliographies Online (to 31 December)
• Oxford Scholarship Online (to 31 December)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (to 31 Jan next year)

We are awaiting access to 90 titles purchased from Taylor & Francis eBooks and links from MultiSearch results to GVRL and Factiva should no longer be causing problems.

Please let me know if you find any problems.

Deirdre