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NZ Newspapers on EBSCO

A note from EPIC:

“Some of you may have noticed that the latest full text content up on the Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre from the New Zealand Herald is 31 March 2008, and the Dominion Post has been lagging behind as well, with content loaded to early May. We have been working with EBSCO to find out the cause of these problems, and can assure all EPIC EBSCO users that it has now been escalated up to the highest level within the Company.

Today the update from the Australia & NZ National Manager states:
“Two co-incidental but unrelated issues have been identified.
1) Some Fairfax titles haven’t been fully delivered to us by the publisher and we are urgently pursuing this content to bring the coverage up to date.
2) Content from the NZ Herald for some reason has not been loading to the system successfully. This is a technical issue and we expect to have it dealt with shortly.

Thank-you once again for your patience and please be assured that we continue to treat this issue as a top level priority.”

I met with their Regional Manager today, who said that they’ve had problems with some of the other Fairfax newspapers in Australia as well.”

ProQuest Resources on Trial

Following on from the ProQuest Roadshow earlier this month, temporary access has been added to the following resources on ProQuest:

The Guardian and The Observer (1791-2003) — to 28 June
Latin American Newsstand — to 28 June
Dissertations & Theses: Full Text — to 10 June

Note:

  • Content is being progressively added to the Guardian and The Observer. Currently only about a quarter of the content for the Guardian is available and the Observer is yet to be added. Both will be complete by Nov/Dec 2008
  • Access to PQD&T is for a shorter period because of royalty issues on full text downloading of dissertations
  • Link to Guardian, Observer and New York Times cross search

All have been added to the Electronic Resources Trials page on the Library Web, where you can direct people to the evaluation form for comments on these resources. Please let me know if there are any problems.

Project MUSE Update

Project MUSE is planning a significant redesign to be launched in August 2008.

Some new features are already being be rolled out and all MUSE articles and Tables of Contents produced since mid-April appear in the new format and offer the new linked subject headings functionality.

  • The appearance and layout of the article page have been enhanced to provide more functionality and more information specific to the article, such as its DOI and the LCSH assigned to an article.
  • “clickable” subject headings for each article connect to related content in Project MUSE

By simply clicking on a subject heading, users can move from subject to subject, article to article, exploring topics and articles related to their search topic.

Older articles will be gradually converted to the new look over the next 18 months. Currently, the new format applies only to the HTML version of articles; a new PDF format will launch with the main site design in August.

Take a look at Film & History and explore these new features.

Web of Science Additions

Last month 162 regional social science journals were added to Web of Science, including 49 titles from the Asia-Pacific region and 91 from the European Union. WoS will continue to expand the current collection of journals to include a more diverse coverage of regional literature.

Recently added titles relevant to Asia-Pacific include:

Asia Pacific Journal of Education
Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
Asia Pacific Law Review
Asia Pacific Viewpoint
Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
Asian Business & Management
Asian Case Research Journal
Asian Economic Journal
Asian Economic Policy Review
Asian Pacific Economic Literature
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
Australasian Psychiatry
Australian Economic Papers
Australian Journal of Anthropology
Australian Journal of Management
Australian Journal of Primary Health
Australian Journal of Rural Health
Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
Korea Observer
Social Policy Journal of New Zealand

You can find what journals are covered in all Thomson Reuters products on their Master Journal List page.

Print Indexes Withdrawn

As a result of a national storage agreement from the Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL), the following print indexes will be withdrawn from the Library:

Accounting & tax index
Art Index
Bibliography of Asian studies
Biological abstracts
Historical abstracts. Part A, Modern history abstracts, 1775-1914
Historical abstracts. Part B, Twentieth century abstracts, 1914-
Psychological abstracts
Philosopher’s index
RILM abstracts of music literature
Zoological record

UC is discarding these because other institutions have agreed to take responsibility for keeping them. All are available as online databases.

Science Online

We now have trial access to Science online version until the end of the year. Our access includes the following:

* Science: 1997-current issue, except Science Express PDF articles
* ScienceNOW
* SAGE KE (Science of Aging Knowledge Environment) Archive

As well as all free content on the site, i.e., table of contents of current issues and back issues, abstracts and summaries for Science, Science Classic, Science Signaling, SAGE KE; Science Supporting Online Material; Science Technical Comments; ScienceCareers.org including Next Wave and GrantsNet.