In SpringerLink the little green icons that show that we have full/partial access are not showing at the moment. We get access to the content as we should so that’s not a problem; it’s just that people won’t know whether or not we have access. Until this is resolved and the icon reappears you may get people reporting an “Access to this resource is secured” message when using Springer.

Access to journals can be checked through the Journals page or the Library Catalogue; otherwise, contact Collection Services to clarify our current access.

ACM has introduced Author Profile pages with citation and usage statistics to the Digital Library. The new features, which also include Bibliometrics, provide a snapshot of an individual author’s contributions to computing, and a basic measure of their influence on the field. These pages are linked from author names on Citations in the ACM Digital Library. – ACM Press Room

Thomson Scientific will be holding the Thomson Scientific Web of Knowledge and Patent Information & Innovation Session updates on 13th May, 9.30 am-12 pm, Coppertop Conference Room (Level 2 Commerce Building). Tea/coffee from 9.30 am

The update will be split into two sessions:
1) Web of Knowledge Session 10.00-10.45 am
Tools and services that support eResearch infrastructure and initiatives. The session will focus on discovery, authorship, and assessment tools and include the latest development information on the Web of Science and ResearcherID.

2) Patent Information & Innovation Session 11.00-11.45 am
Global patenting trends in the academic sector and the critical importance quality patent information plays in the commercialisation and research process alongside traditional key scientific journal literature.

Please let me know by 2nd May if you are interested in attending. Academics also welcome.

New reference and navigational features have been added to ScienceDirect.

ScienceDirect now offers preview tabs – on the results page or table of contents page – giving quick access to abstracts, article outlines, etc, without the page reloading. All article-related functionality including “Cited By”, “Download PDF”, “E-mail Article” and more, are together in one location. Reference information, including links to the referenced articles (if available), can be viewed when the cursor moves over a reference marker in the body of an article. Previously, reference information was only available at the foot of the article page.

Additionally, researcher comments and ratings from 2collab, Elsevier’s free web-based collaborative platform, will be integrated with the articles in ScienceDirect.

Recently added to General OneFile:

· 1-to-1 Learning (International Society for Technology in Education)

· Digital Citizenship in Schools (International Society for Technology in Education)

· Digital-Age Literacy for Teachers (International Society for Technology in Education

· IT’s Elementary! (International Society for Technology in Education)

· Journal of Computing in Teacher Education (International Society for Technology in Education) 1040-2454

· Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology, Second Edition (International Society for Technology in Education)

· National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (International Society for Technology in Education)

· Politics & Policy (Policy Studies Organization) 1555-5623

· Reinventing Project-Based Learning (International Society for Technology in Education)

· The Technology Coordinator’s Handbook (International Society for Technology in Education)

· What Works in K-12 Online Learning (International Society for Technology in Education) 1199-6773

A demonstration session of ProQuest products will be held on Monday 5th of May from 2-4pm, Level 5 Training Room.

Proposed agenda: (links go to product information)
2 – 2:50 pm Theses and News
* ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full-Text
* NewspaperDirect Press Display
* The Guardian and Observer Archive
* Latin American Newsstand

3 – 3:50 pm Health and Medical
* MyiLibrary Medical eBooks
* ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
* ProQuest Psychology Journals

Please let me know if you wish to attend (any interested Academics also welcome). Any other PQ databases you would be interested in, or a 3rd session comprising Periodicals Archive Online, British Periodicals, Colonial State Papers, ProQuest Literature Collections and Historical Newspapers databases can be added to the agenda – please let me have your comments.

The Cabell’s business directories site is being reconstructed and will be unavailable until 15 April at the earliest. I’ve added a note to the databases-C page.

The new website will have many improvements, including more frequent updates, ranking of Business journals, new journals, master list of all journals, etc.

The new Grove sites are now live. Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online have been updated to Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online respectively.

The old sites will remain available until 30 June 2008.

JSTOR has been updated to the new platform with new features that include personalisation (MyJSTOR) and searching enhancements.

Access URLs have not changed but currently JSTOR is extremely slow. Problems with access to articles are occurring on both IE and Firefox. JSTOR has been notified.

You may also notice that links to recent content state that UC provides links through SFX (goes to Article Linker). This is being fixed asap.

Re the previous posting about article-level links to Nature via Serials Solutions (see Nature Links) – these are now working correctly and you should be taken directly to the article.

Please let me know if you have any problems or if you have any other queries relating to Article Linker.