SAGE eReference is offering free access all online encyclopedias until April 30 2008. Click on the Banner ad on the home page of SAGE Journals Online to register for access.

Free online access to RSC journals has been provided for the whole of April. This applies to all content published between 1997 and the present day.

Note: UC has a subscription to the RSC Archive (1841-2004) plus more than half of the titles available via RSC Journals.

Our access to Naxos Music Library has been reinstated – let me know if you have any problems.

A few people have reported that they are unable to log in to NZER – this is being looked into and will be fixed asap.

I recently received a query about Serials Solutions and linking to a specific article vs the journal title, with regards to Nature. (Why doesn’t Nature link to article level?) In view of the fact that we are promoting the availability of current issues online and you may get similar queries, the following explanation may help:

Direct article level links have been turned off in Serials Solutions because the linking syntax used by Nature had been causing links to fail. It’s not known when new links will be developed.

I’ll keep you posted. Btw, the Scopus “View at Publisher” links will take you direct to an article in Nature.

EBSCO Publishing recently released GreenFILE, an abstract and indexing database of information about environmental concerns, and has made it freely available. GreenFILE contains scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.

A record has been added to the Catalogue. Please have a look at GreenFILE, as it can be added to our EBSCOhost profile to make it easily accessible along with our other EBSCO subs. Let me know if you think this would be useful.

We now have access to the American Geophysical Union Digital Library which gives access to AGU journal content from 1896-2002. Every year the Digital Library will expand to include another full year.

All journals published by AGU are available, except for International Journal of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (forthcoming). Books and Eos will be added as completed – use Browse Library to see what books are available.

Additional content and enhancements to functionality will be progressively available until expected completion of the Library by the end of the year. We retain our current subscriptions for coverage 2003-

Because Counterculture is indexed on the Web (see Counterculture found post) it is very important that you don’t include password information details in your posts. Please merely remind readers where to find such details (on the Journal Logins pages, either on the Library Web or on Camelot).

Resources listed on these pages are there because our terms of use stipulate that we don’t make login information publicly available and we can, amongst other things, compromise our access by not complying.

The new JSTOR platform will replace the current JSTOR site early next week. A preview is available until the end of this week via the JSTOR Sandbox.

The new system will provide more tools and capabilities (more details available next week). Links to the JSTOR search forms, browse page and journal information pages, as well as stable URLs, will be maintained on the new platform.

A reminder, especially for new desk staff, of where to find the relevant information if a Catalogue record says “Password needed for access, ask a Librarian”.

Look on Camelot, on the Journal Logins page, for resources whose terms and conditions prohibit us from displaying the information or require a librarian to search the resource for the user. (Journal Logins can be found from Team Portals, Collections Services or from Electronic Resources in the Quick Links panel)

Resources needing login information which can be displayed on a password-protected page for users to access themselves are found on the Journals page on the Library Web. Catalogue records have a link to this page in the form of “Password required, registered University of Canterbury users only.”

We check these passwords regularly but if you find one that no longer works, please let Serials know.