Morena all
A week has slipped by already since my retirement morning tea so somewhat belatedly I’d like to say thank you very much for your kind thoughts and best wishes upon my retirement. And also for the very generous gifts of the GoPro, the Wilderness Magazine subscription and the Kathmandu gift voucher. I’m looking forward to trying out the GoPro soon.
I’ve enjoyed my time at UC and have many good memories of working with you all.
Thanks again and best wishes
Peter H

Some of the Stuff newspapers are not visible in Press Reader today.   We have been informed by PressReader that they are aware of this problem and they are working on fixing this problem.

The Press and the Dominion Post are two that are affected.

We have some more Covid-19 free resources expiring at the end of August:

• JSTOR Books Complimentary Collection
• ScienceDirect eTextbooks

The Knovel trial also ends on the 31 August.

The records  will be removed from Horizon  when we get our next monthly record file update in mid September.   They will also be removed from MultiSearch around the same time.

We now have a subscription to Times Higher Education online  and it is available to all UC staff and students who register with a university email address.

The website is actually called ‘World University Rankings’ so our database record has this title.

Some of the free or trial access that we have had to resources during the lockdown will end on 30 June.

The free resources are:

Brepols
British Online Archives
Cambridge University Press textbooks
Cambridge companions, elements and histories
De Gruyter books
Gale health and wellness database
Loeb Classical Library
Project Muse books
World Scientific journals

The trials that are ending are:

Academic Video Online (ends 26June)
Knovel
ProQuest Central (ends 26 June)
PQDT Global (ends 26 June)

We will continue to have access to:

Springer text books (to 31 July)
Elsevier ScienceDirect textbooks  (to 31 Aug.)
JSTOR ebooks (to 31 Aug)
JSTOR journal archives (to 31 Dec.)
Oxford Scholarship Online – law collection (to 31 Dec.)

In some cases we will have records in Horizon and Multisearch for a couple of weeks after the access has ceased because it takes time for the records to be removed.

We have trial access to Times Higher Education until 30 June.   It can be accessed through the current electronic resources trials page.

Each user needs to register individually for access on the THE website.  This only takes a couple of minutes.

The institutional online subscription which we are considering provides unlimited access to Times Higher Education (THE) content online, including weekly editions of the magazine and access to all rankings supplements. There is also an archive which has earlier issues of the magazine back to 2013.

Since Easter we have loaded more record files into Horizon and there are now over 55,000 records for eBooks that are free or on trial.*  Many of these are available until 30 June.    Publishers include: Elsevier, Springer, Cambridge, Wolters Kluwer, Harvard Business Publishing, and a number of small university presses.

It takes a few days for the work we do in Intota and Horizon to be ingested into MultiSearch. Some of the resources are available now and more will be in the next week or two.

This week we have been working on: Knovel, the Henry Stewart Talks business & management video collection and the Bridgit William Books trial which has been extended to 20 June.

The chart below shows how long the free and trial resources will be available for.

*Thanks to Nicole for loading most of the files.

ProQuest has offered us trial access during the pandemic period to three of their databases: ProQuest Central, Academic Video Online and PQDT Global.   The trial runs until the 5 July and the databases can be accessed through the electronic resources trials webpage.

ProQuest Central consists of 47 databases and has 24,000 titles (mainly journals).  These will  be available in MultiSearch in about a week’s time.  AVO has 64,000 Alexander Street videos.

The ProQuest Central databases include:

• ABI/Inform
• Arts & humanities database
• Australia & New Zealand database
• Biological science database
• Computer science database
• Criminal justice database
• Education database
• Engineering database
• Linguistics database
• Nursing and allied sciences database
• Science database
• Sociology database

The full list of ProQuest databases that UC subscribes to and has trial access to can be found here

Note that the databases on trial have this icon alongside them

This is just a quick update about the free resources that publishers have been offering us during the Covid-19 period and the work we are doing to make them discoverable.  When I say ‘we’ it is Peter K (Ezproxy), Nicole and Wendy (loading MARC record sets) and Alison and Linda (creating database records) who have been doing the complex work that is required.

We have records for all the free textbooks from Cambridge University Press, SpringerNature and Wolters Kluwer in Horizon now, and Wendy has loaded the 1600 Artfilms video records.

The table below is a progress summary.

The following are almost completed. When we receive our next Serials Solutions record file, which we are expecting next week, we will load records in Horizon.

The reason why MultiSearch is showing as ‘not yet’ or ‘soon’ is because it takes a few days for the titles we track in Intota or load in Horizon to be ingested in Summon (MultiSearch).

Other free resources that we are starting to work on:

Cambridge Companions, Elements, Histories
De Gruyter ebooks
Knovel
ProQuest databases  (ProQuest Central, Academic videos; PQDT Global)

For more information about these resources please see the COVID-19 Special Resources libguide.  We are continuing to update this and add notes as we make the resources discoverable.

The EPIC Manager’s meeting with PressReader was postponed last week, but PressReader are still optimistic that they may be able to reach an agreement with Stuff about making the content available to users off campus.

We will update you if we hear more.