We have replaced the lists of free publisher resources that were on the COVID-19 library webpage last week with a libguide. Thanks to Romy for setting this up and copying the lists into the guide. This will make it easier for us to update the information when we receive new offers. We will also update it as we make the resources discoverable.
The libguide also includes some resources which we have decided to pay for such as the LexisNexis textbooks and some others which we have asked to trial.
Cambridge University Press is providing free access to the HTML version of 705 textbooks in the Cambridge Core collection until the end of May.
We now have records for the titles in Horizon (bib number range is #2834866 to #2835570).
We have also tracked the titles in Intota so should have access in MultiSearch in a few days time.
We have heard from the EPIC manager, Paula Banks, that PressReader are in negotiation with Stuff to have the restriction on offsite access to Stuff news removed during the pandemic period. Paula hopes to get an update about this from PressReader this week.
In the meantime anyone who has remote access to a UC computer can read Stuff content in PressReader from home. We are adding notes to the database page and Catalogue records about this.
Access is now available for the new subscriptions that have been approved for 2020:
Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection (Henry Stewart Talks)
Burrows, Finn and Todd on the Law of Contract in New Zealand
Criminal Law Journal
Corpora
Halsbury’s Laws of Canada
Journal of Systemic Therapies
Pacific Affairs
Yearbook of International Disaster Law
The 15 Oxford Handbook collections that we have purchased are also now available. The subject areas are: business & management; criminology & criminal justice, law, linguistics, literature and political science.
Oxford Bibliographies : International Relations has also been purchased.
Read and publish agreement
This year we are subscribing to a package of six journals published by the Microbiology Society. We previously had two individual journal subscriptions. If a UC author submits an article to one of the journals they won’t be charged an APC to make the article open access.
Changes
We have replaced the Datastream Advance database with Eikon for Students with Datastream. This can be installed on any staff PC in the Library or the Business School but is restricted to 5 logins. It can also be used from the Web if Excel is not required.
We have purchased an HTLM5 version of the Anatomy TV database. This has replaced an older version that used Flash and will no longer be supported at the end of 2020.
There have also been some format changes from print to e-only. These are mainly law journals and loose-leafs which are available through Westlaw NZ. New Zealand Law Review is now e-only and we have access to the current and back issues in Ingenta.
A reminder that we have cancelled the following databases:
Anthropological Index
Art Index Retrospective
Australian Education Index
British Education Index
Com Abstracts
MasterFile Premier
RISM series A/II (EBSCO version)
Sociological Abstracts
Web of Science
We are now working on removing the records from Horizon and Multisearch and removing links in LEARN. eServices have removed what they could from LibGuides but it wouldn’t hurt to check your guides/key databases lists.
The Horizon database records and MasterFile journal records will be removed this week.
We may continue to have access to some of the databases for a short time but this will expire because we have not renewed the subscriptions for 2020.
Taylor & Francis have informed us that on the list of issues pages the green access icons have been removed temporarily as they were causing slowness and instability issues with the site. Atypon (the T&F site vendor) are working on a fix for this and this should be included in the next site maintenance release (scheduled for 10th December).
EEBO has moved from a Chadwyck-Healey site to a new ProQuest platform which is available here.
This change has just been announced so the individual EEBO titles in MultiSearch still have Chadwyck-Healey links at present. The old site will continue to be available until December.
There is a support page which has more information about the change. One of the features of the new platform is that it allows cross-searching with other databases such as Literature Online.
Until now we have only had access to the latest 90 days for newspapers and magazines in PressReader. We have been informed by PressReader that they are extending the backfile coverage and they have rolled this out to existing subscribers. They haven’t made a public statement about this change yet.
An example is the Press which now has coverage back to 29 March 2007.
There are 7,000+ titles in PressReader and we get our records for them from Intota. It is likely to be some time before the coverage dates are updated in the records and it’s not feasible for us to amend all the records ourselves before then. We could,however, update the dates for key titles such as the Press. Please email LAC if there is a title you think should be updated.
The number of titles in our Annual Reviews journal collection has increased to 48 this year. One of the new titles is the Annual Review of Criminology. A list of titles that we have access to is available here
Literature Online is now on a new ProQuest platform. Our title records have been updated in the Catalogue this week and will be updated in Multisearch fairly soon.
Emerald journals will be moving to a new platform in July.
We have two Alexander Street Press video collections: Ethnographic Video Online. Volume 1 and Counseling and Therapy in Video. Volume 1. These collections are continuing to grow and there are now over 1,000 videos in the Ethnographic collection and 350 in the Counseling and Therapy collection. At present we don’t have records for all of the titles in the Catalogue and in Multisearch. This should be rectified later in the year because support for videos is an enhancement that is included in the 2019 Intota and Summon roadmaps. In the meantime the best option is to go directly to the two websites to find all the titles that are available. We have also received information that there will be a new interface for Alexander Street Press videos in July.
Our subscription to Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre ceased at the end of March. We will remove the title records from Horizon in mid-April when we receive our next MARC file update from Serials Solutions.
We still have full text access to ANZ Reference Centre titles this morning but this access is likely to be switched off by Ebsco fairly soon.
Our subscription to the National Business Review Online also ceased in mid March.