PressReader provides a social media service called My Channel to PressReader users who create their own individual account by using the Sign in option [via the Library’s subscription].
Recently an EPIC member organization identified a privacy issue. This occurred because PressReader automatically defaulted the logged in user to follow the main subscription account. The My Channel functionality then enabled the logged in user to access the full list of followers of the main subscription account.
PressReader have changed this so the default is now the user’s own account. An individual user is also blocked from accessing information in the accounts that they follow. An individual can now only follow another user who posts an opinion on Pressreader but they are unable to see who follows them or who they are following.
This year we have paid for access to 250 articles in Nature journals that we don’t subscribe to.
Until our 250 units are used up, all articles in the unsubscribed journals are available to us. Access is unmediated so any authorized UC user can read an article and/or download it. If the same article is displayed or downloaded multiple times in a 24 hour period only one unit is deducted.
Since 2015 we have provided access to a collection of open access journals that have been published using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) software. Earlier this year ProQuest (Serials Solutions) informed us that they were no longer able to keep the records for the journals up to date. We have continued to provide access to the journals but the links are becoming increasingly unreliable. We have also noticed that some journals are no longer open access and require a subscription.
Unfortunately it has now reached a point where we need to withdraw the records from the Catalogue and Multisearch. We have scheduled this for mid-January when we receive our next update file from ProQuest.
The new subscriptions that were approved in this year’s Continuing Resources Review have been ordered and we will have e-access early in 2018:
Academy of Management annals
ASCE proceedings
Australian tax review
Investor state law guide
Journal of cases on information technology
Journal of law & medicine
Knowledge cultures
NIR news (this will be included in the 2018 Sage Premier package)
Phytotaxa
Next year we will also have access to Nature’s Articles on Demand. This will allow us to download individual articles from any of the Nature journals that we don’t subscribe to. Our subscription is for 250 articles.
Cambridge University Press has introduced new series called Cambridge Elements which they say combines the best features of journals and books. The titles in the series will be rapidly published, regularly updated and concise (20,000 to 30,000 words).
Thirty titles have been commissioned, with more being considered. There will be a range of subjects, with clusters in political science, philosophy and economics. The level is appropriate to post graduates and advanced level undergraduates. More information about the series is available at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/elements
The titles will be indexed in Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed.
26 new titles have been added to our Premium Collection subscription this year and a number of existing titles have new editions. Last year 14 new editions were published and this year there have been five.
A list of the new titles and new editions can be found here (note there are two tabs, one for new titles and the other for new editions).
The new titles are available now through the Online journals and books A-Z list and should appear in MultiSearch fairly soon. We will receive catalogue records in our next monthly update file in mid August.
A number of Australian university libraries have reported that they are having problems with Oxford University Press journal articles which are slow to load or timing out. Our Interloans team had a couple of cases of this yesterday so the problem is also affecting us.
OUP say that they are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it.
Articles published in 2017 in Wiley journals are showing as locked and unavailable to us. We have reported this to Wiley and asked them to fix the problem.
The library has subscribed to Naxos Music Library for several years. Last year Naxos moved some of their content to a new platform called Naxos Music Library. World. We are now subscribing to both databases.
Naxos Music Library. World is described as “one of the most comprehensive collections of world music available online.” It offers a wide range of world music, from legendary historical musical performances to contemporary world recordings. It includes music from 150 countries.
