Are now available. A number of interesting things on the agenda including some upcoming read and publish agreements, progress with a UC Library statement on eTextbook provision, updates from Unsub and other items of interest. Just get the rest of 2020 out the way first and we will pick up on these in the new year.
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Quick Acquisitions update
Kanopy: Further to our post last week, we have decided to leave the titles discoverable in Horizon so that if any Kanopy resources are needed for teaching or research we can respond to individual requests as needed (a case in point today).
This month ProQuest will be losing some eBook content (1900 titles) from Academic Complete as well as gaining new content (11,400 new titles over the past 12 months). This happens every six months or so. Removals occur due to requests from publishers and content ownership changes. Wendy and the team are reviewing the list of removals and will be outright purchasing any titles that have received over 100 uses. For the rest, there is always the possibility that there will be links to removed content from various places and so we will repurchase these individually when needed.
Update from Ovid
“Dear Ovid Customer:
As we continue to incorporate user feedback into the Ovid platform, we are pleased to announce that you will have early access to new Ovid search sharing features starting December 8th. These features help you seamlessly share search strategies with colleagues, allowing the recipient to rerun the search with one click. Please check it out and let us know what you think!
You will see three new buttons in the Search History Panel: Email All Search History, Copy Search History Link, and Copy Search History Details.
The additional features do not affect any existing workflows on Ovid. They allow you to more easily copy, share, and collaborate on searches.
Key functionality includes:
- Email All Search History: Allows you to send your current search history to another user via email. The email includes the search strategy with line numbers and number of results, the database segment(s), the date the search was executed, the link to run the search, and a message from the sender.
- Copy Search History Link: Copies search history link to your clipboard. The recipient must have access to the database the search was created in to rerun the search.
- Copy Search History Details: Copies the search strategy, line numbers, number of results per line, and database segment(s) to your clipboard.
Please note that the search history URL will not contain any custom access prefix.”
OECD iLibrary platform demonstration
From CAUL..
“OECD are providing a demonstration of their iLibrary platform: Thursday, December 3rd at 4pm.
Please click this URL to join. https://meetoecd1.zoom.us/j/91708823461?pwd=b3kraUFKZ01xV3d6QjIvSHVtQTBjZz09
Passcode: W.0qZXRzMu
Presentation Agenda:
- Introduction to OECD
- OECD iLibrary
- Searching
- Navigation
- Personalisation
- Questions
RMIT Library originally scheduled this meeting and have kindly extended an offer for all CAUL members to join if interested.”
Recommendations for books
Access and Collections are making preparations to roll over to the 2021 budget for information resources.
Each year we normally wind up placing orders for books in late October to give Access and Collections staff as much time as possible to order and receive on the budget for the current year and to minimize the amount we end up rolling over into next year’s budget (in the case of 2021 currently not confirmed..)
There has a been a flurry of late orders this year which the team are still busy processing. In order to wind up this activity and to complete end of year reporting the time has now come to call a close and so any more orders coming through (including in GOBI selection carts) will now be held over until we open the 2021 budget.
There will be some exceptions including NZ material and urgently needed eBooks while we can still invoice and receive on the 2020 budget. Another exception will be any open access fund payments approved at the next OAF meeting where we can invoice these against the 2020 budget. The rollover will happen before the end of the year but if there are exceptional circumstances with something needed urgently then please let us know.
Update from Taylor and Francis
Taylor and Francis share the following update on some new features…
Bulk download article PDFs
Our new ‘Download PDFs’ feature is available on all issue TOC pages and all search results pages. The feature allows registered users to select up to 20 articles and download the article PDFs in one single action, saving the user valuable time by enabling them to reach full-text content faster.
Export search results
Available on all search results pages, our new export search results button allows the registered user to quickly export up to 2000 search results to a .csv format file.
New ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ article navigation buttons
‘Next article’, ‘Previous article’ and ‘View issue table on contents’ navigation buttons have been added to all article full-text and abstract pages. These new highly visible buttons allow users to quickly and easily navigate to other articles and TOC pages. These new buttons have already been used over 3,000 times since we released less than 24 hours ago.
Support for 9 new article types
TFO now fully supports articles that are published using the following 9 new article types: Dataset, Exhibition, Fictional Work, Legal Case, Pictorial Work, Study Characteristics, Terminology, Systematic Review and Target Article.
Notes from Information Resources Working Group 6/11
Are now available. We spent most of the meeting discussing a draft Library statement on providing E-Textbooks. We will now be socializing this with various groups for feedback.
Library holdings updated on GOBI
LAC recently sent a file of updated ISBNs to GOBI for our book holdings. We do this 4 times a year. This means that when you are searching GOBI you will see a status “..owned by the Library” on a particular book if we already hold it (or in an alternate edition) regardless of where we purchased it from. The aim is to save time checking both the Library Catalogue as well as GOBI before recommending something for purchase.
DPI Tip for October – Zoom fatigue
We talked about this in the recent DPI refresher sessions.. With Zoom more of a thing these days it’s good to be aware this can be a drain on our energy. Some tips we discussed:
- Headphones – adjust volume
- Turning off your camera helps to reduce staring at screens continuously
- Pay attention to neck and head posture
- Discourage Zoom meetings greater than 1 hour in duration
- Meeting organisers build in some variety and transitions – eg stretch breaks
2019 CAUL Statistics
CAVAL has now completed the publication of the data collected from CAUL members for the 2019 year. Links to the current interactive statistics site and the pre-2018 site are available on the CAUL Statistics Services webpage. Quite interesting going back through the years from when we first started contributing to the stats … looks like around 1974. Thank you to everyone who helped with the data collection this year.