There are problems with searching and viewing some titles – links from search results and requests to view pages within newspapers are returning to the home page. ProQuest has been contacted about this.

Deirdre

Our free access to Cambridge Books Online and the Emerald Business, Management & Economics Book Series package has ended.

In the case of Cambridge Books Online, we have access to 50 titles (see Cambridge e-books collection on Camelot) and more can be purchased, as required, as per normal book purchasing requests. There are brief records in the Catalogue for these titles and they are findable in MultiSearch. Brief records will be updated to full records next week.

Records for the Emerald eBook titles, however, remain in the Catalogue but will not appear in MultiSearch after tomorrow. The Catalogue records will be removed next week.

Deirdre

From Alexander Street Press:

Alexander Street Press is pleased to be able to offer a free collection of online crisis counseling videos for use by those assisting with Earthquake relief projects in New Zealand. These videos offer training for those who are counseling survivors of traumatic experiences, they address the specific needs of those working in disaster relief situations, and they cover the basics of crisis counseling and crisis stabilization for children. Our thoughts are with the people of Christchurch during this difficult time. More information

Note: We have permanent access to Counselling and Therapy in Video, from which this free collection is taken.

Deirdre

We now have a subscription to the National Fire Codes which are published by the National Fire Protection Association. This provides online access to all NFPA fire codes and standards. Some of the pdfs are very large so it is advisable to choose the download option rather than ‘view online’.

Peter H.

Last year we reviewed a number of print subscriptions and changed them to e-only for 2011.

A list of the 123 subscriptions that have been changed is available here.

We also purchased backfiles for 80 journal titles from Wiley-Blackwell. A title list is available here

There are also an additional 30 titles in the Sage deep backfile this year.

Peter H.

A few recent changes and additions –

Project MUSE has added more back issues; Alexander St Press has released new products; Factiva has made a few changes and more are scheduled; and we have access to some new resources

Continue reading eResources Updates →

The new Web of Knowledge has arrived and promises to be “a more powerful research resource than ever before.”

Some of the key enhancements are —

*Improved search and navigation: Automatically search for term-variants, refine your search by database, create a Marked List across the platform, and preview abstracts from your results list
*Better results management: Analyze results and create citation reports from custom data sets.
*More opportunities to showcase work and find collaborators: Link directly from Web of Science to an author’s personalized CV, complete with citation metrics, in the ResearcherID environment.

For a full list of enhancements and how they benefit you please go to TheNewWok.com

For the rest of 2011 we will have access to both the current version of Web of Knowledge and the new version. The new version can be accessed directly (a link will be added to the Databases pages) or, from the current version, click the link in the upper right hand corner that says “DISCOVER the new Web of Knowledge now!”

Deirdre

Counseling and Therapy in Video Volume 2 has just been released. This is available for preview until mid-April. The preview contains 143 videos totalling 116 hours of streaming video. The collection will grow to over 300 hours.

In mid-April, open access will be turned off and Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II will be cross-searchable with the first volume of Counseling and Therapy in Video. (We will only see the first volume, as that is all we own.)

Deirdre

Access to NetLibrary eBooks is being integrated with EBSCO databases, providing eBooks and databases from a single source. NetLibrary will then be known as eBooks on EBSCOhost.

We have a preview of eBooks on EBSCOhost (for UC subscribed collection) To access a generic eBooks collection, go to the New Features area on EBSCOhost.

These key features of eBooks on EBSCOhost will enable you to:

* View the Table of Contents directly from the Result List and Detail Record
* Browse by subject, genre, etc.
* Enjoy the rich Result List with evaluative data
* Use the “search-within functionality” to search for specific terms within a book (a search will yield a list of hyperlinked pages)
* Examine documents more closely using the enhanced viewer
* Create and print your notes while viewing and reading eBooks, and save them for reference in your my EBSCOhost folder.

EBSCO has a survey for your feedback on eBooks on EBSCOhost.

Notes about the preview:

* Changes to our collection will not be reflected within the preview environment
* My EBSCOhost folder users must create a new and unique account for preview period use only. Information stored, including username, password and eBook information, will be deleted once the preview ends, or in about three months.

Deirdre

NetLibrary eBooks have been removed from Summon as they were causing too many problems with false links (“This eContent is not included in your library’s collection and is unavailable for viewing.”) This won’t take effect until tomorrow.

Please note: We still have (earthquake) access to over 26,000 eBooks from NetLibrary until April but you will need to go to NetLibrary to search for these. We own about 150 NetLibrary titles and these will still appear in Summon (linked correctly, without the upsetting message).

Deirdre