We have trial access to Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) until the end of the year. Not all subjects are available to us, just the 7 subject areas shown by the icons on the home page. Information is included on the Electronic Resources Trials page on the library website and a record has been added to the Catalogue and the Databases-O page.
Please encourage users to try OBO and submit an evalution form.
Deirdre
Six titles transferring to Oxford University Press this year have been made freely available until the end of February:
• The Journal of Infectious Diseases
• Clinical Infectious Diseases
• The Journal of American History
• The OAH Magazine of History
• The Quarterly Journal of Economics
• The Review of Economic Studies
Note: Our current subscription for Quarterly Journal of Economics will continue on OUP
Also freely available until the end of February, the law yearbooks from OUP, previously only available in print:
• British Year Book of International Law
• Current Legal Problems
• Yearbook of International Environmental Law
• Yearbook of European Law
Deirdre
A message from Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President of Alexander Street Press:
An update on where ASP is with some of the regional/global content projects planned…
Further to the post last year – ProQuest Enhancements – the new platform is now live. This includes databases currently on the ProQuest and CSA Illumina platforms (use the “See list” link at the top of the screen, or mouse over the “Search subject areas” icons). The only Chadwyck-Healey databases currently included are British Periodicals and International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) which we only have access to until the end of February.
We have until the end of March to move to the new platform so it would be good to have it set up for our users by the start of term. The new interface is user-friendly and intuitive and promises a better search experience. Use the online help or refer to a quick start reference overview and user guide (PDFs) Also, ProQuest have offered a webinar introduction to the new platform.
The new interface is not yet available to users but a link can be put in the database record and in ProQuest so that people can get familiar before we switch over. Once fully migrated, we will still have access to those ProQuest subscriptions on the old “legacy” platforms but everything else will be on the new platform.
Please add any comments and let me know if you are interested in the PQ webinar.
Deirdre
Alexander Street Press has released two new collections:
• Women and Social Movements International
• World History in Video: English Language Documentaries
These have been added to our current earthquake access to Alexander Street collections, until the end of February.
Deirdre
• GeoScienceWorld
We have subscribed to GeoScienceWorld which consists of high impact geoscience journals and is inter-operable with GeoRef. Journal titles have been added to the Journals page and articles are findable in MultiSearch. Records will be added to the Catalogue next month.
• Non-Fiction Connection
We have been given access to Non-Fiction Connection for 2011, as part of our subscription to GBIP. “Discover titles similar to books you already enjoy” – you can use this database to find book suggestions based on books you have already read, authors you like, or topics of interest. Browse by topic, genre, setting, character, location, or timeframe.
• OUP Training Resources
Oxford University Press has a useful Training Resources page with quizzes, demos, fact sheets and more… Find short powerpoint introductions and factsheets for products, test your knowledge with an OED or ORO quiz and access user guides for OED and ORIL.
• Leisure Tourism Database
CABI now includes its Leisure & Tourism e-books in the Leisure Tourism Database at no extra charge. This gives us access to full text PDFs of about 85 titles from 2000 to present. These titles will be added to the Catalogue asap.
• Literature Online
Six new journal titles have been added to LION. Also, 58 new or revised biographies and over 900 video clips of poets reading their own and others’ works (audio recordings at The Poetry Archive) have been added. More information
If you know of primary works that are not included in LION and think they should be, visit the Suggest a Text page and you could win a USD20 Amazon voucher.
• Springer Realtime
“Realtime.springer.com is a special service that gives you insight into what content is being read by the scientific community, all over the world, as it is happening.” Realtime feeds from SpringerLink, SpringerImages, and SpringerProtocols and shows when articles are downloaded by users, giving an up-to-date view of the topics that are of most interest to readers.
Deirdre
The ProQuest, CSA and Chadwyck-Healey databases made available to us as part of the earthquake response package are currently unavailable.
Hopefully, our access will be restored asap.
Deirdre
SpringerLink and Palgrave Connect eBooks are unavailable at the moment. Access will be restored asap.
(Our subscribed content on SpringerLink is unaffected)
Deirdre
Another JSTOR collection, Arts & Sciences IX, has been added to our subscription.
“With a minimum of 150 titles available by the end of 2012, the Arts & Sciences IX Collection widens JSTOR’s coverage in business and the social sciences. Journals from over 25 countries provide outstanding international diversity, and rare materials bring unique depth to the collection, with research covering archaeology, anthropology, sociology, business, economics, population studies, and political science.”–JSTOR. Title list
All titles are immediately available via JSTOR and will be in the Journals page tomorrow but will not appear in the Catalogue until mid-January next year.
Deirdre
Wiley eBooks are unavailable at the moment as our free earthquake access has been switched off. Wiley has extended our access until the end of February, but the end of the access period arrived before the extension was put in place. Access will be restored asap.
If you get reports from users about non-access, please advise them to keep trying.
Deirdre