ACS has given us free access to C&EN Archives, the new digital collection of 85+ years of C&EN, providing access to “…more than 500,000 pages of quality journalism covering global chemical events, groundbreaking research, technological advances, business and marketing ventures, government policy, career and education trends.”
C&EN Archives includes all content from 1923 fully integrated into the journal and book content offered via ACS Web Editions Platform. Now, when using quick-search or advanced search on the ACS Publications website, relevant articles from C&EN Archives will appear in search results.
This access ends on 1st January 2011, when we will revert to our current access of 1998-
A new ProQuest platform is coming soon. This will provide access to all databases on the ProQuest platform, all databases on the CSA Illumina platform and some Chadwyck-Healey products (not the ones we have, as yet). Other ProQuest databases will be added later, except those distributed by ProQuest such as Safari Books Online and Dow Jones Factiva.
See the new ProQuest platform demo –
“A better way to search, find, and use information … plus more.”
Records for over 10,000 titles in Cambridge Books Online are now in the Catalogue. These are not tracked by Serials Solutions so titles will appear in MultiSearch but not as eBooks. They will be treated as ‘books’ with the status ‘Check Availability’. In many cases we also have print copies so when search results indicate identical titles, the eBook will be the one showing as Check Availability:
(Palgrave Connect eBooks are also treated as books and have the status Check Availability)
We now have access to the Engineering pre-2007 eBook package from ScienceDirect. Records for all 834 titles will be added to the Catalogue asap. You can see the titles in ScienceDirect – we don’t have access to all of the engineering eBooks so use the filter in the left panel to include full-text available only.
A PDF of the presentation from the 2010 Thomson Reuters Product Development Roadshow is available on the Q Drive. URLs for products mentioned are below:
Cambridge Journals Online was been updated last month with a new appearance and navigation features. The latest enhancement is a faceted search functionality which means you can now search across Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) and Cambridge Books Online (CBO) simultaneously.
Start your search from either CJO or CBO and the results will include journal articles and book chapters as the default. The results are displayed on the same page, from where you can click through to whichever site hosts the content. Options to exclude books, journals and facets, or to drill down, are available.
EBSCO has obtained permissions from 9 leading ebook publishers to enable 22,000+ ebooks to be made freely avilable via NetLibrary. The publishers are:
• AMACOM Books
• Earthscan Ltd.
• Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
• Icon Group International, Inc
• IGI Global
• MIT Press
• Oxford University Press
• State University of New York Press
• World Scientific Publishing Co.
Access will be available until April 2011. Titles have been added to Serials Solutions and are findable in Summon. However, about 2,000 of the titles included in Serials Solutions are not available to us. NetLibrary indicates this with the message “This eContent is not included in your library’s collection and is unavailable for viewing.” While there will be some false hits for our users, the advantage is that we can make over 22,000 titles available.
See the New Online Resources page in Camelot for details of eBook access in MultiSearch.
To help keep up with changes in the extra online resources granted to us (especially problems with finding eBooks in Summon) we have put 2 pages in Camelot:
Please check the New Online Resources page as it summarises what is findable in Summon and in the Catalogue and what should be looked for elsewhere. The page is linked from the Earthquake Recovery page on Camelot and will be updated as changes occur.
If you have any queries, please let me know or post any comments here.
