We have received more offers of free access to eBooks (all until 31 December): all SpringerLink eBook Collections, Oxford Scholarship Online and Cambridge Books Online (to be activated)

Access to SpringerLink eBooks is indicated within Springer by a green icon and should be appearing in Summon. Oxford Scholarship Online needs password access until mid October. Details are available on the Journal Logins page (linked from the Catalogue record) and these will be removed once our direct access has been set up.

eBook records for most of the (earthquake) extra titles are being progressively loaded into the Catalogue. This means that you will be able to use the option on 360 Link to “Search Library Catalogue for print copy” (Search by title is usually the best option) to see if we do have alternative access.

Reminder: not all eBook packages will be found in Summon. You need to go to the collections themselves for Palgrave, Taylor & Francis, CRCnetBase and Emerald. (These don’t have records in the Catalogue for individual titles yet either)

Deirdre

Theatre in Video and American History in Video (part of the new earthquake resources) are asking for login details to view videos. Alexander Street Press has been contacted and access will be available asap.

Deirdre

The Chadwyck-Healey site is down at the moment so all databases (with the exception of EEBO) are unavailable. C-H is working to correct the problem asap.

Deirdre

JSTOR has issue an update to the interface changes released last month. The default option on all search forms is to search licensed content only. JSTOR has implemented this until Serials Solutions 360 Link can be reinstated.

In sum:
• the checkbox for “Include only content I can access” on the Advanced Search form will be selected by default. Individual users will be able to deselect the checkbox if they wish to search across all content.
• Other JSTOR search forms — the new basic search box on each page, the Citation Locator, and search within a journal — will also default to searching only licensed content.
• After receiving search results for any search, any user may still elect to view all results for all content including unlicensed content.

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Deirdre

New journal titles on ScienceDirect (released between May 20, 2010 and August 19, 2010):

• The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
• Cerevisia
• Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
• Egyptian Informatics Journal
• Imagen Diagnóstica
• Procedia Computer Science

• Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science has changed its title to Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science

The following titles will be transferred or discontinued as of 2011:

• Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry – transferred to Springer as of 2011
• Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health – transferred to Wiley-Blackwell as of 2011
• Neurotherapeutics – transferred as of 2011
• Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery – transferred to Sage Publications as of 2011
• Polymer Contents – discontinued as of 2011

Deirdre

ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable early Sunday morning (29 August, 12.30am – 9am) while upgrades are made as part of the new SciVerse platform.

Following this, SciVerse Hub Beta will be launched. SciVerse Hub brings together ScienceDirect, Scopus and web content from Scirus, so that one search can be performed across all content. ScienceDirect and Scopus will still be available separately under their new names SciVerse ScienceDirect and SciVerse Scopus. It won’t mean any big changes, just the addition of the SciVerse logo.

Summary (from Elsevier marketing):
• SciVerse Hub – Find the data you need with one click
• SciVerse ScienceDirect – Access peer reviewed full-text articles
• SciVerse Scopus – Search millions of abstracts and index data
• SciVerse SciTopics* – Find trusted, relevant research summaries
• SciVerse Applications* – Endless possibilities

* Later this year SciTopics will be moved to the SciVerse platform and early next year SciVerse Applications will provide a place for scientific applications and community collaboration.

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Deirdre

Alexander Street Press has granted us a Scholar’s Pass to explore all Alexander Street Press Collections until the end of September. This has no registration requirement so can be freely offered to academics. Details are available on the Library Electronic Resources Trials page.

If you pass the information on to academics please provide them with the link to the Trials page or, if you wish to include the link directly to the ASP Resources Trial, please ensure that your link is the EZproxied version as login details are not to be disclosed beyond UC.

Deirdre

Oxford University Press is offering EPIC Member Libraries trials until 30 September:

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Oxford Dictionaries Online
• Berg Fashion Library

Login details: username epic and password oxford

Please do not pass on the login information to people outside of UC as this is an exclusive trial for EPIC member libraries only.

Deirdre

Our EBSCO profile has been lost and is currently showing the old College of Education subscribed resources only. EBSCO has been contacted and this will be fixed asap.

Deirdre

ebrary has created open access collections of material covering important issues and made them freely available. Resources currently available include:

• Cyber Bullying Searchable Information Center
• Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather Searchable Information Center
• H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center
• Library and KM Center

This is a growing service and other collections will be added. All have been added to the Catalogue.

Deirdre