Alexander Street Press is offering access to all Alexander Street Press collections until the end of August. You need to register for access and then use the following login details:
username: alexanderstreet
password: online

Important note: When you register you will be sent stuff from ASP, including sneak previews, etc, so please just use the resources yourselves and do not send the access information shown above to academics. If you see something that you like we could get a trial arranged so that our users can look at it that way.

Alexander Street Press products

Deirdre

We now have access to Cambridge Histories Online. Access is from the Databases-C page or the Catalogue (individual titles included).

About CHO

Please let me know if there are any problems

Deirdre

Wiley InterScience
Wiley Online Library will be launched in the weekend and will completely replace Wiley InterScience. From 8pm Saturday 7 August until the new Wiley Online Library is available at 4am Sunday 8 August there will be no access to journals or eBooks. Users will be directed to an interim page until the new site is live. More information
• Wiley Online Library (after 4am Sunday 8 August)

SpringerLink
On Saturday 7 August the new SpringerLink interface will replace the current interface. There may be a short period of downtime but interruptions will be kept to a minimum. After the launch there will be continuous development of the site with regular future releases introducing new features.

Gale
Gale has replaced their Resource Centers with In Context resources. This applies to Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Student Resource Center and History Resource Center, which are now known as Opposing Viewpoints in Context, Student Resources in Context and World History in Context. Biography Resource Center will be upgraded late August/early September and will be enhanced with portals pages, biography-specific search boxes and enhanced search results pages.

At the same time, all In Context products will be enhanced with interactive maps, customisable order of contents, customisable homepage news, optional Lexile reading levels display and optional ReadSpeaker.

Engineering Village
This month the Scopus Cited By count for every abstract will appear in Compendex. A Cited by in Scopus link will appear to the right of the Abstract, Detailed Abstract and/or Full-Text view. More information

Deirdre

We now have 3 more Springer backfile collections:

• Chemistry and Materials Science – 80 titles
• Computer Science – 96 titles
• Physics and Astronomy – 73 titles

This gives us access to all Springer Online Journal Archives collections except Medicine.

Title lists can be found on the Springer Online Archives Collection page. Titles will be available via the Journals page tomorrow and added to the Catalogue early next month.

Deirdre

WorldCat has introduced 2 new features:

• “Find a Book”
WorldCat has teamed up with MetaMetrics to offer “Find a Book” to help connect readers with books appropriate for their reading level using the popular Lexile Framework for Reading. WorldCat Blog

• WorldCat Genres
WorldCat Genres allows you to browse dozens of genres for hundreds of titles, authors, subjects, characters, locations, and more, ranked by popularity in the world’s libraries. It is a joint experiment from OCLC Research and the WorldCat.org team.

Deirdre

Gain an understanding of what Knovel is and what it can do. Find out about its unique numerical and mathematical analysis tools, its interactive equation plotting and interactive table features. Come to EPS next week:

• 2pm Wednesday 7 July, Discussion Room 3 Level 2 (EPS)

Please let me know if you wish to attend.

Deirdre

Journal Citation Reports
2009 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) have been released. The 2009 JCR includes 861 journals making a total of more than 9,100 peer-reviewed publications. Included in 2009’s release are features that help evaluate the journal data in context:
• Five-Year Impact Factor (1,055 journals receive their first calculated Journal Impact Factors)
• Eigenfactor Metrics
• Rank-in-Category Tables
• Journal “Self-Citations”

Oxford English Dictionary
Later this year there will be some major changes to the OED Online. The relaunched OED site will contain an integrated online edition of the Historical Thesaurus of the OED. This means, for instance, that a user viewing the entry for halberd (the early modern weapon combining a spear and a battle-axe) can click to reach the related entries langue de boeuf, glaive, budge, poleaxe, ox-tongue, and partisan—to list only those first recorded between 1450 and 1611. Other functionality and content will also be added.

Project MUSE
Project MUSE has released more back issues (see previous post)
• Biography Winter 1978-
• L’esprit Createur Spring 1996-
• Journal of Modern Greek Studies May 1983-
• Rhetoric and Public Affairs Spring 1998-
• Theatre Topics March 1991-

Emerald
Emerald has introduced the first in a series of improvements. Recent improvements include: clearer style and layout of all web pages; improved and more consistent navigation; clearer Search and Advanced Search screens; clearer Browse options; Quick Browse on Home page to latest issue of a journal chosen from drop down list; clearer symbols to show which content is accessible; “Related items” functionality on document request pages.

Later this year there will be further enhancements, including: e-mail alerts and RSS; reference linking; marked lists; help pages; document updates (PDF & HTML); authentication.

Coming Enhancements
• Wiley Online Library will be launching in late July 2010 and will fully replace Wiley InterScience. Preview
• The new OvidSP will launch on August 1st. A “Try It Now” button has been added to the current interface, for a preview
• Global Books in Print – over time Books in Print 2.0 will replace GlobalBooksInPrint.com
• Royal Society of Chemistry will launch a new platform on July 27th. Redirects will be in place to the new RSC Publishing platform until sites are fully migrated.

Deirdre

Springer has launched a series of open access journals. Articles published in these journals will be freely available online under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Articles published in SpringerOpen journals will also be sent automatically to participating institutional repositories via BioMed Central’s automated SWORD deposit mechanism.

The SpringerOpen journals will complement Springer’s existing titles and BioMed Central’s growing portfolio of 200+ open access journals in medicine and life science. The first SpringerOpen journals, which will open for submissions shortly, are:

• Planetary Science
• Global Energy
• Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience
• Health Economics Review
• Journal of Mathematics in Industry
• Journal of Remanufacturing
• Environmental Sciences Europe
• Security and Intelligence Informatics
• Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Express
• Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences
• Gold Bulletin
• Psychology and Well-Being Research

For more details see SpringerOpen

Deirdre

Nicola Giles, from EBSCO, will be running a training session on EBSCO tomorrow 10.30am to noon, L5 Training Room.

This session will also cover new/coming platform features and enhancements and will be an opportunity to provide feedback you may have about EBSCO products and services.

Deirdre

Our access has been restored. A password is required, but we do have premium access – back to 1956.

Peter H.