ProQuest has launched the following new resources:

• ProQuest Trainers on Facebook
“Social media is all about community and our page on Facebook is a new venue for us to interact with you, our users. The ProQuest Trainers’ page on Facebook will be a forum to announce upcoming training and materials while also offering a chance to highlight the ProQuest-oriented materials created by you, our users. Those who “like” our page will be able to post links to the ProQuest tutorials and exercises they’ve created, as well, which we hope will result in a nice repository of internal and externally created materials.”

• EEBO Interactions, a forum for EEBO users to discuss the works and authors found in the database.
“Welcome to EEBO Interactions, an experimental forum designed to let users engage collaboratively with the works in ProQuest’s Early English Books Online (EEBO) database. If you’re a researcher, a graduate student, a librarian, or a frequent EEBO user we are interested in having you participate in the EEBO Interactions community. While we welcome everyone to search and read all of the content in EEBO Interactions, only authenticated EEBO users can register to create a profile, contribute or edit Interactions, or become an editor.”

Deirdre

New journal titles on ScienceDirect:

• Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine*
• Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology
• Dermatologica Sinica
• European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Diseases
• European Geriatric Medicine*
• Health Outcomes Research in Medicine*
• Healthcare Management Forum
• IIMB Management Review
• International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
• Journal of Chiropractic Humanities
• Journal of Computational Science*
• Journal of Geriatric Oncology
• Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection*
• Journal of Personnel Psychology*
• Journal of Visceral Surgery*
• La Revue d’Homéopathie
• La Revue de Médecine Légale
• Middle East Fertility Society Journal
• Nano Communication Networks
• Pratique Neurologique – FMC
• Progress in Orthodontics
• Revista Española de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología (English Edition) *
• Revista Española de Medicina Legal
• Revista Española de Medicina Nuclear (English Edition)
• Urological Science

All titles were released between February 23, 2010 and May 20, 2010. Only those marked * are in the Journals page/Catalogue; the rest will be added mid July.

The following titles have changed or will change on ScienceDirect:
• Journal of Nanjing Medical University – new title: Journal of Biomedical Research
• Surgical Neurology – new title: World Neurosurgery

Deirdre

We are now a Nature ‘gold’ member. This gives us access to Nature and 21 other titles:

Nature Biotechnology
Nature Cell Biology
Nature Chemistry
Nature Genetics
Nature Geoscience
Nature Immunology
Nature Materials
Nature Medicine
Nature Methods
Nature Nanotechnology
Nature Photonics
Nature Physics
Nature Protocols
Nature Reviews Cancer
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Nature Reviews Genetics
Nature Reviews Immunology
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

The titles are available via the Journal page. We have access to the latest 4 years.

We will receive catalogue records in our next update file (due mid June).

Peter H.

Selected articles in ScienceDirect have recently been enriched by two collaborations with third party providers. Contextual information links to NextBio, for life sciences, health sciences and chemistry articles, and PANGAEA (Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data) for earth sciences articles, can now be found in ScienceDirect.

NextBio
While viewing an article or book chapter (published from 1995 and excluding Major Reference Works) on ScienceDirect, the keywords from that selected article or book chapter are matched against NextBio’s biomedical ontologies. On the article page, the NextBio application presents key terms found in that article. These can be viewed for further exploration.
• example article in ScienceDirect
• fact sheet

PANGAEA
Articles in ScienceDirect with a corresponding data set in PANGAEA now display a PANGAEA icon and link directly to that data set on PANGAEA. Clicking on the icon takes the user to a page that includes citation information and a link to download the freely available data.
• example article in ScienceDirect
• Elsevier press release

Deirdre

The latest update has added three new titles —

• A Dictionary of London Place-Names
• A Dictionary of Dentistry
• A Dictionary of Critical Theory

and four new editions —

• Concise Medical Dictionary
• A-Z of Medicinal Drugs
• A Dictionary of Accounting
• The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names

Deirdre

We have lost online access to much of the content on HBR. For the last subscription year we have had promotional access to ‘premium’ content which gave us full access to current and past issues. This was never part of our subscription but it has left a big hole now it has been removed.

We are working on regaining access as soon as possible.

Deirdre

New features in Web of Knowledge:

New tools for author promotion available in ResearcherID
• Highlight the impact of an author’s work with citation counts for papers indexed in Web of Science
• Use EndNote Web to manage a personal publication list for ResearcherID.
• Explore the world of research with an interactive map that can help locate researchers by country and topic, or use the new country tag cloud.

Collaborating and creating bibliographies on the go with EndNote Web
• Sort reference lists by times cited, date added to the library, and date modified to locate references easily.
• View group affiliations for each reference in a list.
• Save edits whenever you decide or let auto-save capture your changes.
• Transfer up to 10,000 references between the Web and Thomson Reuters EndNote on the desktop

MEDLINE
• 2010 MeSH vocabulary, including new headings and brand new concepts

Deirdre

New from JSTOR:

“JSTOR Plant Science is an online environment that brings together global plants content, tools, and people interested in plant science. It provides access to foundational content vital to plant science – plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials. We are proud to be offering JSTOR Plant Science to all participating institutions worldwide at no cost.

This new environment includes content from our Global Plants Initiative partners, bringing the amount of materials to 800 000 type specimens, paintings, drawings, correspondence, and supporting materials. By 2013, we expect to have over 2.2 million type specimens available, making JSTOR Plant Science the largest collection of its kind in the world. These materials are now truly global in scope representing over 160 partners in 47 countries on 5 continents. To learn more about this global network, see http://plants.jstor.org/page/plants/about/partners.jsp“

A record has been added to the Catalogue.

Deirdre

Palgrave Macmillan is offering free online access to all journals throughout May 2010.

From May 1st to 31st free, unrestricted online access is available to more than 70 Palgrave Macmillan journals – including:

• BioSocieties
• International Journal of Educational Advancement
• postmedieval

Palgrave Macmillan publishes high quality, scholarly journals across the core disciplines of the humanities, the social sciences and business and management. Our current subscription gives us access to 12 titles, including Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of International Business Studies and Feminist Review.

Access: Palgrave Macmillan journals online

Deirdre

There may be intermittent access problems with direct access from the Journals page or from Catalogue links to Wiley InterScience titles. If a problem is reported, advise the user to access the title from WIS home page, or try again later.

Wiley has identified the problem and is working to resolve it asap.

Deirdre