Infoshare, the replacement for INFOS, has now been fully updated. INFOS is still available until Wednesday 19 August 2009, after which time it will be decommissioned.

With Infoshare, you can now:

• find and download detailed exports and imports data (by HS code and country)
• save queries for reuse
• use time-series identifiers to find specific data.

The country groups function in the select variables screen for imports, exports and re-exports is currently unavailable. For example, country groups include APEC, OECD and ASEAN.

Find more information about Infoshare on Statistics NZ website.

Deirdre

The following titles have been added to JSTOR:

• The African Archaeological Review Vol. 1 (1983) – Vol. 22, No. 3 (September, 2005)
• Ambio Special Report Nos. 1-6 (1972-1979)
• The Journal of Geology Vol. 1, No. 1 (January/February, 1893) – Vol. 111, No. 6 (November, 2003)
• The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 2002) – Vol. 2, No. 4 (October, 2003)
• Lindbergia Vol. 1, No. 1/2 (1971) – Vol. 29, No. 3 (2004)
• Polish American Studies Vol. 1 (1944) – Vol. 64, No. 2 (Autumn, 2007)
• Women’s Studies Quarterly [1981- ] Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall, 1972) – Vol. 34, No. 3/4 (Fall/Winter, 2006) Previous Title: Women’s Studies Newsletter [1972-1980]

Moving Wall Reductions: JSTOR is decreasing moving walls:

• Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Vols. 67 – 68 (2004 – 2005)
• Technology and Culture Vol. 40, No. 1 (January, 1999) – Vol. 44, No. 4 (October, 2003)

In addition, previously missing issues for 26 titles have been added.

Titles will be available via the Journals page next week, and added to the Catalogue mid-June.

Deirdre

From Tuesday, May 12 through Thursday, May 14, you can listen to more than 18,000 jazz recordings online in streaming audio.

There are free music downloads, jazz videos, teaching tools, quizzes that test your jazz knowledge, contests, and prizes you can win! It’s all part of the celebration marking the launch of the new online collection, Jazz Music Library. Access it for free for the duration of the festival.

Learn more about Jazz Music Library

Enter the Playlist Contest. If your playlist is chosen, you could win a free, one-year subscription to Jazz Music Library for our library!

PS. We will have access to about 8 am Friday May 15

Deirdre

We have trial access to the Annual Register until the end of May. Access is from the Electronic Resources Trials page on the Library Web.

Product Description: The Annual Register is a classic reference work providing historians and students with information on the major and minor events of the last two and a half centuries, as they were seen by contemporaries. From James Cook’s landing on the shores of Australia to the Iraq war, The Annual Register contains a wealth of information with reports on every country in the world. The new printed volume of The Annual Register will be added to the digital version every year.

Coverage / Backfile: Annual issues from 1758-2007 are currently available in The Annual Register online. In 2009 the 250th anniversary edition of The Annual Register will be published and this will be added to the online version before the end of 2009.

More information: About The Annual Register: A Record of World Events

Deirdre

Five new titles have been added to the Classics collection:

• Companion to Late Antiquity by Rousseau
• Companion to Ancient History by Erskine
• Companion to Julius Caesar by Griffin
• Companion to Ovid by Knox
• Companion to Archaic Greece by Raaflaub

Deirdre

As part of our subscription to EMX, we have been given free access to the Emerald Engineering Database. This will continue through to 2011.

There are 18 journals included, 8 of which we already have access to via Emerald. The 10 new titles are:

• Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials
• Circuit World
• COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Engineering Computations
• International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology
• International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics
• International Journal of Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow
• Microelectronics International
• Sensor Review
• Soldering & Surface Mount Technology

These will appear in the Journals page tomorrow and in the Catalogue mid-May.

Deirdre

EBSCO is providing free access to swine flu information from DynaMed.

“The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak. DynaMed Editors will continue to monitor information and update this topic as needed throughout this global crisis.”

Deirdre

Alexander Street is offering a 48 hour sneak peek to Counseling and Therapy in Video until Saturday, May 2nd. [username: therapy password: sneakpeek]

“Ideal for training in social work, psychology, education, and all of the helping professions, Counseling and Therapy in Video lets you access hundreds of cross-searchable therapy sessions, case consultations, training videos, demonstrations, lectures, discussions, and workshops in streaming video together with dozens of classroom and discussion guides.”

NB. You don’t need to register to see the videos; just click the browse or search tabs when the registration screen comes up.

Deirdre

Emerald’s Journal of the Week feature provides free weekly access to two of Emerald’s high quality journals. You will be able to access, free of charge, all content from the featured journals, which are available as part of Emerald Management Plus. We will have access to some titles, but others will be outside our subscription.

This week’s title is Social Enterprise Journal

Find which journals will be featured in future weeks on Emerald’s Journal of the Week page.

Deirdre

Encyclopaedia Britannica has given us access to Britannica Online School Edition, in addition to our Academic Edition of EB. This will allow trainee teachers to see the version school students use and will be a big help to them in their preparation of classroom resources, etc.

Britannica school is part of Encyclopædia Britannica online and offers content for preK-12 at three levels: Senior High School, Middle School and Primary School. Includes magazines, journals, web sites, multimedia, as well as Merriam-Webster dictionary and world atlas. Find access via the Catalogue and the Databases-E page.

The School Edition has been made available via EPIC at no extra charge (with a sub to EBO).

Deirdre