A new database, Research Starters – Education, has been added to our EBSCOhost databases. Research Starters – Education complements Education Research Complete and will be available for the 2008/2009 (US) school year at no charge.

Key Features of Research Starters – Education:

• Convenient 3,000-word topic overviews with concise, yet comprehensive content
• Overview information on 500 topics parallel to course offerings at major colleges and universities, with links to key articles in associated EBSCO databases
• Content designed to be appropriate for advanced high school and two/four-year college students, public libraries and selected schools
• Quality study guides written by highly qualified professors, school administrators, consultants, educators and professional writers

For more information see EBSCO website and EBSCO FAQ

Deirdre

8 titles have been added to JSTOR:

• Acta Sociologica Vols. 1 – 47; 1955 – 2004
• The British Museum Quarterly Vols. 1 – 37; 1926 – 1973 (publication ceased in 1973)
• Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum [1931-1950] Vols. 1 – 2; 1921 – 1931; Vols. 1 – 11; 1931 – 1950. Previous Title = Notes (Fogg Art Museum)[1921-1931]
• Cahiers d’Études Africaines Vols. 1 – 42; 1960 – 2002
• The Cambridge Law Journal Vols. 1 – 61; 1921 – 2002
• Coleopterists Society Monographs. Patricia Vaurie Series No . 1; 2002
• Corinth: Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Vols. 1 – 20; 1929 – 2004. Note: The first volume of Corinth appeared in 1929, and further parts appear irregularly as scholars finish their assigned topics
• Dead Sea Discoveries Vols. 1 – 9; 1994 – 2002

Titles will be available via the Journals page early next month, and added to the Catalogue mid-October.

Deirdre

2 recently acquired:

• Encyclopedia of Ecology
• New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Deirdre

Two Gale databases will be unavailable for 90 minutes tonight from 8.30pm:

• Books and Authors
• Gale Virtual Reference Library

Wiley InterScience will be down for about an hour on Monday 22 September from 8pm.

Deirdre

The following journals have been added to JSTOR:

• Ambio Vol. 1 – Vol. 33; 1972-2004
• Flora Neotropica Vol. 1 – Vol. 84; 1967-2002
• Folia Geobotanica [1998- ] Vol. 1 – Vol. 36; 1966-2001 (Previous Title: Folia Geobotanica & Phytotaxonomica [1966-1997])
  The content for 2000-2002 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.
• Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin [1992-2000] No. 1896/1897 – No. 1978/1980; 1896-1980; No. 1987/1988 – No. 1990/1991; 1987-1991; Vol. 1, No. 1 – Vol. 7, No. 2; Autumn, 1992 – Spring, 2000 (Previous Title: Director’s Report (Harvard University Art Museums) [1987-1991])
  Publication of this title ceased in 2000.

Titles will be available via the Journals page later this month, and added to the Catalogue mid-October.

Deirdre

A few recent changes and additions –

• Springer: From 2009 we will be getting a 70% increase in the number of titles from Springer. A title list is available on Collection Services Serials Resources page, under the New Orders heading.
• ScienceDirect Additions: New journals available in ScienceDirect. The transferred or discontinued journals list has since been amended: Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, The Foundation Years, Medicine, Psychiatry, Surgery (Oxford) will now remain on ScienceDirect.
• Trials: As a result of our trials, we will be subscribing to New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online and Choice Reviews Online.
• Books & Authors: Books & Authors is now available and has been added to the Databases-B page. What do I read next? will continue until mid September.
• Gale Consumer Reports: Consumer Reports titles in General OneFile are now available with no embargo — The Sizzle
• PubMed: PubMed now indexes videos of experiments and protocols in Life Sciences — Wired Campus
• For Great Thinking: Vote for “the people who are shaping science today” on the For Great Thinking website.

Deirdre

Wiley InterScience is returning a Service Temporarily Unavailable message when using the All Content search option.

There are no problems with the Publication Titles option and links from the Catalogue/Journals page.

Access to Cochrane Library PDFs is also unavailable. Wiley has been contacted and is restoring access as soon as possible.

Deirdre

The OvidSP trial (see previous post – Ovid resources on trial) is available again until 17 September.

Also, a reminder of the OvidSP training session being held tomorrow, Thursday September 4th at 3-4pm, L4 seminar room.

Deirdre

Access to the Ovid resources we had on trial has been turned off a couple of days earlier than expected. However they will be available again for a short time after the training session next month.

Ovid has offered a training session via Webex:

• Thursday September 4th at 3-4pm, L4 seminar room

If you are interested in attending, please let me know asap.

Deirdre

A trial of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law has been set up until 21/09/2008.

This is a fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print between 1991 and 2001 under the general editorship of Rudolf Bernhardt. The online edition includes search functionality and click-through cross references to other Encyclopedia entries as well as related content in the online service Oxford Reports in International Law. A print edition will become available in 2010. The 1,700 articles include more than 700 new topics not covered in the previous edition.

Deirdre