We have ProQuest Central on trial until the end of September. This is an upgrade from our current PQ5000 subscription and gives extra content, as listed on the Library Trials page. Included with PQ Central is ANZ Newsstand.

Also part of the trial is ProQuest Newspapers – a selection of 10 US newspapers, 8 of which are not available in Factiva.

Please encourage users to try these resources and submit an evalution form.

Deirdre

New features and enhancements were added to OvidSP overnight:

• A Multi-Field Search mode for all databases
• Collapsible Search Aid box
• Results Manager is collapsible and available above and below the main search box
• You can move the Search History above the main search box; plus, sort searches in ascending or descending order, and identify each search by search type
• Choose the limits you want to appear as common limits on the main search page
• Create, edit, and add multiple annotations to a citation
• Browse Books and Browse Journals links available on the Select a Database page
• Direct linking from Search Aids to the tree
• Browser support for adjusting font size
• Users logged into their personal accounts will see their name and institutions
• Instructional “hint” text for Basic Search

Many of the screens will continue to change over the next few weeks as Ovid responds to customer comments. There are also improvements coming to personalisation features; a My Projects Workspace Area will be released next month.

If you would like more information on these features or would be interested in a Webex training session with Ovid please let me know.

Deirdre

A few changes to note:

ERIC has a new look and expanded coverage and includes a new area just for librarians. More than 130 new comprehensively indexed journals have been added, with plans to increase coverage even further to include both journal and non-journal literature.

Project MUSE has released a list of new titles to be added in 2009. All new titles are included in the MUSE Premium Collection. Some, including American Music and JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology, will also be added to the MUSE Standard Collection. Title lists for 2009 for all collections will soon be available on the MUSE web site. Some Edinburgh University Press titles have been withdrawn from MUSE and will be archive-only status.

Books & Authors, the replacement for What do I read next, is now available. Our access has not yet been confirmed but you will be able to have a play around before it is pushed out to users.

ABI-INFORM has begun using new Article Types and a new indexing field this year, with articles retrospectively indexed to capture this information going back several years. Market Research (and the associated Market Segment field), Business Case and Literature Review article types are new and can be found using the Document type limiter.

Please let me know if you would like more information about any of these things.

Deirdre

We currently have a problem with Westlaw. After running a search the screen defaults to a log in requirement. Westlaw has been contacted and this is being fixed asap.

In the meantime, I have placed an alternative URL in the Databases pages for on Campus use only.

Deirdre

A couple of user queries have been cropping up a lot lately:

Problem: Factiva is presenting a log in screen
Solution: Authenticated users should not see a log in screen. When this happens, note the red text at the top of the screen and the message “The user ID and password you have entered are already in use. Please try again later or click on the Having trouble logging in link next to the login button of your product for assistance. (Error:131005)”. This means that our 3 user limit has been reached. Users need to try again later; ignore the login links. Remind people to logout after use.

Problem: SciFinder is presenting a log in screen
Solution: A personal log in is required

Note: We now have 2 versions of SciFinder, the Web version and the client (SciFinder Scholar) which are essentially the same. Users need to register for their own log in for SciFinder, so they will see a log in screen. There is a link in the Catalogue and on the Databases page for people to register for 1st-time use. There’s also a PDF (on the Databases page) explaining the user registration requirement.

Also, once logged in, a user may see a message about all seats being currently in use. Users will need to log in later (or use SFS client version) because we have 1 seat available for SF Web and 3 for SFS client (this can/will be changed as more usage of the Web version occurs).

Both of these databases, and many resources being accessed with IE, may present a further snag:

Problem: IE shows the message “There is a problem with this website’s security certificate”
Solution: Click the option “Continue to this website (not recommended).” Users can safely choose this option when connecting to our resources.

Deirdre

We have a trial to Oxford Reports on International Law (the extra 2 modules that we don’t have access to) set up until 3 September. I’ve put information on the Trials page

Deirdre

Trial access is available to the New Palgrave dictionary of economics until 14 August 2008.

You may get messages about fonts. The Dictionary contains a large amount of mathematical equations, which are represented as MathML. We have the recommended browsers and content displays reasonably correctly (except for the most complex examples) as MathML but the fonts can be installed for optimum viewing (don’t do this without consulting Library IT). You can set MathML preferences to MathML, which will receive MathML instead of images.

Please let me know of any problems

Deirdre

Access added to EBSCOhost: (to end of September)

• Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management Library
• CINAHL (both standard and optimized)and Pre-CINAHL
• Communication and Mass Media Complete
• Film and Television Literature Index (with full text)
• GeoRef
• Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
• MegaFile Premier
• Mental Measurements Yearbook
• MLA International Bibliography
• Music Index Online
• PEP archive
• PsycBOOKS (to 30 August)
• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
• PsycINFO (to 30 August)
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
• Social Work Abstracts
• Tests in Print

Note:
* PsycBOOKS & PsycINFO – as stipulated by the APA, trial access for these databases is only available for 30 days
* CINAHL – has also been setup for ‘optimised searching’ of CINAHL. This directly maps the keyword terms to the CINAHL thesaurus and displays the search history first.
* MegaFile Premier – available in the separate components: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Computer Source, Health Business Elite, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MAS Ultra – School Edition, Newspaper Source, Professional Development Collection, Regional Business News, Religion & Philosophy Collection and The Serials Directory.

See the Library Web trial page for information and links.

Please encourage users to try these resources and submit an evalution form.

Deirdre

Access added to OvidSP: (to end of August)

* Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
* International Political Science abstracts
* MEDLINE
* Mental Measurements Yearbook
* PsycBOOKS
* PsycINFO
* RILM
* Social Work Abstracts Plus

See the Library Web trial page for information and links.

Please encourage users to try these resources and submit an evalution form.

Deirdre

An update on Blackwell journals on Wiley InterScience –

• loading of new journal issues, books, major reference works, and database content to Wiley InterScience has resumed
• Blackwell Synergy OpenURL links are successfully redirecting to their equivalent pages, down to the article level, on Wiley InterScience
• UC access rights are now set up correctly
• some OnlineOpen articles are showing as ‘free’ but are not actually free to users, as they should be
• good progress is being made in uploading the missing content

Please let me know of any problems. An Excel file of missing content has been made available.

Deirdre