Our access to Informit is down at the moment. A number of CAUL libraries are reporting the same problem. Informit have advised a temporary fix which is to replace the “.com.au” part of the URL with “.org” which seems to work.
Category Archives: Learning, Teaching & Research Support
SpringerNature webinar this Thursday 2pm – Enabling Distance Learning with Springer Nature eBooks
For possible interest, the blurb from Springer as follows:
Registration details: Register now
In this webinar, Anil Chandy, Vice President, Major Reference Works and Textbooks Publishing talks about the advantages offered by Springer Nature’s textbook portfolio to a graduate and post graduate student audience. The ongoing pandemic makes eTextbooks a particularly useful and attractive format for students who have to learn offline, online as well as in new normal- based blended instructional environments. Springer Nature’s textbooks portfolio is contributed to by the world’s preeminent academicians and instructors and editorial development of content is underpinned by principles of easy accessibility and pedagogy as well as alignment to courses. The webinar will also focus on data relating to Australian and New Zealand authors and their textbooks in Springer Nature’s eBook collection as well as our nascent but fast growing Open Access textbook collection.
Date: 28 January 2021 (Thursday)
Time: 12pm AEDT / 2pm NZST
Print high demand – availability of eBook version
In the spirit of being alert and ready, last week we asked EBSCO to run a report for us based on our high demand print holdings, looking for matches of electronic versions available for purchase.
They have sent us this list of results from the exercise. There’s about 18% matching, unfortunately in the remaining 82% in many cases we are down to the hard core.
LAC will look to purchase an eBook version where we consider the cost and access to be reasonable (less than $200; more than 1 user access).
Subject librarians and anyone else (eg front desk staff) are welcome to recommend the details of any other texts to acquisitions@libr.canterbury.ac.nz that should be purchased in eBook format. Criteria typically considered are: UC increasing online teaching, evidence of demand, anticipated use but with an eye to value for money .. particularly when costs go up (eg four figures for a 3 user eBook).
New Read and Publish agreements
We are increasingly learning about read and publish agreements between publishers and libraries (also called transformative agreements). This article provides a useful introduction. These support the Library’s strategic aims for increasing open access to resources. We have recently signed up to 3 new Read and Publish agreements with the following:
- CSIRO – a pilot agreement allowing us to publish in 8 CSIRO journals as well as read access to CSIRO journals we don’t currently subscribe to [agreement details]
- Royal Society – access to and unlimited publishing to all 10 Royal Society journals [agreement details]
- PLOS (PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology) – another pilot agreement [FAQ and agreement details]
These join the Microbiology Society agreement set up early last year. The CSIRO and Royal Society agreements were submitted in response to CAUL’s Fast Track to Open Access initiative.
Promotional material and other resources are available here.
It is early days in our experience with Read and Publish agreements and we are all learning. Stuart and Sara will be working with their teams to promote these and given UC is being listed as a participating member (example) we could well get some comments and questions any time now from our community about these agreements and transformative agreements in general (recent example).
Quick Acquisitions update
Kanopy: Further to our post last week, we have decided to leave the titles discoverable in Horizon so that if any Kanopy resources are needed for teaching or research we can respond to individual requests as needed (a case in point today).
This month ProQuest will be losing some eBook content (1900 titles) from Academic Complete as well as gaining new content (11,400 new titles over the past 12 months). This happens every six months or so. Removals occur due to requests from publishers and content ownership changes. Wendy and the team are reviewing the list of removals and will be outright purchasing any titles that have received over 100 uses. For the rest, there is always the possibility that there will be links to removed content from various places and so we will repurchase these individually when needed.
Update from Ovid
“Dear Ovid Customer:
As we continue to incorporate user feedback into the Ovid platform, we are pleased to announce that you will have early access to new Ovid search sharing features starting December 8th. These features help you seamlessly share search strategies with colleagues, allowing the recipient to rerun the search with one click. Please check it out and let us know what you think!
You will see three new buttons in the Search History Panel: Email All Search History, Copy Search History Link, and Copy Search History Details.
The additional features do not affect any existing workflows on Ovid. They allow you to more easily copy, share, and collaborate on searches.
Key functionality includes:
- Email All Search History: Allows you to send your current search history to another user via email. The email includes the search strategy with line numbers and number of results, the database segment(s), the date the search was executed, the link to run the search, and a message from the sender.
- Copy Search History Link: Copies search history link to your clipboard. The recipient must have access to the database the search was created in to rerun the search.
- Copy Search History Details: Copies the search strategy, line numbers, number of results per line, and database segment(s) to your clipboard.
Please note that the search history URL will not contain any custom access prefix.”
OECD iLibrary platform demonstration
From CAUL..
“OECD are providing a demonstration of their iLibrary platform: Thursday, December 3rd at 4pm.
Please click this URL to join. https://meetoecd1.zoom.us/j/91708823461?pwd=b3kraUFKZ01xV3d6QjIvSHVtQTBjZz09
Passcode: W.0qZXRzMu
Presentation Agenda:
- Introduction to OECD
- OECD iLibrary
- Searching
- Navigation
- Personalisation
- Questions
RMIT Library originally scheduled this meeting and have kindly extended an offer for all CAUL members to join if interested.”
Update from Taylor and Francis
Taylor and Francis share the following update on some new features…
Bulk download article PDFs
Our new ‘Download PDFs’ feature is available on all issue TOC pages and all search results pages. The feature allows registered users to select up to 20 articles and download the article PDFs in one single action, saving the user valuable time by enabling them to reach full-text content faster.
Export search results
Available on all search results pages, our new export search results button allows the registered user to quickly export up to 2000 search results to a .csv format file.
New ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ article navigation buttons
‘Next article’, ‘Previous article’ and ‘View issue table on contents’ navigation buttons have been added to all article full-text and abstract pages. These new highly visible buttons allow users to quickly and easily navigate to other articles and TOC pages. These new buttons have already been used over 3,000 times since we released less than 24 hours ago.
Support for 9 new article types
TFO now fully supports articles that are published using the following 9 new article types: Dataset, Exhibition, Fictional Work, Legal Case, Pictorial Work, Study Characteristics, Terminology, Systematic Review and Target Article.
Library holdings updated on GOBI
LAC recently sent a file of updated ISBNs to GOBI for our book holdings. We do this 4 times a year. This means that when you are searching GOBI you will see a status “..owned by the Library” on a particular book if we already hold it (or in an alternate edition) regardless of where we purchased it from. The aim is to save time checking both the Library Catalogue as well as GOBI before recommending something for purchase.
Purchasing online access for print high demand titles
Given recent developments, we thought we should roll this list out again (previous Counterculture post). Theoretically I have filtered off everything where staff previously asked LAC to purchase.
Could subject librarians/high demand staff please eyeball the list and mark anything you anticipate being in demand for online teaching and that LAC should purchase.
This list is based on a comparison EBSCO did for us where they matched eBook availability on GOBI. In situations where EBSCO did not find a match, but where high demand print items are now needed online please email the details to acquisitions@libr.canterbury.ac.nz. We will ascertain availability on a case by case basis to see if any more can be purchased online. Note some publishers don’t play very nicely with libraries when it comes to online access (Cengage, Pearson to mention a couple) but sometimes we can get 3 user access via ProQuest or EBSCO in those cases.
Scanning from print is also an option, but within the CLNZ licence provisions.