Maintenance on Web of Science this Sunday

Thomson Scientific tell us they will be performing maintenance this coming Sunday, July 12, which will make EndNote Web, Researcher ID and Personalisation in the ISI Web of Knowledge unavailable to users. The maintenance will start at 9:00 am and should be complete within an hour.

More material and a new look for ECCO

The world’s largest digital library of 18th century printed books, ECCO  just got bigger – with an enhanced user interface with new features and contextual tools for researchers available from 1st august 09.

The new collection includes 96 new editions of Shakespeare, and almost 13,000 titles from British Library’s extensive holdings of eighteenth-century material. Women’s writing is also well represented with more than 900 new works and editions by over 400 female authors including such influential writers as Mary Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Inchbald.

Watch YouTube videos for some of our electronic resources

JISCMedia have just released YouTube videos promoting some of the electronic resourceswhich we have available here – and these include  – for example - Archival Sound Recordings from the British Library (which provides free online access to the spoken word, music and environmental sounds – video here), and News FilmOnline (over 3,000 hours of downloadable television news and cinema newsreels, selected from the ITN/Reuters Television archives –  video here).

Downtime tomorrow accessing IHS Indexes /Info4Education and Construction Information Service (CIS).

“Due to essential maintenance, customers accessing any IHS Indexes /Info4Education and Construction Information Service (CIS) products may experience brief outages to service between 02:00 and 14:00 BST on the 27th June. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.”

The temporary username and password solution is still in place and we will let you know when this changes here.

New “browse” tab coming soon in ABI/Inform

Proquest say that during their update on June 27th, a new “browse” tab will be added to ABI/INFORM to help find information such as market research reports and articles, industry reports, company information and annual reports, country reports, commodity reports, dissertations, and working papers.

The browse tab will also include quick links, which help users quickly drill down to results based on a variety of content types, such as SWOT analyses, market share, industry trends and forecasts, and CEO profiles and interviews.

ETHOS – a new research tool from the British Library

 

The British Library is changing the way in which it makes theses available.

Ethos enables users to access theses electronically; and has replaced ordering microfilm theses from the British Library. This service is only for PhD theses. Theses have to be ordered and downloaded by the user; library staff cannot do it for them.

Searching is open to all, but users need to register to order and download a thesis. Registration requires an email address, setting a password, name and address details.

If an awarding university does not participate in the scheme we can try to request the thesis directly from that university through the existing Inter-Library Loan scheme.

Downloading is for personal study only – theses cannot be available as part of student course reading.

If you would like more information about Ethos, or want to order a thesis, please ask at the library Enquiry Desk  where we will be pleased to work through the process with you.

You can search the site at http://ethos.bl.uk

ABI/Inform from Proquest will be down Sunday 28 June, 2009

ABI/Inform from Proquest will be down this Sunday to allow enhancements to be installed – including an updated MLA Citation Format Change, and full-text linking with Google Scholar.  We will let you know more about the link to Google Scholar after it is set up.

New interface to InfoTrac Custom Journals coming soon!

Gale/Cengage is launching a new interface to InfoTrac Custom Journals called Custom Online – Journals at the end of July – for a sneak preview look here at their trial site  http://www.tinygaleurl.com?89u3ps and click on the Custom Online link.

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New Journals added to Literature Online

Seven full text journals have been added toLiterature Online during its latest update(May and June), including:

Carlyle Studies Annual
Commonwealth: Essays and Studies
Tolstoy Studies Journal
The Beckett Circle
Wallace Stevens Journal
Cithara: Essays in the Judeo-Christian Tradition
Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America

This brings the total number of titles up to 243, which increases still further Literature Online’s coverage of contemporary scholarship in the fields of literary and cultural studies.

Just a reminder..19th Century Newspapers online

Just a quick reminder that we have access to 19th Century Newspapers online – the full-text of over 48  regional and local titles, and over two million pages of newspaper from the nineteenth century.