PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress)

PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) is the largest database of publications on post-traumatic stress disorder. If you want help in searching it, why not contact Stephen Gough, one of our Liaison Librarians at the Mary Seacole Library?

New look for British Standards

British Standards Online has now got itself a new interface! If you want help finding your way around this, contact James Dean, our Liaison Librarian (Learning and Teaching) at Millennium Point Learning Centre.

Maintenance to Web of Science this Sunday

Thomson Reuters tells us that they will be performing maintenance to Web of Science, this coming Sunday, September 27 2009 from 6:00am. During this time, there will be disruption if you are saving searches, for example.

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DIGIMAP soon with ’slippy’ maps

DIGIMAP will soon have a great new feature called Roam that will allow you to click-and-drag with your mouse to position a map, as well as create a map from one of 12 different scales.

 

Your map can be viewed on screen, or a PDF file at A4 or A3 paper size can be generated for printing locally.

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IHS Indexes working through Athens again

The group of services that we have through IHS Technical Indexes (Construction Information Services (CIS),Engineer-it, Occupational Health and Safety Information Service (OHSIS), Specify-it) are now available through an Athens-protected login again.

If logging on for the first time, please select ‘Birmingham City University’ . Please let us know if you have trouble logging onto these services by emailing us on athens@bcu.ac.uk

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Elsevier ScienceDirect journals down tomorrow

Elsevier tell us that ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 13 hours from 12:00 GMT Saturday, 19 September to 01:00 GMT Sunday, 20 September.

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New look for Infotrac Custom Journals

One of our full-text journals services, Infotrac Custom Journals (which gives you access to over 400 full-text titles) has had a redesign, but don’t worry, it’s just a different skin - all of the search features and links are still there. You can also now set up your own account to save searches, and get alerts.

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ABI Inform down Sunday September 27

One of our main full-text business databases ABI Inform is down on Sunday September 27 for maintenance – Proquest tell us it will last from about 03:00 in the morning for about twelve (12) hours.

 

 

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CINAHL Full Text giving odd results

CINAHL Full Text is behaving oddly when displaying search results – we have reported it to EBSCO, they have told us this is a known problem which they say will ‘be fixed very shortly.’

 The error gives inconsistent results when the search results are listed, and only affects CINAHL Full Text , not our other EBSCO databases. For more information contact Mary Seacole Library  0121 331 6012 

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British Standards is getting a makeover

British Standards Online is getting  a new look  at the end of September 2009 – including better designs, and a quick search button. 

For more information click here.

 

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