April 2011 Archives

Hello, LexisNexis Subscribers:

LexisNexis orders are due on Friday, April 29.

Here is 2011-2012 pricing:
http://minitex.umn.edu/Electronic/LexisNexis/Pricing2011.pdf

Here is the webform for submitting orders:
https://www.minitex.umn.edu/Electronic/LexisNexis/Renew.aspx

Below is a detailed explanation of how 2011-12 pricing is calculated.

Should you have any questions, please contact CPERS.

from EBSCO:

We hope that you are enjoying the preview of eBooks on EBSCOhost, and recognize that there is a lot of new information to absorb. To ensure a smooth transition from NetLibrary to eBooks on EBSCOhost, we plan to send you a weekly update every Friday, designed to tell you the most important things you need to know before the final transition from NetLibrary to EBSCOhost takes place on or near July 1.

This week's tip is about your eBooks statistics on NetLibrary. Note that your NetLibrary statistics will NOT be carried over to eBooks on EBSCOhost, which means that you will need to download them before the transition is completed.

EBSCOhost offers a sophisticated array of statistics gathering formats, allowing administrators to pick and choose fields, timeframes and delivery methods using EBSCOadmin.

Have a question? Check out the NetLibrary Support Center on EBSCO's Support Site, or drop us a line with your question using the EBSCO Online Support Form.

Gale is currently running the following two promotions.

1. "Get Two Years for the Price of One"

This is a 24-month subscription -- 2011 and 2012. The 2013 renewal will be at the full 2011 -- rather than 2013 -- list price.

2. "Buy One Subscription Resource and Get a Second Subscription Resource for Free for Year 1"

The free subscription must be of equal or lesser value of the resource being purchased.

What's the kicker? Subscribers will renew their free resource at discounted values in years 2, 3 and 4. The renewal price for the free resource will ramp-up, based on 2011 full list price, according to the schedule below.

• K-12: Yr 2 = 33% of 2011 full list; Yr 3 = 66% of 2011 full list; Yr 4 = 100% of 2011 full list
• Publics: Yr 2 = 50% of 2011 full list; Yr 3 = 100% of full 2011 list
• Academic: Yr 2 = 50% of full 2011 list; Yr 3 = 75% of full 2011 list; Yr 4 = 100% of full 2011 list.
• Special: Yr 2 = 50% of full 2011 list; Yr 3 = 75% of full 2011 list; Yr 4 = 100% of full 2011 list

Films on Demand is offering new subscribers free access through August 31, 2011, with a 1-year subscription to either Master Academic Collection or Master Career & Technical Education Collection. Depending on when you subscribe, this could be up to 5 months of free access.

See the Minitex website for access to Spring Trials of both collections.

Contact CPERS for questions or pricing.

Take a look at the e-resources available at discounted Minitex pricing!

We've added several new trials this week including ProQuest ebrary, a preview of the new NetLibrary interface on EBSCOhost, and Readex Early American Imprints and America's Historical Newspapers.

Access to the trials is available now through May 13, 2011, at http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Electronic/Spring2011.aspx; electronic resources are grouped by theme: Streaming Video and Music; eBooks and Reference; New Interfaces and Resources; Public; and K-12.

For pricing and questions, please email cpers@minitex.umn.edu

from ProQuest:

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on April 16, 2011. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, April 16, 2011, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 10:00 EDT. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

• Products only on the new ProQuest platform will be unavailable. Access to products from any of our legacy products will not be impacted. Click here if you are unsure of what platform you are accessing.

from the American Psychological Association:

The American Psychological Association is pleased to invite you to attend a
PsycINFO Webinar.

This 1-hour Advanced Training session details the coverage and selection
practices, reviews the structure of database records, and highlights training
and support material for library instruction. The session covers elements of the
bibliographic citation, controlled vocabulary and indexing, and value-added
fields, such as author affiliation, grant/sponsorship, and tests and measures.

Sample searches show the online thesaurus, author and journal indexes,
natural language or keywords, and fields and limits. Live searching
demonstrates how to build better strategies to find research and develop
exercises for use in bibliographic instruction.

Learning Objectives

• Understand PsycINFO content and structure


• Become familiar with PsycINFO record structure and indexing practices


• Use field values and limits effectively for bibliographic instruction


• Keep on top of platform updates and search techniques


• Develop shortcuts for use in instructional materials

Audience

• This session is ideal for subject specialists, reference librarians, and
  instructors who provide support for the behavioral sciences.

Sessions

• Advanced PsycINFO Training on ProQuest, Friday, April 8, 2011, 4
  p.m. (Eastern)


• Advanced PsycINFO Training on OvidSP, Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 11
  a.m. (Eastern)


• Advanced PsycINFO Training on EBSCOhost, Friday, April 22, 2011, 4
  p.m. (Eastern)

Visit the webinar training for librarians' page at
http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/webinars-librarians.aspx and click
on the session you would like to attend to register. (If you have problems with
the link, please cut-and-paste the URL into your browser.)

Please e-mail any questions or comments to psycinfowebinars@apa.org
with "Webinar" in the subject line

from ProQuest:

Whether you're a current customer migrating to the new ProQuest platform or a new customer, you'll want to take advantage of our complimentary training webinars--and see all that the new ProQuest platform has to offer.

If you have attended a session, why not sign up for another webinar?

See all of the live and recorded sessions that are available.

Check out these recorded webinars if you can't attend the scheduled webinars:

• Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform
• Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform (Spanish)
• Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform (French)
• ProQuest Administrator Module
• ProQuest Administrator Module (Spanish)

Live and recorded sessions in more languages are available. To request on-site or online training for the new ProQuest platform or ProQuest databases, please email our dedicated training team.

Be sure to also check out our platform demo and the continuously-updated list of databases on the new platform--and share these with your coworkers and users.

Our popular webinars are an easy way for you, your staff, and your users to become familiar with all that the new platform offers.

from EBSCO:

Over the past weekend we completed a project that upgraded the computers that run Overlap Analysis. The result of this project allows Overlap Analysis reports to run more efficiently and faster--even for larger collections!

Overlap Analysis is a tool to help you identify areas of overlap in your EBSCO A-to-Z collection. Using the My Collection report, you can discover any overlap (duplicate journals and duplicate coverage) in your collection. Using the My Potential Collection report, you can preview the affect adding or removing packages may have on the amount of overlap in your existing collection, or compare the overlap between selected packages. See the Overlap Analysis Help page within A-to-Z Administrator for more in depth information regarding these two reports.

Note: These reports are intended for informational use only. Because the data used in the Overlap Analysis Report is obtained from several vendor sources (not all sources provide equal data), we recommend contacting the vendors in question to clarify the overlap before making collection development decisions.

Now through May 13, Minitex is highlighting streaming video, ebooks, new interfaces, public library, and K-12 library e-resources during our Spring 2011 trial period.

Try out a new e-resource! Visit the Spring 2011 Electronic Resources Trial web site for e-resource descriptions, trial access information, and contact information.

from H.W. Wilson:

Attend a mini-session and in 30 minutes be introduced to the next generation of WilsonWeb. All events are Eastern Standard Time.

• OmniFile Full Text
• Art Suite - Image Databases
• Current Issues
• WilsonWeb Retrospective Collection
• WilsonWeb Mobile

Register at www.hwwilson.com/training

OmniFile Full Text
Tuesday, April 5 - 3 pm

An essential resource for libraries, OmniFile Full Text Select provides precise indexing to more than 2,900 core full-text journals in the arts, business, education, humanities, law, and science. Come see why researchers, educators, and scholars count on OmniFile for all of their informational needs.

Art Suite - Image Databases
Wednesday, April 6 - 11 am

More than 1,600 images have been added to Art Museum Image Gallery from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection. Soon other Library of Congress collections will be added. Also, in time for awards season, Wilson has updated Cinema Image Gallery with 6,500 new images from 1,200 movies and television shows, including more than 450 movies new to the database, and with the nominee information for the 2011 Academy Awards. I'll talk about enhancements to the Wilson Image Databases in this 30 minute session.

Current Issues
Thursday, April 7 - 3 pm

Inspired by our award-winning Reference Shelf print series, the Current Issues suite provides editor-selected information, compiled by Wilson editors, on a variety of topical subjects. These resources are fun to use for younger researchers and can be accessed on smartphones via WilsonWeb Mobile.

WilsonWeb Retrospective Collection
Tuesday, April 12 - 11 am

The H.W. Wilson Company has published indexes of periodicals continuously since 1901. Thanks to our digitization of this material, you can now search the acclaimed Wilson indexes back to their inception on WilsonWeb. In this session, a tour of the WilsonWeb Retrospective Collection is provided, with emphasis on its subject coverage, its contents as a historical record for the 20th century, and on the collection-linking options available to subscribers.

WilsonWeb Mobile
Wednesday, April 13 - 3 pm

The H.W. Wilson Company has developed WilsonWeb Mobile for users of its databases. The need for this new smartphone interface is driven by a generation of users that are becoming more dependent upon handheld devices for their communication needs. In this session, we will review WilsonWeb Mobile and discuss how to customize it for your library.

from EBSCO:

Customer Satisfaction has received reports that some customers are experiencing intermittent issues with the EBSCO A-to-Z® Reader Site. Our technical team is working on this issue as their highest priority. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

from Oxford University Press:

The old OED Online site at www.dictionary.oed.com was taken down permanently on March 31, 2011.

Beginning today, anyone accessing the OED Online through the old url dictionary.oed.com will automatically be redirected to the new site at www.oed.com.

For frequently asked questions regarding the new OED Online site, please click here.

Please feel free to contact us at oxfordonline@oup.com if you have any questions.

from Credo:

Credo Reference, the award-winning online reference service, and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services have signed an agreement to expand their partnership. Thirteen key reference titles from Elsevier will be offered as part of the recently announced Credo Reference Subject Collections.

The following well-respected and award-winning titles from Elsevier will now be available in Credo Reference Subject Collections:

• Encyclopedia of Adolescence, 3 vols.
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, 5 vols.
• Encyclopedia of Ecology, 5 vols.
• Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences 2nd Edition, 6 vols. (Choice Outstanding Academic Title)
• International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
• International Encyclopedia of Education, 8 vols.
• Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy, 2 vols.
• Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment, 4 vols.
• Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders
• Encyclopedia of Microbiology
• Encyclopedia of Basic Epilepsy Research
• Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language
• International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 6 vols. (Choice Outstanding Academic Title)

These titles will be available in four of the new Subject Collections covering Education, General Health and Wellness, Environmental Studies and Psychology. Subject Collections are available standalone or alongside a subscription to Credo General Reference.