Dear ProQuest Customer,
ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on December 5, 2009. A four (4) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, December 5, 2009, at 22:00 EST to Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 02:00 EST. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.
As part of our ongoing commitment to investing in support systems for our customers around the world, ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance for our state-of-the-art data center.
The following products will be unavailable during these windows:
Maintenance window schedule, by time zone:
We welcome customer feedback. Please email your comments to platform feedback or visit www.proquest.com/go/suggestions.
This free widget will be available to your community for as long as H1N1 is considered a national emergency. We will attempt to notify all accounts prior to the trial's expiration.
]]>As the pandemic expands, we continue to offer free flu information resources, located at www.ebscohost.com/flu. We are pleased to provide public support via continuously updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, EBSCO's clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center. Please visit this site often, post links to the site on your home page, and feel free to share, post, and email this link to your colleagues, patrons, family and friends.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank those who have provided such positive feedback from this effort. To learn about EBSCO's editorial processes for systematically identifying, evaluating and selecting evidence, visit this page.
]]>We would like to bring to your attention a special offer that is available to libraries from CABI until December 31, 2009. CABI is offering a discount on its Archive products via EBSCOhost: Global Health Archive and CAB Abstracts Archive.
In addition, CABI is offering complimentary access for one year to the front file with the purchase of the archive. For example, if a library does not currently subscribe to Global Health and purchases Global Health Archive, then the library would be entitled to get a discount on Global Health Archive and receive a one year complimentary subscription to Global Health. If the library currently has a subscription to Global Health, then a discount would only apply to Global Health Archive.
CAB Abstracts Archive - this database consists of journals that provide information on agricultural science, veterinary medicine, nutrition and natural resources. Additionally, other topics covered in the database include: biodiversity, pest control, environmental pollution, animal diseases, food production, managing natural resources, plant and animal breeding and more.
Global Health Archive - this resource puts current international and public health problems into an historical context and also contains information on issues that are still being researched today, including: Bioterrorism; Disease control; Patent protection; Food security and malnutrition and much more.
For additional information including a free trial, please contact Minitex.
]]>We are excited to announce that the Alexander Street Music Online cross search platform received a wonderful review in the November 1, 2009 issue of Booklist, where they referred to us as "the LexisNexis of Music"!
A few highlights of the review include:
If you are a Booklist subscriber, you can access the review here: http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=3901441
The complete Music Online platform includes: Classical Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound (final migration end of November), American Song/African American Music, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Classical Music Reference Library, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, African American Music Reference, Dance in Video and Opera in Video all cross-searchable. You can subscribe to the whole package, the streaming package, the listening package or pick and choose individual databases. Users only see what their library subscribes to.
Also, as of yesterday, we've released over 2,000 new albums (over 30,000 new tracks) into Jazz Music Library bringing the collection up to 60,000 tracks!
Should you want a trial or pricing, please contact Minitex.
]]>Wednesday, November 11, 2009
11:00AM EST / 10:00AM CST / 9:00AM MST / 8:00AM PST
Meeting Number: 689 853 513
Meeting Password: Demo1234
Toll-free call in number (US/Canada): 866.699.3239
To join the webinar:
1. Go to https://credo.webex.com/credo/j.php?ED=116964272&UID=1053590367&PW=NYjM3Y2I3ZTcx&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D
2. Enter your name and email address.
3. Enter the meeting password: Demo1234
Friday, November 13, 2009
1:00PM EST / 12:00PM CST / 11:00AM MST / 10:00AM PST
Meeting Number: 684 406 697
Meeting Password: Demo1234
Toll-free call in number (US/Canada): 866.699.3239
To join the webinar:
1. Go to https://credo.webex.com/credo/j.php?ED=116964307&UID=1053590597&PW=NNzJiZGQ0MDQ2&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D
2. Enter your name and email address.
3. Enter the meeting password: Demo1234
More details and the full schedule can be found at http://corp.credoreference.com/webinars
Once you have created a profile in EBSCOadmin for EBSCOhost Mobile, this new interface will be available to all users who have access to your account. To help you alert your users, we have created posters that you can download and print; one of which includes a special, customizable message field. If you (or your library administrator) need assistance setting up a new profile for EBSCOhost Mobile, please communicate with EBSCO's Technical Support Representatives online, via EBSCO's Support Form, and remember to allow one to two weeks for setup time. For more information, please see this top story.
Also new on EBSCOhost are several enhancements to streamline the Alerts creation process, described here.
Visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com) to learn about all of EBSCO's products, search among thousands of FAQs, and download tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides.
]]>The American Psychological Association is pleased to invite you to attend a PsycINFO Webinar. This 1-hour Advanced Training session will detail the coverage and selection practices, the structure of the database, and annual reloads. The session reviews the structure of PsycINFO records, covering the 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 will demonstrate searching using the online thesaurus, classification codes, natural language or keywords, and fields and limits. For date and time information, please see below.
Learning Objectives
Audience
Please invite any members of your library staff or faculty who are interested in gaining in-depth information about PsycINFO content and structure, as well as how to build efficient search strategies to obtain scholarly literature and enhance their research process.
Registration
All times are listed in Eastern Time. To register, visit our Webinars registration page.
PsycINFO on EBSCOhost November 10, 2009 3:30 p.m.
PsycINFO on APA PsycNET November 12, 2009 1:00 p.m.
PsycINFO on CSA Illumina November 19, 2009 2:00 p.m.
Questions?
Please feel free to send any questions or comments to psycinfowebinars@apa.org with "Advanced Training" in the subject line.
Library Journal, August 15, 2009, gave American History in Video a rave review:
""Based on content, design, and price, this product is a solid ten. It tops any other similarly themed resource in its field and, at this price, is an amazing deal. . . . This is a product I wish every library in the United States could make accessible to its researchers, from elementary-school children to history scholars, and everybody in between. Resoundingly recommended."
Contact Minitex for pricing.
Facts on File and Films for the Humanities and Sciences are proud to present our comprehensive new Curriculum Video on Demand subscription collection, a compilation of Films for Humanites and Science's best high-school-level video content spanning the following core subject areas:
Facts on File is offering a free sneak peek for the rest of October:
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from Serials Solutions:
Dear Serials Solutions Customer,
I apologize for the inconvenience this maintenance window has caused. Our original schedule was in direct conflict with our clients in Asia Pacific and in the Southern Hemisphere, where they are finishing up their school years. In an attempt to accommodate this our subsequent schedule had notable impact on North American customers. In light of this, we have forced our provider to open a new window to better minimize the effect on all our global customers.
The new window is scheduled to upgrade our systems on Saturday, October 24, from 12:01 am PDT (Saturday, October 24, from 0701 GMT). As a result of this upgrade, all services (Serials Solutions 360 services, Client Center, Ulrich's, and Summon) may become unavailable. Our work will be completed in 2 hours. After the work is performed IP addresses are spawned across the world by network providers and services will return as networks are updated. Since network providers vary in their responsiveness we wanted to alert you to a worst case outage of 4 additional hours for a total of 6 hours. I believe your window of downtime will be much less, probably 2 to 3 hours total.
We are scheduled to upgrade our systems on Saturday October 24, from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT (Saturday, October 24, from 1600 - 2200 GMT). As a result of this upgrade, all services (Serials Solutions 360 services, Client Center, Ulrich's, and Summon) may be unavailable for this period of time.
Please subscribe to the Support Center's Product-Release & Service Announcement to stay updated on scheduled maintenance and system downtimes.
Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. The Credo Reference collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from over 70 of the world's best reference publishers. Credo's collection is intelligently integrated with millions of cross-references and contains a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature plus dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases. The records being added to WorldCat represent the ebooks that are part of Credo's collection.
When a record for a title from Credo Reference (OCLC symbol CREDO) is added or matched to WorldCat, a 938 field is added to the MARC record that contains the vendor code CRED. This code is indexed; vendor records are searchable in Connexion using the vendor index (Vendor (vn:) in the dropdown menu). Some examples of the records added to WorldCat from Credo Reference are OCLC numbers: #436848185, #437303088. Some examples of records matched in WorldCat are OCLC numbers: #428818194, #246969140
For information about Credo Reference, see their web site at: http://www.credoreference.com
For a list of all partners contributing records through the Vendor Record Contribution Program, see:
http://www.oclc.org/partnerships/material/contribution/technical/default.htm