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from ProQuest:

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:

• ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series


• Chadwyck-Healey products only in North America


• CSA Illumina products such as CSA Technology Research Database, Illustrata: Natural Sciences, and CSA Sociological Abstracts


• Genealogy and local history products including Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest Online, Historic Map Works Library Edition, ProQuest Obituaries and Digital Sanborn Maps


• K-12 products


• RefWorks-COS products


• UMI products including online dissertation products


• Corporate Websites including the ProQuest Support Center

Maintenance window schedule, by time zone:

• Eastern Standard Time: Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 22:00 for four (4) hours


• British Summer Time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 03:00 for four (4) hours


• Central European Time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 04:00 for four (4) hours


• Japan/Korea Standard Time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 12:00pm for four (4) hours


• Malaysia/China Standard Time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 11:00 for four (4) hours


• Australia Eastern Standard Time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 14:00 for four (4) hours


• Brazil Standard Time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 01:00 for four (4) hours


• New Zealand Time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 16:00 for four (4) hours

We welcome customer feedback. Please email your comments to platform feedback or visit www.proquest.com/go/suggestions.

Posted by balad001 at 1:37 PM | Permalink

Early in September, as public concern about Pandemic H1N1 and the upcoming flu season began to grow, the medical and nursing editors from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) responded by offering the latest evidence-based, flu-related information for free.

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.

Posted by hatin004 at 4:40 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

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.

Posted by hatin004 at 3:53 PM | Permalink

We are excited to announce that the anticipated new interface for mobile users, EBSCOhost Mobile, is here! The new EBSCOhost application is tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices, and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality, right in the palm of your hand! To get started on using your mobile device to access your EBSCOhost resources, simply review this FAQ and learn about:

• the many features of EBSCOhost Mobile
• how to access the application
• which devices are supported

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.

Posted by hatin004 at 9:51 AM | Permalink

Wilson's lauded Art Full Text database now features coverage of 63 additional journals (46 of them in full text), expanding user access to research in important art-related subjects such as history, cultural studies, and art education. Full-text biographical profiles have also been added--rich, narrative life stories of more than 6,000 important artists (and growing). New WilsonWeb tools also make using Art Full Text easier and more productive, including electronic translation of articles from English into 11 languages, translations of foreign-language articles into English, the ReadSpeaker text-to-speech converter, and "My WilsonWeb" space for storing searches, results, and notes.

Continue reading "WilsonWeb's Art Full Text Expands" »

Posted by hatin004 at 10:42 AM | Permalink

from Gale:

Gale is providing free access to Global Issues in Context and dozens of eBooks from the Gale Virtual Reference Library in an effort to make reliable information regarding the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu, available. Librarians can install a free widget - found at www.gale.cengage.com/flu/ to their homepage, Facebook page or blog through Oct. 31, 2009.

Posted by hatin004 at 10:01 AM | Permalink

Concerns about Pandemic H1N1 and the upcoming flu season have people on alert and the medical and nursing editors from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) are responding by making the latest evidence-based flu-related information available for free.

The site (www.ebscohost.com/flu) will provide 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™.

Continue reading "EBSCO Makes Evidence-Based Flu Resources Freely Available" »

Posted by hatin004 at 9:54 AM | Permalink

BioOne is pleased to welcome five new titles and their respective not-for-profit publishers to the 2010 BioOne Collections. These new titles further enhance what has become a leading resource for organismal, ecological, and conservation biology research.

Four titles will join the BioOne.2 collection, while one title will be added to the BioOne.1 collection. Four of the five titles are ISI-ranked, while the fifth is a promising new-start in its third year of publication. Enhancing BioOne's international profile, two of the publications are based in the United Kingdom and two are based in Poland. The fifth is US-based with a long and distinguished publishing history.

Due to these additions, in 2010 BioOne will be home to 159 total publications, 111 of which (70%) are ISI-ranked. Furthermore, 70 of BioOne's titles (44%) have their current content available online exclusively through BioOne's sophisticated new platform which debuted in January 2009. BioOne continues to be home to eleven open access publications, freely available to all users and fully integrated with the subscription-based collections.

In recognition of library constraints amidst a troubled economy, BioOne has frozen 2010 pricing at 2009 rates for both collections. For subscription or trial information, please contact Minitex. 2010 collection title lists in .pdf and .csv formats are also available for download at http://www.bioone.org/page/about/content/titles.

Continue reading "BioOne Announces 2010 Collections" »

Posted by balad001 at 9:22 AM | Permalink

Cheryl LaGuardia wrote a rave review in Library Journal about American History in Video:

"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"

Alexander Street Press is offering a 48-hour access to American History in Video; access ends Friday Friday, August 28:

url: http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com
username: historyinvideo
password: sneakpeek

For pricing, please contact Minitex.

Posted by balad001 at 11:23 AM | Permalink

Coming in 2010, ProQuest, CSA Illumina, and selected Chadwyck-Healey products will be available on the new platform at launch, and all ProQuest products will migrate to the new platform over time.

See the ProQuest site for further details.

Posted by balad001 at 10:25 AM | Permalink

from OVID:

Dear Ovid Customer:

As a follow-up to our August 13th email notifying you of an update to the network (IP) address range, please note that there was an error in the listed range.

The correct additional network range is 194.66.22.128/26 (194.66.22.128 - 194.66.22.191).

Please make note of the correction. If your institution uses a firewall or proxy server to restrict Internet access to a specific set of network (IP) addresses, you must update your range of allowable network addresses to ensure uninterrupted access to OvidSP or Nursing@Ovid. The correction has been made to ovid.com here.

These updates are still on schedule to take place on Thursday, August 20th.

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Customer Support team at support@ovid.com with any questions.

Regards,
Wolters Kluwer Health - Ovid

Posted by balad001 at 10:20 AM | Permalink

from OCLC:

Users of WorldCat.org, WorldCat Local and WorldCat Local "quick start" can now search FirstSearch databases and all other OCLC electronic resource services you provide through an upgraded interface. Integrated search results include resources from all services - OCLC FirstSearch® databases, NetLibrary™ eBooks and eAudiobooks, Electronic Collections Online™ eJournals, ArchiveGrid® archival collection descriptions and CAMIO® (the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online).

A simple search box connects users with FirstSearch databases and other OCLC electronic resources to which your library subscribes in a user-friendly experience that delivers relevancy ranking of locally-owned items cataloged in WorldCat, faceted browsing and simultaneous searching of an unlimited number of databases. Soon, users also benefit from access to social tools such as personal profiles, reviews and ratings and list creation and sharing that are not available in existing service interfaces.

This enhanced access is the first step toward more full integration of OCLC electronic resources, with the goal of eventually making WorldCat.org, WorldCat Local and WorldCat Local "quick start" the primary interface to these services. OCLC plans to release enhancements to the new interface on an ongoing basis.

A URL just for YOUR library
A new WorldCat URL specific to your library has already been created. Log on to the new Service Configuration module to review your library's URL and customize your site with library-specific branding. Also configure settings that enable access to the OCLC content to which your library subscribes.

Access to current services continues
These enhancements let your library offer users a new interface for access to OCLC electronic resources at no additional charge. Existing interfaces for FirstSearch, NetLibrary, CAMIO and ArchiveGrid will be available through at least 2011 to ensure a smooth transition for library staff and users. Staff at your library controls the timing of the introduction of these enhancements to your library's users.

For more information
Visit www.oclc.org/access for additional details about access enhancements.

Posted by balad001 at 12:22 PM | Permalink

There will be no price increase for Credo Reference from August 2009 through June 30th, 2010.

Credo Reference is a full-text online reference collection of more than 390 titles from 60+ of the best reference publishers. Credo's collection is integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare, and law to literature.

Three subscription options allow users to customize the number of titles in their subscription:

• Credo 100 allows you to manage a collection of any 100 titles by selecting those that are most preferable for your institution. Subscribers can then add and drop titles during the course of a year. Credo updates books as new editions become available from the publisher.


• Credo 250 allows you to manage a collection of any 250 titles with the same flexibility and free updates as the Credo 100.


• Credo Unlimited consists of all titles currently available (390+) and all new titles released during the course of the subscription term.

Contact Minitex for pricing, trials, or more information.

Posted by balad001 at 3:38 PM | Permalink

from OVID:

Dear Ovid Customer:
In addition to changes to the Browse Journals area of OvidSP described in an email last week, the August release of OvidSP also includes navigational and interface enhancements to the Journal Full-Text display page. These enhancements, all based on direct customer feedback, are designed to further enhance readability and usability:

• All journal full-text pages will be standardized to a 990-pixel resolution, allowing for enhanced readability
• "Breadcrumb trail" will allow for easier navigation
• Text will include collapsible sections, so users can better manage screen real estate
• Images will appear as thumbnails and, when clicked, will automatically enlarge in a pop-up window
• Images will also be organized in a convenient new Image Gallery located at the bottom of the page
• Back-to-top links will be available for quick and easy navigation
• Options to display the article as a PDF, open the Complete Reference, email a Jumpstart, and more will appear in a new Article Tools section in the upper right-hand section of the screen
• The new Outline section, located below Article Tools, will include links to all sections of the article, such as the Introduction, the References, and the Image Gallery (if available)

Continue reading "Upcoming OvidSP Enhancements - Journal Full-Text Display Page" »

Posted by balad001 at 3:33 PM | Permalink

Alexander Street will be doing scheduled maintenance across all collections on AUGUST 13, 9:00 PM TO 3:00 AM EDT / GMT-5. Please be aware that you may see sporadic interruptions of up to one hour across all Alexander Street online collections on this date. In the event that downtime is prolonged for any reason, we will post alerts to each affected collection, and we will send an email to your technical services contact.

Future Scheduled Maintenance Dates
Our maintenance window is always 9:00 PM TO 3:00 AM EDT / GMT-5.

• September 10
• October 8
• November 12
• December 10

Posted by balad001 at 5:28 PM | Permalink

from Alexander Street Press:

As a result of a new license agreement with PBS and WGBH we're adding more than 200 hours of PBS programming, including important titles from the popular American Experience series; the Ken Burns documentaries Civil War and Jazz; and dozens of other titles. Access the complete bibliography here.

In July, we added the following PBS titles, and many more will be added over the next few months:

• Summer of Love (American Experience series, 2007)
• Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (American Experience series, 1993)
• The March of the Bonus Army (2006)
• Roberto Clemente (American Experience series, 2008)
• Terry Sanford and the New South (2007)

Other new content in American History in Video includes more issues of Universal Newsreel and 21 new documentaries from The History Channel®, such as John Paul Jones: Captain of the High Sea and Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain. To see the complete listing of titles added, visit the What's New page. The collection now contains a total of 1,471 videos totaling about 460 hours. Additional documentaries from California Newsreel, Bullfrog Films, and Pennebaker Hegedus Films are coming soon together with archival footage from WPA and other sources.

Posted by balad001 at 5:19 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

The EBSCO A-to-Z Administrator site will be unavailable beginning at 9:00 p.m. CDT on Friday, 17 July 2009 (02:00 GMT on 18 July 2009) for approximately 24 hours as necessary maintenance is being performed.

The A-to-Z Reader site will remain available during this period, as this maintenance only affects the A-to-Z Administrator site. In addition, any resource usage occurring on the A-to-Z Reader Site will continue to be logged, and will display once the A-to-Z Administrator site is restored.

Questions? Contact Customer Care at 1-877-327-2622 (U.S.A. and Canada) or +1-205-981-4000 (Worldwide), Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. CDT (12:00 - 22:00 GMT). Email: customercare@ebsco.com.

Posted by hatin004 at 11:43 AM | Permalink

from H.W. Wilson:

H.W. Wilson continues to build on the versatility, accessibility, and practicality of its lauded WilsonWeb reference database service, with a new round of enhancements for the interface and several of its most popular databases. The latest platform improvements make content available to a wider range of users, provide new customization options, and add tools to the "My WilsonWeb" personal user accounts within WilsonWeb. Improvements to specific WilsonWeb databases include the acclaimed Cinema Image Gallery, Biography Reference Bank, and Current Issues databases.

Continue reading "New Enhancements for WilsonWeb Database Service" »

Posted by hatin004 at 10:23 AM | Permalink

from Gale:

Gale PowerSearch 2.0 Now Available
Since its launch in 2002, the Gale PowerSearch platform has offered comprehensive access to authoritative reference, periodical and primary source information. Gale has incorporated new enhancements, creating Gale PowerSearch 2.0, a platform providing even greater ease and giving more power to the user.

Gale PowerSearch 2.0 simplifies browsing through Gale's more than 20,000 publications, providing the ability to search across more than 150 million documents.

Improvements include:

• Web 2.0 sharing tools including Del.icio.us, MySpace, Reddit, Digg, Facebook, Newsvine, Twitter and others to connect users with their community, allowing them to push interesting articles out to the Web to share with others
• ReadSpeaker (text-to-speech technology), allowing users to have all articles available from within the platform read aloud to them. All articles are fully downloadable in MP3 file format and can be played on an iPod or other audio devices
• Addition of "named user" functionality, allowing researchers to create custom profiles, name and save any search and modify RSS feeds on the product's homepage, thus facilitating ongoing research and supporting user's interests
• Search results that incorporate portals of context sensitive multimedia (images, video and podcasts)
• On demand translation of documents into 11 different languages, helping institutions support a global community of users

Current Gale customers can enable Gale PowerSearch 2.0 now by contacting Gale Technical Support at 1-800-877-4253, option 4. Gale PowerSearch 2.0 will be implemented for all customers in July 2009. Click on the "Find Out More" link on the Gale PowerSearch Web site www.gale.cengage.com/powersearch/.

Posted by hatin004 at 2:07 PM | Permalink

from Rosen Publishing:

Teen Health & Wellness will host a user group for current and prospective customers at ALA Annual in Chicago:

DATE: Saturday, July 11
TIME: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
PLACE: Chicago Hilton, Lake Michigan Room

Space is limited, so RSVP at user_group@teenhealthandwellness.com today.

At our User Group you can

• Find out how new database features promote 21st Century Skills


• Learn proven strategies to maximize your database usage


• Get innovative program and promotion ideas


• Network with colleagues who are successfully using this award-winning resource

To RSVP, email Teen Health & Wellness at user_group@teenhealthandwellness.com or call (877) 381-6649. Participants will receive an email confirmation. Snacks will be served!

Remember, space is limited, so sign up today! And don't forget to stop by ALA Booth #4515 to see what's new from Rosen Publishing and Teen Health & Wellness.

Posted by balad001 at 11:16 AM | Permalink

from ProQuest:

We are pleased to announce that two more exciting new enhancements will soon be available to our valued ProQuest customers:

• New Browse Functionality--During our maintenance window on June 27th, a new "browse" tab will be added to ABI/INFORM to help users quickly find and zero in on highly sought 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.


• COUNTER 3 Reporting--Project COUNTER released version 3 of its Code of Practice with a due date for adoption of the end of August 2009. On July 1st,we will switch from version 2 to version 3 for the ProQuest platform. COUNTER 3 compliance will now identify federated search usage and allow reporting via the SUSHI protocol.

The reporting structure will change slightly to conform with the new COUNTER standard. COUNTER 3 reporting for the CSA Illumina and Chadwyck-Healey platforms is scheduled to be available in August.

We welcome customer feedback. Please email your comments to platform feedback or visit www.proquest.com/go/suggestions.

Posted by balad001 at 4:46 PM | Permalink

from OCLC:

In July, OCLC will add metasearch functionality to WorldCat Local. WorldCat Local metasearch will enable users to search your library's collections, library resources in WorldCat, electronic resources from OCLC and other content providers from a single search with integrated search results. In addition, relevancy ranking will feature your library's resources in results lists.

Learn more about the upcoming addition to WorldCat Local at a webinar on Thursday, June 25 at 1:00 - 2:00 PM Eastern. This program will include a sneak preview of the metasearch functionality planned for July along with overview of OCLC's plans for future development of the service.

Posted by balad001 at 10:18 AM | Permalink

from ProQuest:

The next ProQuest platform maintenance window will be on June 27, 2009. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install these exciting new enhancements. The window will take place from Saturday, June 27, 2009, at 22:00 Eastern Standard Time to Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 10:00 Eastern Standard Time. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

We are pleased to announce the following enhancements:

• MLA Citation Format Change--The citation generator is being updated to reflect the MLA documentation style found in the seventh edition.


• Full Text linking with Google Scholar--Institutions with both Google Scholar accounts and ProQuest platform subscriptions can now see links to ProQuest full text content when searching Google Scholar. To begin seeing these links, use LAD (Local Administrator) to enable Google Scholar linking.


• Author Naming Adjustments--In the citation generator area, author names will be presented in Last Name, First Name format. This is only for content that captures the author meta-data in a more granular format. This change reflects content from 2007 moving forward and will be added to archival content over time. Instances such as "staff writer" will not fit this format.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series


• CSA Illumina products such as CSA Technology Research Database, Illustrata: Natural Sciences, and CSA Sociological Abstracts


• K-12 products such as eLibrary, SIRS, and CultureGrams

Continue reading "ProQuest Maintenance Window - June 27, 2009" »

Posted by balad001 at 10:14 AM | Permalink

from OCLC:

WorldCat Local "quick start" is now available at no charge to libraries that subscribe to the WorldCat database on the OCLC FirstSearch service. The service delivers the resources of your library and libraries around the world in a single search. This first step toward Web-scale, cooperative library management services connects your users' search experience with library systems--today, that means WorldCat, your catalog, local availability and resource sharing. Soon, OCLC will take the next steps and pilot Web-scale delivery and circulation, license management, print and electronic acquisitions, and more.

See a live demonstration of a new WorldCat Local "quick start" site and learn more about the service at weekly Web information sessions. Registration is open, and additional sessions will be added regularly.

Built on the popular WorldCat.org interface, WorldCat Local "quick start" includes:

• Your library's brand in the URL, search box and user interface


• Your library's resources displayed first in search results


• Interoperability with a single integrated library system


• Smart integration with your library's existing delivery services


• Access to the same social networking tools available on WorldCat.org


• Article-level records from well-known databases with links to full text where available

Visit our website to learn more about WorldCat Local "quick start," and how your library can take advantage of this new service. In addition to introductory webinars, you may also register for webinars that provide an introduction to the service, instruction on configuration options and guidance on use of OCLC's batch processing services to update your library's holdings in WorldCat.

Posted by balad001 at 10:07 AM | Permalink

from Serials Solutions:

Over the past several weeks we have had been receiving inquiries about additional opportunities to attend our recent “Tips for Managing, Assessing and Developing Your E-Collection” webinars. As much as we’d like to offer more live sessions, we decided that it would be best to record the session and make it available on demand.

Continue reading "Serials Solutions E-Resource Management Webinar Recorded; Case Studies Available" »

Posted by hatin004 at 12:56 PM | Permalink

from OCLC:

In July, WorldCat.org will add library-branded, single-search-box access to NetLibrary® eBooks and eAudiobooks, Electronic Collections Online eJournals, OCLC FirstSearch databases, ArchiveGrid® archival collection descriptions and CAMIO® the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. This will give information seekers easier access to a wide range of electronic resources on WorldCat.org in a way that eliminates the need for multiple access points.
Whether your library subscribes to a single FirstSearch database or NetLibrary eBook or to a wide range of content, your users will be able to connect with this content - and the entire WorldCat database - through a WorldCat search box branded for your library.

Sign up today for a free, live Web session to learn more about plans for single-search access to your library’s OCLC eContent through the familiar WorldCat.org interface. The program will include a sneak preview of the new interface that will be included with your OCLC eContent subscription at no additional charge.

Posted by balad001 at 2:45 PM | Permalink

from AP Images:

As part of our effort to improve your experience while maintaining a safe searching environment, we will be launching an upgrade this weekend. The upgrade features a streamlined navigation toolbar that enables our ability to add more categories like the “World Elections” and “Beijing Olympics” spotlights. Also, changes to photo navigation make it easier to access features like the slide-show and make it easier to identify your search terms.

The first phase of the upgrade will be conducted during the early morning hours of May 30, 2009. During this time, AP Images will be fully functional and available for your use, though clients that authenticate with a username and password will see a slightly different screen. Clients may see a screen that will ask for your email address, please disregard this. Please enter the username that you have used in the past in this area. Most users, however, will not be affected. Phase two of the upgrade is tentatively planned for June 2, 2009. This phase applies a service pack to address items identified in the latest round of testing and to update the login screen.

Should you have any questions about this upgrade, please feel free to contact us at education@accuweather.com. Issues of a technical nature can be directed to apsupport@accuweather.com, or 800-249-5389.

Posted by hatin004 at 4:43 PM | Permalink

from the American Mathematical Society:

In response to the economic recession and its impact on the academic community, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) is freezing the prices of its subscription-based products--journals, MathSciNet and the Mathematical Reviews (MR) Database fee--at 2009 levels. This price freeze applies to all 2010 subscriptions, in both print and electronic formats, including MathSciNet consortia subscriptions.

The publishers of journals distributed by the AMS, also concerned about the impact of the global recession on the academic community, have joined the AMS in freezing their journal prices for 2010 as well. The complete list of AMS journals and AMS-distributed journals is at www.ams.org/journals.

In addition, the AMS will not increase the 2009 dues rate for AMS Institutional Members in 2010.

Contact for questions::
AMS Customer Services Department 201 Charles Street Providence, RI 02904 USA cust-serv@ams.org 800-321-4267 (US and Canada).

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Note: for those Minitex particpants who already subscribe to MathSciNet, Minitex will send renewal pricing in late summer.

Posted by balad001 at 1:27 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

Dear EBSCO Customer,

We are very pleased to extend the opportunity to try a brand new database: Research Starters - Sociology, designed to assist students researching top areas of academic study.

Because you already subscribe to a qualifying EBSCO product (please refer to the FAQ below for the exact list), Research Starters - Sociology will be available to you for the 2009/2010 school year (through June 30, 2010) at no charge, on an opt-in basis.

Key Features of Research Starters - Sociology:

• Convenient 3,000-word topic overviews with concise, yet comprehensive content
• Overview information on 500 topics parallel to course offerings of major schools, colleges and universities in the United States and Canada (offering a sociology concentration), with links to key articles in associated EBSCO databases
• Content designed to be appropriate for advanced high school and two/four-year college students, public libraries and selected schools
• Quality study guides written by subject matter experts holding advanced degrees in sociology, consulted to ensure that the articles encompass current trends and hot topics

Please see the following FAQs for more information, as well as the list of databases that qualify subscribers for this extended free trial offer:

Continue reading "EBSCO Offers Free Trial of Research Starters - Sociology" »

Posted by hatin004 at 9:57 AM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (FullTEXT) is now available from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO). The RIPM Online Archive is a unique collection of primary source material for the study of music and musical life from approximately 1800 to 1950. It is also the only extensive collection available online of music periodicals dating from the Early Romantic to the Modern period, from Beethoven to Bartók and from Schubert to Stravinsky.

RIPM Online Archive is a full-text version of journals indexed in RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals. The RIPM Online Archive’s first installment contains 50 rarely available music periodicals selected by specialists, with new titles every six months. It can be access directly or through RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals.

Continue reading "RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (FullTEXT) Available from EBSCO" »

Posted by hatin004 at 7:58 AM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

EBSCO Publishing has released a new resource for corporate sustainability professionals. Sustainability Reference Center™ is a comprehensive full-text database covering all aspects of sustainability—forming the largest dedicated resource available covering this emerging topic. Sustainability Reference Center is an expert collection providing unmatched full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas integral to sustainability including:

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Environmental Stewardship
• Federal, State & Local Regulations
• "Green" Issues & Initiatives
• ISO 14000
• LEED
• Recycling
• Renewable Energy
• Resource Conservation
• Sustainable Business Practices
• Waste Reduction

Continue reading "EBSCO Releases Sustainability Reference Center™" »

Posted by hatin004 at 7:52 AM | Permalink

from Alexander Street Press

You're invited to the Alexander Street Online Jazz Music Festival! Come as you are—without leaving your desk!

http://alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm

From Tuesday, May 12 through Thursday, May 14, you can listen to more than 18,000 jazz recordings online in streaming audio.

AND there are free music downloads, jazz videos, teaching tools, quizzes that test your jazz knowledge, contests, and prizes you can win!

It's all part of the celebration marking the launch of our new online collection, Jazz Music Library. Access it for free for the duration of the festival.

Posted by balad001 at 8:49 AM | Permalink

from OCLC:

OCLC recently announced WorldCat Local “quick start,” a service that delivers the resources of your library and libraries around the world in a single search. This first step toward Web-scale, cooperative library management services connects your users’ search experience with library systems—today, that means WorldCat, your catalog, local availability and resource sharing. Soon, OCLC will take the next steps and pilot Web-scale delivery and circulation, license management, print and electronic acquisitions, and more. WorldCat Local “quick start” is now included in subscriptions to the WorldCat database on the FirstSearch service at no additional charge.

Learn more about WorldCat Local “quick start” at weekly Web information sessions. Registration is open, and additional sessions will be added regularly.

Built on the popular WorldCat.org interface, WorldCat Local “quick start” includes:

• Your library’s brand in the URL, search box and user interface


• Your library’s resources displayed first in search results


• Interoperability with a single integrated library system


• Smart integration with your library’s existing delivery services


• Access to the same social networking tools available on WorldCat.org


• Article-level records from well-known databases with links to full text where available

Visit our website to learn more about WorldCat Local “quick start,” and how your library can take advantage of this new service. In addition to introductory webinars, you may also register for webinars that provide an introduction to the service, instruction on configuration options and guidance on use of OCLC’s batch processing services to update your library’s holdings in WorldCat.

Posted by balad001 at 1:45 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

Last week, EBSCO released several enhancements to the A-to-Z® interface:

* A Training link has been added to the upper-right corner of the A-to-Z Administrator Site. This link enables customers to instantly request additional training from EBSCO’s Training Resources team.

* A-to-Z can now sort titles containing Greek, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian characters. In addition, the alphabetic submenus for these languages are now available for display on the A-to-Z Reader Site.

* The label Your Access, which precedes custom coverage information on the A-to-Z Reader Site, will now be hidden for titles with custom coverage if the option Hide Managed Coverage when Custom Coverage is Available is selected on the Display Options page of the A-to-Z Administrator Site.

Updated help is available on the A-to-Z Administrator Site to assist you. If you have any questions about these enhancements, please contact Customer Care.

Questions? Contact Customer Care at 1-877-327-2622 (U.S.A. and Canada) or +1-205-981-4000 (Worldwide), Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. CT (12:00 – 22:00 GMT). E-mail: customercare@ebsco.com. Context-sensitive help pages are also available to assist you. For more in-depth training, classes are available via http://training.ebsco.com.

Posted by hatin004 at 2:38 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

Dear Librarians and Information Specialists,

With the recent outbreak of Swine Flu, we hope the following information is of value to you. Please feel free to pass along this information to healthcare professionals at your institution as well as faculty, staff and students.

Due to the recent global outbreak of Swine Influenza, EBSCO Publishing and the DynaMed Editors have made DynaMed’s information about Swine Influenza free to health care providers and institutions throughout the world. The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak. DynaMed Editors will continue to monitor information and update this topic as needed throughout this global crisis. Please click on the following link for information regarding Swine Influenza:
http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/swineflu/.

Continue reading "Free Access to Swine Flu Information from DynaMed" »

Posted by hatin004 at 4:23 PM | Permalink

from Gale:

Free Access Through May 15, 2009

Gale is offering free access to some of its most highly praised online resources through May 15, 2009. Librarians are encouraged to visit www.gale.com/libraryweek to download a free widget and install it on their library's homepage, giving library users single-click access to online resources like Gale Directory Library and Global Issues in Context.

New Updates for Science Resource Center

Science Resource Center provides newly updated content, including new experiments in Experiment Central. So far in 2009, more than 1,000 topic overview entries from five content sets have been fully reviewed and updated: Earth Science (MLR), Beacham's Guide to International Endangered Species (Gale), Genetics (MLR), Experiment Central (UXL), and the Encyclopedia of Endangered Species (Gale).

Posted by hatin004 at 9:21 AM | Permalink

OCLC has redesigned detailed record displays to help users find location information more quickly. It also puts evaluative content directly into the page layout. The changes were made after months of rigorous usability testing with university students, public library users and general Web searchers. In addition, the redesign will make library results even more visible to major search engines.

Changes include:

• A larger, more persistent search box


• New utility toolbars that gather common actions for saving or citing information and adding social contributions such as reviews and tags


• More prominent placement for "more like this" links that help you find similar items


• A narrative summary for many items


• Preview button that presents options for viewing content excerpts

See a new detailed record on WorldCat.org

Posted by balad001 at 3:15 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

Dear EBSCO Customer,

We are pleased to announce EBSCO Discovery Service, which will harvest metadata from internal and external sources, creating a centralized pre-indexed service of extraordinary size and speed. It will provide libraries with a single, simple entry point for research and launch users into the entire array of a library’s collection. The new service will enable users to search a wide-ranging collection of metadata and link quickly to the content to which they have rights.

Continue reading "EBSCO Discovery Service Announced" »

Posted by hatin004 at 9:37 AM | Permalink

from Oxford University Press:

Oxford is delighted to announce the arrival of two brand-new encyclopedias to the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf:

THE OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY
This is a comprehensive, international, interdisciplinary reference work that includes approximately 1,000 articles on all aspects of legal history throughout the world from ancient to modern times. Articles deal with private law, public law, and constitutional/higher law throughout the world and are written and signed by one of the many noteworthy contributors, which include major scholars and experts. The Encyclopedia is the first of its kind to provide historical and contemporary comparisons of world legal systems.
Edited by Stanley N. Katz

THE GROVE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE
In more than 1,500 entries, the Encyclopedia deals with all aspects of this important area of study, ranging from the Middle East to Central Asia to Southeast Asia and Africa as well as Europe and North America. The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture covers all subject areas including: artists, ruler, writers, architecture, ceramics, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, coins, textiles, and much more. This exciting reference work is accessible to scholars, students, and general readers, making it a reliable and essential resource covering this topic of burgeoning importance in world history and the visual arts.
Edited by Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair

Special note for Oxford Reference Online Premium subscribers: all Oxford Digital Reference Shelf titles, in addition to being accessible at their individual URLs, seamlessly integrate and are cross-searchable within Oxford Reference Online Premium.

Contact CPERS for pricing.

COMING ONLINE MAY 2009
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th Edition

Posted by balad001 at 6:42 PM | Permalink

from OCLC:

Sign up today for a free, live Web session to learn more about plans for single-search access to your library’s OCLC eContent through the familiar WorldCat.org interface.

In July, WorldCat.org will add library-branded, single-search-box access to NetLibrary® eBooks and eAudiobooks, Electronic Collections Online™ eJournals, OCLC FirstSearch databases, ArchiveGrid® archival collection descriptions and CAMIO®—the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. (Current interfaces for OCLC eContent services will continue to be available through 2011 to give you and your users ample time to become familiar with the new interface. )

This will give information seekers easier access to a wide range of electronic resources on WorldCat.org in a way that eliminates the need for multiple access points.

Whether your library subscribes to a single FirstSearch database or NetLibrary eBook or to a wide range of content, your users will be able to connect with this content - and the entire WorldCat database - through a WorldCat search box branded for your library.

Please join us for a Web information session on Thursday, April 30, 2009 to learn more about plans for single-search access to your library’s OCLC eContent through the familiar WorldCat.org interface. The program will include a “sneak preview” of the new interface that will be included with your OCLC eContent subscription at no additional charge.

Posted by balad001 at 1:39 PM | Permalink

To celebrate libraries and the world of information they provide—ProQuest is offering free, open access to three of their most popular student resources at www.proquestk12.com/go/celebrate. Access will be available Monday, April 13 through Friday, April 17. No username or password needed!

Here are the featured resources:

• CultureGrams: local experts document the culture and daily life of the world's peoples—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
.

• eLibrary: high-quality, high-interest, and highly usable full text and multimedia aligned to over 20,000 most-studied topics
.

• SIRS Discoverer: a safe, kid-friendly online discovery environment for young learners from elementary to middle school.

Posted by balad001 at 2:04 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

EBSCO A-to-Z® (both Administrator and Reader Sites), EJS (Admin and Reader Sites) and LinkSource will be unavailable on Saturday, 11 April 2009 from 10:00 p.m. to 10:20 p.m. Central time (12 April 2009, 03:00 – 03:20 GMT) to allow for necessary maintenance. Site messages have been posted in order to alert end users.

Questions? Contact EBSCO Customer Care at 1-877-327-2622 (U.S.A. and Canada) or +1-205-981-4000 (Worldwide), Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. CT (12:00 – 22:00 GMT). Email: customercare@ebsco.com. Context-sensitive help screens are also available to assist you. For more in-depth training, classes are available via http://training.ebsco.com.

Posted by hatin004 at 11:36 AM | Permalink

Alexander Street Press has released Music Online. For libraries who subscribe to two or more Alexander Street Press music resources (streaming and/or reference), Music Online provides a cross-searchable platform. See the Alexander Street Press website for more information. Additionally, Alexander Street Press is adding Contemporary World Music, at no charge, to Music Online: Listening and they are adding Jazz Music Library to Music Online: Listening PLUS.

Posted by balad001 at 10:49 AM | Permalink

from ProQuest:

Dear ProQuest Customer,

The next ProQuest® platform maintenance window will be on April 18, 2009. An eight (8) hour maintenance window will take place for infrastructure maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, April 18, 2009, at 22:00 Eastern Standard Time to Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 6:00 Eastern Standard Time. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series


• K-12 products such as eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™


• COS/RefWorks

Continue reading "ProQuest Maintenance Window - April 18 , 2009" »

Posted by balad001 at 10:31 AM | Permalink

from Project MUSE:

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that 2009 MARC records are now available for each of MUSE's six collections. The record sets are full level description in the MARC21 format and include Library of Congress (LC) subject headings. Each collection's record set includes journals launched as of the beginning of the current subscription year. Updates to the record sets are added periodically during the year as new journals are launched. You may sign up to receive an email when the updated records are available.

The MUSE MARC records are available for downloading from the MUSE website. The records are offered to subscribing institutions at no charge. The record sets include all journals in a collection including those that are no longer contributing new issues to MUSE. Even though a journal does not contribute new issues to MUSE, all previously launched issues of that journal remain online and accessible to subscribers.

Additional details, instructions for downloading, and a link to sign up for email notification of updated records are found on the MUSE MARC Records page:

http://muse.jhu.edu/about/librarians/marc_records.html

Questions about MUSE MARC records may be sent to muse@press.jhu.edu.

Posted by hatin004 at 12:04 PM | Permalink

from Project MUSE:

Project MUSE is pleased to announce the addition of a new search feature that quickly connects users to more articles by an author. Look for the new 'More By' feature on each article. The 'More By' feature appears for each author listed as contributing to the article. Users can simply click on the linked author name to find additional articles in MUSE by the author.

In addition to providing quick access to more MUSE articles by the author, MUSE expanded the search to include links to more works by the author in Google Scholar and OCLC WorldCat. Google Scholar indexes peer-reviewed articles, books, theses, papers and abstracts from a wide variety of sources across many disciplines. Linking to the author's works in WorldCat using the 'Find in a library' link adds depth to a user's research, as the WorldCat record provides information about access to all formats of the author's work. WorldCat allows users to search the collections of libraries in their communities, as well as many others around the world, for both physical items and digital content.

Posted by hatin004 at 10:46 AM | Permalink

For the July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010 subscription period, Oxford University Press has announced that there will be no price increases. So, pricing for all 2009 - 10 subscriptions will be calculated using the 08-09 pricing models.

Also, OUP is offering a promotion for NEW subscription orders. For customers wanting to add NEW online resources (excluding law products), OUP will charge the 12-month price but access will begin immediately. So, depending on when you place your order, you will get either 15, 14, or 13 months of access for the price of 12 months (all subscriptions will run through 6/30/2010).

Minitex has not started the OUP renewal process yet (if all goes as planned, this will start in late April). However, we thought it best to give advance notice of OUP’s promotion for new subscriptions.

If you would like a trial, pricing, or have any questions or comments, please contact CPERS.

Posted by balad001 at 9:05 AM | Permalink

from OCLC:

OCLC welcomes Project MUSE to the growing list WorldCat partners. MUSE chose WorldCat to help connect its users to more articles by an author through a new discovery feature called ‘More By,’ which appears on each article display within Project MUSE. Users simply click on the linked contributing author name to find additional articles in MUSE, WorldCat.org and Google Scholar.

Partnering with WorldCat means that Project MUSE users can now connect to the author’s works in libraries, through WorldCat’s distinctive “Find in a library” link. Melanie Schaffner, Marketing and Sales Manager for Project MUSE, explains that, “Including a link to WorldCat adds depth to a user’s research, as the WorldCat record provides information about access to all formats of the author’s work. WorldCat allows users to search the collections of libraries in their communities, as well as many others around the world, for both physical items and digital content.”

Managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, Project MUSE represents a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers to provide an online source for full-text access to more than 400 prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

View announcement

Posted by balad001 at 12:26 PM | Permalink

from OVID:

Dear Ovid Customer:

As you know, at Ovid we believe in a continuous technology evolution of our OvidSP platform. We deploy multiple releases throughout the year with new functionality and interface enhancements that are based directly on user and information manager feedback.

We’re pleased to announce that the next release of OvidSP will be live at the end of March! Designed to give you and your users even more search flexibility and efficiency, the following new functionality will be available as part of this release:

• Customizable Search Fields – Display frequently used fields in a new MyFields tab-you no longer have to select them each time you perform a search since OvidSP will remember them each time you log in. Easily add or remove all other fields-now located in a Show All tab-based on your preferences.


• New Limit to Star Ranking – Limit searches to generate results with a specific ranking, such as five or four stars. Remember-ranking denotes relevancy; five stars indicate the highest relevancy.


• Enhanced Limit-to-Publication-Year – You will be able to select “current” (i.e., “Limit to 2006-Current”), rather than a specific year, as your end date so you can stay up-to-date with the most current information available.


• Quarterly AutoAlerts – Set up to receive AutoAlerts on a quarterly basis.


• Improved highlighting – We’re improving the accuracy of highlighting in OvidSP for both Basic Search as well as Advanced Search. Only specific search terms used will be highlighted; these will be highlighted in yellow. Expanded terms will be highlighted in red.


• Clin-eguide customers only – You will find a new link from the main search page of all search modes directly to the Clin-eguide homepage.

Stay tuned for details on a specific time and day for this release.

In the coming weeks, you’ll see sample screenshots of these new enhancements in the OvidSP Resource Center. Remember to check the Resource Center regularly for new informational materials, training courses, and online tutorials. Contact support@ovid.com if you have any questions.

Regards,
Wolters Kluwer Health - Ovid

Posted by balad001 at 5:56 PM | Permalink

from McGraw-Hill:

Important news for McGraw-Hill Digital Engineering Library customers

McGraw-Hill is pleased to announce the pending launch of AccessEngineering, a major redesign of the online engineering resource now known as McGraw-Hill's Digital Engineering Library. AccessEngineering's new user focused design enhances this dynamic source of engineering content, and will support all levels of scientific and technical research in the corporate, industrial, government and academic sectors.

The new URL for AccessEngineering will be active on March 9: http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com

Continue reading "Important News for McGraw-Hill Digital Engineering Library Customers" »

Posted by hatin004 at 12:42 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

Dear EBSCO Customer,

We're excited to announce the upcoming and existing availability of these EBSCOhost enhancements:

Coming Soon: Zero Results Prevention

Zero Results Prevention can be enabled within EBSCOadmin to run whenever a query returns no results. Alternately, users can set a Preference during an EBSCOhost session for Zero Results Prevention to function this way. For details on this new functionality, click here. (Trouble using this link? Try pasting this URL into your browser: http://support.epnet.com/support_news/detail.php?id=515&t=r&page=1.)

Search Box Builder

Did you know that you can create a search box to give users instant access to your valuable EBSCO online resources from EBSCO, which can be placed on any library web page. Read more about it, view the brief video and FAQ details, on this page. (If you cannot use this link, copy and paste this URL into your browser to access the page: http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=1207.)

Ten Minute Training

This popular series of very short (ten minutes, really) online training sessions, each focusing on a specific EBSCOhost feature or functionality, is back for spring! The next session will be for library administrators who have access to EBSCOadmin, and wish to learn how to set up a default start page in EBSCOhost. The Default Start Page session will be held on Wednesday, April 15 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. If you are a library administrator with access to the EBSCOadmin module for your account, please reply to this email with your name, title and institution name to register.

Visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebscohost.com) to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form:(http://support.ebscohost.com/contact/askus.php).

Posted by hatin004 at 9:23 AM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

EBSCO's Customer Care team has recently received inquiries about the behavior of the EBSCO A-to-Z list when adding or removing certain titles in their collection. In order to help you better manage your A-to-Z collection, we would like to clarify how to add or remove individual titles that are part of a “complete package”.

Continue reading "EBSCO A-to-Z Hint: Adding and Removing Individual Titles in Complete Packages" »

Posted by hatin004 at 12:51 PM | Permalink

from Project MUSE:

** From Slavica Publishers:

Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies

The peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies, Serbian Studies publishes scholarly articles in all aspects of the Serbian cultural heritage, archival documents, and source material related to the Serbian immigration to North America. Founded in 1978, the NASSS is an organizational member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Its membership consists of individuals interested in, and dedicated to, the multidisciplinary study, and advancement of, knowledge of Serbia and the Serbian diaspora.

E-ISSN: 1941-9511
Print ISSN: 0742-3330

Included in the MUSE 2009 Premium Collection

For more information on the journal:
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/nja/journals/serbian_studies/
http://muse.uq.edu.au/content/nja/journals/serbian_studies/

For the Table of Contents:
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/nja/journals/serbian_studies/toc/ser.1.1.html
http://muse.uq.edu.au/content/nja/journals/serbian_studies/toc/ser.1.1.html

Continue reading "New Titles Debut in Project MUSE" »

Posted by hatin004 at 9:43 AM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

• Mass deletion of one’s search history
• The ability to refresh/rerun an entire search history
• EndNote support
• Support of new EBSCOadmin options to Default Thesaurus Explode on or off, and to clear the Find field after performing a search

• For CINAHL-specific FAQs: http://support.ebsco.com/cinahl/faqs.php
• For CINAHL-specific Training materials:  http://support.ebsco.com/cinahl/training.php
• For CINAHL-specific documentation, including User Guides, Help Sheets, and Comparisons: http://support.ebsco.com/cinahl/documentation.php
• For CINAHL-specific promotional materials: http://support.ebsco.com/cinahl/promotion.php

Posted by hatin004 at 9:37 AM | Permalink

Oxford University Press is having a Spring sale on selected print titles. Order directly from the Oxford site.

Posted by balad001 at 4:16 PM | Permalink

Dear ProQuest Customer,

The next ProQuest® platform maintenance window will be on February 21, 2009. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place for infrastructure maintenance. The window will begin Saturday, February 21, 2009, at 22:00 Eastern Standard Time to Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 10:00 Eastern Standard Time. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series


• K-12 products such as eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™


• Chadwyck-Healey products housed in the US (all products with domain names ending with chadwyck.com)


• CSA platform products such as CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences, CSA Sociological Abstracts


• COS/RefWorks

Continue reading "ProQuest Maintenance: February 21" »

Posted by balad001 at 1:37 PM | Permalink

Credo Reference is a full-text online reference collection of more than 390 titles from 60+ of the best reference publishers. Credo's collection is integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare, and law to literature.

Three subscription options allow users to customize the number of titles in their subscription:

• Credo 100 allows you to manage a collection of any 100 titles by selecting those that are most preferable for your institution. Subscribers can then add and drop titles during the course of a year. Credo updates books as new editions become available from the publisher.


• Credo 250 allows you to manage a collection of any 250 titles with the same flexibility and free updates as the Credo 100.


• Credo Unlimited consists of all titles currently available (390+) and all new titles released during the course of the subscription term.

Credo Reference has scheduled informational webinars:

• Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm, EST


• Friday, February 20, 2009 at 12:00 pm, EST


• Monday, February 23, 2009 at 2:00 pm, EST


• Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 3:00 pm, EST

Click the following link for information on how to attend these webinars http://corp.credoreference.com/webinars.

Contact Minitex for pricing, trials, or more information.

Posted by balad001 at 9:42 AM | Permalink

from ProQuest:

Safari Tech Books Online - Now Available with Powerful Training Videos!
Tech savvy people already know―when it comes to the best in online technology resources and learning, Safari Tech Books Online consistently delivers the best selection of e-books available. And now we are pleased to introduce top-notch instructional videos with certain subscription packages. Users can enjoy a depth and breadth of training resources that will keep them coming back for more. Don’t miss out on a free trial for Safari Tech Books Online.

Comprehensive Tech E-books in Safari Tech Books Online― This growing database includes over 6,300 titles, covering a wide range of the technologies and training most essential to users. Topics include certification, Java, web development, graphic design, Windows, and more. A simple search of key terms brings quick and reliable resources from top publishers such as O’Reilly Media, Adobe Press, Peachpit Press, Microsoft Press, Ques, Sams, and Addison-Wesley to name a few.

Enhanced Learning by Video―Beyond leveraging the power of Safari Tech Books alone, online video training offers even more reasons to subscribe:

• Many users may learn and retain technology instruction better through instructional video rather than textbooks


• All videos reside on the Safari platform, allowing users to search the books and video content simultaneously


• Videos are broken out into chapters and subchapters allowing users to pinpoint exactly what they want to see


• Users can choose to watch videos in their entirety or view smaller clips for the time-sensitive researcher


• Video content is available in QuickTime, Adobe Flash, and Windows Media formats

Subscribe Now!
Click here for a free trial to preview this terrific collection and learn more about the advantages of a Safari Tech Books Online subscription package. Contact ProQuest representative Michael Peters today to sign-up for a free trial or for more information including pricing options and a title list of books and videos

Posted by balad001 at 9:32 AM | Permalink

from Oxford University Press:

To celebrate the start of 2009, Oxford is delighted to announce the arrival of two highly-anticipated additions to the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf:

THE OXFORD CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, THIRD EDITION REVISED
This newly revised and completely up-to-date third edition of this historic reference reflects the expansion in the scholarship and scope of classical studies. Here, in over six thousand entries ranging from long articles to brief identifications, readers can find information on virtually any topic of interest: athletics, bee-keeping, botany, magic, Roman law, navigation, and the reckoning of time. The Dictionary profiles every major figure of Greece and Rome-and lesser known figures not found in other references-from Homer and Virgil, to Plato and Aristotle, to Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great. Readers will find entries on mythological and legendary figures, on major cities and famous buildings, and on legal, rhetorical, literary, and political terms and concepts, as well as extensive thematic articles that offer superb coverage of topics of interest to both scholars and general readers.
-- Simon Hornblower and Anthony Spawforth, Editors

THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THIRD EDITION REVISED
Authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable one-volume reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,000 cross-referenced A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; saints; and mystics. An essential resource for ordinands, clergy, and members of religious orders, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is an invaluable tool for academics, teachers, and students of church history and theology, as well as for the general reader.
-- F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone, Editors

Contact cpers for pricing or a free 30-day trial.

Continue reading "Oxford Digital Reference Shelf: New Titles Now Available" »

Posted by balad001 at 10:11 AM | Permalink

from ProQuest:

The Middle East is one of the most dynamic, complex regions in the world today. To help your faculty members and students monitor and better understand it, give them access to the unmatched content found in Middle East Newsstand, from ProQuest.

To try this resource at no charge, click here.

More than 30 current newspapers from the Arab World, Israel, and South Asia are offered—in English—as part of this online, searchable collection. Titles such as Arab News, Dar Al-Hayat, Aljazeera.net, Jerusalem Post, Palestine Chronicle, and Yemen Times provide a wide range of perspectives on current events for everyone from undergraduates taking survey courses, to graduate students and faculty members performing in-depth, ongoing research.

To try Middle East Newsstand at no charge (and to read the complete transcript of President’s Obama’s first interview), click here, email pqsales@proquest.com, or call 800-521-0600, extension 2134.

Posted by balad001 at 5:14 PM | Permalink

Kirkus Reviews (September 2007) wrote of Teen Health and Wellness that "the articles are written specifically for teens and are reviewed by specialists in the appropriate fields. . . . A powerful resource tailored to an audience badly in need of accurate, reliable information."

One way that Rosen Publishing has tailored Teen Health and Wellness specifically for teens is by encouraging them to write first-person stories for inclusion in the database via the Personal Story Project.

Teens can submit a Personal Story at any time. If an essay is selected for inclusion, the author receives a letter of commendation from Rosen Publishing notifying them of acceptance and a $20 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble.

School Library Journal featured a a writing class at Shelton School in Dallas, Texas, that submitted articles to the Personal Story Project. Recently, Rosen has also partnered with ALA YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) for Teen Tech Week.

Posted by balad001 at 9:50 AM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

Dear EBSCO Customer,

We are pleased to announce that we have incorporated the content in the Pre-CINAHL database with our CINAHL products to streamline your search experience.  Pre-CINAHL was intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and included a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which was available to searchers only for the time when these articles were being assigned additional indexing. This enabled users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not have been available. These early article citations are now part of all CINAHL products.

This update means that:
  • All of the records you wish to access in Pre-CINAHL can be searched in your subscribed CINAHL product
  • If you wish to exclude these records in your CINAHL product search, you can use the “Exclude Pre-CINAHL” search limiter

Therefore, on March 31, 2009 we will discontinue the Pre-CINAHL database as a stand-alone product. On that date, Pre-CINAHL, alone, will no longer be accessible to you. Please delete or change any links you may have created to this product. 

The new CINAHL Support Center (http://support.ebscohost.com/cinahl) is available whenever you need support in learning how to use CINAHL products, promoting CINAHL products to others, or when training new users on how to maximize the many features and benefits of CINAHL databases.

If you need assistance, please visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebscohost.com) to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support using the EBSCO Support Form (http://support.ebscohost.com/contact/askus.php).

Posted by hatin004 at 2:00 PM | Permalink

For Immediate Release: January 28, 2009
BioOne Launches New Platform

After nearly two years of concerted effort with its dedicated partners, BioOne launched its new platform (www.bioone.org) on Tuesday, January 27, featuring a new look and improved content tools and features. BioOne's upgraded platform is serviced by Allen Press and powered by Atypon Systems. BioOne embarked on this project to bring new functionality and a more user-friendly interface to all of its community members: researchers, participating publishers, and subscribing libraries.

Among its many new features designed with our users in mind, BioOne now includes personalized profiles through "My BioOne"
allowing for saved searches, favorite journals, and e-alerting preferences, article and title-level tools such as RSS feeds, related article and author searches, and toll-free linking.

The site now offers BioOne participating publishers previously unavailable branding, customization, and promotional opportunities, including dedicated informational pages for each publication and society.

For BioOne subscribing libraries, BioOne is pleased to offer an increase in core access and reporting functionality including easy download of COUNTER statistics and MARC records, Open URL compliance and Shibboleth supported access.

We invite you to log-on to BioOne (www.bioone.org) and see these and other improvements for yourself. We welcome and rely on your feedback to continue to improve the site and better serve our communities. Users at subscribing institutions will be IP-authenticated as in the past. To log-in to "My BioOne" and access your profile, please enter your email address and the password used on the previous BioOne site (for a reminder, please contact helpdesk@allenpress.com).

On behalf of everyone at BioOne, thank you to all those individuals and partner organizations that made this migration possible, including, but not limited to Allen Press, Atypon Systems, Portico, and Innodata-Isogen. The launch of the new BioOne platform marks the culmination of many months of work for our dedicated team. We hope that you find the end product worthy of our collective efforts and a fitting home for essential bioscience research.

Posted by balad001 at 10:48 AM | Permalink

Dear EBSCO Customer,

Please be advised that this weekend, from January 31 through February 1, 2009, you may notice some intermittent access interruption, due to planned system maintenance.
We are conducting this necessary system maintenance during off-peak hours in order to minimize the impact it will have on our customers, and apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Visit EBSCO''s Support Site (http://support.ebscohost.com) to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form (http://support.ebscohost.com/contact/askus.php).

Sincerely,

Marcie Brown
Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938

Posted by balad001 at 3:32 PM | Permalink

from Gale:

Dear Gale Subscribers,

In February 2009, Gale will be introducing a new set of IP addresses into our hosting facility. We are adding the additional IP address ranges to increase customer availability to our online products, add redundancy, and to improve system monitoring. These new IP address ranges will be used in addition to our already existing IP ranges.

If you use IP addresses to include, exclude, or filter web sites, you should add these new IP addresses to your firewall and/or proxy server configurations. Listed below is a complete list of the IP address ranges we will be using for our online databases.

Existing IP Address Ranges:
69.32.182.0-255
69.32.183.0-255

New IP Address Ranges:
69.32.226.0-255

This information can be referenced online using the following web address:
http://support.gale.com/article.asp?article=1164&p=10

If you have questions please contact Gale's Technical Support department at 800-877-4253 (option 4), or by email at gale.technicalsupport@cengage.com.

Posted by balad001 at 2:42 PM | Permalink

from Project MUSE:

** From the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies:

Southeast Asian Affairs

Southeast Asian Affairs, which has been produced since 1974, is an annual review of significant trends and developments in the region. The emphasis is on ASEAN countries but important developments in the broader Asia-Pacific region are not ignored. The publication seeks to provide readable and easily understood analyses of major political, strategic, economic and social developments within the region.

E-ISSN: 1793-9135
Print ISSN: 0377-5437

Included in the MUSE 2009 Premium Collection

For more information on the journal:

http://muse.jhu.edu/content/nja/journals/southeast_asian_affairs/

http://muse.uq.edu.au/content/nja/journals/southeast_asian_affairs/

For the Table of Contents:

http://muse.jhu.edu/content/nja/journals/southeast_asian_affairs/toc/saa.2008.html

http://muse.uq.edu.au/content/nja/journals/southeast_asian_affairs/toc/saa.2008.html

Posted by hatin004 at 12:18 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

Customer Care previously announced that A-to-Z Administrator and Reader sites would be unavailable on 31 January 2009 from 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Central time (14:00 – 18:00 GMT). After further investigation, we have determined a workaround which will allow the A-to-Z Reader site to remain operational during the maintenance period.

However, any changes made after 12:00 p.m. Central time (18:00 GMT) on Friday, 30 January 2009 will not be reflected on the Reader Site during the maintenance period. The Administrator site will remain unavailable until maintenance has been completed.

Questions? Contact EBSCO Customer Care at 1-877-327-2622 (U.S.A. and Canada) or +1-205-981-4000 (Worldwide), Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. – 5 p.m., CT (1 p.m. – 11 p.m. GMT). Select option 1 for A-to-Z or EJS, option 2 for LinkSource, or option 3 for EBSCONET. Fax: +1.205.408.6190. Email: customercare@ebsco.com. Online help screens are also available, or for more in-depth training, classes are available via http://training.ebsco.com.

Posted by hatin004 at 12:16 PM | Permalink

from Project MUSE:

Project MUSE invites users to view our latest research tool: a vodcast. The vodcast, "Research MUSEings Vodcasts: Discovering Linked Subject Headings," is a quick tutorial about the benefits of using MUSE's linked subject headings in your research.

A vodcast is a video podcast. The MUSE vodcast is a tool for both users and librarians and runs just over three minutes in length. Users can learn, on their own, what subject headings are, where to find them in MUSE, and how they help locate articles specific to a research topic. Librarians may find the vodcast useful as a supplement to instruction classes. The vodcast is a lighthearted approach to demystifying the notion of Library of Congress Subject Headings as they appear in MUSE.

On the MUSE website, find the link for the vodcast in the Training Materials section under the Tools & Resources and Librarians tabs, http://muse.jhu.edu/about/resources/vodcasts.html.

We hope you find the vodcast a helpful tool for conducting research in MUSE journals. Questions about the vodcast may be directed to MUSE Customer Service at muse@press.jhu.edu

Posted by hatin004 at 2:54 PM | Permalink

Palgrave Macmillan has just released The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.

Features include 1,500+ contributors, including 25+ Nobel Prize Winners; 1,850+ articles; 1 dynamic online resource

Benefits to Librarians & Researchers:

• Allows remote access to members of subscribing institutions.


• Offers excellent search and browse facilities, both full text and advanced.


• Contains hyperlinked cross-references within articles.


• Features carefully selected and maintained links to related sites, sources of further information and biographical citations.


• ncorporates quarterly additions, updates and corrections.


• Special consortia pricing is available for MINITEX institutions

Take a tour to see why others have adopted it:
http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/resources/about_tour

For pricing and a trial subscription, please contact Matt Nasser at 646.307.5014 or matt.nasser@palgrave-usa.com

Continue reading "New Palgrave Macmillan Resource: Dictionary of Economics" »

Posted by balad001 at 12:32 PM | Permalink

from Project MUSE:

Project MUSE just released the back issues of nine of its long-held journals. The addition of the back issues now offers subscribers the complete run of eight of the titles. This latest addition of back issues is part of MUSE's ongoing pilot program to determine the feasibility of expanding coverage to include back issues. The journals initially included in the pilot are selected journals published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. There is no additional charge to subscribers this year for the back issues added to the MUSE collections.

Back issues were added for the following journals:

• Children's Literature (Vol. 1, 1972 – Vol. 30, 2002)


• Children's Literature Association Quarterly (Vol. 1, 1976 – Vol. 30, 2005)


• The Emily Dickinson Journal (Vol. 1, 1992 – Vol. 6, 1997)


• Journal of Early Christian Studies (Vol. 1, 1993 – Vol. 3, 1995)


• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (Vol. 1, 1991 - Vol. 5, 1995)


• The Lion and the Unicorn (Vol. 1, 1977 – Vol. 18, 1994)


• MFS Modern Fiction Studies (Vol. 31, 1985 – Vol. 40, 1994)


• Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas (Vol. 1, 2003 -Vol. 4, 2006)


• Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (Vol. 1, 1994 – Vol. 2, 1995)

Subscribers of MUSE's Premium Collection have access to current issues of all nine journals and now have access to the back issues.

Subscribers to the Standard Collection have access to current issues and now have access to back issues of:

• Children's Literature


• Children's Literature Association Quarterly


• The Emily Dickinson Journal


• Journal of Early Christian Studies


• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal


• The Lion and the Unicorn


• MFS Modern Fiction Studies


• Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

Continue reading "Project MUSE News: Back Issues Pilot Program Continues" »

Posted by balad001 at 1:40 PM | Permalink

from ProQuest:

See for yourself how new offerings in Black studies online research can help researchers compare events from various perspectives. Request a free library trial for ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers, Black Studies Center, and Ethnic NewsWatch. Illuminate the Black experience and see how people of African descent are making a difference every day in our lives.

Our two newest offerings are preferred primary resources for researchers studying the stories of people and events that shaped history:

Continue reading "ProQuest Black History Month Trial Offer" »

Posted by balad001 at 10:53 AM | Permalink

from Gale:

Dear Gale Subscribers,

In February 2009, Gale will be introducing a new set of IP addresses into our hosting facility. We are adding the additional IP address ranges to increase customer availability to our online products, add redundancy, and to improve system monitoring. These new IP address ranges will be used in addition to our already existing IP ranges.

If you use IP addresses to include, exclude, or filter web sites, you should add these new IP addresses to your firewall and/or proxy server configurations. Listed below is a complete list of the IP address ranges we will be using for our online databases.

Existing IP Address Ranges:
69.32.182.0-255
69.32.183.0-255

New IP Address Ranges:
69.32.226.0-255

This information can be referenced online using the following web address:
http://support.gale.com/article.asp?article=1164&p=10

If you have questions please contact Gale's Technical Support department at 800-877-4253 (option 4), or by email at gale.technicalsupport@cengage.com.

Posted by balad001 at 10:08 AM | Permalink

from Rosen Publishing:

Personal Story Project, Reading List Feedback Feature Allow Teens and Staff to Interact with Database

NEW YORK CITY, NY – January 13, 2009 – Rosen Online, a division of Rosen Publishing, a leading K-12 educational publisher, is pleased to announce the addition of new content to its award-winning Teen Health & Wellness electronic resource in several ‘hot topic’ areas including green living and obesity. The database tackles these urgent issues by offering a new section on green / environmentally-friendly living, as well as expanded coverage on obesity for teens. Other new entries include enhanced coverage of issues such as autism, sickle cell anemia, school violence, and domestic violence. School and public libraries report an increased demand for concise and well-researched information on these critical subjects, and Teen Health & Wellness provides anytime, anywhere access for teens and young adults searching for help.

Continue reading "Rosen Adds Content to Teen Health and Wellness, Extra Functionality to Platform" »

Posted by balad001 at 2:09 PM | Permalink

from Gale:

Dear Gale Customer,

As part of our ongoing platform development, a software maintenance release will take place on Saturday, January 17th, 2009.  The work will begin at 3:00am CT and last until approximately 5:00am CT.

Customers who subscribe to Gale Virtual Reference Library and Literature Resources from Gale can expect significantly faster download times when viewing multipage PDF files.

Customers accessing these products during the 3am to 5am maintenance window may experience a brief interruption in service.

Thank you for continuing to support Gale and the products we provide.

Sincerely,

Gale Technical Support

Posted by hatin004 at 11:30 AM | Permalink

from Gale:

On the heels of the inauguration of the first African American President of the United States, this year's Black History Month will be a momentous celebration. To help you plan for the month's activities and beyond, we've updated Gale's Black History Month Web site with free resources and special pricing:

• From January 5-21, get free access to Biography Resource Center: African Americans plus 41 eBooks that are perfect for Black History Month
• Receive a 15% discount on any title from the African American subcollection of eBooks in Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Download free Black History Month lesson plans and other resources and access a free quiz

Posted by hatin004 at 2:03 PM | Permalink

from ProQuest:

The new eLibrary brings together with an engaging next-gen interface, new Web tools, and editorial context. Plus everything you already love about eLibrary like multimedia, 100% full-text, and instructional tools. See what it's all about with a quick tour (video).

Through July 2009, current subscribers can choose to remain on the old interface or move to the new eLibrary.

You can access the new eLibrary starting in January via a link on the main eLibrary search screen; or by authenticating via the appropriate URL:

eLibrary®
http://elibrary3.bigchalk.com

eLibrary® Curriculum Edition
http://elibrary3.bigchalk.com/ce

In August, all accounts will automatically move to the new eLibrary. You won't have to do a thing--other than enjoy all the new features!

If you're not a current subscriber, but want to try the new eLibrary, contact a ProQuest Representative.

Learn all about the new eLibrary by joining our update newsletter. You'll receive information on transition schedules, ongoing enhancements, training tools, and more (approx. 4 issues through July).

Posted by balad001 at 1:05 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

• Your Name:
• Your Title:
• Your email address:
• Your Institution’s Name and Location:

Posted by hatin004 at 11:16 AM | Permalink

Posted by hatin004 at 9:06 AM | Permalink

Dear CSA Illumina Customers,

Due to planned maintenance, My Research, the personalization component of CSA Illumina, will be unavailable Saturday December 20, 2008 from 8AM - 4PM EST (-5 GMT).

This will not affect any other portion of CSA Illumina, the Administrative Module, or Usage Statistics Module. A message will appear within CSA Illumina notifying end users that My Research will be unavailable during the maintenance window.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact support@csa.com if you have any questions or concerns.
Best Regards,

ProQuest Support

Posted by balad001 at 2:58 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

We are pleased to announce the arrival of our new CINAHL Support Center (http://support.ebscohost.com/cinahl). This special section of EBSCO's Support Site includes a wide variety of support and training tools designed to help you learn how to get the most from CINAHL databases via the EBSCOhost interface, such as:

• Frequently Asked Questions regarding CINAHL, EBSCOhost, and EBSCOadmin
• User Guides, Help Sheets, and other helpful documentation
• Tutorials
• Training slides and outlines
• Promotional materials such as logos, flyers and email templates to streamline communications about CINAHL online resources

The new CINAHL Support Center is available whenever you need support in learning how to use CINAHL products, promoting CINAHL products to others, or when training new users on how to maximize the many features and benefits of CINAHL databases.

Posted by hatin004 at 2:22 PM | Permalink

The Serials Solutions® 360 Counter e-resource assessment service helps you reduce costs and make more informed collection-development decisions. It aggregates Project COUNTER usage reports, incorporates costs, calculates cost-per-click and enables you to evaluate databases and content providers.

• Aggregate and upload Project COUNTER reports easily using our new 360 Counter Data Retrieval Service.
• Associate resource costs with usage data through the new Acquisitions Data Import feature.
• Standardize title variations
• Calculate cost-per-click so you can learn the true value of the content you license.
• Create customized charts and graphs to share with colleagues and other stakeholders.
• Archive usage data, costs, and analyses to provide historical perspective and prevent data loss.

Register for our next webinar on December 16 (1:00 pm EST/10:00 am PST). Click here to register or request more information by emailing Serials Solutions at donald.litner@serialssolutions.com.

Posted by balad001 at 9:50 AM | Permalink

ProQuest is pleased to announce additional years of coverage have been added to several ProQuest Historical Newspaper titles. The new dates of coverage are listed below:

• Atlanta Constitution: 1868-1942
• Boston Globe: 1872-1925
• Christian Science Monitor: 1908-1995
• The New York Times: 1851-2005
• Washington Post: 1877-1992
• Wall Street Journal: 1889-1991

Continue reading "ProQuest Newspapers Content Update" »

Posted by balad001 at 1:18 PM | Permalink

from OVID:

Dear Ovid Customer:

We are working on the dataset for the 2009 Global Reload and look forward to completing the 2009 MEDLINE regeneration as quickly as possible. At this point, we expect that the reload will be live on OvidSP in mid-late January 2009.

As a reminder

• The last MEDLINE Daily update went out on November 19, 2008.


• The last MEDLINE Weekly update went out on November 24, 2008.

Posted by balad001 at 9:32 AM | Permalink

In consideration of the economic pinch that libraries are facing, Facts On File database subscriptions will be subject to a 2% renewal increase in 2009, as opposed to the standard 4%.

For 2010, plan on the renewal rate going back to 4%.

Posted by balad001 at 9:23 AM | Permalink

from Rosen Publishing:

December 11, 2008

Dear Colleagues:

Happy Holidays from the Teen Health & Wellness team!

As you prepare your 2009/2010 budgets, we want to let you know that there will be no price increase for your database subscription.

We are pleased to extend a renewal price identical to your introductory price. We will still send you formal renewal paperwork, but wanted to share this good news now.

We also want to extend a special offer to you, our valued customer: FREE WEBINAR TRAINING AND CUSTOM EMAIL. Make the most of your database subscription with two free training/outreach opportunities. Schedule a free Webinar training to share the database with your colleagues. Or let us create a cus tomized email message for you to make colleagues aware of this award-winning resource. Contact us via email or call 877.381.6649 anytime to take advantage of these free training/outreach tools.

Best wishes for a healthy and peaceful new year,

Miriam Gilbert for the Rosen Database Team

Posted by balad001 at 9:20 AM | Permalink

from ProQuest:

Dear ProQuest Customer,

The next ProQuest® platform enhancement release will be on December 13, 2008. A eight (8) hour maintenance window will take place to install these exciting new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, December 13, 2008, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, December 14, 2008 at 10:00 EDT. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

Enhancements include:

• Non-Periodical Browse-a new Browse tab allowing users of ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source to quickly surface valuable non-periodical content such as evidence based resources and tools, reports, videos, and study paths.


• SHIBBOLETH Support-ProQuest platform products such as ABI/INFORM, Research Library, ProQuest Central and more will be SHIBBOLETH compliant, a growing method of authenticating user access to library resources. The release will provide federation support for the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Germany. Other federations will be supported at a later date.


• Controlled Vocabulary Update-the controlled vocabulary has been updated to include new/updated terms. These regular updates allow users to continue performing highly detailed search queries using the latest terminology leading to better results.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series


• K-12 products (HNP Graphical, K-12 Obituaries)


• Dissertations Express and Dissertations Inter-Library Loan

Continue reading "ProQuest Maintenance: December 13, 2008" »

Posted by balad001 at 12:03 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

With the success of last summer's EBSCOhost 2.0 fully ADA compliant release, you now have an excellent alternative to the EBSCOhost Text Only interface, which will be fully retired in the spring of 2009. For more information and user reviews of EBSCO's 508 Accessibility, please visit this site.

If you use the Text Only interface for accessing EBSCOhost via a handheld device, you will find EBSCOhost 2.0 equally effective. A brand new product for accessing EBSCOhost using handheld devices is currently in development and targeted for release in the spring.

For those who continue to use the Text Only interface to minimize connectivity speed issues based on your local network providers, EBSCOhost 2.0 provides a superior alternative to Text Only.

Please change your links and start using EBSCOhost 2.0 now, to give your users time to become accustomed to its streamlined design and features before Text Only's discontinuance, and to take advantage of all that EBSCOhost 2.0 has to offer. For assistance, please see this FAQ, or contact Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form.

Posted by hatin004 at 10:45 AM | Permalink

from Gale:

Farmington Hills, Mich., Nov. 4, 2008 – A new service dedicated to electronic resource usage reporting, in compliance with the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol and the Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) Codes of Practice, is now available for Gale online databases. Gale is part of Cengage Learning.

“This service makes it possible for librarians to receive usage statistics for Gale databases using a SUSHI-compatible client,” said Mark Springer, manager of usage analytics and reporting at Gale. “Automating the retrieval of COUNTER reports saves time and makes it easier for our customers to collect usage statistics in an industry-standard format.”

Gale’s SUSHI service was released on August 14, 2008.

The usage reports delivered by the service are in compliance with Release 2 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases.

For more information, please contact Lindsay Brown at lindsay.brown@cengage.com.

Posted by balad001 at 4:55 PM | Permalink

Oxford University Press is having a holiday sale on print titles. Order directly from the Oxford site.

Posted by balad001 at 9:44 AM | Permalink

from ACS:

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) (http://pubs.acs.org) has announced the launch of a dynamic new online resource for the hosting and delivery of the Society's flagship Journal of the American Chemical Society and its preeminent portfolio of peer-reviewed scholarly journals covering the major subdisciplines of chemistry as well as interface areas of scientific inquiry.

The new Web site delivers enhanced searching and browsing capabilities, better user navigation in aid of reader comprehension, and improved administrative features for librarians and other institutional customers.

 A Flash-based demonstration available from the ACS Publications Web site at http://pubs.acs.org/flashdemo showcases many of the features and benefits of the new site. The following are but a few of the new capabilities:

• Enhanced PDF and Full-Text HTML functionality (e.g. Related Content Recommendations, Figure Browser, Forward Citation listings)
• Enriched Tables of Contents (e.g. Figure Thumbnail Previews, Multiple Abstract and Citation Downloads, Navigation to CAS SciFinder Resources)
• Advanced Search Interface (e.g. Simple and Advanced Search Capabilities, Tabbed Results for Research Articles and News & Features Content, Filters Column to Refine Results, Related Snippets on Displayed Content)
• New Home Pages for All ACS Journals (e.g. Content Highlights Area, Search by Citation, Graphical Abstract Highlights, Syndicated Articles displayed from Chemical & Engineering News)
• Abstract-Level Display for ACS Legacy Archives (e.g. Improved Navigation Options from Archive Content, First Page of Articles Displayed within New Abstract Template for Increased Functionality)

Posted by hatin004 at 3:32 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

Posted by hatin004 at 3:14 PM | Permalink

On October 29, 2008, EBSCO Publishing acquired NISC, Inc., National Information Services Corporation. Just a few of the NISC databases are Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Gender Studies Database, and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.

Read EBSCO's press release.

Also, visit the NISC website for a list of their databases.

Posted by balad001 at 5:43 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO:

Dear EBSCO Customer,

In response to feedback from our customers, we have added several enhancements to the recently redesigned EBSCOhost interface. Below is a summary of the new features now available:

• A new Image Quick View limiter replaces the Articles With Images limiter


• The Image Quick View limiter includes multiple sort options by image type. Can I limit my EBSCOhost search results to articles that have Image Quick View available? Can I set the Image Quick View limiter to display under Limit your results on the EBSCOhost Result List screen?


• Direct link to the Basic Search Screen from both the Basic and Advanced Search Screens


• Keyword renamed New Search


• Result List mouse over text changed from Refine Search to Search Modes and Limiters


• Entire phrase for cited references on Result List replaces the number of references in parentheses


• Search mode specified on Result List green bar


• Search History View Results anchor positioning improved


• Date Slider Bar with original search date ranges How do I use the Date Slider feature in EBSCOhost? (http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=3873)


• Additional Help link added to Choose Databases Screen


• Publication name and date added to NewsBank results

EBSCOadmin has been updated to provide library administrators with automatic advance notification when the login used to access EBSCOadmin is about to expire.

Visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebscohost.com) to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form (http://support.ebscohost.com/contact/askus.php).

Posted by balad001 at 8:56 AM | Permalink

news from EBSCO:

We are pleased to announce the addition of CLIO Notes to America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts on EBSCOhost.

CLIO Notes on America: History & Life

CLIO Notes for America: History & Life will guide you through subjects in United States history, by allowing you to browse through chronologies and brief summaries of significant events and themes in American history. On the main screen, you will find a list of major time periods and events. Each of these is further divided into subtopics that display informative essays and suggestions for further research. Linked subject terms are also provided, which allow you to search the entire America: History and Life database for articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations.

CLIO Notes on Historical Abstracts

CLIO Notes for Historical Abstracts will guide you through subjects in World History since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada), by allowing you to browse through chronologies and brief summaries of significant events and themes in modern history. On the main screen, you will find a list of major time periods and events. Each of these is further divided into subtopics that display informative essays and suggestions for further research. Linked subject terms are also provided, which allow you to search the entire Historical Abstracts database for articles, book citations and dissertations. 

Posted by hatin004 at 5:06 PM | Permalink

news from Wolters Kluwer (OVID):

On October 22, Wolters Kluwer Health announced that it completed its acquisition of UpToDate, Inc. This acquisition strengthens Wolters Kluwer Health's portfolio in the growing point-of-care and electronic medical record (EMR) markets by expanding its combined product and services offerings.

UpToDate, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with approximately 250 employees, specializes in physician-driven, clinical information products designed to improve healthcare at the point of care and integrate smoothly into a range of other EMR products.

Wolters Kluwer Health and UpToDate have a common history of successfully developing quality content and electronic platforms for use by clinicians as essential tools in their everyday work. We also share a common view of and are excited about ongoing technological changes in the healthcare industry and resulting opportunities to enhance our clinical information and point-of-care decision support offerings for the benefit of our customers.

We are more excited than ever about our potential for significantly helping our customers make their daily healthcare decisions at key stages of their workflow by providing timely and relevant clinical information. We look forward to continuing to realize our vision and earn your confidence and trust through serving as your Professional’s First Choice.

Posted by balad001 at 9:07 AM | Permalink

from OCLC:

Are you looking for a better way to connect information seekers to your library’s resources? OCLC’s WorldCat Link Manager can help. WorldCat Link Manager is an OpenURL service that allows users to link from online article citations to full-text versions of articles. Join us to see a demonstration of the service and learn how it can help your library more effectively make your resources accessible to the people who need them.

WorldCat Link Manager is open, interoperable linkserver software that OCLC provides as a fully supported, hosted service. When your library users click a journal citation in your catalog or in your electronic databases, they are taken directly to the full content of the article in your collection. The service is a proven solution for libraries that don’t want the hassles of running their own link server operation.

Register for a web session:

Thursday, November 13 2:00-3:00 PM ET Register

Tuesday, November 18 2:00-3:00 PM ET Register

Wednesday, December 10 1:00-2:00 PM ET Register

Additional information about WorldCat Link Manager

To talk to an OCLC consultant, please call 1-800-898-6252, or e-mail: moreym@oclc.org.

Posted by balad001 at 2:26 PM | Permalink

from the BioOne listserv:

BioOne (www.bioone.org) is pleased to welcome 12 new titles and their respective not-for-profit publishers to the 2009 BioOne Collections. Nine ISI-ranked titles from around the world, including Malacologia, published by the Institute of Malacology, will join the BioOne.2 collection, now in its third year.

Tree-Ring Research, the esteemed journal of the Tree-Ring Society, will complement the BioOne.1 collection in 2009, and two titles, including Marine & Coastal Fisheries, published by the American Fisheries Society, will join the BioOne Open Access collection.

Due to these additions, BioOne is now home to 149 total publications, 99 of which (66%) are ISI-ranked. Furthermore, 60 of BioOne's titles (40%) have their current content available online exclusively through BioOne. All new and existing titles will debut on January 6, 2009 on BioOne's new Atypon-powered platform, serviced by Allen Press. The new BioOne web site will provide our publishing partners with a sophisticated, highly-branded web presence and end users with a dynamic, powerful interface.

Continue reading "BioOne Announces 2009 Collections" »

Posted by balad001 at 1:52 PM | Permalink

Join an interactive webinar to learn more about Oxford electronic resources. See the sessions below, and email cpers@minitex.umn.edu by October 1st. Please include Institution Name, Participant Name, Email, and Product & Session.
MINITEX CPERS will send the webinar URL and call-in instructions.

Tuesday, October 7th
Electronic Enlightenment
2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
4:00 – 5:00 pm EST

Thursday, October 9th
Oxford African American Studies Center
2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
4:00 – 5:00 pm EST

Tuesday, October 14th
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
4:00 – 5:00 pm EST

Friday, October 17th
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
11:00 – 12:00 pm EST
4:00 – 5:00 pm EST

Continue reading "Oxford University Press Electronic Resources Webinars" »

Posted by balad001 at 1:23 PM | Permalink

from EBSCO listserv:

Dear EBSCO Customer,

We are pleased to announce the release of EBSCO’s redesigned Customer Success Center (http://www.ebscohost.com/customerSuccess). The new Success Center features a cleaner format, includes informative, animated Flash items, and has been reorganized for streamlined navigation.

The most notable Success Center enhancement is its library categories. Users can search by library type, e.g., Public Libraries, Corporations, Colleges/Universities, to find pertinent library tools faster than ever before! Each category has its own customized resources, from best practice examples, fundraising ideas, marketing tools, EBSCO logos and buttons and suggested reading, to lessons plans for teachers and success tools for students on research techniques, avoiding plagiarism and other important topics.

All of these valuable tools can be found in easily navigable columns, which can be expanded/collapsed with one click. The result is efficient access to the support materials and tools that you and your users need.

Along the bottom of the site's homepage, you will find icons to our free databases: LISTA and GreenFILE, the rotating Feature of the Month section (which highlights new and noteworthy resources), and the site's abundance of Support & Training tools.

Please take a moment to explore the Customer Success Center (http://www.ebscohost.com/customerSuccess), and become familiar with its new and revised categories, features and resources. We welcome your feedback, suggestions and any questions you may have.

Sincerely,

Bryon Rivers
Customer Success Specialist
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938

Posted by balad001 at 1:02 PM | Permalink

from ProQuest:

Dear CSA Illumina Customers,

Additional data will be added to the CSA Illumina Usage System reports on September 4th, 2008. Some customers might notice changes to their count totals for January, February, and March of 2008.

ProQuest continually strives to ensure that your Usage Reports are up to date and accurate. If you have any questions please contact support@csa.com.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause you.

Best Regards,

ProQuest Support

Posted by balad001 at 5:32 PM | Permalink

ProQuest has released a new CSA Illumina Help Page: http://support.csa.com; support can also be contacted at support@csa.com.

Posted by balad001 at 11:08 AM | Permalink

From Alexander Street Press:

Please note that we are doing scheduled maintenance to all of Alexander Street’s full-text collections on Thursday, August 14, 2008 from 9:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. EST. Some interruption in service will probably occur for all Alexander Street full-text collections. No interruption in service is expected for any of the music collections. Our apologies for any inconvenience this causes and for not alerting you sooner. If you have problems or concerns or experience any access problems after 3:00 a.m. EST, please contact us at support@alexanderstreet.com or phone +1 703-212-8520

Posted by balad001 at 12:55 PM | Permalink

From Ovid:

Dear Ovid Customer:

We are pleased to announce that new features and enhancements were added to OvidSP on Thursday, August 14th at 8:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (12:00 GMT). Click here for a World Time Zone converter to check the time for your local area.

Be sure to inform your users of the new features and functionality:

• A Multi-Field Search mode for all databases


• Collapsible Search Aid box


• Results Manager is collapsible and available above and below the main search box


• You can move the Search History above the main search box; plus, sort searches in ascending or descending order, and identify each search by search type


• Choose the limits you want to appear as common limits on the main search page


• Create, edit, and add multiple annotations to a citation


• Browse Books and Browse Journals links available on the Select a Database page


• Direct linking from Search Aids to the tree


• Browser support for adjusting font size


• Users logged into their personal accounts will see their name and institutions


• Instructional “hint” text for Basic Search

OvidSP Resource Center
If you have any questions about the latest release of OvidSP, please contact support@ovid.com or your Account Representative. Remember to visit the OvidSP Resource Center for all things related to the release to help you prepare your users, including screenshots, frequently asked questions, training schedules, marketing materials, and more.

Regards,
Wolters Kluwer Health - Ovid

Posted by balad001 at 11:28 AM | Permalink

from Project Muse:

As has been previously announced, Project MUSE is preparing to unveil a new web site design, developed to ease navigation, increase discovery, and improve the user experience for researchers, librarians, and publishers. We received an overwhelmingly positive reaction and much helpful feedback during previews of the new design at the ALA conference in June, and are pleased to announce that the release of the new interface is imminent.

The launch of the new MUSE interface at http://muse.jhu.edu is expected to occur within a week. The new site design features enhanced informational sections and improved navigation and layout. Subscriber access should not be at all affected by the rollout of the new design; the changes are to the navigation, functionality, and appearance of the web site, not to access or authentication systems. Searches of MUSE content utilizing our search engine will work much as they currently do, with a more user-friendly design and some additional search limiters available to users.

A further announcement will be sent upon the actual launch of the new site interface. Please direct any questions to muse@press.jhu.edu.

Posted by balad001 at 10:25 AM | Permalink

Dear ProQuest Customer,

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on August 16, 2008. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will begin Saturday, August 16, 2008, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 10:00 EDT. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

ProQuest has begun a transition to a new, state-of-the-art data center as part of our ongoing commitment to investing in superb support systems for our customers around the world. This move also reduces energy consumption and helps fulfill key environmental considerations.

It is expected that the vast majority of customers will transition seamlessly during this period. In a few instances, customers with specialized domain name server configurations may need to get in touch with ProQuest Technical Support, who will be available to answer any questions that arise. Within the United States or Canada, call 1-800-889-3358 or 734-761-4700 extension 2513 or email us at tsupport@proquest.com.

The following products will be affected during this window:

• ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
  
• Genealogy and local history products including Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest Online, Historic Map Works Library Edition, ProQuest Obituaries and Digital Sanborn Maps


• UMI products including online dissertation products

Continue reading "Reminder: ProQuest Maintenance: August 16" »

Posted by balad001 at 10:11 AM | Permalink

from a Gale/Cengage Learning announcement:

Consumer Reports -- Now with No Embargo!

Gale is extremely pleased to announce that our partnership with Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. has been revised to continue to offer Consumer Reports titles in full-text – but now with no embargo. Through this newly revised license agreement, users will no longer have to wait 90 days to read current issues of Consumer Reports titles through InfoTrac, our renowned periodical program.

Consumers Union (CU) is an expert, independent, nonprofit organization, whose mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers. Consumers Union publishes Consumer Reports, Consumer Reports on Health, Consumer Reports Money Adviser, ShopSmart Magazine, and Consumer Reports Annual Buying Guide.

Consumer Reports titles can be found in the following acclaimed Gale resources: General OneFile, Academic OneFile, Popular Magazines, Health Reference Center Academic, Business & Company Resource Center and the Student Resource Center products, among others. Full-text for current issues is available without embargo for current InfoTrac subscribers beginning today.

Posted by balad001 at 4:00 PM | Permalink

Dear ProQuest Customer,

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on August 16, 2008. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will begin Saturday, August 16, 2008, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 10:00 EDT. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

ProQuest has begun a transition to a new, state-of-the-art data center as part of our ongoing commitment to investing in superb support systems for our customers around the world. This move also reduces energy consumption and helps fulfill key environmental considerations.

It is expected that the vast majority of customers will transition seamlessly during this period. In a few instances, customers with specialized domain name server configurations may need to get in touch with ProQuest Technical Support, who will be available to answer any questions that arise. Within the United States or Canada, call 1-800-889-3358 or 734-761-4700 extension 2513 or email us at tsupport@proquest.com.

The following products will be affected during this window:

• ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
  
• Genealogy and local history products including Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest Online, Historic Map Works Library Edition, ProQuest Obituaries and Digital Sanborn Maps


• UMI products including online dissertation products

Continue reading "ProQuest Maintenance: August 16" »

Posted by balad001 at 3:52 PM | Permalink

from Project MUSE:

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that over 30 new titles have been confirmed to date for addition to its online journal collections in 2009. Among the new publishers contributing content to MUSE are the Liverpool University Press, The Western Literature Association, and The New Chaucer Society. List pricing for the journal collections for 2009 is also now available.

The new interface that will launch this August offers enhanced functionality at the journal article level, additional tools for locating relevant content in MUSE, and easier navigation of the site's informational pages, along with an attractive new layout.

New Titles for 2009

The journals joining MUSE in 2009 enhance its offerings in Asian studies, Women's studies, African-American studies, Latin American studies, Iberian studies, higher education, literature, and public policy, among others. Highlights of the journals joining the MUSE collections include African-American Review, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Western American Literature, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and Anthropological Linguistics. (Please see below for a complete list of titles confirmed to date.) Further additions will be announced later this summer.

Continue reading "Project MUSE Announces New Titles, Prices for 2009; Web Redesign to Launch later This Summer" »

Posted by balad001 at 3:39 PM | Permalink

Dear ProQuest Customer,

The next ProQuest® platform enhancement release will be on July 26, 2008. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install these exciting new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, July 26, 2008, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 10:00 EDT. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

Enhancements include:

• Reference Linking-ProQuest will now include cited references and cited by references functionality. Reference linking allows users to view documents which have been cited by other researchers. These additional sources help users explore their research topics further, and enable discovery of additional relevant documents.


• New Browse Functionality for ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source-Subscribers to ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source will see a new browse option allowing users another way to easily discover the valuable evidence-based nursing content from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). Users can access the new browse option from the product's opening screen and also from the Publications tab when viewing JBI content.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series


• K12 products including, eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™

Continue reading "ProQuest Maintenance: July 26-27, 2008" »

Posted by balad001 at 4:18 PM | Permalink

EBSCO released their new interface EBSCOhost 2.0 today.

MINITEX Reference Services staff are offering webinars to introduce you to the changes. For more information or to register visit www.minitex.umn.edu/events/training/webinars.asp#192.

EBSCO also offers tutorials and information on the new interface at www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=969.

Posted by balad001 at 5:20 PM | Permalink

Dear EBSCO Customer,

In just a few days, the long-awaited EBSCOhost 2.0 interface will be fully implemented. Its brand new look and feel, based on extensive user testing and feedback, will provide you with the most powerful, clean and intuitive interface available. This is the first redesign of the EBSCOhost interface since 2002, and its functionality incorporates the latest technological advances.

We have created a wide range of tools and information to streamline your transition to the new design:

• An overview of EBSCOhost 2.0 is provided in the Flash demonstration here. www.ebscohost.com/2.0_flash
• The EBSCOhost 2.0 Support Center is available here. http://support.epnet.com/ebscohost2
• Our marketing web site also features new EBSCOhost 2.0 web pages, where you can learn more about its key features, here. http://www.ebscohost.com/2.0

We hope that you and your users enjoy the clean new design of EBSCOhost 2.0, and welcome your feedback.

Visit EBSCO's Support Site http://support.ebsco.com to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form http://support.epnet.com/contact/askus.php.

Sincerely,

Marcie Brown
Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938

Posted by balad001 at 4:21 PM | Permalink

Dear CSA Illumina Customers,

The Administrative Module and Usage System for CSA Illumina will be unavailable Saturday July 12 from 8AM EDT to 12 PM EDT due to network enhancements. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause you.

Access to databases on CSA Illumina will not be effected by this outage.

If you have any questions or concerns about this planned outage, please contact support@csa.com.

Best Regards,

ProQuest Support

Posted by balad001 at 10:20 AM | Permalink

OVID has added a new multi-field search tab and user interface enhancements:

Dear Ovid Customer:

Last week we informed you of the upcoming launch of our next release of OvidSP. Beginning this week, and continuing until launch, we’ll be introducing in greater detail new features and functionality that you and your users will see on July 31st.

All of the new features and enhanced functionality are designed to optimize searching and workflow, and provide a more flexible search and discovery experience.

New Multi-Field Search Mode
Now you and your users will have even more search options to choose from! The Multi-Field Search mode, currently available as the Advanced Search feature in SilverPlatter, allows you to combine search terms using multiple search fields in just one step.

User Interface Enhancements
At Ovid, all of our platform design and development decisions are based on direct customer feedback and interviews with users. The following enhancements are all designed to let users search the way they want to search:

• Main Search Page – the tabular format has been simplified to make better use of the screen


• New instructional “hint” text that explains how to best take advantage of the Basic Search mode


• Browse Books and Browse Journals links now displayed on the Database Selection page for easier and faster navigation to these helpful tools


• Adjustable font sizes throughout the entire interface - users can set the size in their browser according to their preferences

Continue reading "OVID SP Enhancements" »

Posted by balad001 at 6:41 PM | Permalink

Dear ProQuest Customer,

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on July 12, 2008. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will begin Saturday, July 12, 2008, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 10:00 EDT. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

ProQuest has begun a transition to a new, state-of-the-art data center as part of our ongoing commitment to investing in superb support systems for our customers around the world. This move also reduces energy consumption and helps fulfill key environmental considerations.

It is expected that the vast majority of customers will transition seamlessly during this period. In a few instances, customers with specialized domain name server configurations may need to get in touch with ProQuest technical support, who will be available to answer any questions that arise. Within the United States or Canada, call 1-800-889-3358 or 734-761-4700 extension 2513 or email us at support@proquest.com.

The following products will be unavailable during this window:
• K-12 products including eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™
• Chadwyck-Healey products housed in the US (all products with domain names ending with chadwyck.com)
• "Digital Vault" products, including ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and Digital Sanborn Maps

Continue reading "ProQuest Maintenance: July 12, 2008" »

Posted by balad001 at 6:36 PM | Permalink

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 17 June 2008—Database producers H.W. Wilson and MLA have agreed to make article-level records available in WorldCat.org, increasing visibility and access to authoritative content licensed by libraries on the Web.

MLA and H.W. Wilson will permit a portion of their content to be indexed in WorldCat.org, the Web destination that allows information seekers to find what they need from a single source, online through OCLC’s cooperative organization of libraries.

Continue reading "H.W. Wilson and MLA to make article-level records available in OCLC WorldCat.org" »

Posted by balad001 at 3:32 PM | Permalink

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online has new content and new functionality:

NEW LANGUAGES: RUSSIAN AND CHINESE
The wait is over! Russian and Chinese are both now available as a part of your Oxford Language Dictionaries Online subscription, meaning that you now have access to over 4 million words, translations and phrases as part of this outstanding service. Learners of Russian and Chinese can now take advantage of a full suite of learning support materials and OLDO’s acclaimed functionality – including the virtual keyboard, mouse-over pronunciations, and more!

AUDIO PRONUNCIATION
Oxford is also delighted to announce the launch of native speaker audio pronunciation, allowing users to hear how words actually sound with correct stress and intonation. Pronunciation is available for headwords in every language (available for French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, British English, American English and Mexican Spanish), including Chinese and Russian. To access the pronunciations simply click on the loudspeaker icon next to the appropriate word on the entry page. (Click here for an example.) If you are having trouble hearing the audio files, please consult Help to ensure that your browser is configured correctly.

Continue reading "Oxford Language Dictionaries Online: Russian, Chinese, and Audio Pronunciation Now Available" »

Posted by balad001 at 9:09 AM | Permalink

Effective July 1, 2008, the price for OCLC FirstSearch Pay-Per-Search searches will increase to $1.05 (current pricing is $1.00 per search).

Continue reading "OCLC FirstSearch Pay-Per-Search Price Increase" »

Posted by balad001 at 10:49 AM | Permalink

Dear CSA Illumina Customers,

On Saturday and Sunday, May 10th and 11th, 2008 some CSA Illumina services may be affected by maintenance procedures. During this time, you may experience intermittent slow service while using the CSA Illumina platform or your federated search client (Z39.50). My Research and the Administrative Tools will be unavailable for part of this maintenance window but we will do our best to minimize the impact to CSA Illumina services.

For questions or concerns about this weekend's maintenance, please contact support@csa.com.

Best Regards,

ProQuest Support

Posted by balad001 at 4:03 PM | Permalink

Dear EBSCO customer,

As a follow-up to our September 20, 2007 announcement, the transition of America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts to the EBSCOhost interface will be completed on June 30, 2008. This means that all access to these databases will be supported only via EBSCOhost. If you are still using these databases via the ABC-CLIO platform, please begin to familiarize yourself and your end-users with EBSCOhost access as soon as possible.

We also plan to transition access to EBSCO Publishing's XML Web Service as of June 30, for federated search engine users. If you access America: History & Life and/or Historical Abstracts via federated search engines such as Innovative Interfaces, MetaLib, MuseGlobal, Serial Solutions, or WebFeat, note that EBSCO Publishing will be working with these vendors to establish connectors to EBSCO Publishing's XML Web Service. To ensure that your access to the databases will continue, and that your account is set up with the new connectors, please contact your federated search vendor directly.

In the event that you have developed independent "meta-search" solutions, please see our XML Web Service overview (http://supportforms.epnet.com/eit/webservice). EBSCO's Technical Support department is available to help you create the profile customization necessary to connect to these databases via EBSCO Publishing's XML Web Service.
Please visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com) to learn about all of EBSCO's products, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with EBSCO's Technical Support Representatives online, via EBSCO's Support Form, or by telephone:

• In the United States and Canada: (800) 758-5995
• Outside of the United States and Canada: access code, (800) 3272-6000

Sincerely,
Marcie Brown
Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938

Posted by balad001 at 10:33 AM | Permalink

Dear EBSCO Customer,

Please note that the personalization folder feature in EBSCOhost (My EBSCOhost), may be unavailable for a few hours on Tuesday, May 6th, in order that we may implement the new EBSCOhost features and functionality announced on 4/15/08. For a quick review of the upcoming features, see this top story:

http://support.epnet.com/support_news/detail.php?id=448&t=h.

We apologize for any inconvenience this brief interruption in folder service may cause. All of the other functionality and features in EBSCOhost will remain operational during this time.

We hope that you will visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com) to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form (http://support.epnet.com/contact/askus.php).

Sincerely,

Marcie Brown
Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938

Posted by balad001 at 4:02 PM | Permalink

Don't miss the April 15, 2008, issue of Library Journal.  Brian Coutts and Cheryl LaGuardia wrote "Best Reference 2007" (p. 44- 49) which includes "...homage to ten outstanding electronic resources, several of which front-line reference librarians have been anxiously anticipating for years, others that came outof the blue to delight and inform us."   MINITEX CPERS works with each of these vendors; in fact, we have trials to some of these outstanding eresources currently underway.  Contact us for pricing or to place an order.

Congratulations to our vendor colleagues for these exceptional eresources!

• CQ Global Researcher.  CQ Press
• CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences.  ProQuest
• Current Issues in Health.  H.W. Wilson
• Encyclopaedia Judaica.  Gale Cengage
• Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Oxford University Press
• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.  Oxford University Press
• SAGE eReference.  SAGE
• SocINDEX with Full Text.  EBSCO Publishing
• Teen Health and Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers.  Rosen Publishing
• Vault Online Career Library.  Vault

Posted by at 11:55 AM | Permalink

A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install three new platform enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, April 26, 2008, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 10:00 EDT. Some ProQuest products will not be available during this maintenance window. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

Continue reading "ProQuest Maintenance: April 26" »

Posted by balad001 at 12:38 PM | Permalink

Join us for live, no cost, Web sessions dedicated to the success of your NetLibrary eBook and eAudiobook collections. In each session, you watch a live Web presentation and participate via a conference call. You can ask questions, listen to others' questions, and join in the discussion with the OCLC implementation specialist. These sessions are intended for current NetLibrary customers. 

Go to http://www.oclc.org/support/training/netlibrary/successlive/default.htm

Posted by at 3:54 PM | Permalink

Five self-paced demonstrations give the users perspective on how to access NetLibrary, create a user account, search and view eBooks, plus download and transfer eAudiobooks, all with ease. For added convenience, these demos can be linked directly from your library's website.  Go to http://www.oclc.org/netlibrary/demo/default.htm

Posted by at 3:51 PM | Permalink

You and your library staff are invited to attend a free, 60-minute web-based session for an overview and demonstration of NetLibrary and how users can get the most from your library's eBook collection. Topics will include: getting started, creating end-user accounts, searching for titles, copying and pasting text, printing pages, adding notes, saving titles to a favorites list, plus other features and functions. The session will also review the essential resources available to help your users access NetLibrary eBooks with ease.

If your library is new to using NetLibrary, has experienced a recent staff change, or simply needs a refresher on end-user features, this session is right for you!

This interactive session is delivered live, over the web and via teleconference, by an OCLC Implementation Specialist. This session also provides a great opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion with other library participants.

Posted by at 3:47 PM | Permalink

Dear ProQuest Customer,

Three ProQuest platform enhancements are scheduled for release on April 26th, 2008. To prepare for this release, a series of maintenance windows will occur on the following dates (maintenance window time in parentheses):

• April 12th, 2008 at 22:00 EDT (2 hours)


• April 19th, 2008 at 22:00 EDT (2 hours)


• April 26th, 2007 at 22:00 EDT (12 hours)

See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

Enhancements include:

• RSS feeds - End users will be able to create RSS feeds for any search and active publications on the ProQuest platform (RSS feeds are not available for inactive or ceased publications). RSS feeds are a great way for researchers to keep on top of the latest news and research in their field, and a great way for libraries to broaden the visibility of electronic resources they license.


• Arabic interface - A new Arabic interface will include interface labels and search limiters translated into Arabic and interface elements in Arabic - navigation bars, tabbed options, etc. - will read right to left. Content will remain in the language provided, and read from left to right. We welcome feedback from Arabic readers, which can be submitted through the Product Suggestion Form. on the ProQuest web site.


• Updates to COUNTER reports - COUNTER reports in CSV format have been updated by removing an extra column on the left hand side of the report. This update will make it easier for libraries to manipulate the data in COUNTER reports when trying to load them into COUNTER reporting tools.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series


• Third-party databases such as ERIC® PlusText


• ProQuest Archiver™


• eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™


• Chadwyck-Healey products housed in the US (all products with domain names ending with chadwyck.com)


• "Digital Vault" products, including ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and Digital Sanborn Maps

Continue reading "ProQuest Maintenance: April 12, 19, and 26" »

Posted by balad001 at 6:32 PM | Permalink

from Elsevier:

Dear ScienceDirect Administrator,

Please be advised that Science Direct will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes during the period: 22:00 to 23:00 EDT on Friday, 11 April (03:00 to 04:00 GMT on Saturday, 12 April). This is due to scheduled maintenance work. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

The E-Helpdesk

To find the contact information for the e-Helpdesk closest to you, please click on the link below

ScienceDirect - www.info.sciencedirect.com
Scopus - info.scopus.com

Posted by balad001 at 1:08 PM | Permalink

from the ProQuest listserv:

Dear CSA Illumina Customers,

On April 7, 2008 an exciting set of enhancements will be available on CSA Illumina. The following features will help empower both the librarian and the end user.

Custom Categories
New to the CSA Administrative Module (http://md1.csa.com/ids70/admin_profile.php) is the ability to add customized groups of databases. Through a new tab labeled "Custom Categories" administrators may create brand new categories populated with the databases they choose. There are no limits on the number of custom category groups, or the number of databases that may be added to each group. The four existing subject areas: Arts & Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Technology will remain, but can be placed anywhere in the list of Custom Categories. Your patrons will see the Custom Categories in the "Change Databases" selection box in the CSA Illumina interface.

In addition to administratively created Custom Categories, patrons who have created My Research personalization accounts and who are logged into My Research will see their group of Preferred Databases as the first option in the "Change Databases" selection box.

Continue reading "ProQuest CSA Illumina Platform Enhancements" »

Posted by balad001 at 4:15 PM | Permalink

from Project MUSE:

Project MUSE is pleased to reveal plans for a significant redesign of its web presence at http://muse.jhu.edu. The launch date for the new site design is August 2008; preliminary screens and more information will be shared at the American Library Association's annual conference in Anaheim, CA, in late June. Among the goals of the redesign are more intuitive navigation among and within both content and informational pages, compatibility with emerging web standards, support for selected Web 2.0 functionality, and an enhanced online experience for users and librarians utilizing MUSE in teaching and research.

Continue reading "Project MUSE Plans New Look for Web Site; New Article Format Launching in April" »

Posted by balad001 at 4:02 PM | Permalink

from the OvidSP listserv:

We are pleased to announce that new enhancements were added to OvidSP on March 31st at 11:00 am EDT/15:00 GMT.

The new features and functionality:

MARC Records
Administrators can now download MARC records for all books and journals that your institution subscribes to on OvidSP.

Non-English Language Interfaces
To support our global customer base, French, Spanish, and German speakers now have the option to view OvidSP in their native language.

Additional Enhancements

• Users can now export search results annotations to EndNote®, Refworks®, and other standard citation managers.


• After performing a search, the OvidSP screen remains at the search field rather than “jumping” down to the results.


• Users can now choose to subscribe to an AutoAlert RSS feed using Google, My Yahoo!, or Bloglines.


• The “Actions” portion of the Results Manager now appears at the bottom as well as at the top of the page; users no longer have to scroll up to the actions box to select preferences.

Questions? Contact your Ovid Account Representative or support@ovid.com. Be sure to visit the OvidSP Resource Center regularly for user guides, screenshots, marketing materials, and training information, including the latest schedules and online tutorials.

Posted by balad001 at 2:36 PM | Permalink

Three new NetLibrary Shared eBook collections are available for ordering: Academic, Community College, and Reference. See the MINITEX NetLibrary webpage for the initial title lists. Email CPERS if you have questions or would like an order form.

The collections are available at a reduced cost through a special regional offer until June 23, 2008. Participation is a one-time cost for ongoing access to this content.

• Ready Reference
  Answers the most frequently asked questions in libraries of all types. Core reference titles include encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs, atlases and handbooks. Featured publishers: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Greenwood Publishing Group, McGraw-Hill Professional and Oxford University Press.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  FTE Count	Under 2K	2K to 4K	4K to 8K	8K to 16K	Over 16K
  	$3,500	$3,500	$3,500	$3,500	$3,500

  
  *Price is reduced to $2500 for libraries that sign-up for either the Community College or Academic collections below. For all collections, Public Library FTE = 5% of population served
• Community College
  Includes titles for general education community college and vocational programs. Topics include nursing/health, design/drafting, culinary arts, education, criminal justice, industrial arts and more. Featured publishers: University Press, A & C Black Publishers Limited, F.A. Davis Company, Greenwood Publishing Group, McGraw-Hill Professional, Oxford University Press and Taylor & Francis.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  FTE Count	Under 2K	2K to 4K	4K to 8K	8K to 16K	Over 16K
  	$2,000	$3,000	$4,000	$6,000	$8,000




• Academic
  Includes subject-specific reference titles in key areas of interest to four-year institutions. Titles are relevant for both general education and upper division academic coursework in all subject areas. Featured publishers: Cambridge University Press, World Bank, National Academies Press, McGraw-Hill Professional and Oxford University Press.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  FTE Count	Under 2K	2K to 4K	4K to 8K	8K to 16K	Over 16K
  	$3,000	$4,500	$6,000	$9,000	$12,000

Continue reading "New NetLibrary Shared eBook Collections Available to Order" »

Posted by balad001 at 9:14 AM | Permalink

Universal search, resource discovery and social networking through a single interface

Serials Solutions now represents AquaBrowser Library^® with MyDiscoveries™ to academic institutions in North America. This powerful tool enables universal search, resource discovery and social networking through a single interface. An extraordinary starting point for search and discovery, AquaBrowser Library uses visual representation and faceted search to discover and deliver all of the library’s information. Whatever it is, wherever it is, patrons can quickly and easily find content – in all types and formats: bibliographic records from integrated library systems; federated search engines; digital repositories; computer storage networks; Web sites; and more!

To discover more about AquaBrowser Library^® with MyDiscoveries™ please attend any of the free, live webinars posted at  www.serialssolutions.com/learning.html.

Posted by balad001 at 9:18 AM | Permalink

Project MUSE is very pleased to announce that MARC records are now available for journals in each of MUSE's six collections. MUSE developed the MARC records in response to requests from librarians. The record sets are full level description in the MARC21 format and include Library of Congress (LC) subject headings. Each collection's record set includes journals launched as of the beginning of the current subscription year. Updates to the record sets will be added periodically during the year as new journals are launched.

The MUSE MARC records are available for downloading from the MUSE website. The records are offered to subscribing institutions at no charge. For additional details and instructions for downloading, please refer to the MARC Records page on the MUSE website: http://muse.jhu.edu/about/librarians/marc_records.html.
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Questions about MUSE MARC records may be sent to muse@press.jhu.edu.

Posted by balad001 at 5:14 PM | Permalink

from Rosen Publishing:

Selected as one of Library Journal's Best Reference Sources of 2007

Best New Product, 2007 Readers’ Choice Awards, The Charleston Advisor

Dear Colleagues: 

Roger Rosen and I are keenly interested in meeting with you at PLA to update you on the award-winning database Teen Health & Wellness. As you may already know, the database has garnered broad critical acclaim from all major library media including Library Journal, School Library Journal, VOYA, The Charleston Advisor, Booklist, Kirkus, and Library Media Connection.   

The latest report from Pew about information seeking behavior by young adults underscores the importance of the resource.  
 

To preview Teen Health & Wellness before PLA, just  log on to:

URL: www.teenhealthandwellness.com
Username: pla
Password: trial

Please stop by the PLA/Rosen stand #1707 for a tour of Teen Health & Wellness and enter to win a one-year free subscription to the database. Or we can make a date!  Let me know what works in your schedule and I will make it work in mine.  You can reach me by email at miriamg@rosenpub.com or by phone at 303.818.7187.

 
Best wishes, 
   
Miriam Gilbert 
Director of Electronic Sales and Marketing 
The Rosen Publishing Group 

Posted by balad001 at 1:42 PM | Permalink

EBSCO Publishing is pleased to announce plans to update the EBSCOhost interface in the summer of 2008. Since the last EBSCOhost major interface redesign in 2002, there have been many technological advancements, many of which we will incorporate into EBSCOhost 2.0. We are pleased to provide you with an early preview of the key features of EBSCOhost 2.0.

Some of the key updates will include:

• A cleaner, simpler user interface


• Related Images readily available beside the Result List


• Results directly from NewsBank


• Instant article previews from mouse-over action


• Expand/Collapse side panels


• Search history displayed above Result list


• SmartText Searching to provide full results from partial Find field terms


• Multi-database access to Authority files


• URLs that can be bookmarked


• A convenient, streamlined Cite process for all citation styles

We have also created an EBSCOhost 2.0 Flash overview, available here, and additional detailed information that describes all of the above features, here. (If you cannot open this link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser to see the details on EBSCO's Support Site: http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=969)

In early March, additional support information regarding EBSCOhost 2.0 will be available on the EBSCO Support Site, including FAQ's, help sheets, user guides, online training sessions, and more.

Posted by balad001 at 1:38 PM | Permalink

from the OVID listserv:

Dear Ovid Customer:

The needs of the market constantly inform how we build all of our products. OvidSP was designed and developed based directly on extensive interviews with information managers and end users. That’s why we're excited to announce the following new OvidSP features scheduled for implementation in early April 2008.

MARC Records
You’ll be able to download MARC records for all books and journals that your institution subscribes to on OvidSP.

Non-English Language Interfaces
We’ll continue to support our global customer base with local language interfaces. With our upcoming release, French, Spanish, and German customers will have the option to view OvidSP in their native language as they do now in SilverPlatter.

Continue reading "New OvidSP Features Coming in April" »

Posted by balad001 at 9:49 AM | Permalink

ProQuest announced on February 14, 2008 that they have acquired WebFeat, a company that pioneered federated searching. ProQuest plans to merge WebFeat with Serials Solutions.

See the ProQuest press release for more information: http://www.proquest.com/pressroom/pressrelease/08/20080214.shtml.

Posted by balad001 at 11:34 AM | Permalink

Facts on File is no longer offering Personal & Business Forms or World Almanac. The World Almanac has been folded into the World News Digest and Issues & Controversies.

Posted by balad001 at 10:28 AM | Permalink

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on the ProQuest® platform on February 16, 2008. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will begin Saturday, February 16, 2008, at 22:00 EST to Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 10:00 EST. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

The following products will be unavailable during this window:

• ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
• Third-party databases such as ERIC® PlusText
• ProQuest Archiver™
• eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™
• Chadwyck-Healey products housed in the US (all products with domain names ending with chadwyck.com)
• "Digital Vault" products, including ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and Digital Sanborn Maps

Continue reading "ProQuest Maintenance Window February 16, 2008" »

Posted by balad001 at 4:17 PM | Permalink

from the ProQuest listserv:

ProQuest is pleased to announce the launch of the ProQuest Search Widget. Available now, the ProQuest Search Widget helps increase visibility of licensed databases from ProQuest by letting you embed a ProQuest search box on any institutional web page. You pick the databases to search and pre-populate the search with specific search terms — whatever meets the research needs you are trying to support.

Go to http://widgets.proquest.com to learn more about the ProQuest Search Widget and how to easily create them. Also, see sample uses of the search widget, suggestions for placement of the widgets on your library website and a list of supported databases. Don't forget to give us some feedback on the ProQuest Search Widget and how you will incorporate it on your library's website. Click on the feedback link at http://widgets.proquest.com on the home page under the big blue button.

As a technology leader, ProQuest remains committed to assisting librarians in creating end-user awareness about the library's resources. To read the press release announcing the availability of the ProQuest Search Widget, go to http://www.proquest.com/pressroom/pressrelease/08/20080110e.shtml.

Posted by balad001 at 9:27 AM | Permalink

from the OCLC release

oclc.org is a consolidated Web presence that brings together sites for every geographic region OCLC serves, providing a single access point for global and regional information about OCLC.

The new site went live February 11 and is another step in an ongoing process of change that OCLC is going through to serve libraries as a global cooperative with a global strategy and global focus.

Posted by balad001 at 8:38 AM | Permalink

from OCLC NetLibrary:

OCLC NetLibrary, the leading platform for eContent to libraries worldwide, is now offering individual eBook titles from Oxford University Press' Oxford Scholarship Online.

Oxford Scholarship Online provides online access to the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences published by Oxford University Press. This world-class digital collection is now available from NetLibrary, offering new research opportunities for scholars and students.

For more information, please visit http://library.netlibrary.com/oso.aspx or contact an OCLC representative at 1-800-898-OCLC (6252), or e-mail at: libservices@oclc.org.

Continue reading "Net Library Now Offering eBooks from Oxford Scholarship Online Collections" »

Posted by balad001 at 3:49 PM | Permalink

HW Wilson has just released Biography Index Retrospective: 1946 to 1983. For more on Biography Index Retrospective, visit www.hwwilson.com. For a free trial, contact MINITEX.

Following is the press release:

New York, New York, February 5, 2008

Library users can now search more than 40 years of Wilson's classic biographical resource Biography Index in a single, easy-to-use database. With citations on people from antiquity through 1980s headlines--data encompassing over 627,000 articles and books published 1946 through 1983--Biography Index Retrospective brings convenient WilsonWeb searching to the in-depth data that earned Biography Index decades of popularity as a print reference.

Continue reading "New on WilsonWeb: Biography Index Retrospective" »

Posted by balad001 at 9:36 AM | Permalink

From the OVID listserv:

We are pleased to announce that as of today, Monday, February 4, 2008, all Gateway customers have been successfully transitioned to OvidSP. With OvidSP, you have a faster, more powerful, and more streamlined search solution than you’ve ever had before!
All of your Gateway user settings, jumpstarts, and alerts have transferred to the new platform. If you haven’t already done so, please remember to bookmark the URL of the new platform: http://ovidsp.ovid.com.

OvidSP Resource Center:

The OvidSP Resource Center continues to be your source for materials and training to help you and your users become familiar with the new platform:

• Training


• OvidSP Fact Sheet
  
• OvidSP FAQ


• Basic Search FAQ


• OvidSP Quick Reference Cards


• OvidSP User Guide


• Screenshots

Please contact your Ovid Account Representative or support@ovid.com with any questions about OvidSP.

Regards,
Wolters Kluwer Health - Ovid

Posted by balad001 at 3:34 PM | Permalink

from the NetLibrary listserv:

New publishers expand NetLibrary catalog with thousands of new titles covering a broad range of critical subject areas worldwide

DUBLIN, Ohio, February 1, 2008—OCLC NetLibrary, the leading provider of eBooks for the institutional library market, has announced agreements with 21 leading publishers that will add thousands of new eBooks and eAudiobooks to NetLibrary’s growing catalog of more than 160,000 titles.

Continue reading "NetLibrary Announces Distribution Agreements with 21 International Publishers" »

Posted by balad001 at 2:26 PM | Permalink

You are invited by 3M to the
RFID Education Seminar
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008
Time: 9:00 a.m. to Noon
Place: 3M Innovation Center
2350 Minnehaha Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55144
(651-737-0278)

Hosted by: Chris Nault, 3M Library Systems

RFID to the rescue There is a lot of confusion when
it comes to RFID. Will it work in my library? Are there privacy
concerns? Find out what RFID is, how it
works and whether it could benefit your library.

Please RSVP to Chris Nault at 651-337-1037 or
csnault@mmm.com by February 8th.

for more RFID information from 3M go to:
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/library/home/products/rfid_system/?WT.mc_id=keymatch

Posted by at 11:21 AM | Permalink

from the Oxford listserv:

Dear MINITEX,

I am pleased to announce that the quarterly update to Oxford Reference Online: Premium is now available at www.oxfordreference.com.

The latest update includes four superb titles, containing plenty of fascinating and scholarly content, focusing mainly on quotations and world history and politics. There are two new titles — The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics and The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations — which both contain outstanding content, boasting comprehensive and authoritative coverage of Australian political life and thought, and a rich array of American quotations. Subscribers also benefit from two new editions — The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and A Dictionary of Contemporary World History.

Be sure to download MARC records for the new titles in this update!

LINKING AND TIMELINES
In addition to these new titles, this update offers further progress with linking together of all the biographical entries in the Premium Collection, with an extra 15,000+ new links added. That brings the current total to over 20,000! Browsing and exploring the people included in Premium Collection is now even easier and more satisfying — visit entries for John Adams, Louisa May Alcott, or Robert Fabyan to get a taste of this outstanding new functionality!

Another exciting update to the Premium Collection is the addition of three fantastic new timelines — Settlements of North America, The American Revolution and The American Civil War. These provide a chronological account of events in North America from 1200 BCE to 1877, with each moment linked to an entry in a trusted Oxford title in the Premium Collection.

UPLOAD YOUR LOGO
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection subscribers are now able to display their institutional logo on every page within the site. Visit Subscriber Services today to get started!

Posted by balad001 at 4:11 PM | Permalink

Gale has redesigned and added new content to the following databases: Business and Company Resource Center, Health and Wellness Resource Center, History Resource Center, and Biography Resource Center.

Posted by balad001 at 9:12 AM | Permalink

Gale is moving their popular print directories (currently 12 in all, but expanding to 16) online.

See the Gale website for more information.

Posted by balad001 at 9:09 AM | Permalink

from the OVID listserv:

Attention: To ensure that customers in every global region will have access to OvidSP on the morning of Monday, February 4th, 2008, all Ovid Gateway customers will be automatically directed to OvidSP on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 3:30pm EST (8:30pm GMT).

If you access Ovid through a proxy or firewall, Click here http://www.ovid.com/site/support/firewall.jsp for important information on updating your settings. Customers using a proxy server such as EZproxy will need to modify their proxy settings prior to the transition to the new platform. Instructions specific to EZproxy can be found here http://www.usefulutilities.com/support/db/ovid.html.

We recommend forwarding this information to your institution's IT management. Failure to update proxy or firewall settings could result in temporary services outages at your location. Questions about these settings can be directed to support@ovid.com, or by calling our support desk (24x7) at 877 247 6843.

Posted by balad001 at 2:18 PM | Permalink

from the OVID listserv:

Dear Ovid Customer,

There are less than 2 weeks to go until Ovid Gateway retires! So what exactly will happen and when?

To ensure that customers in every global region will have access to OvidSP on the morning of Monday, February 4th, 2008, all Ovid Gateway customers will be automatically directed to OvidSP on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 3:30pm EST (8:30pm GMT). Click here for a World Time Zone converter to check the time for your local area. If you or one of your users is in a Gateway session at the time of the switchover, your session will continue uninterrupted until you log out or your session times out.

The timing was selected after evaluating worldwide system usage to identify a specific time that minimizes the impact to user workflow and ensures that all users and administrators will be transitioned to the new platform by the morning of Monday, February 4, 2008 - with the start of business in the Asia Pacific region.

After transition, Ovid Web Gateway will no longer be accessible. All user settings, jumpstarts, and alerts will remain intact and be fully functional in the new platform (Ovid Web Gateway Jumpstart URLs will automatically re-direct to OvidSP). Please be sure to update your bookmarks to include: http://ovidsp.ovid.com.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Firewall, Proxy, and E-mail Server Settings
Click here for important information on updating your settings. Customers using a proxy server such as EZproxy will need to modify their proxy settings prior to the transition to the new platform. Instructions specific to EZproxy can be found OvidSP Resource Center is your destination for all supporting materials and information.

Training
To support both train-the-trainer and end-user training needs, we have a complete schedule of WebEx training sessions covering basic to advanced searching on OvidSP. Visit the OvidSP Resource Center or the training section on ovid.com.

Screen Shots, User Guides and Library Launch Kits
You can also download screenshots, a request form for a launch kit, Frequently Asked Questions, a User Guide, and more.

Remember, too, that OvidSP stats are currently available at https://ovidspstats.ovid.com. You will continue to have access to historical Gateway usage stats at support@ovid.com with any questions or concerns about the transition from Ovid Web Gateway to OvidSP.

Regards,
Wolters Kluwer Health - Ovid

Posted by balad001 at 4:35 PM | Permalink

from the OVID listserv:

Dear Ovid Customer:
As we approach the retirement of Ovid Web Gateway on February 4th, we’ll continue to provide as much information as possible to ease your transition to OvidSP.
We’re pleased to announce that our OvidSP WebStats interfaceis now live! You can now generate statistical reports that track and monitor all of your institution’s usage on OvidSP since the platform went live on October 25, 2007. (Please note that Ovid Gateway usage stats will be collected until the switchover to OvidSP; access to historical Gateway usage stats at http://ovid-admin.ovid.com/stats2/ will be available after February 4th).

To access the OvidSP WebStats interface and begin viewing your reports, simply create a username and password (these must be different from your Gateway stats username and password) by completing and submitting an online request form, located at http://www.ovid.com/site/trial/webstats_osp/index.jsp . Or simply send an email request to support@ovid.com with the following important information:

• Institution name


• Name of administrator on the account


• Email of administrator on the account


• Phone number of contact

Click here for screenshots of the OvidSP WebStats interface login screen and a sample report.

OvidSP usage statistics reports are COUNTER-compliant!
What does that mean? It means that the reports conform to the industry’s highest quality standard for online usage statistics, set forth by the non-profit COUNTER organization. Click here for more information about the COUNTER organization and its standards. Ovid is a COUNTER member.

Stay tuned next week for more details on what exactly will happen on February 4th. In the meantime, be sure to visit the OvidSP Resource Center for training sessions (including our popular Basic Search in Detail course), screenshots, Frequently Asked Questions, a User Guide, and more. If you have questions or feedback on the new platform, please contact your Ovid Account Representative or support@ovid.com.

Regards,
Wolters Kluwer Health - Ovid

Posted by balad001 at 5:34 PM | Permalink

from the Facts on File listserv:

Check Out Our New Look!
As you know, Facts On File and Facts On File News Services are once again under common ownership, as the two companies were before March 1996. Since reuniting, our editors and online staff have been working together to introduce new and exciting improvements to World News Digest, Issues and Controversies, Issues and Controversies in American History, and Today's Science. These changes will go live soon when we relaunch these four News Services titles with a new, improved, and streamlined look! This extensive redesign will include a new interface, greater functionality, new special features, and much more.

As a service to our valued subscribers, we are providing you with special access to our beta sites. We encourage you to use these preview sites to familiarize yourself with the redesigned databases before they officially go live on Thursday, January 31. In addition, you may use the information provided below for further details and guidance. Click on the links below to jump to the titles of interest to your institution.

Learn where to find features relocated in the redesigned databases
Learn more about World News Digest
Learn more about Today's Science
Learn more about Issues and Controversies
Learn more about Issues and Controversies in American History

Posted by balad001 at 5:25 PM | Permalink

From the Gale (Cengage) InfoTrac listserv:

Rollout of new Literature environment November 2007-summer 2008

New interface for Literature Resource Center
New cross-searching environment—Literature Resources from Gale

Literature Resource Center customers can migrate their accounts whenever they wish to the new interface released in November 2007. We are continuing to support the older interface at least until July 2008 as many customers do not want to make the change until the end of the current school year.

You can enable or disable the new interface using our administration module, ITconfig. Once logged into ITconfig, select “Locations” and you will see an option titled “Enable Literature Resource Center 4.0”.

Customers can also request the change by contacting Technical Support at Gale.TechnicalSupport@cengage.com.

If you would like to trial the new interface first, contact your Gale sales representative directly or at 1-800-877-4253 (press 2) to set up a free trial.

Highlights of the new interface include:

• Enhanced “findability.” Searching by author name has always been an LRC strength—but now you get excellent results searching by title or topic, right from the Basic Search screen. Improved subject indexing and a complete restructuring of our content get LRC users to premium content with a single click, and a new approach to tabbed results helps them go straight to exactly the type of content they need.


• Great new tools.
  o Browsable search indexes
  o Search by or within journal or reference title
  o Multiple options for sorting, filtering and searching within results
  o Easy bookmarking
  o Guided Tour accessible from the tool bar
  o “How to Cite” feature generates MLA and APA citations and supports EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks and Reference Manager


• New cross-searching environment
  o As always, Scribner Writers Series and Twayne’s Authors Online can be integrated as modules of Literature Resource Center
  o “Literature Resources from Gale” cross-searches Literature Resource Center with LitFinder, the MLA International Bibliography, or both.
  o Customers with LRC and either LitFinder or MLA can cross-search a custom GVRL collection
  o New tools and features for MLA searches
  o More cross-searching options to come in 2008

Posted by balad001 at 10:26 AM | Permalink

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals will soon be available on HW Wilson WilsonWeb.

The Avery Index covers the following subjects:

Archaeology ● Architecture ● Architectural design ● City planning ● Furniture and decoration ● Historic preservation ● History of architecture ● Interior design ● Landscape architecture ● Urban planning

Dates of Coverage are 1934 to the present, with selective coverage back to 1741.

The Avery Index is a great companion to Wilson Art Museum Image Gallery and Art Full Text.

See the Wilson website for more information.

Posted by balad001 at 5:44 PM | Permalink

Remember that all OVID Gateway users must migrate to OVID SP by February 4, 2008, when the Gateway interface is phased out.

OVIDSP has been available since October. For more information, see the OVID SP FAQ, OVIDSP Basic Search, and OVIDSP User Guide.

Posted by balad001 at 5:23 PM | Permalink

The Times Publishing Co. of St. Petersburg, Fla., publisher of Congressional Quarterly Inc. (CQ), announced on January 3 that it is exploring the sale of CQ Press.

See the CQ Press releasewebsite for more information.

Posted by balad001 at 5:11 PM | Permalink

Excerpted from a Rosen Publishing press release:

Pew Study results indicate that when it comes to questions about health, careers, and public services, 21% of American young adults turn to their public library.

According to a joint study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, young adults are the most likely to use libraries in the future when they encounter problems: 40% of Gen Y (ages 18-30) said they would do so. This important user group also listed a number of topics they are most likely to need information for, including health issues, career concerns, and help with legal information on immigration, public services, and voting.

Rosen Publishing’s Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers directly addresses the needs of this sizeable library user group. By providing well researched, current, and on-target information on health and wellness topics in virtually every area of high interest, Teen Health & Wellness is the go-to resource for your library’s young adult users. With topics as diverse as acne and Alzheimer’s, military recruitment and volunteerism, and adoption and cyberbullying, users will find themselves returning to Teen Health & Wellness again and again to find answers to their questions. And with over 40 national hotlines available across fourteen categories, including AIDS/HIV and mental health, Teen Health & Wellness provides resources for those users with the most critical and urgent needs.

Available both in the library and remotely, Rosen Publishing’s Teen Health & Wellness is the one resource for your young adult users that shows them you care about their concerns, and provides answers that you can stand by.

Contact MINITEX for a trial and/or pricing.

Posted by balad001 at 4:47 PM | Permalink

Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982 is now available on WilsonWeb.

Features include:

• Indexing of more than 1,000 periodicals, with citations to over 2.5 million articles, including book reviews.


• Contains the complete files of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) providing unique coverage of business through 1957.


• Updated subject headings make finding information on business developments easy.
  
• Original subject headings are provided, for insight into the evolution of methods and technology.


• Personal and corporate names used as subject headings are standardized, to ensure retrieval of all records about an individual or a company.

See the H.W. Wilson website for more information. Contact MINITEX for pricing.

Posted by balad001 at 1:24 PM | Permalink

Gale and ProQuest announced the linking of Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online and ProQuest Early English Books Online. For subscribers to both databases, a search in one database will also provide results from the other.

Posted by balad001 at 12:12 PM | Permalink

H.W. Wilson will unveil new enhancements to WilsonWeb soon; the new platform is called WilsonWeb CX.

Following are some of the new features:

• “Frameless” interface


• Enhanced layout and graphics


• Navigational improvements


• Simplified Print, Email, and Save functions


• Easy to use Search History screen


• Full text translation capability

See the H.W. Wilson site for screenshots.

Posted by balad001 at 11:19 AM | Permalink

Check out the new EBSCOHost features!

• Visual Search
  EBSCO has changed their visual searching. When you click on the VISUAL SEARCH tab, a short tutorial automatically plays on the opening page. Take a few seconds to see how this new feature works.

  For further help, download EBSCO documention:

  EBSCOhost Visual Search Help Sheet - Block Style Result List

  
  EBSCOhost Visual Search Help Sheet - Columns Style Result List
  



• Image Quick View
  You can now see thumbnail images in an article citation (provided the article contains images). To enable this new feature, go to the PREFERENCES link at the top right-hand side of the page. In the DISPLAY OPTIONS menu, look for "Show Image Thumbnails". Click the ON radio button.
  

To see other new EBSCOHost features, click on the the NEW FEATURES link at the top right-hand side of the page.

Posted by balad001 at 11:55 AM | Permalink

from the EBSCO Publishing listserv:

Dear EBSCO Customer,

On 11/21/07, we announced plans to upgrade the Visual Search option on EBSCOhost and other user interfaces, at the end of this calendar year. We are pleased to announce that the new version of Visual Search is about to become available to your users. Please note that a comprehensive tutorial will open automatically when a user clicks on the Visual Search tab in EBSCOhost, to guide them through the functionality of the new Visual Search screens.

In conjunction with the Visual Search release, we are introducing an enhancement to EBSCOhost Result Lists: Image Quick View. This exciting new feature will include the appearance of thumbnail images on Result Lists which, when clicked, will instantly reveal full-sized images to users. Open records will include links to thumbnail images, where applicable. Users will be able to try the new feature in EBSCOhost by clicking on the Try It! box beside Image Quick View on the New Features screen, and enabling Show Image Thumbnails under the Preferences link in the upper right corner of the screen. For more information about the new Visual Search design and the Image Quick View feature, please see the first two top stories on EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com).

EBSCO's Support Site is also a great place to visit whenever you want to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form (http://support.epnet.com/contact/askus.php). You may also contact Technical Support by telephone, as follows:

• In the United States and Canada: (800) 758-5995


• Outside of the United States and Canada: access code, (800) 3272-6000

Sincerely,

Marcie Brown
Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938

Posted by balad001 at 11:31 AM | Permalink

From the Lexis-Nexis Academic Listserv:

Dear Colleagues,

I regret to announce that LexisNexis Academic will lose the Roper Polls
content this month. The publisher has decided to opt out of the
agreement that made it possible for us to bring this content to academic
researchers. LexisNexis understands how important these polls are to
researchers. Our licensing team made a very determined effort to retain
academic rights, and they will continue discussions with the publisher
in hopes of reinstating this content in the future. The publisher has
made it clear that no reinstatement will happen in 2008, and has
directed us to remove the Roper Polls materials from LexisNexis Academic
prior to the end of 2007.

Some of you may have noticed that the Roper Polls materials were not
available beginning on Thursday, December 6. This was due to a mistake
on our part when the licensing change was first processed. The materials
have been reinstated for the time being, and will remain available until
approximately December 21.

Best regards,

Alistair

Alistair Morrison | Product Manager, LexisNexis Academic

Posted by balad001 at 11:21 AM | Permalink

From the OCLC FirstSearch listserv:

Access to the Basic BIOSIS database on the OCLC FirstSearch service, previously scheduled to end on December 31, 2007, will now continue through June 30, 2008. This change is due to a schedule change from Thomson Scientific, producer of Basic BIOSIS. Libraries with subscriptions to Basic BIOSIS as well as FirstSearch per-search users may continue to search the database through June 30, 2008.

Libraries that support research in the sciences may wish to use other databases that index much of the same content as Basic BIOSIS. Related databases in the field of science include:

• Biological and Agricultural Index (indexes approximately 40% of the same content as Basic BIOSIS)


• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (indexes approximately 57% of the same content as Basic BIOSIS)

Together, the Biological and Agricultural Index and Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management databases cover approximately 97% of the 395 journals indexed in Basic BIOSIS.

• WorldCat, which complements databases in all subject areas, with library ownership information that identifies libraries that own needed resources.

Please contact MINITEX or OCLC Customer Support with questions about the discontinuation of access to Basic BIOSIS on FirstSearch.

Posted by balad001 at 2:02 PM | Permalink

From ProQuest:

Dear ProQuest Customer,

The next ProQuest® platform enhancement release will be on December 15, 2007. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install these exciting new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, December 15, 2007, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 10:00 EDT.

Enhancements include:

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Multimedia Support release—ProQuest has seen an increase in dissertations and theses that include supplementary digital materials - audio, video, spreadsheets, etc. To properly support scholarly access to these materials, ProQuest is now making them available online in the Full Text version of the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database.


• ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source Study Paths—Study Paths allows a user to quickly view full text articles recommended by a board of experienced nurse educators on topics relevant to their curriculum. This exciting new enhancement makes it easier for users to complete their assignments, research a topic, or prepare for examinations. A new splash page will appear when users log into the product. The Study Paths feature is for the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database only and does not impact other ProQuest products

The following products will be unavailable during this window:

• ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series


• Third-party databases such as ERIC® PlusText


• ProQuest Archiver™


• eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™


• Chadwyck-Healey products housed in the US (all products with domain names ending with chadwyck.com)


• "Digital Vault" products, including ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and Digital Sanborn Maps

Posted by balad001 at 1:51 PM | Permalink

News Release from ALA TechSource:
Two of the top competitors in the library-focused RFID and library security products
arena, 3M Library Systems and Checkpoint Systems, have consolidated their
efforts to produce and market products to libraries. The arrangement, announced
October 29, 2007, results in melding the 3M Library Systems marketing channels
with products from Checkpoint Systems. Effective the beginning of 2008, 3M
Library Systems will serve as the exclusive worldwide distributor and service provider
for Checkpoint’s family of products oriented toward libraries.
Prior to this strategic partnership, both 3M Library Systems and Checkpoint
Systems were major competitors in the growing library RFID market. This alliance
effectively combines the efforts of both companies in this arena. 3M Library Systems
and Checkpoint Systems will continue to develop and manufacture products
and both lines will be sold and supported worldwide by 3M Library Systems.
3M Library Systems has established itself as one of the major providers of
security, self checkout, and RFID products to libraries. The company has provided
security, productivity, and information management solutions to the industry for
more than 35 years. Its products include the Tattle-Tape security strips and detection
equipment based on electromagnetic technology, self-service stations for both
checkout and check-in of library materials, and many products based on RFID.
Checkpoint Systems develops security and RFID products for a variety of
industries, including libraries. Checkpoint’s library-oriented products include its
flagship Intelligent Library System, a suite of components that provide self checkout
and return of materials by library patrons, exit gate security, collection inventory,
usage reports, and other functions. The company also offers the DiscMate
digital media security system, and CheckPASS, a system for print management and
for scheduling public access computers.
A Marketing, Sales, and Support Alliance
This strategic sales and marketing alliance gives 3M Library Systems full
responsibility for the marketing and support of Checkpoint products to libraries.
Checkpoint will continue to develop and manufacture products, but they will
be sold exclusively by 3M. The partnership will also result in a new product
developed by Checkpoint to be sold through 3M called The Library Advocate, a
new Web-based library productivity software product.

3M will continue to develop, manufacture, market, and support its own products
as well. This arrangement significantly expands the portfolio of products that
3M Library Systems is able to offer to libraries through its worldwide marketing
channels, and the alliance gives 3M access to a larger customer base by virtue
of the libraries that have already implemented Checkpoint’s products.

Posted by at 10:21 AM | Permalink

In early 2006, EBSCO introduced a third search option to EBSCOhost users, aptly named Visual Search. The graphically-appealing user interface was well-received by visual learners, providing zoomable frames populated with circles and squares which represented subject groupings, citations, and articles.

At the end of calendar year 2007, EBSCO will implement an advanced, newly-designed Visual Search option, continuing the graphically-appealing premise, with added punch and functionality. Users will enjoy the bonus of being able to select either of two Visual Search interface styles, presented in Adobe's Flash format. Library administrators who have access to the EBSCOadmin administrative tool will be able to control which of the two styles will serve as the default for their institution's subscription to EBSCOhost.

One of the two styles will include colorful blocks, each of which will represent a record or article related to the initial search criteria. Sorting and filtering options by date and relevance will provide users with the ability to focus and manage search results easily and efficiently.

The Columns interface style will enable users to conduct a search and see resulting rectangles (which represent articles neatly formed in columns), zip down the screen. Users will be able to see more articles by gliding their mouse to the edge of the screen. As with the block design, results will be "stacked" by publication or subject, sorted by relevance or date, or filtered using a date range slider bar.

Users will be able to select subject clusters to narrow a search and display a new column of results. When a user clicks on a subject, the previous sets of results will be retained, and the subjects will be illuminated and connected to form a bright “breadcrumb” trail to assist users in visualizing the path taken to reach their end results. This design will streamline the process of backtracking and embarking on a new path, for Visual Search users.

To see a screenshot of the redesign, click here.

Visit EBSCO's Support Site to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form. You may also contact Technical Support by telephone, as follows:

• In the United States and Canada: (800) 758-5995
• Outside of the United States and Canada: access code, (800) 3272-6000

Posted by balad001 at 9:28 AM | Permalink

Access to the Basic BIOSIS database on the OCLC FirstSearch service will end on December 31, 2007. This change is due to Thomson Scientific’s plans to discontinue the Basic BIOSIS database.

OCLC will contact subscribers directly with details about reimbursement for unused portions of their existing subscriptions to the database. Libraries that support research in the sciences may wish to use other databases that index much of the same content as Basic BIOSIS. Related databases in the field of science include:

• Biological and Agricultural Index (indexes approximately 40% of the same content as Basic BIOSIS)

• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (indexes approximately 57% of the same content as Basic BIOSIS)
Together, the Biological and Agricultural Index and Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management databases cover approximately 97% of the 395 journals indexed in Basic BIOSIS.

Contact MINITEX if you have questions.

Posted by balad001 at 4:33 PM | Permalink

Service Interruption Saturday, November 10

All Alexander Street Press databases will be down for routine maintenance and upgrades on Saturday, Nov 10 from approximately 7:00pm-11pm EST.
MARC Records Now Available

ASP has recently added new MARC record files for several of our databases, including Asian American Drama, North American Drama, and The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts. Sign up to receive email notification when new MARC records become available for other databases. Read more.

Posted by balad001 at 12:06 PM | Permalink

From the Project MUSE Fall newsletter:

10,000 Links with MLA
Project MUSE is pleased to report that the linking process between Project MUSE and the electronic version of the MLA International Bibliography is complete. Citations listed in the MLA International Bibliography now link to MUSE articles included in the appoximately 200 MUSE journals covered by the Bibliography. The links include current as well as previous years' articles with over 10,000 links to the MUSE articles created.

The linking between MLA and Project MUSE streamlines access to articles in MUSE from citations listed in the electronic version of the MLA International Bibliography, regardless of the platform used to access the Bibliography.

Posted by balad001 at 10:34 AM | Permalink

Just posted on the OVID listserv:

Dear Ovid Customer,
In our continuing efforts to improve the performance of our North America data center system infrastructure, we have scheduled a downtime for a number of Ovid applications. The downtime will take place from 9pm to 2am, Monday, October 29, 2007 Eastern Daylight Time (Tuesday, October 30, 2007 01:00-06:00 GMT; click here for a world time zone conversion table). The following applications will be affected and inaccessible for all or part of the downtime:

• Ovid SearchSolver®


• Ovid LinkSolver™


• Ovid STATS


• Ovid PayPerView


• Admin Tools


• Clin-eguide (formerly ClinicalResource@Ovid)


• www.ovid.com

We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime, as well as the late notice of the downtime, may cause you and your users. If you have any questions, please contact support@ovid.com.

Thank you for your cooperation,
Ovid Technologies

Posted by balad001 at 4:52 PM | Permalink

From Gale:

As you are well aware, Gale constantly strives to create new products and/or enhance existing ones so that they are the most informative, usable products available. To that, we are pleased to announce an upcoming change to your Gale Common Menu - the gateway to your Gale databases. At the end of October, the standard Gale common menu will be refreshed with icons to offer visual cues to users. In the past, this menu showed icons. We are now restoring these icons in response to many customer requests and we believe you will be pleased with the results.

What Do You Need To Do?

Nothing! The refreshed common menu will be visible to all customers who currently use it and the URL will remain the same, so you so not need to do anything to access the refreshed menu.

What Will the New Common Menu Look Like?

The Common Menu will look very much like it does today. Below are a couple screen captures that demonstrate what you, your patrons and your students will see when the enhancement occurs.

PDF Version: http://support.gale.com/article.asp?article=1807&p=10

HTML Version: http://support.gale.com/article.asp?article=1806&p=10

What If I Don't Want My Common Menu to Change?

We are currently working on a solution that will allow you to either disable these new icons or configure unique icons for custom databases through ITconfig. Our goal is to have this capability in place as the new icons are added. We will keep you informed as we move closer to completing that phase.

As always, if you have any questions about these changes, you can contact our support by calling 1-800-877-4253 (Option 4) or emailing us.

Posted by balad001 at 9:58 AM | Permalink

OVID Technologies will be unveiling their new platform, OVID SP, on October 25.

OVID SP will replace the current OVID Gateway platform. Current OVID Gateway users can switch over starting October 25. All OVID Gateway users must migrate to OVID SP by February 4, 2008, when the Gateway interface is phased out.

OVID has been releasing information bites about the new platform on their listserv since September. For more information, visit the OVID SP FAQ or the OVID SP resource center with Username resourcecenter and Password ovidsp.

Posted by balad001 at 3:53 PM | Permalink

On August 7, 2007, Facts on File Inc. announced that they had acquired Facts on File News Services; Facts on File Inc. had sold the News Services division in 1996. The most immediate effect will be the elimination of confusion regarding the similar names of the two companies. See the Facts on File Inc. press release for more information.

Posted by balad001 at 10:09 AM | Permalink

Information science degree-granting institutions are being encouraged by ProQuest to participate in its August 1, 2007 - July 31, 2008 Library Program (info.csa.com/libschool), which makes the cmpany's reference tools availalbe to students at no charge during the the school term.

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 12:43 PM | Permalink

According to the September 1, 2007 issue of Library Journal, EBSCO purchased ten of Sage Publications indexes. Currently, each index is available in print only. Online versions, including back files and other functionality, such as unlimited use, remote accessibility, multidatabase searching, links to full text, etc., are expected to be available by October 2007.

Abstracts in Social Gerontology, Educational Administration Abstracts, Human Resources Abstracts, Peace Research Abstracts (formely called Peace Research Abstracts Journal), Sage Family Studies Abstracts (now called Family Studies Abstracts), Sage Public Administration Abstracts (now called Public Administration Abstracts), Sage Race Relation Abstracts (now called Race Relations Abstracts), Sage Urban Studies Abstracts (now called Urban Studies Abstracts), The Shock and Vibration Digest, Violence and Abuse Abstracts.

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 10:50 AM | Permalink

EBSCO will provide access to the databases from EBSCOhost interface, as well as from the original ABC-CLIO platform (through June 2008)

The release of access to these databases from the EBSCOhost interface will include the support of certain functionality available on the ABC-CLIO platform, in addition to EBSCOhost's many features.  Access to the ABC-CLIO and EBSCOhost platforms will be available from EBSCO's Select New Service screen (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=cookie,ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ahl [ahl represents America: History & Life; for Historical Abstracts, substitute hia for ahl at the end of the URL]).

Please visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com) to learn more about these features and all of EBSCO's products.

Continue reading "EBSCO will provide ABC-CLIO access throough the EBSCOhost interface." »

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 4:33 PM | Permalink

OCLC has announced Net Library enhancements and changes:

Patron Site

• eAudiobooks can now have multiple subjects
  Our Collections department is now designating multiple subjects to new eAudiobook titles as they are being loaded to the patron site. Titles already on the site will be updated incrementally.
  Key Benefits:


• Popular titles can now appear in both the "popular" categories, such as popular-fiction, as well as the primary category of the title, such as mystery.


• As a result, discoverability of eAudiobook titles is greatly improved for both collection development librarians and library users


• Sorting search results
  The option to sort search results by "relevance" has been changed to "rank" to make the terminology easier to understand. This is a change in wording only, the functionality remains the same.

• Removal of the size cap for downloadable eBooks
  [Describe the limitation then describe the change] All new PDF books loaded will be eligible for offline checkout. The previous restriction of 300 Mb has been removed going forward.
  A determination will be made of existing titles with the size cap limitation as to whether we will reprocess them and make them eligible for offline checkout.


• Return of the Special Pricing Program designator
  TitleSelect is once again displaying the SPP designator that links to the program description page. This means that customers will again see when title is available as part of another product such as a Subject Set and link directly to the page for that product.

Posted by balad001 at 2:17 PM | Permalink

OCLC announced two new enhancements to WorldCat Analysis:

1. You can now graph your analysis results by column (in addition to graphing by row). This makes it easier to graph data across multiple criteria (e.g. holdings in a publication date range by subject; holdings by subject in a particular format, etc.).
2. You can now limit your analysis by LC, Dewey, or NLM call number. This allows you to quickly drill-down to the most granular level of the Conspectus that contains the call number you are interested in.

Posted by balad001 at 12:38 PM | Permalink

Oxford University Press has announced that free 30-day trials for their newest online resource, Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, will be available September 4th.

Email OUP ( oxfordonline@oup.com ) and specify that you'd like to try Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. Be sure to indicate the date you'd like the trial to begin and include the name of your institution. Visit the website for more information.

Posted by balad001 at 3:04 PM | Permalink

More than 10,000 personalized lists have been created within WorldCat.org since the social networking feature was introduced in June. Users can build as many lists as they would like on any subject. They can group items owned by their library and other WorldCat libraries, and share their lists with friends, colleagues and millions of site users. All they need is an e-mail address to create a free WorldCat account. (Minnesota residents have access to WorldCat via ELM.)

Here are examples of some of the ways people are using their lists:

• Oddly titled Government Documents


• Genealogy - What’s New in 2007


• Popular Reading at Leestown Library


• ejournals on the history of the health sciences


• ATV Safety

Visit OCLC to create your profile and begin building your own lists.

Posted by balad001 at 10:04 AM | Permalink

In late July, ProQuest made several enhancements to their platform:

Search Results Display Enhancements

Link Resolver Icons: Display of article full text availability has been enhanced by moving the icons for access via link resolvers to appear just to the right of other format icons (e.g. Full Text, PDF, Abstract, etc.).

PDF File Size: The search results page now displays the size of PDF files for all databases (except Historical Newspapers and the American Periodicals Series). The PDF file size will be added to all new content and will appear over time for older content.

Article Display Enhancements

Find More Documents Like This: The highly valued ProQuest feature 'More Like This' has been enhanced to make finding similar documents even quicker. It is also more prominently displayed at the top right of the page for easy access.

Abstracts & Full Text: The abstract and full text have been moved to the top of the page to increase their visibility. The detailed indexing can now be found at the bottom of the page.

Cite This: The very popular ProQuest feature for creating a quick bibliography in the user's preferred citation style (MLA, APA, Turabian, etc.) is now conveniently available on every article display page.

Copy Link: A new feature has been added which allows users to quickly and easily copy durable links to articles.

Posted by balad001 at 8:45 AM | Permalink

Infobase Publishing is an educational media company that owns well-known reference publishing imprints such Facts On File, Chelsea House, Ferguson Publishing and Bloom’s Literary Criticism. Films Media Group is comprised of Films for the Humanities and Sciences; Cambridge Educational; Meridian Education; and Shopware.

See the Films Media Group press release for more information.

Posted by balad001 at 3:28 PM | Permalink

From the McGraw-Hill listserv:

Dear AccessScience Customer,

McGraw-Hill is in the process of developing a new technology platform for AccessScience. In mid-August 2007, AccessScience 2.0 will be launching with a new interface, improved search engine and statistics reporting. You will receive additional communication regarding the exact launch time.

AccessScience features offer over 8,500 online full-text articles the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, and 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, as well as 13,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations.

As we migrate to AccessScience 2.0 you will experience no change in your service or authentication and no action is required on behalf of the library during our migration. However, customers using federated search engines or bar code authentication will need some additional information.

We have prepared an AccessScience 2.0 FAQ to answer all of your technical and content questions including federated search engines and bar code authentication.

If you have additional questions please contact your sales representative by telephone at 1-877-840-2297 or our customer service team at 1-888-307-5984 or via e-mail.

Best regards,
The AccessScience Team

Posted by balad001 at 9:35 AM | Permalink

The number of records that can be exported in a batch from WCA has been increased from 500 to 2500. This will make exporting large numbers of records faster and easier. Help files will be updated with the new number at the September install.

Posted by balad001 at 8:54 AM | Permalink

SIlverPlatter will be down August 11-August 12 for maintenance.

From the OVID listserv:

August 8, 2007

Dear SilverPlatter Customer,

As part of our continuing efforts to improve Ovid’s North America data center system infrastructure, we have scheduled a downtime for the SilverPlatter Internet Service. The downtime will take place from 9pm, Saturday, August 11, 2007 to 2am, Sunday August 12, 2007 Eastern Daylight Time (Sunday, August 12, 2007 01:00-06:00 GMT).

Though we have specifically scheduled this downtime during a period of low usage, we do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and your users. If you have any questions, please contact support@ovid.com.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Ovid Technologies

Posted by balad001 at 4:35 PM | Permalink

New WilsonWeb interface enhancements have been made to Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus,Art Museum Image Gallery, and Wilson Core Collections.

Additional enhancements include:

• Custom messages in WilsonWeb Emails
  Results emailed from the WilsonWeb interface can now include a custom message from your library, complete with web links. Use it to promote new reference sources, events, procedures, or other important information to your patrons.
  


• Easier Navigation
  Now, clicking on a subject link in a WilsonWeb citation launches a search for other articles indexed under that subject, rather than a search of the subject thesaurus.
  

Posted by balad001 at 2:08 PM | Permalink

BioOne announced the availability of their new Library Administration Panel. This new feature, developed in response to requests from the library community, allows library administrators to log-on with their pre-existing reporting username and password and customize their subscription by:

• Viewing and editing institutional contact information


• Applying specific branding to your patrons’ view of BioOne (including uploading institutional logos, custom 'This resource brought to you by..." text and relevant hyperlinks)


• Managing institutional authentication by viewing and updating IP range information


• Accessing COUNTER-compliant usage reports without a separate log-in


• Managing your patrons' view of BioOne content by suppressing unsubscribed content


• Contacting BioOne Customer Support with questions or subscription changes and easily accessing "Librarian FAQ"

For more information or a username/password reminder, contact BioOne Senior Support Specialist Susie Thompson.

Posted by balad001 at 1:22 PM | Permalink

Each month OVID features databases through their Resource of the Month program. During the month of July, you can try out the Disaster Medicine & Public Health Preparedness journal on OVID Gateway and Social Work Abstracts on SilverPlatter. Visit the OVID website for more information.

Posted by balad001 at 9:55 AM | Permalink

MD Anderson Oncology was just added to McGraw-Hill AccessMedicine.

The Librarians website on AccessMedicine has the latest list of titles and urls.

Other recently launched titles:

The Bioterrorism Sourcebook,
Lichtman's Atlas of Hematology
Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology
CURRENT Consult Medicine 2007
Practice Guidelines in Primary Care 2007
Poisoning & Drug Overdose 5/e
Pulmonary Physiology, 7/e
CURRENT Rheumatology Diagnosis & Treatment
Clinician's Pocket Reference, 11/e
Greenspan's Basic & Clinical Endocrinology, 8/e

Posted by balad001 at 3:53 PM | Permalink

More than 65% of Elsevier Journals increased in impact factor in 2006, with top rankings in 53 categories, according to the 2006 Journal Citation Reports(c). See the Elsevier press release for more information.

Posted by balad001 at 8:47 AM | Permalink

Gale has been sending out updates regarding their new PowerSearch interface and cutover the past few weeks. As part of the national migration date to the PowerSearch interface that was scheduled for Tuesday, July 17 at 8pm (EST), four Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) resources were migrated from the old interface to the new PowerSearch interface:

• Discovering Collection
• Junior Reference Collection
• Professional Collection
• ¡Informe!

The following two ELM resources were not moved to the new interface on July 17: InfoTrac Junior Edition and InfoTrac Student Edition. Kids InfoBits will also retain its graphic interface; so, it will not be migrated to the new interface.

MINITEX will be working with Gale and our Minnesota school media centers and libraries over the next few months for Gale PowerSearch options of InfoTrac Junior Edition and InfoTrac Student Edition. Watch ELM and MINITEX listservs for future news.

So, what's driving the new delivery platform? A super-powered search engine called Gale PowerSearch™ that features innovative cross-searching capabilities! Users can access all the Thomson Gale content in your library's collection by exploring one, several, or all available databases simultaneously.

Visit the Gale website for a guided tour, handouts, and more information are available.

Posted by balad001 at 2:53 PM | Permalink

Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System and Ulrichsweb.com will join the Serials Solutions family of e-resource management tools for libraries on August 1, 2007. As a result of this announcement, libraries purchasing new subscriptions to the Ulrich’s online services can take advantage of Serials Solutions’ special MINITEX program discount.

The alignment of Serials Solutions and Ulrich’s will provide libraries and publishers with the broadest and deepest coverage of serials information available anywhere. It also creates opportunities for further interoperability and integration of the Ulrich’s and Serials Solutions’ services, as well as presents opportunities to promote further service development.

For specific questions surrounding the addition of Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System and Ulrichsweb.com to the Serials Solutions service line, download an FAQ. If you are not yet a subscriber to Ulrich's Serials Analysis System and Ulrichsweb.com please review the Ulrich's Serials datasheet or the Ulrich's Web datasheet.

If you have questions about Serials Solutions’ or Ulrich’s services, please email Serials Solutions or to receive a quote for pricing details, contact MINITEX.

Posted by balad001 at 9:50 AM | Permalink

FRBR-applied WorldCat Comparison is the newest enhancement to WorldCat Collection Analysis. Individual subscribers now have the option of applying elements of the FRBR algorithm to their WorldCat comparison via the FirstSearch Administrative Module. Applying elements of FRBR groups various editions and formats of the same title together. Requesting a FRBR-applied WorldCat Comparison will not overwrite your existing, non FRBR-applied WorldCat Comparison. It will appear as an additional analysis.

This feature will be available to group subscribers in August.

Posted by balad001 at 3:00 PM | Permalink

ProQuest has signed an agreement with Cambridge University Press to offer more than 200 Cambridge Journals titles in selected ProQuest® platform products.

Cambridge University Press titles will be included in many products on the ProQuest platform, including: ABI/INFORM® Complete, History Study Center™, ProQuest® Research Library, ProQuest® Nursing & Allied Health Source, International Index to Black Periodicals, Ethnic NewsWatch, Periodicals Archive Online, International Index to Music Periodicals, Literature Online®, ProQuest ® Discovery, ProQuest® Social Science, ProQuest® Psychology Journals, ProQuest® Agriculture Journals, ProQuest® Science Journals, ProQuest ® Biology Journals, and ProQuest® Computing.

See the ProQuest press release for more information.

Posted by balad001 at 10:15 AM | Permalink

ProQuest will be taking a maintenance window to install enhancements to the ProQuest® platform. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install these new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, July 21, 2007, at 10:00 PM EST to Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 10:00 AM EST.

The following products will be unavailable during this window:

• ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
• Third-party databases such as ERIC® PlusText
• ProQuest Archiver™
• eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™
• "Digital Vault" products, including ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and Digital Sanborn Maps

Posted by balad001 at 10:07 AM | Permalink

From the Thomson Gale listserv:

Dear Thomson Gale Subscribers,

In the summer of 2007, Gale will be adding the following new hostnames to our products. These changes should only affect firewalls and proxy servers where configurations require specific hostnames for exception lists.

http://vs.galegroup.com
http://go.galegroup.com
http://auth.go.galegroup.com

Whenever possible, we try to encourage our customers to include everything within *.galegroup.com when configuring proxy/firewall exception lists. If you are already using *.galegroup.com in your exception list, then you can ignore this email message.

A complete list of names and IP addresses can also be referenced at the following web address:
http://support.gale.com/article.asp?article=1164&p=10

Best Regards,
Thomson Gale Technical Support
Gale.TechnicalSupport@thomson.com
800-877-4253 (Option 4)

For additional questions or comments contact MINITEX.

Posted by balad001 at 10:18 AM | Permalink

Effective June 30, EBSCO changed their domain name to ebscohost (from epnet).

From the EBSCO listserv:

Greetings,

As previously announced in our email communications, and in the Top Story on EBSCO’s Support Site, The EBSCO Publishing domain change is now in effect. EBSCO’s automatic redirect of search.epnet.com (etc.) will end on Saturday, June 30, 2007.

This domain change was concurrent with expanding our data center capacity, and will allow us to provide improved online service.

Please take a moment to ensure that you have made all necessary changes to your EBSCO URL’s to accommodate a smooth transition to the new domain.

PROXY SERVER INSTRUCTIONS: Proxy users MUST add the *.ebscohost.com domain to their proxy configurations in order to ensure uninterrupted access to EBSCOhost. To view a typical configuration example, please see this FAQ:

How will the new EBSCOhost domain changes affect my EZproxy config file?

Here is a complete list of URLs grouped by product that you should add to your list of exceptions as appropriate.

For a list of general questions and answers about this change, please see this FAQ.

Additionally, as the hosting needs of this service continue to increase, it is necessary to expand addressable IP space. Therefore, customers who have a firewall that allows specific IP ranges are asked to add this new IP address block (72.164.152.1-254), and any hosts on ebscohost.com to their allowable ranges, to avoid any blockage of users' access to EBSCOhost products. For assistance with firewall exceptions, please see this FAQ.

For assistance with the domain change or IP address range expansion, please contact EBSCO's Technical Support Department by calling (800) 758-5995, or sending an inquiry via our Ask Us form.

For additional questions or comments contact MINITEX.

Posted by balad001 at 10:20 AM | Permalink

Project Muse has announced 2008 pricing and a preliminary list of new titles.

Should you have questions, please contact MINITEX.

Posted by balad001 at 10:05 AM | Permalink

Starting July 1, the price for First Search block searches will increase from .95 to $1.00 (the list price is $1.15).

You can order more block searches directly online via the OCLC service center or by contacting MINITEX. All orders placed by June 30 will be processed at current rates.

Posted by balad001 at 1:16 PM | Permalink

EBSCO Publishing has acquired two premier history databases: ABC-CLIO's America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts. EBSCO has also reached an agreement with ABC-CLIO to distribute eight other history databases and History Reference Online, a history eBook collection.

America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts will be available via the ABC-CLIO platform through June 30, 2008. EBSCO and ABC-CLIO anticipate that AHL and HA will be available on EBSCOHost January 2008.

See the ABC-CLIO press release for more information or contact MINITEX.

Posted by balad001 at 11:46 AM | Permalink

Effective June 30, 2007, access to APA products (PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS) will no longer be available on the ProQuest platform. All subscriptions will be migrated to the CSA Illumina platform.

ProQuest/CSA reps are in the process of informing current ProQuest APA subscribers. Should you have further questions, please contact MINITEX .

Posted by balad001 at 4:55 PM | Permalink

Click here to read the full text of this press release.

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 12:20 PM | Permalink

In September, we communicated plans to release a New Features page in EBSCOhost, along with additional enhancements. In just a few days, the page and new features will become available to you and your users.

For a reminder on the features and their functionality, please see this top story. (If you cannot use the embedded link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://support.epnet.com/support_news/detail.php?id=272&t=h)

Please visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com) for information about new features, to search among our thousands of FAQs, download Macromedia Flash tutorials, Help Sheets and User Guides, or communicate with our Technical Support staff at any time, using our EBSCO Support Form.

Posted by at 2:45 PM | Permalink

Gordon Macomber, President, Thomson Gale, shared the following letter with us. MINITEX licenses statewide access to Thomson Gale’s K-12 suite of resources and the Spanish-language Informe! database available to you through Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM).

__________________________

November 7, 2006

To our Valued Customers,

It has always been our policy to communicate openly with our customers and business partners. We value our relationship with you and wish to personally share the following information.

Thomson Learning’s parent company, The Thomson Corporation, has announced plans to sell its Thomson Learning business, which includes Thomson Gale. Thomson Learning is fully committed to the library and learning space and, as such, no longer fits with The Thomson Corporation’s long-term strategy of providing business professionals with electronic solutions.

Thomson Gale has been and continues to be a world leader with exceptionally strong offerings, a talented workforce and a focus on customer satisfaction that is the foundation of all that we do. While it’s too early to talk about who the likely buyer of Thomson Learning will be, it is not too early to say that this move will enable us to focus exclusively on more fully serving and satisfying our customers’ needs and wants.

You may be wondering if and how this decision affects your business with us. While we do not have all of the answers right now regarding what business processes may change, we assure you that customer satisfaction has been, and always will be, our top priority.

We are committed to keeping you up to date. To that end, we will provide you with additional information as ongoing decisions are made.

We appreciate your continuing support and confidence in Thomson Gale through this transition and invite you to contact me or any of my colleagues directly should you have questions.

Sincerely,
Gordon Macomber
President, Thomson Gale

_____________________________

Posted by at 2:30 PM | Permalink

EBSCO has sent this reminder so that you will not be caught off guard.

Last November, EBSCO increased EBSCOadmin password security by adding a secret question option to your EBSCOadmin passwords, and increasing their complexity, in order to protect the integrity of the administrative module you use to customize your users' EBSCOhost search experiences. The new passwords were set up to remain active for a period of one year, which for many of you will expire on November 30, 2006.

To update your EBSCOadmin password before it expires, please log in to your EBSCOadmin account and update the EBSCOadmin password for each administrator who has EBSCOadmin access. (Please note: This does not apply to the passwords used to access EBSCOhost.)

Also, make sure that there is a current email address listed for each administrator for your account. To check this, from the Utility Toolbar, click the EBSCOadmin Security Link. This will show any administrators on the account and their email address. If the email is blank, please make sure to enter this.

For instructions on how to change your password, please refer to this FAQ.

If you have already updated your EBSCOadmin password(s), please ignore this reminder.

Posted by at 2:20 PM | Permalink

Serials Solutions recently launched a search enhancement to their federated search product—Serials Solutions Central Search Results Clustering. This new functionality integrates seamlessly with Central Search to introduce users to the new generation of federated search.

Results Clustering provides benefits to patrons and librarians, including:

• Reduces information overload
  
• Enables targeted research
  
• Requires no end-user training
  
• Deploys quickly and easily

Learn more about Central Search Results Clustering:

• View a short Demo of Results Clustering
  
• Attend a FREE on-line seminar and demonstration
  
• Send an email request for a live demo

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 2:08 PM | Permalink

EBSCO has integrated Pre-CINAHL content into their CINAHL Plus, CINAHL with Full Text, and CINAHL Plus with Full Text products. As a result of this integration, EBSCO will be removing Pre-CINAHL as a separate database. This means that, for EBSCO CINAHL subscribers, your users will no longer see a separate listing for Pre-CINAHL on your EBSCO menu of resources. All content will be available through your CINAHL database.

EBSCO will delay removing Pre-CINAHL as a separate database until the end of November 2006. However, EBSCO suggests that, if you are providing your users with a direct link to Pre-CINAHL, you remove Pre-CINAHL direct links now. Please contact EBSCO’s Technical Support staff if you would like assistance with removing a Pre-CINAHL link.

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 2:04 PM | Permalink

Find out more about the new LexisNexis Academic interface, scheduled for beta release in January 2007, by visiting LexisNexis Academic Information Central. The new interface will support interoperability with open-URL link resolvers, bibliographic software programs, and federated search engines.

For more information:

• Register for a Webinar preview of the new interface (sessions are available November 14 and 30)
  
• Sign up for the LexisNexis Academic Listserv to get the latest news on the project

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 1:36 PM | Permalink

FAITS newest module, Healthcare IT, addresses the demands of regulatory compliance, dramatic changes brought about by Medicare drug coverage plans in the US, and new technologies in the healthcare industry. New reports are added each month on the following healthcare IT topics and more:

• Healthcare IT administration
  
• Standards and compliance
  
• Healthcare applications systems and services
  
• RFID
  
• Network communications

Check the vendor site for more product information

Check the MINITEX site for information about requesting a trial and placing your order

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 1:33 PM | Permalink

Please see below for a message from EBSCO with regard to the recent EBSCOhost interface enhancements that are affecting your users’ searching experience:

While the ability to "right click" has never been an explicit feature of EBSCOhost, we recognize that many users rely upon it as a common technique for accessing content, from a variety of internet sources, at the same time.

We apologize for the incontinence this loss of functionality has caused you and your patrons and are taking the necessary steps to allow its use across our many products & interfaces. As fundamental pieces of our service must be updated to fully support, and to ensure proper implementation, release of this feature is currently scheduled for November 2006.

We thank you in advance for your patience while we make this improvement. We appreciate your continued feedback and sincerely hope that you will allow us the opportunity to serve you better in the future.

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 1:00 PM | Permalink

Some of you may have noticed a few unexpected changes associated with the recent EBSCOhost interface enhancement. We’ve learned from EBSCO that these functional changes that affect your users’ searching experience will be present until an enhancement request has been processed and completed.

Until the enhancement is in place, it is our understanding that users are no longer able to do the following:

• Open your library’s Web site in a new window using the link in the upper right corner of EBSCO’s search screen, which keeps EBSCO search results visible and accessible.

• Open several full-text articles at once to permit toggling between articles.

• Branch out from an initial search with different search terms, limiters, etc. to compare search results.

• Open the dictionary in a new window to look up words from a full-text article without losing the article.

This enhancement request has been put forth and will be reviewed by EBSCO for consideration. At this time EBSCO does not have a target date for completion of the enhancement request.

Please send me an email if you have any questions or concerns.

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 8:51 AM | Permalink

CSA announces the completion of the 2006 PsycINFO reload on CSA Illumina. With this reload, approximately 15,000 new records with cited references are now available, along with enhancements to several fields. Regular updating of PsycINFO will now resume.

The 15,000 new PsycINFO records correspond to documents added to PsycARTICLES with the 1894-1984 historical file of nearly 73,000 full text articles from APA journals. Cited references corresponding to these articles were also added to existing PsycINFO records with the 2006 reload.

Record structure enhancements include:

• Addition of a Grant/Sponsorship field, which provides access to descriptive information on grants, including the grant number and information on the recipient, that funded the research reported.

• Addition of new qualifiers to the ISBN field in PsycINFO to include electronic formats such as CD, DVD, or XML.

• Elimination of the Journal URL and Publisher URL fields from the records. At the request of librarians, these fields are being replaced with an interactive Journal and Publisher table, which will be available soon on the APA web site at www.apa.org/psycarticles/coverage.

CSA will be releasing the historical backfiles of PsycARTICLES by mid-October. Reloads of PsycBOOKS and PsycCRITIQUES will follow.

If you have any questions, please send an email to CSA Technical Support or call 1 800 214 2462. (Source: CSA; edited)

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 2:13 PM | Permalink

The ACLS History E-Book Project has just added 130 books to its collection, bringing the total to 1,398.

The ACLS History E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, nearly 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records.

Check the MINITEX Web site for more information about ACLS History E-Book Project

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 2:01 PM | Permalink

Project MUSE is now compliant with the Z39.50 protocol for information retrieval. The Z39.50 protocol provides another way for users to search and locate articles in MUSE using a Z39.50 compatible client. The Z39.50 functionality in MUSE is still in the beta phase and therefore, Project MUSE encourages subscribers to contact them with feedback about the helpfulness of this protocol in searching and retrieving articles in MUSE. Feedback may be sent to the MUSE Customer Support desk. An institution must maintain a Project MUSE subscription in order to access the full text articles retrieved via the Z39.50 compatible client. (Source: Project MUSE; edited)

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 1:58 PM | Permalink

PsycBOOKS added 29 titles to its coverage list in September 2006. Of the titles added, 6 were APA books and 23 were designated classic books. Classic books are landmark titles in psychology and are selected by APA experts.

Review the complete coverage list for PsycBOOKS

Find out more about MINITEX's group subscription to PsycBOOKS

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 1:52 PM | Permalink

MINITEX is pleased to announce the reopening of many of its NetLibrary Shared eBook Collections. In the past it was not possible to join a Shared Collection after its closing date. MINITEX and NetLibrary are now offering the opportunity to pick up one or more of the Shared Collections you may have missed, some at a significant discount.

This is a limited-time offer; we must receive your order by December 15, 2006. Access for all new participants will begin on January 1, 2007.

Find out more about the NetLibrary Shared eBook Collections

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 1:49 PM | Permalink

Computing Reviews' latest Hot Topic, “Game Theory and the Design of Electronic Markets,” is now available for Computing Reviews subscribers. Hot Topics are a series of essays on emergent areas of computer science and can only be read in the online version of Computing Reviews.

Check the vendor site for more product information

Check the MINITEX site for pricing and ordering information

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 12:02 PM | Permalink

As a result of a comprehensive study into user behavior, the search facility within the MyiLibrary platform has been redeveloped to reduce the time it takes the researcher to perform comprehensive searches. This has been achieved via technical and visual developments, such as reducing the amount of clicks required to perform a search.

MyiLibrary currently hosts in excess of 50,000 eBook titles, all available for individual purchase from the world's leading academic and professional publishers. (Source: MyiLibrary; edited)

Check the vendor site for more product information

Check the MINITEX site for pricing and ordering information

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 11:43 AM | Permalink

Ovid announces that nearly all of their medical, nursing, and allied health titles from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) are now available for purchase—with no limits on the duration of access rights.

More than 280 LWW eBook titles are available for purchase. Libraries can customize their collections by selecting as few as 5 titles or as many as 200. The more titles you purchase, the less your per-title price. Standard book collections are also available.

Special offer! Purchase one or more LWW titles by December 15 and never pay a maintenance fee. Or sign up for Ovid's extended subscription offer for new orders, where you can receive up to 15 months for the price of a 12-month annual subscription.

Contact Chris Kline at MINITEX for more information.

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 11:30 AM | Permalink

In late May EBSCO announced a domain name change. For the convenience of its customers, EBSCO will maintain an automatic redirect of http://search.epnet.com (etc.) through the summer of 2007. Customers who do not use a proxy server, and who choose not to update their links once the change becomes official, will have plenty of time in which to do so, because of EBSCO's automatic redirect.

PLEASE NOTE: Although search.epnet.com will continue to be valid via a redirect through 2007, proxy users MUST ADD the *.ebscohost.com domain to their proxy configurations in order to ensure uninterrupted access to EBSCOhost PRIOR to the transition to the new domain in mid-August. Please DO NOT REMOVE *.epnet.com from the existing proxy configuration files. (Source: EBSCO)

For more information:

How will the new EBSCOhost domain changes affect my EZproxy config (configuration) file?

Domain Change Questions Answered (FAQ)

How will the new EBSCOhost domain changes affect my EZproxy config file? (FAQ)

If my institution uses a firewall or filtering software, what are the IPs or domains for EBSCO Publishing services that I should include on my exception list?

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 8:53 AM | Permalink

This new site—and a downloadable WorldCat search box you can easily add to your Web site—opens the complete WorldCat database to the public, not just the smaller data subsets utilized by Open WorldCat partner sites such as Google, Yahoo! Search and others. WorldCat.org builds on the success of OCLC’s Open WorldCat Program that has elevated the visibility of library materials on the open Web since the summer of 2003.

The main attraction of the new site is the WorldCat search box. Web users can now search the entire WorldCat database with the method most familiar to them: simple keywords. As in Open WorldCat, each linked result leads to a "Find in a Library" information page. From there, users can enter geographic information such as a zip or postal code, receive a list of nearby libraries that own the item, and link right to a library's online catalog record to initiate circulation activity or access electronic content directly. Users can also create their own WorldCat account and add book reviews, table-of-contents information and notes to many WorldCat items, helping to personalize their library search experience.

From WorldCat.org, any Web user or organization can also easily download and install the free, WorldCat search box to their personal or commercial Web page, allowing even more people to discover library content through WorldCat. Libraries and other groups inside and outside the OCLC cooperative are encouraged to add the box to their sites. We believe that sharing the ability to search for library materials to as many other sites as possible will help increase the awareness of libraries as primary sources of reliable information and helpful personal assistance.

Visit the site to try the new WorldCat search box and download the box to your own Web site. (Source: OCLC)

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 11:34 AM | Permalink

The EBSCOhost service has moved to a new domain: ebscohost.com.

The transition will happen over a matter of months. The domain name change will be most evident in those links you use to provide access to your EBSCOhost database subscription(s), such as http://search.epnet.com, which should be changed to http://search.ebscohost.com. EBSCO will automatically redirect all search.epnet.com requests once the domain change is completed. However, we strongly recommend that you update your links to reflect the new domain as soon as possible.

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 8:48 AM | Permalink

The ALCS History E-Book Project and Rutgers University Press recently announced the cooperative publication of two new electronic titles that bring sound and video into the electronic monograph. History E-Book Project has issued electronic versions of the following titles:

• Wonder Shows: Science, Religion, and Magic on the American Stage by Fred Nadis
  
• Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music, 1850s-1920s by Krystyn Moon

The first title incorporates several short films; the second uses a series of complete musical performances that accompany the sheet music and analysis. (Source: ACLS; edited)

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Posted by umn cnfrnc at 8:19 AM | Permalink

Ten more years of coverage has been added to Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981. The database covers over 850 publications with cover-to-cover indexing and includes book reviews and case citations.

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Posted by umn cnfrnc at 4:05 PM | Permalink

H.W. Wilson has announced enhancements to its WilsonWeb search interface. See below for details of just two of these enhancements:

Subject Pathfinder. Links at the top of the WilsonWeb results screens now help guide research by suggesting subtopics or broader topics related to a searcher's initial search strategy. Subject Pathfinder displays the subject headings appearing most often in the articles that comprise the search results and can lead researchers to more precise or broader terms in their topic of interest.

Spell Checker. A spell checker is automatically activated when there are no results for a search. The Spell Checker suggests a different spelling for words and names in searches. Much more than just a simple dictionary, Spell Checker draws its terms from all the terms in the records of the database being searched, for much more relevant coverage. (Source: H.W. Wilson; edited)

Check the vendor site for more information

Posted by umn cnfrnc at 4:02 PM | Permalink