Yesterday, I spotted (thanks @calire) that Google books have created a page that lets you browse their available magazine titles. I can’t resist a free journal. So I copied-&-pasted the entire page into MS Excel, used a handy function to extract the underlying URLs from the hyperlinked titles, did a bit of search-&-replace to make [...]
Archive for the ‘A-to-Z’ tag
Tidying up the A-to-Z
Hopefully, you should have noticed a few recent changes to the Electronic Journals A-to-Z. First, we’ve all but completed the summer campaign to improve the accuracy of the 60-odd individual e-journal package holding files. Di, Adele, Carole, Phil, Elif and I have been working through each package in turn and using the most up-to-date information from [...]
Today’s A-to-Z tweak: ScienceDirect cover images
Many libraries, in HE and elsewhere, now display book cover images on their OPACs. Example (sorry, Dave): webcat.hud.ac.uk ~ no doubt, this is something we should be doing in the near future. ~~~ In the meantime, I was thinking how desirable it would be to similarly enhance the Electronic Journals A-to-Z with images of the [...]
New e-journals by RSS (slight return)
You can now subscribe to my RSS feed of new e-journal titles via email, should you so wish. Here’s a link to the email sign-up form. I prefer to keep up-to-date with RSS feeds using Google Reader (I don’t want or need anything more in my Outlook inbox!), but if email’s your bag and/or you [...]
Mashing up the A-to-Z: new titles feed
In February, I wrote about how I’d added more than 5,000 ticTOCs RSS feeds to the A-to-Z, so that researchers can easily find and subscribe to Table-of-Contents (ToC) updates from journals in their field. I think this is an indispensable current awareness service, and I’m pleased it’s being promoted at the ‘Working Smarter With the [...]
Say hello to the E team
I’m pleased to be able to announce the existence of a new, temporary virtual team within L&LR, made up of people lucky enough to be working with me on various e-resource-related projects over the coming months. First, Jayne, whom many of you will already know from her work in reader services, is back to support [...]
A-to-Z hits 37,000 titles
I’ve just added the title data for the Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest by way of JISC Collections) to the A-to-Z, and it’s tipped our number of unique titles (subscription and open-access) to 37,001. A minor Friday milestone. Caveats/notes: Authentication of the P.A.O. is by IP address / Shibboleth, but I haven’t fully tested it for [...]
