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 [...]
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My Mashed Library lightning talk – atoz’n'rss
Edit (8th July) – slideshare.net does not seem to like displaying these slides on-screen, so here they are to download in MS PowerPoint format. Here are the slides (on slideshare.net) of the 5-minute lightning talk I just gave at Mashed Library 2009, on using ticTOCs data to display e-journal ToC feeds, and on creating a new-titles [...]
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 [...]
The Business of persistent links
Academic librarians are unhappy that some of the UK’s largest university business schools are being asked to pay extra to be allowed to link to articles published in a key journal in their field. Harvard Business Review (issn:0017-8012), published by HBP (Harvard Business Press), has long been available as part of the EBSCOhost Business Source [...]
Visualising our e-journals usage
More than 36,000 e-journal titles are listed on our A-to-Z, but student and staff interest is not spread equally between those titles. Plotting a graph of the individual usage of each title shows a sharp ‘spike’ of concentrated use within a very small number of titles, and a very long tail of thousands of titles which are barely used, [...]
New LibraryLink help guide
I’ve just completed version 1.2.1 of the LibraryLink help guide for staff, and put it online. It now includes instructions on how to link to an e-journal article using Find it @ Lincoln (our new OpenURL link resolver, for anyone who’s missed it!). Paul
