Our blue-skies library ‘un-project’ (which is still codenamed Jerome) took a significant step forward this week, as Nick Jackson has described on the Jerome blog. Thanks to some clever Horizon-wrangling code (courtesy of Dave Pattern at the University of Huddersfield), Jerome will soon provide searchable access to the whole library catalogue of the University of [...]
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E-journals A-Z Strange behaviour#3
Following our message earlier on today, we are still experiencing problems accessing some of the e-journals. Instead of showing the error message, some journals are sending the users to the wrong database. A way around to access the particular e-journal is to log in to the relevant database via e-library. Our supplier is still working on these problems and we [...]
Emerald e-journals: win a laptop
Spotted on the Eduserv data messenger: Emerald is adding a further 12 new titles to the portfolio in 2010. The new titles will be available as part of Emerald Management Plus – subscribers will automatically gain access to new and acquired titles as and when they are added. To celebrate the changes Emerald is making, [...]
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 [...]
E-book usage – end of term report
I’ve finally got a year’s worth of e-book usage data from both the ebrary and MyiLibrary platforms. I’ve been commenting on the growth in usage throughout the year (since Michelle formally launched ebrary Academic Complete back in January), so here (without comment) are all the stats from August 2008 and July 2009. MyiLibrary (user [...]
E-journals usage – some surprises, and a hit for OA journals
Back in November, I blogged about the disproportionate nature of our e-journal usage, once you break it down by title (if you remember, one single title is responsible for 5% of all of our e-journal hits, while a small European country’s worth of journals are never accessed at all). While looking at the A-to-Z usage [...]
New e-journals by RSS: a page for your subject…
…whether the subject is food or finance, or – in theory – any keyword you want, you can filter the RSS feed of new e-journals by constructing a link that looks like this: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=mDjFxR1R3hGHC2SH0z6skA&Subject=XXXXXXXXX Where “XXXXXXXXX” is your subject word. That link creates html which you could link to within Blackboard (see illustration below – [...]
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 [...]
