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| By Johanna Westwood, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Online User Group). Please send your submissions for the next edition to jrc@aber.ac.uk DialogDialog has launched two new, time-saving tools for use with DataStarWeb: AlertsManager, which provides information managers with the ability to publish, track and manage access to alerts. Once an alert has been created, end users can then be invited to subscribe to available alerts. ReportAid, which is a post-processing tool that reduces the time it takes to refine search results and create publishable information dossiers for distribution to decision makers. EBSCO: EBSCOhost® Electronic Journals Service (EJS)EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service Enhanced handles electronic journal access and management needs and includes extensive features to help with e-journal management tasks such as tracking the registration status of e-journals, authentication assistance to facilitate both on-campus and remote access to e-journal content, automatic management of e-journal URLs and much more. EJS Enhanced serves as a consolidated gateway that allows users to search and link to (OpenURL supported) more than 13,000 journals and 7.3 million articles. EBSCO provides durable URLs for every journal, table of contents and article in EJS Enhanced. No URL maintenance by the library is required. EnrichUK: future development of EnrichUK has been guaranteedThe Big Lottery Fund has signed an agreement with the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) to ensure the future development of the website that marked a revolution in making the riches held by the UK’s cultural, heritage and community organisations easily available to everyone on the Internet. EnrichUK is the gateway to a lottery-funded collection of 150 sites supported by the New Opportunities Fund, the collection ranges across culture, history, social and economic development, science and art as well as offering regional and national 'sense of place' websites from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Jorum: new demonstration videos and mailing listJorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials. There are several Jorum demonstration videos now available, as well as a mailing list which will keep subscribers up to date with news, announcements, events and new resources. Land, Life & Leisure: new news featurehttp://edina.ac.uk/landlifeleisure/ Land, Life & Leisure, the weekly digest of press releases, reports and articles in agriculture, tourism and rural affairs, has a new feature. A leading story will be featured on the main search page from the 300-400 new items added to the index each week. As well as a direct link to the full reference from the database, each item has a preconfigured search strategy to easily retrieve "similar items". In addition an archive will be kept of past week's items. When revisited this also pulls up all new matching items. NetLibrary: Springer Science+Business Media journal titles now availablehttp://www.oclc.org/netlibrary NetLibrary, a division of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., has signed a distribution agreement that will make all Springer Science+Business Media journal titles available through the Electronic Collections Online service. The Springer Journal collection will include more than 1,200 peer-reviewed journals, with topics spanning biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, business and economics. PerX Project: Pilot subject-based cross-repository search tool now availableA Pilot service providing subject resource discovery across a variety of digital repositories of interest to the engineering learning and research communities has been released by the PerX Project. Twenty-eight repositories are currently cross-searched by the Pilot. More repositories will be added to the Pilot as they are identified and configured. ProQuestKnowUK NewsUK Working in association with the MLA, ProQuest is now able to offer preferential pricing to the nine pre-defined MLA regions on its two top-selling public library products; KnowUK the online UK reference library, and NewsUK the online newspaper database. Naxos Music Libraryhttp://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/ Chadwyck-Healey International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) http://iimp.chadwyck.com/ ProQuest Information and Learning have formed a partnership with Naxos, premier provider of music sound recordings on the web, to offer the first integration of music sound files within a music reference database. Users will be able to access critical periodical content from IIMP and go directly into Naxos Music Library to listen to the music, composer, or artist referenced or reviewed in the IIMP abstracts and articles. Users of both Naxos and IIMP can access more than 130,000 tracks (from 8,800 CDs), the entire Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, plus other licensed independent labels. Entire CDs and individual tracks are available. |
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