| By Joy Cadwallader, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
(Aberystwyth Online User Group). Please send your submissions
for the next edition to jrc@aber.ac.uk
CILIP and Emerald
http://www.cilip.org.uk/
and http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
The partnership announced between Emerald Publishing Group
and CILIP in July has brought online, full-text access to
five Emerald journal titles in the library and information
field to all CILIP members. The title list includes Vine and
Interlending & Document Supply, and coverage from 2005
onwards will be available.
EBSCO
http://www.ebsco.com/
EBSCO have announced a partnership with ABC-CLIO which is
intended to enhance linking from ABC-CLIO citation databases.
Subscribers to ABC-CLIO Historical Abstracts and America:
History and Life will be able to link directly to full text
in EBSCO full-text journal products to which they are also
subscribed, such as Academic Search, without requiring a link
resolver.
EBSCO have also released their new electronic resource Film
& Television Literature Index. Soon to be available with
full text, Film & Television Literature Index provides
indexes and abstracts for over 300 publications, including
records from the Film Literature Index (from the Film and
Television Documentation Center, State University of New York–Albany)
and their own. US and international coverage includes some
titles printed in the middle of the 20th century as well as
recent publications.
EDINA
http://edina.ac.uk/
EDINA have re-launched EMOL (Education Media OnLine), the
JISC-funded collection of online film, as Film and Sound Online,
with new features including browse by subject, “Showcase”
to raise awareness of individual films, a “Lucky Dip”,
and a section on viewing and creating learning materials with
Film and Sound Online content.
Elsevier
http://www.elsevier.com/
Elsevier’s college edition of ScienceDirect will be
extended to Europe this year. Aimed at non-research institutions,
annual subscriptions will be available to journal title collections
in social and behavioural sciences, health and life sciences
and physical sciences.
Elsevier are also providing 12-months’ free access for
Qinghai University and Tibet University in China to Elsevier’s
online full-text platform ScienceDirect.
Google
http://www.google.com/
Google have begun providing downloads of out-of-print books
in PDF format. Their library project partners Harvard, Michigan,
Oxford and Stanford Universities and the New York Public Library
have been joined by the University of California. UC will
be providing 3,000 books a day for digitization. The University
of Michigan has also begun linking records in their online
catalogue Mirlyn to full-text titles (branded as Mbooks) digitized
as part of their partnership with Google.
INTUTE
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
The enhanced and re-launched Resource Discovery Network, now
known as INTUTE, offers personalised Web services to those
registering for MyIntute. Registered users can store and export
records and manage them by appending their own tags. Email
alerts and saved searches are also available. Over two thousand
users have registered for MyIntute since the launch in July.
Many RSS feeds for news and new content are available for
all.
NetLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/
NetLibrary, OCLC’s e-content division, are to provide
online access by subscription to three Chinese language databases:
Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS), the Chinese
Electronic Periodical Services (CEPS) and the National Palace
Museum (NPM) Online Database. The rights to sell annual subscriptions
have been acquired by agreement with Airiti Inc., a Chinese
e-content provider to libraries and other customers worldwide.
OCLC PICA: Aspire
http://www.oclcpica.org/
New content is now searchable within Aspire, the federated
search system for Further Education in the UK. Powered by
OCLC PICA ZPORTAL software, Aspire’s new content includes
ProQuest’s KnowUK and Thomson Gale’s Literature
Resource Centre.
Thomson Scientific
http://scientific.thomson.com/
The Thomson Scientific and Healthcare arm of the Thomson Corporation
have acquired the workflow management system ScholarOne. Thomson
intends to use the software to increase the speed and efficiency
of online journal content production as well as integrating
it with existing Thomson products including Web of Knowledge,
Web of Science and EndNote bibliographic referencing software.
A major Web version of EndNote is also due for release from
Thomson ResearchSoft.
Thomson Scientific has also announced a new consortium deal
in France for access to ISI Web of Knowledge. A total of 47
academic and government institutions, led by the Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de l'Information
Scientifique et Technique (INIST) and Couperin, and including
universities and schools, will have access to Web of Science,
ISI Proceedings, Index Chemicus and Medline for three years,
in a $7.2 million contract with Thomson Scientific.
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