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Johanna Westwood, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Online User Group). Please send your submissions for the next edition to jrc@aber.ac.uk

COPAC

http://copac.ac.uk/

A new version of the COPAC service has been released to include a new interface, a new database and new Web pages. The new interface includes an OpenURL link at the end of each Full record, and an RSS feed is now available allowing you to 'subscribe' to specific searches. There is a completely new database (in XML format) which provides the ability to display, and search for, non-Roman script text such as Chinese or Arabic. Documentation for the site has also been revised.

CSA

http://www.csa.com/

CSA Illustrata

CSA Illustrata provides web-based access to indexed tables, figures, maps, graphs, charts and other images contained in scholarly articles. Users can display the full image, including captions and label text. These can be easily saved or imported and used for presentations, lectures or research. The first database in the family, CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences, includes tables and figures from more than 1,000 journals from prominent publishers resulting in more than 1 million indexed images.

EBSCO

http://www.ebsco.com/

Points of View Reference Center

This is a new database offering full-text information for opposing viewpoints on key issues. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more.

EBSCOhost Databases

EBSCO and Newstex have announced an alliance to deliver Newstex Content On Demand and Newstex Blogs On Demand via nearly 100 EBSCO databases to customers worldwide. Unlike existing web-based blog aggregation services, Newstex licenses influential blog content directly from independent bloggers and then takes in each selected blog feed in text format, and uses its proprietary NewsRouter technology to scan it in real-time. As part of the distribution agreement, full-text blog content from premier weblogs with historical archives in a wide variety of categories, including art, career, economics, environment, finance, food, health, law, marketing, medical and technology, will be made available in online aggregated databases for the first time.

NetLibrary

http://www.netlibrary.com/

NetLibrary has launched its first collection of eAudiobook Subject Sets for the U.S. library market. eAudiobook Subject Sets are bundled groups of unique titles, each offered at a fixed price. This new collection of Subject Sets is available to all library types through NetLibrary's eAudiobook purchase program. Developed by NetLibrary collection development librarians, eAudiobook Subject Sets provide a quick and easy way for libraries to offer the most popular downloadable eAudiobook titles to their users.

OCLC

http://www.oclc.org/

WorldCat Local

OCLC is piloting a new service that will allow libraries to combine the cooperative power of OCLC member libraries worldwide with the ability to customize WorldCat.org. The WorldCat Local pilot builds on WorldCat.org. Through a locally branded interface, the service will provide libraries with the ability to search the entire WorldCat database and present results beginning with items most accessible to the patron. The WorldCat Local pilot builds on WorldCat.org, while also testing new functionality that allows users to place requests, gain online access, or request an interlibrary loan within WorldCat.org.

OVID

http://www.ovid.com/

BIOSIS Archive

BIOSIS Archive covers all aspects of the biological sciences, and includes approximately 3.5 million bibliographic records digitized from 49 print volumes of Biological Abstracts that were printed between 1926 and 1968. It also includes pioneering work from Nobel Laureates, and includes original as well as extended abstracts featuring information unavailable at the original time of writing, such as organism name, geographic area, and chemical name. Translations of non-English source material are also included.

Zoological Record Archive

Zoological Record Archive comprises 1.5 million indexed and searchable bibliographic records of historical data published in print from 1864 to 1977. Records cover living, extinct, and fossil species, and include every animal name and description included in the print volumes (1-106). Many renowned early pioneers in zoology, including Charles Darwin and Albert Gunther, contributed to these early volumes, and they are included in this product.