Tuesday, July 22, 2008

July Credo Reference Content Update - New Titles

Welcome to Content Update -- your monthly email about new and updated Credo Reference titles. A number of titles have been added to Credo Reference in the past month. Below are the latest additions. To see a complete list of available titles, visit http://corp.credoreference.com/titles.

In this issue:
Latest additions
Featured title of the month
An enhanced Credo Reference platform is coming August 4!

Latest Additions


We're updating many of our titles to the latest available editions. The following updated titles were recently released. Expect more soon!

Forthcoming Titles

More titles are coming soon to Credo Reference. See the complete list.

Featured Title of the Month
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English from Routledge

Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. This encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work from A (Gemino Henson Abad) to Z (Fay Zwicky) and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. It explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

This second edition of the encyclopedia includes entries on genres, major subjects and critical biographies of writers; entries on countries or regions whose literatures are examined in the encyclopedia; and 'overview' entries that provide a synoptic view of a number of important subject and genre entries.

Read a few of the fascinating entries:

An enhanced Credo Reference platform is coming August 4!

Credo Reference is excited to announce that we will be releasing an enhanced version of our service this summer! And, we're pleased at this time to provide a preview of the site to all our current customers.

Preview the updated Credo Reference site:

To login to the site:

  • Visit your current Credo site (www.credoreference.com)
  • Click on the new link at the top of the page that reads, "Try the New Credo Reference"
  • You should now be logged into our updated interface. If you have any problems with access, please contact support@credoreference.com.
  • You can also access the beta service directly at http://beta.credoreference.com. Your current authentication methods -- IP authentication, library card login, Athens authentication, etc -- will all enable you to access the Credo beta.

We welcome your feedback on Credo's changes. Please send us your comments or report any problems that you're having by clicking on the "Contact" link at the bottom of any page or emailing us directly (support@credoreference.com).

What you'll see in the updated Credo:


We have added a number of new features to the site, as well as updating and improving our current features:

  • LINK directly from CREDO into your other online resources! View search results in another library resource with one click - through our new "Related Resources" feature. Library configurable.
  • Faceted browsing -- REFINE searches by subject, person, location, type of content, and entries with images, animations or audio. Plus, quickly locate our long, encyclopedic entries.
  • MULTILINGUAL interface -- change the interface language to Polish, Chinese, Urdu, Spanish or French.
  • New, vastly improved CONCEPT MAP -- invaluable for visual learners and mind mappers.
  • SAVED RESULTS & CITATION MANAGEMENT -- export to your tool of choice -- RefWorks, EndNote and others. BOOKMARK in your favorite site - Del.icio.us, Facebook and many more.
  • Thoroughly EXPLORE each title by quickly locating people and places cited, images, and contributors. Hover mouse over index for article preview.
  • BROWSE for books not only by subject, title or type but now by Dewey or Library of Congress classifications.

If you have any questions or comments about the upcoming release, please contact support@credoreference.com. We would be happy to provide you with more information.

posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 7/22/2008 03:55:00 PM  

Dear EBSCO Customer,

In just a few days, the long-awaited EBSCOhost 2.0 interface will be fully implemented. Its brand new look and feel, based on extensive user testing and feedback, will provide you with the most powerful, clean and intuitive interface available. This is the first redesign of the EBSCOhost interface since 2002, and its functionality incorporates the latest technological advances.

We have created a wide range of tools and information to streamline your transition to the new design:

We hope that you and your users enjoy the clean new design of EBSCOhost 2.0, and welcome your feedback.

Visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebsco.com) to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form (http://support.epnet.com/contact/askus.php).

Sincerely,

Marcie Brown
Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing

posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 7/22/2008 03:54:00 PM  

Update on Wiley InterScience - Blackwell Journals

Dear Customer,


We would like to sincerely apologize if you are continuing to experience delays with gaining full access to your Blackwell journals on Wiley InterScience. A number of issues have been raised with us during the past week which we wish to update you on here. We are making good progress with resolving these outstanding issues as quickly as we can and are grateful for your continued patience during this transition period.

Access to subscribed journals
We are aware that some access to subscribed titles and for some IPs has not been set up correctly. If you find that your access to, for example, premium subscriptions, is not set up then please submit your request to your Account Manager or log it via the Online self-help section of our Customer Services site providing as much information as you can: interscience.wiley.com/support. We are offering 24/7 customer support during this transition period and will fix your access rights as soon as possible. Most access issues are being resolved within 48 hours of being reported. We are also working on a general fix to ensure that these premium access rights are restored as soon as possible.


Access to subscribed journals
We are aware that some access to subscribed titles and for some IPs has not been set up correctly. If you find that your access to, for example, premium subscriptions, is not set up then please submit your request to your Account Manager or log it via the Online self-help section of our Customer Services site providing as much information as you can: interscience.wiley.com/support. We are offering 24/7 customer support during this transition period and will fix your access rights as soon as possible. Most access issues are being resolved within 48 hours of being reported. We are also working on a general fix to ensure that these premium access rights are restored as soon as possible.

OpenURL linking
Work is underway to resolve the vast majority of the OpenURL redirecting problems and we expect to have resolved these issues next week. Most journal-level and DOI-based links are redirecting to their equivalent pages on Wiley InterScience now, but OpenURLs based on volume, issue and page number parameters are not yet redirecting correctly. We are working with the major link resolver vendors and are working with them to restore these links.

Content
1.6 million Blackwell journal articles are available on Wiley InterScience now. Additional articles were uploaded over the weekend, and more are being added this week. The list of content which we are still working through is available on our transition site here: interscience.wiley.com/transition.

Athens
The initial Athens authentication problem has been fixed. If you find you are still having a problem with it please report the error via our Customer Services site.

Google Scholar
Some Google Scholar search results are not yet effectively linking to the articles on Wiley InterScience. We are working with Google to resolve this.

Training
There are Wiley InterScience user guides and self-paced e-learning tutorials available on our website here: interscience.wiley.com/tutorials. We are also running a series of free online webinars about using Wiley InterScience, including using the admin tool, over the next few weeks. To register for one of these please go to https://wiley-interscience.webex.com and click on 'Upcoming'.



For further information, please visit our transition information site: interscience.wiley.com/transition.
If you have other issues to report which are not listed here then please send them to your Account Manager or submit them via interscience.wiley.com/support.

The project to transfer Blackwell journals to Wiley InterScience has been large and complex and although we did endeavor to anticipate all the issues prior to the migration we are sorry if you and your users are experiencing errors with your access now. We are confident that we will be able to resolve these outstanding issues soon.



Sincerely,

Christopher McKenzie
Vice President and Director of Institutional Sales, Americas
Wiley-Blackwell

posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 7/22/2008 03:52:00 PM  

Monday, July 21, 2008

JSTOR Update, July 23, 2008

New Content

Three journals were added to the JSTOR archive today. The full details for the journals are:

Mnemosyne (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 11; 1852-1862
New Series, Vols. 1– 60; 1873-1933
Third Series, Vols. 1 – 13; 1933/1934 - 1947
Forth Series, Vols. 1 – 55; 1948-2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Brill
ISSN: 0026-7074

Oecologia (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 137, 1968-2003
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media in cooperation with the International Association for Ecology
ISSN: 0029-8549

Phronesis (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 - 47, 1955 – 2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Brill
ISSN: 0031-8868


Although JSTOR seeks to provide every issue from a journal's run, on occasion there are issues that we are unable to find. To see which issues are missing, or for information about how to help JSTOR complete the archive, please visit JSTOR's Missing Issues page.

More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.

Participation information for JSTOR collections may be found on the Participate page.

JSTOR plans to release new content into the archives approximately every two weeks from June through August. As always, please do not hesitate to contact JSTOR User Support with any questions or suggestions.

posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 7/21/2008 05:10:00 PM  

JSTOR Update, July 18, 2008

New Content

The following journals were added to the JSTOR archive today:

Clinical Infectious Diseases (Health & General Sciences; Life Sciences)
Previous title: Reviews of Infectious Diseases (0162-0886)
Release Content:
Vols. 1 – 35; 1979-2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 1058-4838

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
Previous title: In Vitro (0073-5655)
Release Content:
Vols. 1 - 29A 1965-1993
Publisher: Society for In Vitro Biology
ISSN: 0883-8364

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
Release Content: Vols. 29A – 40, 1993-2004
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Society for In Vitro Biology
ISSN: 1071-2690

Note: In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal continues in part In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology split into In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant in January 1991 and split into In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal in March 1993.

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
Release Content: Vols. 27P - 40, 1991– 2004
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Society for In Vitro Biology
ISSN: 1054-5476

Note: In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant continues in part In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology (1985-1993). In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology split into In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant in January 1991 and split into In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal in March 1993.

Journal of Coastal Research (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
Release Content: Vols. 1 - 20, 1985– 2004
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Allen Press Publishing
ISSN: 0749-0208

Journal of Field Ornithology (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
Previous title: Bird-Banding (0006-3630)
Release Content: Vols. 1 - 75, 1930– 2004
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of Association of Field Ornithologists
ISSN: 0273-8570

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Biological Sciences; Life Sciences)
Release Content: Vols. 1 - 24, 1981– 2004
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
ISSN: 0272-4634

Middle Eastern Studies (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 - 36, 1964– 2000
Moving Wall: 7 years
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
ISSN: 0026-3206

Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 - 30, 1975 – 2004
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: Centro de Estudios Literarios "Antonio Cornejo Polar"- CELACP
ISSN: 0252-8843
Note: The content for 2005 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Social History (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 - 25, 1976– 2000
Moving Wall: 7 years
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
ISSN: 0307-1022

T'oung Pao (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content:
Vols. 1 - 10, 1890-1899
Second Series, Vols. 1-88, 1900-2002
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: Brill
ISSN: 0082-5433


Although JSTOR seeks to provide every issue from a journal's run, on occasion there are issues that we are unable to find. To see which issues are missing, or for information about how to help JSTOR complete the archive, please visit JSTOR's Missing Issues page.

More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.

Participation information for JSTOR collections may be found on the Participate page.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact JSTOR User Support with any questions or suggestions.

posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 7/21/2008 09:37:00 AM  

Thursday, July 17, 2008

June Credo Reference Content Update - New Titles!

Welcome to Content Update -- your monthly email about new and updated Credo Reference titles. A number of titles have been added to Credo Reference in the past month. Below are the latest additions. To see a complete list of available titles, visit http://corp.credoreference.com/titles.

In this issue:
Latest additions
Featured title of the month
An enhanced Credo Reference platform is coming soon!

Latest Additions

We're updating many of our titles to the latest available editions. The following updated titles were recently released. Expect more soon!

Forthcoming Titles

More titles are coming soon to Credo Reference. See the complete list.

Featured Title of the Month

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences from Elsevier Science and Technology

The Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Sixth Edition provides a comprehensive summary and evaluation of recent research on the social aspects of aging. The chapters are divided into four sections discussing Aging and Time, Aging and Social Structure, Social Factors and Social Institutions, and Aging and Society. Within this context, aging is examined from the perspectives of many disciplines and professions including anthropology, bioethics, demography, economics, epidemiology, law, political science, psychology, and sociology. The Sixth Edition of the Handbook is virtually 100% new material. Seventeen chapters are on subjects not carried in the previous edition.

Some of the exciting new topics include:

There is also a greater emphasis on international perspectives, particularly in chapters on aging and politics, diversity and aging, and immigration.

An enhanced Credo Reference platform is coming soon!

Credo Reference is excited to announce that we will be releasing an enhanced version of our service this summer! We are in the final stages before release and will be sending you more information soon about the changes.

Some of our key new and improved features include:


  • Faceted browsing -- REFINE searches by subject, person, location, type of content, and entries with images, animations or audio.
  • LINK directly from CREDO into your other library resources! View search results in another resource with one click - through our new "Related Resources" feature.
  • MULTILINGUAL interface – change the interface language to Spanish, French, Chinese, Polish or Urdu.
  • SAVED RESULTS & CITATION MANAGEMENT – export to your tool of choice – RefWorks, EndNote, etc. Bookmark in your favorite site – Del.icio.us, Facebook and many more.

posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 7/17/2008 10:38:00 AM  

Auto/Biography Content Triggers at Portico

Because your library is a participant in the Portico preservation archive, your institution now has access to Auto/Biography published by SAGE Publications via the Portico website (http://www.portico.org/Portico/browse?journal=ISSN_09675507). Auto/Biography is no longer accessible from SAGE's online offering; therefore this content is “triggered” and is now made available to Portico participants via the Portico archive. Your institution has access to Auto/Biography via Portico regardless of whether your institution has previously subscribed to this journal.

As of July 1, 2008, Portico has made digital content of Auto/Biography, Volumes 12 through 14, available to our library participants. SAGE will be digitizing volumes 1-11, and when complete, SAGE will deliver this digitized content to Portico via their regular update methods. The digitized volumes will be processed and preserved in the Portico archive and made available to all Portico participants via the Portico web site. Once again this access will be provided to all Portico library participants without regard to their prior subscription record.

Auto/Biography issues are accessible to your students, faculty and staff through the "Access Archive" link on the Portico homepage (www.portico.org) through which users can browse, print and search all triggered content. Libraries wishing to direct link resolvers should note the Stable URL below. Portico is working with CrossRef and data and linking service vendors to ensure that the Auto/Biography access information is loaded into these linking systems.

The key facts about the Auto/Biography content that has triggered and is available for use in the Portico delivery site are below:

Title: Auto/Biography
Trigger Date: July 1, 2009
ISSN: 0967-5507
e-ISSN: 1479-9715
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Holdings Information: v. 12 (no. 1-3), v. 13 (no. 1-3), v. 14 (no. 1-4)
Publication Date Range: March 2004 – December 2007
Stable URL: http://www.portico.org/Portico/browse?journal=ISSN_09675507


The Portico OpenURL Base URL is: http://www.portico.org/openurl/resolver

posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 7/17/2008 10:36:00 AM  

Monday, June 30, 2008

Problem with Blackwell Synergy Open URL linking ...

From Wiley Interscience--

OpenURL links are currently not redirecting at the journal level but instead default to the Wiley InterScience homepage. We are working on this and will have it resolved within a few days.

[This means the Find It @ USC button takes you to the Wiley homepage. You will need to search for the journal title on the left (use "publication title"), then find the volume and issue you need to get to the article]

As of Monday, June 30, 2008, Blackwell journal content—including full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—has been incorporated into Wiley InterScience.

We are working hard to ensure a smooth transition for all customers and users, and thank you for your patience during this time of change. We will update our institutional customers through the Wiley-Blackwell Library Newsletter (sign up now for newsletter e-mail alerts) and through this information page. If you have any additional queries please contact Wiley-Blackwell customer service at interscience.wiley.com/support.

posted by Maggie Freed @ 6/30/2008 02:59:00 PM  

Wiley InterScience now includes Blackwell Journals

Wiley InterScience now includes Blackwell journals


Dear Customer,



We are pleased to report that 1.6 million articles from Blackwell
journals were successfully loaded onto Wiley InterScience over the
weekend and the site went live again this Monday morning.


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Blackwell journal content has been
incorporated into Wiley InterScience.

Wiley InterScience now features more than:

* 1400 journals
(3 million articles)
* 6000 online books
* 90 reference works
* 12 databases
* 15 Current Protocols
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To view the full list of Wiley-Blackwell journals go to
www.interscience.wiley.com. You will see here several new subject
areas which we have added to now reflect the full depth and range of
the Wiley-Blackwell list. Wiley InterScience now includes 1400
journals, 6000 online books, 830 journals with backfiles back to
volume 1, and 90 online reference works spanning the disciplines, from
anthropology to astronomy, Zizek studies to zoonoses. In addition it
includes 12 databases in chemistry and evidence based medicine as well
as 10,000 laboratory protocols for the life sciences. Blackwell
Reference Online, the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology and the
International Communications Encyclopedia continue to be hosted on a
separate site: www.blackwellreference.com.


Please note that there is still some missing content from Blackwell
which we are working through. This includes some issues, articles,
parts of articles (e.g. article loaded in xml but not in PDF) plus
some missing metadata and articles which need to be fixed due to
special character rendering issues. The full list of missing content
which we are working through is listed on our transition site here:
interscience.wiley.com/transition. Updates will be posted here as
items are resolved.


We have redirected most links to their nearest equivalent on Wiley
InterScience. However, we are still working on the OpenURL links to
ensure they resolve direct to the appropriate journal rather than the
main homepage. We will have this in place within a few days.

We have migrated the majority of customer license terms and access
rights from Synergy to InterScience successfully. However, if you do
experience any problems with your access or have any queries, please
contact our Customer Support team who are offering round-the-clock,
round-the-world customer service during this transition period:
interscience.wiley.com/support. You will also see here a Self-Help
service with answers to many frequently asked questions.

If you are not familiar with Wiley InterScience then please use our
online tutorials or sign up for a free online webinar here:
interscience.wiley.com/tutorials.

Thank you to all our customers for your support for Blackwell Synergy
over the last 10 years. You helped to build the site into one which
has been enormously popular with a large international user community
resulting in more than 20 million user sessions and over 8 million PDF
article downloads per month this year. Work is well underway on the
new Wiley-Blackwell online platform which will include many of the
popular features of Synergy as well as InterScience and which we will
be launching in early 2009. More information about this new service
will be provided to you in due course.

posted by Lana Litvan @ 6/30/2008 10:19:00 AM  

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

JISC ADAT Alert: New Databases Added

ADAT Logo

JISC ADAT Alert: New databases added

We are pleased to announce that two new databases have been added to JISC's Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT):

  • Academic Onefile (Gale)
  • General Onefile (Gale)

The ADAT service now includes:

  • 13 bibliographic databases
  • 4 full text databases
  • 66,148 titles
  • 8 database platforms
  • 5 eBook platforms

Search and compare these now at: http://www.jisc-adat.com

If there are other databases that you would like to see included in ADAT, please let us know and we will contact the provider.

About JISC ADAT

The JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT) aims to help libraries to make informed decisions about future subscriptions to bibliographic databases.

The site provides access to detailed information and title lists for major bibliographic and full text databases, and key service information for database and eBook content platforms.

ADAT is powered by DataSalon MasterVision: Integrating all of your data into a single, user-friendly 'master' view. Find out more at: http://www.datasalon.com

The JISC Content Procurement Company Limited is registered in England and Wales. The company registration number is 05747339. The registered company address is: Ground Floor, Brettenham House, Lancaster Place, London, WC2E 7EN, United Kingdom

DataSalon Limited is registered in England and Wales. The company registration number is 5724296. The registered company address is: DataSalon Ltd, 16 Woodcroft, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5NH, United Kingdom.

posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 6/25/2008 11:55:00 AM  

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Blackwell Synergy & Wiley InterScience Journals now integrated

Blackwell Synergy titles successfully integrated into Wiley InterScience as of this morning, June 30th
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As of Monday, June 30th 2008, all Blackwell journal content --
including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current
issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print -- will be
incorporated into Wiley InterScience.

We plan to close Blackwell Synergy at the end of business (Pacific
Standard Time) on Friday June 27th and we anticipate that the
migration will be completed by Monday June 30th. Over the weekend of
June 28th and 29th, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy
and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable while we transition and
re-index data.

After June 30th, Blackwell Synergy will no longer be available.

posted by Maggie Freed @ 6/18/2008 03:23:00 PM  

Monday, June 16, 2008

Portico and Equinox Publishing Reach Digital Preservation Agreement

Portico is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Equinox Publishing to preserve its entire digital journals collection of 28 titles. Equinox Publishing is an independent publisher founded in London in 2003 and they publish both journals and books on a variety of subjects for an academic audience.

Through this agreement with Portico, Equinox Publishing ensures that its digital journal collection will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. The Press has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico.

With the inclusion of Equinox Publishing publications, over 7,550 titles have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. The complete list of titles is available at http://www.portico.org/about/committed_titles_alpha.html and a list of participating publishers is available at http://www.portico.org/about/part_publishers.html.

posted by R. Wayne Shoaf @ 6/16/2008 09:48:00 AM