More RLG system maintenance

The RLG Union Catalog will be unavailable from 9:15-9:30 (21:15-21:30) PST (UTC-8) on Thursday, December 1, 2005 only.

Scheduled system maintenance continuing (until further notice): Sunday through Thursday, 9-9:15 p.m. (21:00-21:15) Pacific Standard Time
(UTC-8)

The RLG Union Catalog will be unavailable during this period each day.Access to other databases will not be affected.

RLG system maintenance

Due to system maintenance, access to RLG services will be unavailable on 26 November between 12:00 and 20:00 Pacific Time (UTC-8).

RLG Services access affected by this maintenance:
RedLightGreen
RLG Union Catalog
RLG Cultural Materials
CAMIO
Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute
Anthropological Literature
Anthropology Plus
RLG Archival Resources,
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Bibliography of the History of Art
Chicano Database
English Short Title Catalogue
FRANCIS
Hand Press Book Database
Handbook of Latin American Studies
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals,
Index to Hispanic Legislation (World Law Index, Part 1)
Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
Inside Information Plus
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies

New SCELC trials

Be sure to check out the SCELC website, where there are several new trial databases available. These include EBSCO's Academic Search/Business Source Elite Package, Academic Search/Business Source Premier Package, and NISC Databases, as well as Readex Archive of Americana, and ProQuest.

Most of these trials are available until early December.

Serials Solutions new feature

From Serials Solutions:

Next week Serials Solutions will activate a new feature, Alternate Title Searching, for libraries using the E-Journal Portal or Title Searching feature.

Developed based on requests from clients, Alternate Title Searching provides users with the flexibility to quickly find journals without knowing the exact uniform title. In addition, they can search for journals by using all the alternative titles that a journal may have, including abbreviated titles.

For more information on Alternate Title Searching, please visit http://www.serialssolutions.com/promotion/atsoverview.pdf.

Naxos Music Library trial

USC currently has trial access to Naxos Music Library from now until Nov 30, 2005 at http://uscus.NaxosMusicLibrary.com.

Below are the minimum system requirements for Naxos Music Library.

* PC user: MS Windows 98SE/2000/XP with MS IE 6.0/Mozilla 1.7.1/Netscape 7.1/Opera 7.53 and Media Player 9/10 (MS IE setting: Privacy = Medium, cookies allowed**; Sound setting = No Sound)

**To update cookie handling options:

While you are online, Go to your Internet "TOOLS" tab at the top of the page. Under the TOOLS tab, there is a tab that reads, "INTERNET OPTIONS". Click on this. Then, find the tab that reads, "PRIVACY" and click on it. Then, click on the "ADVANCED" tab. Here, you will select to "Override automatic cookie handling". You will also need to select to "Always allow cookies". This will enable you to access the listening tracks.

* Mac user: OS X 10.2.8/OS X 10.3.5 with MS IE 5.2/Mozilla 1.7/Netscape 7.1/Opera 7.53/Safari 1.0 and Media Player 9/10 or OS 8.6/9.0 with MS IE 5.1 and Media Player 7.1 (MS IE setting: Security Zone = Medium, cookies allowed; Sound setting: Sound Effect = No)

Media Player can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp

RLG system maintenance

Access to the Eureka, RLIN21 and Z39.50 databases will be interrupted on 18 November between 21:00 and 22:00 (UTC-8) due to system maintenance. The affected databases are:

RLG Union Catalog
Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute
Anthropological Literature
Anthropology Plus
RLG Archival Resources,
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Bibliography of the History of Art
English Short Title Catalogue
FRANCIS
Hand Press Book Database
Handbook of Latin American Studies,
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals,
Index to Hispanic Legislation (World Law Index, Part 1)
Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
Inside Information Plus
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies

Access to Chicano Database, RLG Cultural Materials and CAMIO will not be affected by this maintenance.

IEEE Xplore digital library updates coming

On Tuesday, 15 November, IEEE will implement a maintenance release to the IEEE Xplore digital library.

As a result, users will experience approximately two hours of downtime on that date, between 10AM and 12Noon EST.

This update includes the following features:

• RSS feeds for newly published journal tables of contents.


• Non-indexed materials, such as editorials and book reviews, will
  now be available, free, to all users.

New trial database: Japan Knowledge

USC has been given a trial month access to the Japan Knowledge online database. This resource, which is mostly but not all
in Japanese, offers Japanese dictionaries, encyclopedias and a variety of databases. Access is open to USC users for the entire month of November. Please take some time to try it out and let Ken Klein at kklein@usc.edu know how useful you find it.

To get to this database, go to ISD's E-Resources and type "Japan Knowledge" in the Title box, or you can go directly to the site at http://na.jkn21.com/.