OpenURL (Content Connection) support for multiple genres (books and articles) available now

The Content Connection page (openURL, Article Linker) now supports openURLs for multiple genres. This means that you will be getting different pages for books and articles. This happens because there are some searches such as ISSN that only work for articles in journals (which have ISSNs) and not for books (which have ISBNs).

You should see journal citations returning pages with ISSN searches. All other genres (books, proceedings, disserations, chapters) should lack an ISSN search in the catalogs (Homer, Helix, Advocat).

This is not fool proof. If you see any of the following:

• You have a journal article citation but there is not ISSN search available for the catalogs.
• You have a book citation (or other non-journal type) and there is an ISSN search.

or anything else that's odd on the Content Connection page, please send me the openURL (URL from the Content Connection page) the fullest record that you can get from the database which is the source of the citation used by the OpenURL. I'll contact Serials Solutions with the information so that they can work to fix this.

I will poll you all in a week and aks if you think that we should turn genre support off. This means that books would not be searchable in the catalogs because they would be doing periodical title searches.

Thanks.

[posted on behalf of Deb Holmes-Wong, dhwong@usc.edu]

Announcing free access to research site: ArchiveGrid

ArchiveGrid (www.archivegrid.org) is a new web site that offers faculty, scholars, librarians, and genealogists unparalleled access to archive records and finding aids to enable you to do the most comprehensive research possible on your subject. Search through nearly a million collection descriptions.
Free trial use through 2006-05-31.

RLG Union Catalog Availability

The RLG Union Catalog will be unavailable 9:00-9:30 p.m. PST (UTC-8) on Thursday, March 16, for system maintenance.

Serials Solutions Article Linker News

We are pleased to announce that we further enable you to improve your patron's ability to access your library's resources through Article Linker. Our Referring Source Setup Guide now includes activation information for more than 50 additional resources and we have also added or updated 30 additional or enhanced link resolvers to 43,000 journal titles in 100 databases.

Referring Source Setup Guide

Our most recent update of the Referring Source Setup Guide enables you to help your patrons use Article Linker on 78 content provider sites. Whether including text or an image link on these sites, using this information will enable your patrons to streamline their search for your library's resources and eliminate wasted time trying to find full text.

We've also added three new sections to enhance your ability to identify the OpenURL/Source linking status of resources and provide an opportunity to supply feedback on new sources becoming available.

• Index - helps you identify resources that you are looking for, either by specific name or acronym


• No Support - saves you time on searching the guide by detailing which providers are known not to support OpenURL/Source linking


• Talk to Us - open the door for your colleagues by facilitating communication with Serials Solutions about instructions becoming available for a specific resource
  

You can view the Referring Source Setup Guide at in our Support Center. Updates are due to be updated bi-monthly, or more often if instructions for a provider should change.

Link resolver additions/updates

In addition to adding more information to enable you to link from more resources, we've added or updated 30 link resolvers that improve article-level access for more than 43,000 journal titles in 100 databases. These new and enhanced link resolvers ensure Article Linker subscribers and patrons are only one click away from desired content.

New link resolvers

• Cell Press
• Center for Applications of Psychological Type
• Chadwyck-Healey
• Informit
• MD Consult
• NASA
• National Library of Medicine
• PierOnline
• Progress of Theoretical Physics
• Science Server
• Scitation

Enhanced link resolvers

• American Institute of Physics
• American Psychological Association
• Blackwell Synergy
• Chadwyck-Healey
• CSA
• EBSCOhost
• Elsevier
• Factiva
• Kluwer
• MetaPress
• Optical Society of America
• Ovid
• Oxford University Press
• Project Muse
• ProQuest
• Wiley Interscience

Questions for Library Support?

Please contact Library Support at clients@serialssolutions.com.

Serials Solutions reports the service problems on Friday, March 10th

"All of our services have been running properly since Friday evening Pacific Time, and you should not be seeing more error messages. Please contact us at clients@serialssolutions.com if you continue to notice problems. I apologize for any inconvenience you or your patrons may have experienced.

Very briefly, the problem was that our Internet Service Provider had a technical problem which caused sporadic service interruptions on Friday, March 10. The sporadic nature of the problem meant that some clients did not see a problem at their library; on the other hand, because it was a problem at the ISP level, all of our hosted products were affected. We are working to ensure that this type of interruption doesn't happen again, and we are developing better methods of two-way communication so that you and we can alert each other to problems more promptly.

Thank you for your patience, and for allowing Serials Solutions to serve your library."

BIOSIS Previews Reloaded on Ovid

The reload of BIOSIS Previews on Ovid Gateway is now complete bringing significant enhancements for users.

Easy Lookup of Concept Codes – The new “Permuted Index Tool” enables users to successfully locate and display Concept Codes even when these do not begin with the search term entered. For example, a search for “proteins” will not simply display those terms beginning with “proteins” but will find other relevant terms such as “Biochemistry Methods – Proteins, Peptides and Amino Acids”.

In addition, the display now includes a click-through link from each phrase to its respective location within the topical hierarchy (tree) of these phrases to aid understanding.


Improved mapping to Subject Heading – The “Map Term to Subject Heading” option, used to match the search term with the BIOSIS controlled vocabulary, now displays all Subject Headings as text descriptors rather than numeric code as sometimes happened previously. So, for example, “10050” displays as “Biochemistry methods – General” making it far more comprehensible to users. Note, the numeric Concept Code, if entered, will continue to map to the textual description.


Author E-mail Index – The Author E-mail field has been indexed and is now fully searchable.

RLG databases unavailability

Chicano Database and RedLightGreen will be unavailable on March 11 from 9 am - 11:59 am PST (UTC-8), due to system maintenance.

Dialog@Site unavailability

Due to planned server maintenance, Dialog@Site will not be available from 20:00 GMT, Friday,March 10, 2006, to 04:00 GMT, Saturday, March 11, 2006 (March 10, 2006 2pm CST to 10pm CST).

RLG Post-Migration Service Wrap-Up

RLG has posted its Database Post-Migration Wrap Up found under Support on the RLG Web site: www.rlg.org. Details of this effort can be found on the following link:
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=400

RLG databases unavailability

CAMIO, RLG Cultural Materials, and the corporate web page (www.rlg.org) and (reports.rlg.org) will be unavailable on March 3 from 9-11:59 PM PST (UTC-8)due to system maintenance.

RLG ArchiveGrid

ArchiveGrid is a new web site that offers faculty, scholars, librarians and genealogists unparalleled access to archive records and finding aids to enable you to do the most comprehensive research possible on your subject. Search through nearly a million collection descriptions and get the information you need to arrange a visit or order copies. Discover hidden ollections or confirm the scope of collections you already know. Save research time by locating exact box and shelf information so that your time on-site will be spent studying relevant materials, not looking for them.

Access to ArchiveGrid is available at http://www.archivegrid.org and free now through May 31.