CSA Announces Enhancements to the Ulrich's Product Line

CSA is pleased to announce the immediate release of the following enhancements to the Ulrich’s suite of products.
Ulrichsweb.com – Identify Serials that are available via RSS Feed!
The new “RSS Available” Advanced Search limiter makes it possible for users to identify the growing number of periodicals that are providing headlines, recent issues or other content via RSS (Really Simple Syndication). An RSS feed provides content via XML files that are then read by an RSS reader or web browser. CSA is adding RSS availability data to thousands of individual Ulrich’s records so that users can learn about the various frequencies, formats, and providers of these content-delivery feeds. Ulrich’s records also display the URL of the RSS feed(s) for the periodical. Users may create their own lists of RSS feed URLs in Ulrichsweb.com, click on the URL to link to the RSS feed, or cut and paste the URL into their preferred RSS reader.
Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System – New online Tutorials!
Four new tutorials covering key features of Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System have been added to the CSA Customer Training & Education offerings: Getting Started; Your Library Reports; Comparison & Overlap Analysis Reports; and Aggregator Comparison Reports. The tutorials run using Adobe Flash Player and last approximately three minutes each. In addition to narration, each tutorial contains subtitles that may be turned on/off. Whether you are a current subscriber or just interested in learning more about the powerful set of serials evaluation tools that Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System provides, you can access the tutorials at http://www.csa.com/e_products/tutorial.php.
Ulrich’s Resource Linker – More language options and Google Scholar links!
Customers of CSA’s hosted OpenURL link resolver now have the ability to select from among a growing number of language options for the A-to-Z list interface. The current list of language options includes Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, English (US), English (UK), French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Taiwanese with more soon to follow. Also new in Ulrich’s Resource Linker is the ability for customers using the Mozilla Firefox web browser to display their library’s e-holdings in Google Scholar results. This added functionality allows students and others who search Google Scholar or the Google News Archive to link from results to full-text in the resources to which the library has full-text access. For more information about these exciting new Ulrich’s Resource Linker enhancements, contact support@csa.com.

ISI Web of Knowledge upgrades

Thomson Scientific is pleased to announce the release of numerous significant innovations to ISI Web of Knowledge.

New in Web of Science^®:

• Citation Report — Use this new, powerful citation analysis feature to reveal and display citation trends in just a few clicks
• Distinct Author Identification System — Find the right author, quickly
• Full Author Names — Full author names are shown as they are listed in original articles, to help eliminate mistaken identity

Other enhancements include:

• BIOSIS Archive — For Biological Abstracts^® and BIOSIS Previews^® — Complete backfiles to 1926, fully indexed and cross searchable.
• Zoological Record^® Archive — Complete backfiles to 1864, fully indexed and cross searchable.
• Alert format change — For ResearchSoft desktop products; from plain text to tagged format
• EndNote^® Web — Available for free via ISI Web of Knowledge; scheduled for general release in December

When you first access the new version, please check the flash message on the opening screens of ISI Web of Knowledge and product pages, as well as the Notices page for each product for details on these enhancements. The Notices page includes product release notes and will occasionally provide important information about server availability, future releases, and more.

Free trial of The Treasure of Chinese Classics until 12/1/06

Greetings!

I am pleased to announce that we have a free trial of a Chinese online database 国 学宝典 (The Treasure of Chinese Classics) from now to December 1st, 2006.

You may access it at: WWW.GXBD.COM

Please take a moment to try it and let me know what you think of it. Thanks.

Lillian Yang
East Asian Library