Problem with Google Scholar links for USC

USC links are not currently displaying in Google Scholar. Serials Solutions is working with Google Scholar to resolve the problem. No specific time was given for resolution, but it may take several days.

CAMIO & RLG Cultural Materials service interruption, 1/26/07

CAMIO, RLG Cultural Materials, and our web page http://www.rlg.org will be unavailable Friday January 26 from approximately 9 am - 2 pm Pacific Time (UTC-8) for system maintenance.

Blackwell Synergy Relaunch Announcement

The Blackwell Synergy online journals platform has now been relaunched with a new design. Please take a look at www.blackwell-synergy.com
This redesign provides easier navigation, faster loading times, and improved access to tools for researchers. The main visible changes, other than the colour change, are the movement of the major functions to the left-hand menu, the grouping together of tools at each level of the website, tabs being replaced by left-menu listings and a cleaner and more modern look and feel. In addition, the new website meets the latest accessibility standards (ADA section 508 and W3C’s WAI-AA).
The new Blackwell Synergy still includes all the essential benefits for researchers, librarians and journal editors including strong journal branding at all levels. In addition to a new look, features have been repositioned to highlight options more clearly to users and enable them to make best use of the suite of tools available, such as most-read and most-cited articles, citation alerts, download to reference manager software, and reference links. The new design has been developed with feedback from researchers and librarians who have provided input during the development and testing phases.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: ALEXANDER STREET PRESS MUSIC SERVICES

Due to a problem at one of the Alexander Street Press' hosting facilities, access to all Alexander Street Press music and video services may be temporarily interrupted.
Specifically, this will affect access to Classical Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound, African American Song, and Theatre in Video.
Alexander Street Press is working with the organizations concerned to ensure that it is resolved as quickly as possible. It is likely that our service will be affected for the next 24 hours and possibly longer.

ScienceDirect system downtime January 20th

Please be advised that the ScienceDirect search functionality will be upgraded on Saturday January 20th, resulting in some system downtime. It is anticipated that ScienceDirect will be unavailable for approximately 6 hours, starting at 19.30 GMT. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

The ScienceDirect E-Helpdesk

For further information on the upgrade please go to: http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/news/archive/2006/News_FAST.asp

JSTOR Sandbox: New Enhanced PDF Prototype

A new prototype has been added to the JSTOR Sandbox. The "Enhanced PDF" prototype will allow JSTOR users to try printing and downloading a new version of the PDF-formatted articles. This Enhanced PDF format provides new functionality and in many cases should make printing and downloading articles faster.

New features and functionality include:

• The ability to use search/find capabilities to locate words or phrases within the PDF file.
• The ability to copy and paste text.
• The ability to use JSTOR PDF files with screen readers, such as JAWS for Windows.
• On average, smaller file sizes which are quicker and easier to download.

The Enhanced PDF option will appear in the prototype when the JSTOR "Print" or "Download" options are selected.

We are very eager to hear about your experiences with this new PDF option, and we encourage you to submit your feedback via the "Comment on this feature" link at the top of each Sandbox page.

Please note that only a subset of content from the JSTOR collections is available for testing the Enhanced PDFs. Also, within this prototype other printing and downloading functionality has been disabled or removed. These changes are intended to focus attention on the Enhanced PDFs and may not reflect the actual design of the final version.

JSTOR User Services
support@jstor.org

e-Duke Scholarly Collection Trial Access

Please note that we now have a trial (as of 1/9/07) to the E-Duke collection of journals published by Duke University Press, which were formerly part of Project Muse. It seems very likely that we will subscribe to this collection once the trial is over to restore access to the titles which was lost when Duke ceased their participation in Project Muse.

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SCELC is pleased to offer the e-Duke Scholarly Collection. This collection of 20 online journals in the humanities and social sciences were formerly found in Project MUSE. Those titles were removed from Project MUSE more than one year ago and Duke has put together their own package of these titles.

Attached please find an order form and a spreadsheet detailing the specific costs for each of the libraries receiving this message. Refer to the spreadsheet for your cost tier (as noted below) and mark the order form accordingly.

Here's a description of this product:

The e-Duke Scholarly Collection <http://www.dukeupress.edu/library/eDuke/index.html>, hosted by HighWire Press, offers online access to twenty-nine Duke humanities and social science journals <http://www.dukeupress.edu/library/eDuke/titles.html>. Pricing for the collection is based on the electronic-only subscription rate and is discounted from 33% to 84%, depending on an institution's 2000 Carnegie Classification category. A complete list of subscribers may be found here <http://www.dukeupress.edu/library/eDuke/subs.html>.

Features of the e-Duke Scholarly Collection include:

• tiered discounting
• access to available issues from the 2000-2007 volumes
• deep discounts on print subscriptions (60%-80%)
• members retain perpetual access to the content from the years they have paid for

Features on HighWire Press include

• access to back content for current subscribers (for most titles)
• enhanced search features and reference linking
• COUNTER 2-compliant usage statistics
• table-of-contents alerting
• toll-free access across cited journals within HighWire's collection (919 journals)
• RSS feeds

Also, to clarify the journal content in e-Duke, Duke pulled twenty titles from Project Muse. Nine Duke titles still have current content in Muse. The package is heavily discounted because the base price for the package is based on the twenty titles pulled, not all 29 titles. Duke didn't want to charge libraries twice for the same content, since just about all e-Duke customers also receive content from Muse.

New WilsonWeb Enhancements

In the continuing efforts to enhance the WilsonWeb search experience for all users, WilsonWeb Team is happy to announce a number of exciting new enhancements to the WilsonWeb interface. Included in this enhancement release are such valuable features as the following:

A new Brief search results page that includes the handy relocation of the Full Text, WilsonLink, holdings, InterLibrary Loan and all icons/labels within the Brief and Full citations display. It also includes new coloration and record separators that are designed to make reviewing search results much easier for researchers.

Now, PDF Full Text records can be emailed as an attachment, if desired. Please be sure that any email filtering system you might have employed includes WilsonWeb's domain name ( http://wilsontxt.hwwilsonweb.com), for seamless delivery of our attached PDF records.

Researchers will also enjoy the newly improved Search History screen.

Now records can be cited in the Chicago/Turabian style format, if desired.

New Enhancements Now Active for Historical Abstracts and America:History and Life

The following enhancements became active in the databases on January 3, 2007, with the release of Version 4.2. For Researchers

Tagged search result records are now maintained across multiple searches within a session

“Untag all” functionality is now available on the results page

A single-term search may now be conducted from within a browseable index

The use of ANDing/ORing logic is now an option for subject terms in a displayed record

Search results are now pre-sorted based on publication date and, secondarily, on chronology scope

Search pre-processing now handles commonly misspelled words and those with American, British, and Canadian spelling variations

The “No Results Found” page now provides additional search assistance for the user, including single-click re-search of individual terms from the original query.

Open access publishing option offered by Karger

Joining most of the other major STM publishers, Karger is offering open access publication with a one-time publication fee of $2,500. Their version of this is called "Author's Choice" and is available as a trial for eight of their journals. The author will be asked to make this choice at the page proof stage in the publication process.

The eight titles are:

• Cytogenetic and Genome Research
• Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders
• Dermatology
• Developmental Neuroscience
• European Neurology
• Medical Principles and Practice
• Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Pathobiology

See http://content.karger.com/services/choice.asp for further details.