Thursday, May 29, 2008

New Product Announcement-->Faculty of 1000 Medicine

Faculty of 1000 medicine


Its distinguished faculty of over 2400 of the world's top clinicians and researchers select, rate and evaluate the most important and influential articles, presenting a continuously updated, authoritative guide to the medical literature that matters...

* Time-saving: enables you to stay on top of the vast amount of medical literature quickly and easily.
* Informative: provides access to the opinions from leaders in medicine.
* Clinically applicable: offers perspectives on how articles affect, or even change clinical practice, as judged by respected leaders in the field.
* Cross-indexed coverage: you will be alerted to the articles that matter in adjacent fields that you might otherwise miss.
* Personal customization: email alerts and stored searches ensure you receive updated content regularly in your areas of interest.
* Cross-disciplinary: multiple evaluations of single articles provide varying perspectives across disciplines.
* Article Ranking: the F1000 Factor rates articles based on their individual merit rather than the journal in which they appear 'to further' focus your reading and provide a complement or alternative metric to the impact factor.

New Product Announcement-->Faculty of 1000 Medicine

Faculty of 1000 medicine


Its distinguished faculty of over 2400 of the world's top clinicians and researchers select, rate and evaluate the most important and influential articles, presenting a continuously updated, authoritative guide to the medical literature that matters...

* Time-saving: enables you to stay on top of the vast amount of medical literature quickly and easily.
* Informative: provides access to the opinions from leaders in medicine.
* Clinically applicable: offers perspectives on how articles affect, or even change clinical practice, as judged by respected leaders in the field.
* Cross-indexed coverage: you will be alerted to the articles that matter in adjacent fields that you might otherwise miss.
* Personal customization: email alerts and stored searches ensure you receive updated content regularly in your areas of interest.
* Cross-disciplinary: multiple evaluations of single articles provide varying perspectives across disciplines.
* Article Ranking: the F1000 Factor rates articles based on their individual merit rather than the journal in which they appear 'to further' focus your reading and provide a complement or alternative metric to the impact factor.

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Credo Reference Content Added

Latest Additions
Late Antiquity: A Guide to The Postclassical World

The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory, Edinburgh University Press in Literature

Late Antiquity: A Guide to The Postclassical World, Harvard University Press in History

Marquis Who Was Who in America 1985-present in Biography

The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965, Harvard University Press in Social Sciences

The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health, Harvard University Press in Medicine

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

* Dictionary of Accounting, A&C Black in Business
* Philip's Encyclopedia 2008 in Encyclopedias

Social Work Abstracts Backfiles Added to 1966

We are pleased to announce that your Social Work Abstracts database subscription has been enhanced, as we have digitized the citations included in the print journal Social Work Abstracts, back to the first volume and issue. To accomplish this, we worked with the publisher, the National Association of Social Workers, to deepen the coverage back to March 1966.

The previous Social Work Abstracts backfile included coverage from 1978. These additional citations are presented online for the first time, and made available electronically only via EBSCOhost . As a result of the completion of the backfile project, researchers using EBSCOhost will have access to more than 13,600 additional citations.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

New Product Announcement-->International Tables for Crystallography

International tables for crystallography


The series comprises articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. Emphasis is given to symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals. Each volume also contains discussions of theory, practical explanations and examples, all of which are useful for teaching.

New Product Announcement-->The Music Index Online

The music index online


The Music Index is the single most comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature. Published by Information Coordinators, d/b/a Harmonie Park Press, the editor-librarians have surveyed data from more than 850 music periodicals from over 40 countries. The Music Index has been available in print since 1949. The Music Index Online edition features over 1.4 million records. The searchable database is updated quarterly with about 100,000 new records added annually. In 2008, The Music Index Online coverage will span from 1973 to the present. Some backfile data from the period 1962-1972 is also included. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List which includes both Geographical and Subject Headings. The thoroughness of indexing and subject heading research, along with comprehensive coverage of the music field, makes The Music Index Online an invaluable resource for both the novice scholar and the experienced academician.

Design Abstracts Retrospective 1903 - 1986

Design abstracts retrospective

DAR provides coverage of more than 100 design and design-related
journals most of which have ceased publication, but which are
distinctly important to the development of design concepts in the early
20th century. DAR contains more than 24,000 abstracts and is updated
quarterly, with 15,000 records added per year.

New Product Announcement-->Design proFiles

Design proFiles

Design ProFILES (DP), is the most comprehensive collection of profiles in design and design-related fields. It provides information about more than 8,000 designers and design-related organizations that were influential in the 20th century world of design, including over 1,000 female designers. It is therefore considered the largest product of its kind. It is updated quarterly, with over 5,000 new profiles added each year.

Upgrade to Encyclopedia of Islam

We are happy to inform you that Brill has begun to upgrade The Encyclopaedia of Islam Online, particularly the data of EI2. The first steps in this process include:

  1. Changes to the search engine, the user interface of which has been improved in several ways. For example, the presentation of the search results has been made significantly more user friendly.
  2. The entries of EI2 had many hyperlinks (all internal cross-references) with a limited added value. These links have now been removed, which makes the texts easier to consult on the screen. Only the original cross-references of the paper version have been retained. Over the next months a selected number of relevant links will be restored.
  3. We are also in the process of changing various orthographical oddities in the entries of EI2, most of which have crept in during digitalization.
  4. In the new format references to the printed edition have been added to all articles of EI2 online.

EBSCOhost updates

Dear EBSCO Customer,

We are pleased to update you with the following information about new and upcoming features:

In Support of EBSCOhost 2.0:

  • Our Flash Demonstration ( http://www.ebscohost.com/2.0_flash) and PowerPoint on our marketing web site (www.ebscohost.com) now include details on the search query breadcrumb trail, and the Choose Databases enhancement.
  • A New EBSCOhost 2.0 Brochure is now available electronically. (http://www.ebscohost.com/special/temp02-08/interfaceBrochure.pdf?marketID=1)
  • EBSCO's Support Site now includes the EBSCOhost 2.0 Support Center, (http://support.epnet.com/ebscohost2) completely devoted to all things 2.0., with a link to the online training registration form. (http://training.ebsco.com)

EBSCOhost and EBSCOadmin Updates - Available Now:

  • Shared Folders enable EBSCOhost users to store and share items with other users. For details, please see these FAQs:
    What are Shared Folders? If you cannot open the link, please cut and paste this URL into a browser: http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=3720.
    How do I Share a Folder? Here is the URL to the above FAQ: http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=3749
    How do I Accept a Shared Folder? Here is the URL to the above FAQ: http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=3751

EBSCOhost and EBSCOadmin Updates - Coming Soon:

  • Multiple Database Limiters will appear with those limiters common to all databases being searched, even when they do not apply to all of those databases. Any of the five most popular search limiters: Full Text, Published Date, Publication, Peer Reviewed and References Available may be included in the common limiter area, above the database-specific section on the search screen, provided they are supported by at least one of the databases being searched.
  • Enhanced Clustering will provide more cluster types (controlled by the library administrator), including Publication, Company, Geography, NAICS/Industry Codes, etc.
  • SUSHI Web Service Support means that library administrators will be able to generate COUNTER Reports using EBSCOhost's secure SUSHI Web Service. The automated process will begin when a library's electronic records management (ERM) system requests a usage report to be automatically transmitted to EBSCO via the library's SUSHI client, after which a COUNTER report will be prepared and returned to the library.

Online Training Classes:

  • EBSCO customers can receive free online training on a wide variety of topics, simply by signing up here (http://training.ebsco.com). For an overview of EBSCO's online training offering, see this top story: (http://support.epnet.com/support_news/detail.php?id=427&t=h).

Please 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).

New ebook collection added to catalogue

Hello everyone!

Ebook records for Morgan and Claypool's Synthesis Digital Library have been added to the catalogue. A product description and sample titles are included below.

Special thanks to ITS for their help with this collection!

--Aaron Wood

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science


SYNTHESIS is an innovative information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science. It combines authoritative content with advanced digital delivery to create a product that is substantially more useful than traditional print and digital publications.

Content, Structure, and Scope

The basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field. We call these Lectures and believe that they offer unique value to the reader by providing more synthesis, analysis, and depth than typical research journal articles. They are also more modular and dynamic than traditional print or digital handbooks, such as collected volumes and monographs. We believe that they are ideal entry points to new areas for researchers, advanced developers, and students.

SYNTHESIS is organized by series, each managed by a prominent consulting editor. The series editor oversees lecture topic and author selection as well as peer review to assure quality. SYNTHESIS launched in October 2005 with an initial selection of series in engineering and computer science. New titles in each series will be posted to the site as they become available.

Additional series and titles will be added and revised as necessary. This constant influx makes the library dynamic in a way that has never been achieved with existing print or electronic products. Over time, SYNTHESIS will grow to encompass the entire scope of its subject disciplines. Our goal is to create one of the largest and most complete compilations of knowledge in engineering and computer science.
Audience

SYNTHESIS is expected to be useful to a broad range of professionals, researchers, and students.

For the researcher, it provides an ideal introduction to new fields. This is an increasingly important benefit as science and engineering become more interdisciplinary.

For the practicing engineer, it provides a method of staying current on developments in research at university, corporate, and government labs.

For the professor and student, it provides a source of information on advanced topics that will be more accessible than the journal literature and that can be relied upon to be authoritative and complete. SYNTHESIS titles are available to licensing institutions campus-wide with unlimited concurrent use. Titles can also be saved, printed, and emailed, making them perfect courses of any size.
Key Features and Advantages

The Lecture format:

* Enables user to more efficiently find information specific to their interest.
* Allows for a high level of authoritativeness, as authors focus on their area of active research.
* Enables the library to be extremely current since Lectures in fast moving fields will be frequently updated. Also, Lectures are published as soon as they are completed rather than when the last in a batch is finished (as with print reference works).
* Offers the potential to be exhaustively complete since the format can accommodate contributions on even the most specialized topics.

Both simple and advanced searching is supported with the ability to personalize and save results.

SYNTHESIS incorporates extensive reference linking both internally and externally. External linking using CrossRef and OpenURL standards provides instant access to linked sources from subscribed publishers.

An email alerting service delivers notification of the availability of new Lectures and new hits based on saved searches.

SYNTHESIS is indexed by Google as well as science and engineering indexing services.



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Aaron Wood
Metadata Librarian
Bibliographic Services
Libraries and Cultural Resources
University of Calgary
Phone: (403) 220-6161
Fax: (403) 284-2109
aawood@ucalgary.ca

New Product Announcement--Pidgeon Digital ( Architecture)

Pidgeon digital

Welcome to Pidgeon Digital the online version of The Pidgeon Audiovisual collection of illustrated talks by architects and related designers. This continuing archive, to which new talks are being added regularly, is a unique library of contemporary attitudes which will become of priceless value to future generations.
The collection was founded in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon (long-time editor of the influential magazine Architectural Design) so as to be able to hear the actual voices of the designers of buildings and listen to their ideas.