ProQuest is pleased to announce the release of Safari 5.0.
The new interface will be available on August 19, 2006.This release brings a new look and feel to the interface along with improved search capabilities. Search functionality will remain the same so users will still have the ability to keyword and code fragment search.
The interface includes the following enhancements:
* "Graphically rich" books are now supported - See representations of book content in Safari for titles with particularly complex typography. The "Graphically rich" content offers improved display of illustrative content from charts and graphs to black and white photographs to color screen displays, allowing Safari to offer you more titles from Peachpit and Adobe Press on Photoshop, Flash and software for graphic programming and applications. This new content is perfect for web designers, web developers and those studying for careers in creative professions
* Faster Page Refresh - Using Ajax, Safari loads pages faster and more efficiently.
* Suggested Search - As you type your search term Safari suggests, in real time, expressions from the most popular searches our users have entered.* Convenient Access to Advanced Search Parameters - A new dropdown provides access to filtering on book titles, section titles, code fragments, author, and publisher.
* Choice Between Popularity and Text-based Relevancy in Search - A new slider bar allows you to weight your search results based on popularity or relevancy ranked by book.
* Improvements to "Additional Reading" links - When you click on an "Additional reading" link at the bottom of book content pages, the destination section is now viewable in full.
* Amazon reviews and ratings for thousands of titles
Friday, August 18, 2006
Lexi - Comp update
I couldn't really post the entire newsletter, but the key links are below:
Welcome to the August edition of Lexi-Comp’s enewsletter. This month, we are bringing you the following information:
Clinical Perspective
This month we highlight how Pediatric Lexi-Drugs® and Lexi-Comp® ONLINETM can provide comprehensive support in the care of a young patient.
What's New
Feature Added to Patient Care Module
Technology Update
Lexi-Comp, Inc. and Research In Motion® (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry™ devices, have partnered to offer healthcare providers constant connectivity to vital point-of-care information.
Welcome to the August edition of Lexi-Comp’s enewsletter. This month, we are bringing you the following information:
Clinical Perspective
This month we highlight how Pediatric Lexi-Drugs® and Lexi-Comp® ONLINETM can provide comprehensive support in the care of a young patient.
What's New
Feature Added to Patient Care Module
Technology Update
Lexi-Comp, Inc. and Research In Motion® (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry™ devices, have partnered to offer healthcare providers constant connectivity to vital point-of-care information.
Budget Update-->Student Union Funds
Heather sent out the following:
As a result of discussion with the Student Union Library rep I just want to confirm that there will be no distribution of Student Union funds across all subject areas. The funds will be expended through an undergraduate book approval plan that will be established with YBP. This expenditure will start with 2007 imprints. I will be setting up meetings in your calendars re the undergraduate plan and sending out some information for consideration.
I'd like to add that the Students Union is also funding ebrary and this year have added RefWorks to the products they support.
Yay, we have the BEST students!!
As a result of discussion with the Student Union Library rep I just want to confirm that there will be no distribution of Student Union funds across all subject areas. The funds will be expended through an undergraduate book approval plan that will be established with YBP. This expenditure will start with 2007 imprints. I will be setting up meetings in your calendars re the undergraduate plan and sending out some information for consideration.
I'd like to add that the Students Union is also funding ebrary and this year have added RefWorks to the products they support.
Yay, we have the BEST students!!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
New Product-->Natural.Re.Source
"Natural Re.Source is a comprehensive, highly searchable, internet database capturing the public policy requirements for the energy, environment, mining and forestry sectors in seven Canadian jurisdictions - Federal, Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan, Yukon, NWT and Ontario."
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://site.naturalresource.ca
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://site.naturalresource.ca
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Information Hygiene--police your metadata
The Privacy commissioner of Canada has released a fact sheet on the Risks of Metadata.
A good read, for example, do you know how to make sure that tracked changes are cleaned off the final versions of any World document?
A good read, for example, do you know how to make sure that tracked changes are cleaned off the final versions of any World document?
Platform change for Gale InfoTrac products
Effective August 1, 2006, the InfoTrac databases will be automatically switched over to the new PowerSearch interface.
This new interface allows you to search one or many of the Info Trac databases at the same time.
For full details about the switch to PowerSearch, please refer to the
following Thomson Gale notice:
http://www.gale.com/email/gin40906accuracy.htm
Please note, this switch will automatically take place and should NOT
affect access. This will result in a new interface for the InfoTrac databases.
This new interface allows you to search one or many of the Info Trac databases at the same time.
For full details about the switch to PowerSearch, please refer to the
following Thomson Gale notice:
http://www.gale.com/email/gin40906accuracy.htm
Please note, this switch will automatically take place and should NOT
affect access. This will result in a new interface for the InfoTrac databases.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Gale Virtual Reference Library Cataloguing Complete
To check out the records use the search
GVRL
in the catalogue
GVRL
in the catalogue
Hein On Line New Content
First, as far as our research indicates, the addition of the U.S. Government Manual from inception in HeinOnline’s Federal Register library provides the only online source for complete, historical coverage of this important title.
The following description about the Manual comes from the website of GPO Access (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/about.html):
“As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies; international organizations in which the United States participates; and boards, commissions, and committees. A typical agency description includes:
A list of officials heading major operating units.
A summary statement of the agency's purpose and role in the Federal Government.
A brief history of the agency, including its legislative or executive authority.
A description of its programs and activities.
Information, addresses, and phone numbers to help users locate detailed information on consumer activities, contracts and grants, employment, publications, and other matters of public interest. “
To give some idea of the overall historic value of including a document such as the Manual in HeinOnline, please refer to this link from the first edition (1935), which provides details on the National Archives.
or
refer to this link about the Library of Congress, which notes, “The Library of Congress was established under the law approved April 24, 1800, appropriating $5,000 "for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress.” .
Interestingly, the text on this page also refers to 2 Stat. 56, c. 37, which of course refers to the U.S. Statutes at Large, a title also available in HeinOnline. Researchers can easily access this page in HeinOnline’s Statutes at Large library from this link
Another new title added with this release is the Code of Emergency Federal Regulations. This title is also available in HeinOnline’s Federal Register Library, and can be purchased as an acid-free reprint from our company.
Finally, we have added links to external sites within HeinOnline’s Treaties and Agreements Library as well as HeinOnline’s U.S. Federal Legislative Histories Library.
New Titles Added to HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library:
American Labor Legislation Review Vols. 1-32 (1911-1942)
All Published Frank G. Raichle Lecture Series on Law in American Society (This title is a collection of annual speeches given by various people such as Janet Reno, Sandra Day O’Connor, William Rehnquist, and others at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York)
Journal of African Law Vols. 1-45 (1957-2001)
Journal of the History of International Law Vols. 1-4 (1999-2002)
Loyola Law and Technology Annual Vols. 1-5 (1996-2005)
Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter Vols. 1-28 (1976-2004)
National Law Review Vol. 1 (1888) All Published
Revue Juridique Themis Vols. 1-15, 1-38 (1951-2004)
Southern Lawyer Vol. 1 (1937) All Published
University of Detroit Mercy International Law Forum Vols. 1-4 (1991-1994)
The following description about the Manual comes from the website of GPO Access (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/about.html):
“As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies; international organizations in which the United States participates; and boards, commissions, and committees. A typical agency description includes:
A list of officials heading major operating units.
A summary statement of the agency's purpose and role in the Federal Government.
A brief history of the agency, including its legislative or executive authority.
A description of its programs and activities.
Information, addresses, and phone numbers to help users locate detailed information on consumer activities, contracts and grants, employment, publications, and other matters of public interest. “
To give some idea of the overall historic value of including a document such as the Manual in HeinOnline, please refer to this link from the first edition (1935), which provides details on the National Archives.
or
refer to this link about the Library of Congress, which notes, “The Library of Congress was established under the law approved April 24, 1800, appropriating $5,000 "for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress.” .
Interestingly, the text on this page also refers to 2 Stat. 56, c. 37, which of course refers to the U.S. Statutes at Large, a title also available in HeinOnline. Researchers can easily access this page in HeinOnline’s Statutes at Large library from this link
Another new title added with this release is the Code of Emergency Federal Regulations. This title is also available in HeinOnline’s Federal Register Library, and can be purchased as an acid-free reprint from our company.
Finally, we have added links to external sites within HeinOnline’s Treaties and Agreements Library as well as HeinOnline’s U.S. Federal Legislative Histories Library.
New Titles Added to HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library:
American Labor Legislation Review Vols. 1-32 (1911-1942)
All Published Frank G. Raichle Lecture Series on Law in American Society (This title is a collection of annual speeches given by various people such as Janet Reno, Sandra Day O’Connor, William Rehnquist, and others at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York)
Journal of African Law Vols. 1-45 (1957-2001)
Journal of the History of International Law Vols. 1-4 (1999-2002)
Loyola Law and Technology Annual Vols. 1-5 (1996-2005)
Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter Vols. 1-28 (1976-2004)
National Law Review Vol. 1 (1888) All Published
Revue Juridique Themis Vols. 1-15, 1-38 (1951-2004)
Southern Lawyer Vol. 1 (1937) All Published
University of Detroit Mercy International Law Forum Vols. 1-4 (1991-1994)
Grove Music Update
This month's update to Grove Music Online includes the revision of over 35 articles to record the passing of members of the music community.
True to its standard as the authority on all aspects of music world-wide, these musicians hail from across the globe and contributed to diverse musical genres, from Opera to Jazz to Soul.
We've also continued the project of adding 240 articles, revised to account for recent scholarship, from The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers.
For complete details of this update, please visit:
http://www.grovemusic.com/grove-owned/music/whats_new.html
True to its standard as the authority on all aspects of music world-wide, these musicians hail from across the globe and contributed to diverse musical genres, from Opera to Jazz to Soul.
We've also continued the project of adding 240 articles, revised to account for recent scholarship, from The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers.
For complete details of this update, please visit:
http://www.grovemusic.com/grove-owned/music/whats_new.html
Grove Art New Content
This month's update to Grove Art Online includes over 100 new and updated articles and over 420 new images as well as expanded links according to subject area.
Now available are full color sample illustrations by the quintessential Renaissance master Giotto, plans for the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and interior shots of Hagia Sophia, a wide array of African masks, sculptures, and figurines, and much more!
For complete details of this update, please visit:
http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/whats_new.html
Now available are full color sample illustrations by the quintessential Renaissance master Giotto, plans for the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and interior shots of Hagia Sophia, a wide array of African masks, sculptures, and figurines, and much more!
For complete details of this update, please visit:
http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/whats_new.html
Upgrade to ProQuest Digital Dissertations
This is an update about the ProQuest Digital Dissertations™ (PQDD) migration to the ProQuest platform.
Support for Subject Subsets:
Not only will customers with one of the larger subject subsets be able to move to PQDT, but other customers who want to subscribe to smaller, full text subsets -- like Medicine or Agriculture -- will be able to do so as well.
Support for Open Access Dissertations and Theses:
Beginning in the fall of 2006, graduate authors who publish with ProQuest/UMI will have the option of publishing their work on an open access basis under our Expanded Publishing with Open Access (EPOA) service. As they become available, those EPOA titles will be added to the database for free full-text download for all PQDT users.
Search Enhancements:
Enhancements include the ability to limit by material type (dissertations or theses) and improvements to searching by university name.
Support for Subject Subsets:
Not only will customers with one of the larger subject subsets be able to move to PQDT, but other customers who want to subscribe to smaller, full text subsets -- like Medicine or Agriculture -- will be able to do so as well.
Support for Open Access Dissertations and Theses:
Beginning in the fall of 2006, graduate authors who publish with ProQuest/UMI will have the option of publishing their work on an open access basis under our Expanded Publishing with Open Access (EPOA) service. As they become available, those EPOA titles will be added to the database for free full-text download for all PQDT users.
Search Enhancements:
Enhancements include the ability to limit by material type (dissertations or theses) and improvements to searching by university name.
New Product Announcement-->Wiley Interscience Backfiles
We have purchased all of the backfiles for the journals on the Wiley Interscience platform that were available as of June 2006.
This includes the following collections of journals:
Analytical Sciences Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Cell and Developmental Biology Chemistry Chemistry Societies General Medicine Genetics and Evolution Journal of Pathology Materials Science Neuroscience New Directions for Evaluation Numerical Engineering Physics and Astronomy Polymer Psychology Tribology
There is also a backfile collection for Angewandte chemie, which we already own.
Several other collections will be released later this year and next; we will look at purchasing these later.
All of the collections have been treated by Serials Solutions and SFX except for Physics and Astronomy and Tribology. These will be added in the future.
Please spread the word about these backfiles.
To assist with this, Wiley have sent us some promotional materials that we can give to users:
*mouse pads with inserts giving the basic information about the backfile collections
*Wiley Interscience cloth bags
*Wiley Interscience backfile water bottles There are 100 of each of these.
I can send the mouse pads to people but you'll have to pick up the other items yourself. Please come and get some (I'm running out of space in my office :-) ). First come, first served.
Please email or call me if you have any questions.
Andrew
This includes the following collections of journals:
Analytical Sciences Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Cell and Developmental Biology Chemistry Chemistry Societies General Medicine Genetics and Evolution Journal of Pathology Materials Science Neuroscience New Directions for Evaluation Numerical Engineering Physics and Astronomy Polymer Psychology Tribology
There is also a backfile collection for Angewandte chemie, which we already own.
Several other collections will be released later this year and next; we will look at purchasing these later.
All of the collections have been treated by Serials Solutions and SFX except for Physics and Astronomy and Tribology. These will be added in the future.
Please spread the word about these backfiles.
To assist with this, Wiley have sent us some promotional materials that we can give to users:
*mouse pads with inserts giving the basic information about the backfile collections
*Wiley Interscience cloth bags
*Wiley Interscience backfile water bottles There are 100 of each of these.
I can send the mouse pads to people but you'll have to pick up the other items yourself. Please come and get some (I'm running out of space in my office :-) ). First come, first served.
Please email or call me if you have any questions.
Andrew
ProQuest Upgrades
Enhancements include:
Implementation of Spell Check
This exciting new feature is available for products on the ProQuest platform. Spell Check will ask the user a "Did you mean..." question on the search results page to prompt for spelling corrections inside the user's search query.
Support for Subject Subsets within ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Not only will customers with one of the larger subject subsets be able to move to PQDT in the ProQuest Platform, but other customers who want to subscribe to smaller, full-text subsets - like Medicine or Agriculture - will be able to do so also.
Implementation of Spell Check
This exciting new feature is available for products on the ProQuest platform. Spell Check will ask the user a "Did you mean..." question on the search results page to prompt for spelling corrections inside the user's search query.
Support for Subject Subsets within ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Not only will customers with one of the larger subject subsets be able to move to PQDT in the ProQuest Platform, but other customers who want to subscribe to smaller, full-text subsets - like Medicine or Agriculture - will be able to do so also.
New Product Announcement-->E-Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialities
This product is of particular importance as it is the first new joint electronic license for the Health Information Network of Calgary and the University of Calgary. A milestone in our partnership.
E-CPS (Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties)
http://e-cps.pharmacists.ca/CPHA/main.htm
The Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS) 2006 is the 41st edition of a Canadian drug information institution. The compilation of product monographs began as a service to health care professionals in 1960 and is now the most comprehensive and frequently used source of Canadian drug information.
In addition to compiling, standardizing and organizing the product monographs submitted by the pharmaceutical manufacturers and approved by Health Canada, the Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) today writes evidence-based CPhA drug monographs, develops clinical tools for safe and effective patient care and provides guides for identification and therapeutic use of drugs available in Canada.
E-CPS (Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties)
http://e-cps.pharmacists.ca/CPHA/main.htm
The Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS) 2006 is the 41st edition of a Canadian drug information institution. The compilation of product monographs began as a service to health care professionals in 1960 and is now the most comprehensive and frequently used source of Canadian drug information.
In addition to compiling, standardizing and organizing the product monographs submitted by the pharmaceutical manufacturers and approved by Health Canada, the Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA) today writes evidence-based CPhA drug monographs, develops clinical tools for safe and effective patient care and provides guides for identification and therapeutic use of drugs available in Canada.
ISI Web of Knowledge New Features
Author Finder* — Find the right author, right away. Distinguish between authors with the same name; available in Web of Science® and Current Content Connect®.
RSS Alerting — Integrate crucial data into your workflow. Get custom RSS feeds to receive search, citation, and tables of content alerts from ISI Web of Knowledge.
Improved topic search results — Get more complete search results. Cast a wider net with the new implied "AND" between search terms. See how this change affects your search results.
*Saundra Lipton recommended
RSS Alerting — Integrate crucial data into your workflow. Get custom RSS feeds to receive search, citation, and tables of content alerts from ISI Web of Knowledge.
Improved topic search results — Get more complete search results. Cast a wider net with the new implied "AND" between search terms. See how this change affects your search results.
*Saundra Lipton recommended
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
2005 Journal Citation Reports data now available
Our users are often keen to get their hands on the data from Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for the previous year but it takes about six months for this information to appear in the database (there's loads of number-crunching that has to be done). On that note, the JCR data for 2005 is now available.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Historical Abstracts and AH&L upgrades in beta
FYI, the beta includes these new features:
* the means to search both America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts at once if your institution subscribes to both databases
* the means to easily limit by one of five most-often-occurring languages from the Basic search screen
* the means to automatically expand all results (in Display Options) or to expand by group (in results display)
* the means to easily print a single record from search results
* catalog linking support for Historical Abstracts Book entries
* the means to save searches to a personal profile
* time period searches that accept single years and spans of years
* faster searching with quoted phrases and asterisk wildcards
The site beta - located at http://serials.abc-clio.com/beta/ - is available to you for testing from now until the week of 19 June (at which time the site will go live).
* the means to search both America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts at once if your institution subscribes to both databases
* the means to easily limit by one of five most-often-occurring languages from the Basic search screen
* the means to automatically expand all results (in Display Options) or to expand by group (in results display)
* the means to easily print a single record from search results
* catalog linking support for Historical Abstracts Book entries
* the means to save searches to a personal profile
* time period searches that accept single years and spans of years
* faster searching with quoted phrases and asterisk wildcards
The site beta - located at http://serials.abc-clio.com/beta/ - is available to you for testing from now until the week of 19 June (at which time the site will go live).
Who's Who in American Art
Dear Valued Customer,
I am happy to inform you that, starting Monday, June 5th, a subscription to Marquis Who’s Who on the Web will include our complete database of Who’s Who in American Art biographies – over 14,000 important men and women in today’s art world, plus notable artists from the past.
Who’s Who in American Art joins the recent addition of Who’s Who in American History as valuable additions to our online database – included FREE-OF-CHARGE – with comprehensive biographical information that is unavailable anywhere else.
The most significant changes and improvements to the database you will see include
A separate search screen for Who’s Who in American Art has been added allowing you to search for artists and other professionals by name, gender, birth year and place, keyword, and specific media such as “watercolor painters” and “stone sculptors”. Due to the unique nature of these biographies they are not included in the main database at this time.
Easy navigation to the American History and American Art databases – when you login, the main search screen opens allowing you to search among our complete database of over 1.3 million biographies (including the American History biographies). Links with supporting graphics appear on the left side to direct researchers to the American History and American Art databases
Checkbox for Current Biographies – we’ve placed a checkbox beside the name search fields on the main search screen allowing you to limit your search to living people whose biographies have been recently updated or appeared in one of our recent print volumes.
I am happy to inform you that, starting Monday, June 5th, a subscription to Marquis Who’s Who on the Web will include our complete database of Who’s Who in American Art biographies – over 14,000 important men and women in today’s art world, plus notable artists from the past.
Who’s Who in American Art joins the recent addition of Who’s Who in American History as valuable additions to our online database – included FREE-OF-CHARGE – with comprehensive biographical information that is unavailable anywhere else.
The most significant changes and improvements to the database you will see include
A separate search screen for Who’s Who in American Art has been added allowing you to search for artists and other professionals by name, gender, birth year and place, keyword, and specific media such as “watercolor painters” and “stone sculptors”. Due to the unique nature of these biographies they are not included in the main database at this time.
Easy navigation to the American History and American Art databases – when you login, the main search screen opens allowing you to search among our complete database of over 1.3 million biographies (including the American History biographies). Links with supporting graphics appear on the left side to direct researchers to the American History and American Art databases
Checkbox for Current Biographies – we’ve placed a checkbox beside the name search fields on the main search screen allowing you to limit your search to living people whose biographies have been recently updated or appeared in one of our recent print volumes.
What's up with Factiva
Here is the vendor's reply to our question about folders.
Hi Dani and Helen - Factiva is an interesting beast, in that all clients get the same user interface, but depending on what market you're in, you get different content. You've already discovered that with CanWest Newspapers. Since Factiva.com is a company that focuses most of its efforts on corporate and legal clients, it leaves us in academic libraries with challenges.
The Track Folders were originally designed for corporate environments. In these environments everyone has their own account or every group or team shares an account. They are their own administrator(s) and set up account defaults and options. The Track Folders are then personalized for every account, which in most cases is an individual or small work team.
In an academic environment, the university shares one account by using the appropriate number of simultaneous users. All simultaneous users see the same thing because they share one account. That account in managed by an administrator.
Generally, in shared environments like your own, I have seen track folders set up that address common issues on campus. The only way to get around this is - broadcast the admin account access and password (not feasible) or have a second account set up that is used by the reference staff and one that is used by the students. I don't believe either are a good option.
Nature launches new look home page
On Wednesday 7th June, a new page design will launch at www.nature.com. The new design applies only to the nature.com home page which offers navigation to all online content and services from Nature Publishing Group.
The nature.com home page offers clear access to NPG content published in many formats: journals, podcasts, databases, webfeeds and blogs. Visit nature.com to get quick access to news headlines, view today’s most popular searches or browse publications by subject area.
The nature.com home page also provides links to information about NPG for librarians, authors and other user groups. Be sure to visit the new Launch pad to learn about cutting-edge developments at nature.com as we experiment with new ways of maximising the web as a scientific communication medium.
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