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Changes and More Changes for Electronic Resources

If you work in a library or use a library you can always be certain that change is constant in our world. Journal titles change, products change, interfaces change along with formats or access. This fall we have quite a few changes already in place or just on the horizon.

Electrical and Computing Engineering Items of Interest

For those of you in electrical and computing engineering there are some major changes. First off, the Institution of Electrical Engineers has officially changed its name to Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). This is the result of a merger between IEE and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE). If you are looking for ejournals please remember to search under IET. They have also migrated to a new platform call the IET Digital Library. So there is a new look and feel to their website.

If you need to search the INSPEC database it has now moved to the ISI Web of Science from the Ei Village platform. We plan to have some in-house training this fall, so please watch for the announcement. I have been holding off with this announcement since ISI is planning to change the look and feel of their platform, but it has yet to happen. So you will need to use the current interface until the new one is announced. Training will be on the new interface. Moving INSPEC to Web of Science willl allow you to analyze your search results by author or journal as well as other criteria. If you are not familiar with searching Web of Science there are several tutorials available on their advanced search site.

Ejournals Database Migrates to Find UK Electronic Journals in September

The locally developed E-journals Database that we have all been using has been officially replaced by a new product called Find UK Electronic Journals. More details can be found at the E-journals Database Migration Page.

Proquest Purchases Cambridge

Last spring Proquest purchased CSA Illumina. Be assured that all the engineering, science, techology, medical and computing databases from CSA are still available. This platform is home to a wide variety of specialized engineering, science and, art, medical databases and more, so be sure to check it out. ProQuest is also home to the Dissertations and Theses Database and ProQuest Computing

ILI-INFODISK NOW SAI GLOBAL

I guess it is inevitable that even a standards provider has to see change. Also late last spring SAI Global purchased ILI-INFODISk. This has been a seemless transition. The only changes I expect will be improvements to their product. If you are affiliated with UK and looking for standards please check SAI Global Standards Infobase.

Add comment September 21st, 2007

Scitopia.org: New Portal to Scholarly Research

How would you like to search 150 years of science and engineering articles through one portal? That is approximately 3 million articles and covers scholarly literature from 13 scientific and technical societies. Scitopia.org, billed as “the best place on earch for technology research” will debut in June 2007. Scitopia, providing a free federated vertical search will allow you to explore the most cited research and patents in one click.

Thirteen of the world’s leading science and technology societies have banded together to provide access to their journal content and conference proceedings, many of which are peer-reviewed. No longer will you need to search the individual society websites for these publications. Scitopia.org Partners:

American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society (APS)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
IEEE
Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP)
Optical Society of America (OSA)
SPIE
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Other organizations will be invited to join as the project progresses.

Read more at the Scitopia.org press release

Scitopia.org is powered by Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator federated search engine.

Add comment April 17th, 2007

IEEE Xplore Digital Library Upgrade

An upgrade of the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is scheduled for Friday, 9 March. During this deployment, the system will be unavailable for up to three hours beginning at 2:00pm EST.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. As a result of this upgrade, the IEEE Xplore digital library will be enhanced with:* List of Top Downloaded Articles at the Periodical Level - Users will be able to view the top accessed documents for the month for any IEEE or IET journal or magazine* Updates to Publication Pages - Several pages will be customized to cross-reference items such as joint issues and other special circumstances* IEEE Press Book Enhancements - Bibliographic data for books will be consolidated into a single abstract* Browse Pages Update - Browse pages will be updated to reflect IET Title Changes

* IEEE Expert Now Continuing Education Courses - Enables IEEE Members to purchase access to any of the individual IEEE Expert Now Educational Courses. Organizations can also subscribe to the full collection of IEEE e-learning courses for their users. For more information on the IEEE Expert Now e-learning collection for organizations, visit http://www.ieee.org/expertnow

This upgrade is part of our ongoing effort to bring you the best IEEE Xplore experience possible and incorporates suggestions we have received from our many valued subscribers. — IEEE Online Support

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Add comment March 7th, 2007

Blackwell Synergy Electronic Journals Platform to be Relaunched

The Blackwell Synergy online journals platform is beingrelaunched with a new design, due to go live at the end of this week.This redesign provides easier navigation, faster loading times, and

improved access to tools for researchers. In addition, the new website

meets the latest accessibility standards (ADA section 508 and W3C’s

WAI-AA). The main visible changes are the moving 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

look and feel. The new Blackwell Synergy still includes all the

essential benefits for researchers, librarians and journal editors

including strong journal branding at all levels. The new design has

been developed with user input.

If you would like to preview the site ahead of launch you can go to

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com <http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/>and log in using the username: clientbeta and the password: synergy.Please be aware that the journal branded banners and other visuals arestill being loaded so not all will be visible on the beta site before

launch. To view the demo as a PowerPoint and to see a list of what’s

new and what’s changed, please go to:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians/journal_information.asp. Please note that this is a redesign of the look and feel of the site andyou do not need to make any changes to your links or OPACs. Accessrights and existing links will be unaffected by the change.

We are always interested in your feedback so please do send your

comments back by email so they can be passed on to the Synergy team.

Best regards,

David Celano

Account Manager

Blackwell Publishing

350 Main Street

Malden, MA 02148-5020

(781) 388-8527 Phone

(781) 338-8527 Fax

dcelano@bos.blackwellpublishing.com

Add comment January 10th, 2007

New Back Files Purchased for Sci-Tech Journals

This past spring the University Libraries were able to purchase some backfiles of electronic journals for our Science, Engineering and Medical Center Libraries. The collections are Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mathematics, Materials Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology, and Organic Chemistry. These are all Science Direct titles and can be accessed at: http://ezproxy.uky.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/

If you would like to see the lists of individual titles for each collection, see the PDFs linked below:

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Immunology and Microbiology Backfiles

Materials Science

Mathematics Sciences

Organic Chemistry

Add comment December 20th, 2006