Archive for October, 2008

ScienceDirect Maintenance

To support scheduled maintenance, ScienceDirect will be unavailable from 3pm on Saturday, 1st November 2008 for approximately 12 hours.

Web of Knowledge Maintenance

Sunday, 19 October 2008 - Thomson Reuters will be performing the quarterly upgrade to ISI Web of Knowledge. The upgrade will start at 8:00 EDT ( 13:00 British Summer Time). There will be disruptions to ISI Web of Knowledge, Personalisation, and EndNote Web throughout the day, Researcher ID will also be updated at this time.

Tourism Insights

Analysis and information regarding the UK tourist market is given from a database produced by VisitBritain and Tourism Together. Included is a wealth of information, articles from the Insights archive 2000-2004, and a “Destination Manager’s Toolkit” (a regularly-updated guide to best practice in destination planning, development, monitoring and marketing). Tourism Insights is described as “essential reading for anyone serious about tourism”.

Environmental Policy News – from ENDS Report

News about environmental policy and developments now comes from the ENDS Report. The database gives analysis, company reports, future policy predictions, court proceedings, legislation, policy briefing, method statements, etc. Access is via password information linked to the entry in the A-Z Databases page.

Three new EBSCO databases

We have three new health-related databases from EBSCO.  They are:  Medline with full text, Amed, and the Pyschology and Behavioral Sciences collection.

They are all listed on the Databases a-z page. 

http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=6&Level4=855.

SAGE October Offer

Earlier this year SAGE celebrated the launch of the 500th journal site on their online platform. 

 

To mark the occasion SAGE are offering free online access to over 500 SAGE journals with content available from 1999-date until October 31, 2008. 

 

Authenticate and sign in via the Athens users option on the SAGE website.


Maintenance Update

  • Wordbanks Online will be unavailable between 09:00 - 12.00 on Saturday 12th December. #fb 20 hours ago
  • On Tuesday 15th December (10:00am approx.) the Zetoc service should be considered "at risk" for a short period of time. #fb 3 days ago
  • Enquiry desk problem resolved 6 days ago
  • There's a problem accessing Athens resources with enquiry desk logins at Harrison and possibly Walsall. CITS team are working on it 6 days ago
  • ISI Web of Knowledge - problem fixed. 2 weeks ago

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