ISI Web of Knowledge is upgrading its site early in February.
There’s a preview of the changes at:
http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/support/documentation/presentations/Q409updates.ppt
Archive for January, 2009
JSTOR are making more than 20,000 19th century British pamphlets available.
The JISC funded archive will give researchers online access to some of the most significant collections of pamphlets held in UK institutions. (Read about it here).
We’ll have free access until June 30, 2009.
The first set of approximately 8,000 pamphlets will be available at the end of January 2009, followed by regular releases of additional material.
We have a month’s trial of CareKnowledge, a social care information service.
Access is through Athens, so authenticate at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/athens
and then go to http://www.careknowledge.com and click on “Athens login”.
Credo, the online reference site, is offering free training sessions.
The times and dates are here.
To sign up, just email your contact details to support@credoreference.com.
JISC are offering three online collections of historical periodicals and newspapers, free of charge .
The British Periodicals Collections I and II contain 500 British journals from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. They cover literature, music, art, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
The Burney Collection is the largest single online collection of English news media from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The agreement runs until 31st December 2013. If anyone is interested in us signing up for access, please contact Mark or John.
JISC offer a number of other free collections, many of which we have access to. You can find them here.
Education Image Gallery has had a make-over.
There’sa fresh look to the Getty Images service, along with more metadata and a persistent URL for direct linking to individual images.
Digimap won’t be available between 8am and 5:30pm this Thursday 8 January 2009 – due to essential hardware maintenance.
Keeping up-to-date with scholarly literature just became much easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs – Journal Tables of Contents Service.
It’s free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.
Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs). ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular feedreaders such as Google Reader and Bloglines, and in addition you can import article citations into RefWorks (where institutional or personal subscriptions allow).
We have access now to the the Geography, Planning, Urban & Environment Online Archive.
It has 28 Taylor & Francis titles, going up to 1996. The key titles include:
- Scottish Geographical Journal
- Regional Studies
- Landscape Research
- European Planning Studies
- The Journal of Architecture
A full list of titles is available here .
The titles are accessible from the e-journals A-Z.
