Google Scholar

Did you know that you can use Google Scholar to access our subscription journal articles?

If you’re on campus Google Scholar will recognise your ip address. The words “Wolverhampton Uni links” will appear next to those articles which we subscribe to.

Click on the link and you’ll see a University of Wolverhampton page. It’ll tell you whether full text is available, and how to get to it.

You can do this off campus too. But off campus you’ll need to use this URL: https://register.wlv.ac.uk/xap.plx?url=200. It’s listed on the Databases A-Z. The URL will work for both on and off campus searches.

Note – if the “Wolverhampton Uni links” message appears, you should get access to the full text; but sometimes you won’t. If you don’t get access it means that our link resolver has out-of-date or wrong information. Let us know if you hit a snag.

Fashion trends

The fashion and style forecaster  service, WGSN,  is available now.

The site predicts trends in the cultural climate weeks and months ahead.

It follows fashion industry news and trade shows, and offers thousands of images of hip people who don’t live in Wolverhampton.

Zetoc Down

Zetoc is unavailable due to hardware problems, according to supplier MIMAS. They will inform us when the problem is resolved.

GlobalBooksinPrint Sessions

Bowker offer staff complimentary online training for Global Books in Print. Sign up here.

The sessions cover:

• BIP Alert – Title Service
• Seamlessly linking to your catalog
• ISBN-13 searching
• Advanced Searching tricks
• How to use the revised Lists feature
• Eliminating the need to re-key records
• Stock Availability feature
• Patron-only interface – PatronBooksInPrint.com

Business model trials for e-textbooks

A range of business models for e-textbooks will be evaluated through four different trials at 13 higher education institutions. The trials will involve the participation of eight major textbook publishers and three e-book aggregators, and the overall objective is to identify realistic and sustainable business models.

The trials start this month and, in order to reflect the real live environment as far as possible, they will run until the end of the 2009/10 academic year.

http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/archives/211

Humanities International Complete trial

We have a trial of EBSCO’s Humanities International Complete which provides full text of hundreds of journals and books in the humanities from around the world.

The trial runs from 6th October to the 6th November. You’ll find a link to the trial on our Current database trials page too.

We’d be grateful for feedback please.

Digital Overtake print by 2018?

A recent survey carried out for the prestigious Frankfurt Book Fair, which consulted 840 experts in the international publishing industry, concluded that digital publishing sales will overtake print sales, in 2018. Presently, however, the proportion of digital sales is comparatively low.  These conclusion were reported in a recent post of the Bookseller.com and the views probably represent publishing as a whole; developments within academic/research publishing are likely to be quicker.