Posted on October 10th, 2012 by Paul Stainthorp
A few things that have been added/updated recently on the Electronic Journals A-to-Z. New and updated full-text holdings should shortly be reflected in Find it at Lincoln.
Brand-new e-journal packages and titles:
Holdings updated:
Authentication changes:
Notes:
[1] I’ve not been able to find (by searching through Cambridge’s “Account Administrator” pages) a holdings file for our Cambridge University Press subscriptions—at least, not in a format that we are able to use in the A-to-Z—so the 40-odd titles in this package have been checked individually against the Cambridge Journals website. For that reason, I can’t guarantee that they are 100% accurate.
[2] The ScienceDirect Freedom Collection package in the A-to-Z knowledgebase does not have any holdings defined – libraries have to add their own custom holdings dates. I added ours this by ordering an “Electronic Holdings Report” from Elsevier’s admin tool, then downloading the A-to-Z holdings and using an Excel =LOOKUP() formula to match against ISSNs common to both spreadsheets. This is very fiddly and unfortunately will have to be re-done at intervals.
[3] Created using SwetsWise’s “Download Publication List” feature, re-formatted for the A-to-Z. Again, this has to be re-done at intervals as our Swets subscriptions change.
[4] Links to HeinOnline journals/articles will now automatically log the user in via OpenAthens (federated access). However there are a couple of residual problems with these links: some of the OpenURL data for an individual article is not being passed through correctly (leading to the occasional error), and also the authentication does not work properly in non-Microsoft browsers – e.g. Chrome, Firefox. For the time being (while HeinOnline technical support address the issue) there is a note on the A-to-Z advising people to use Internet Explorer if they can. This is obviously not ideal.
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Posted on September 21st, 2012 by Paul Stainthorp
The University of Lincoln’s online reading lists now show the live, real-time availability of books in the Library. If you go to an online reading list (here’s an example) and click on one of the books, you’ll see the “Library availability” information on the right-hand side of the page. This is taken directly from our library catalogue and is up to date – you can click through to the library catalogue itself if you want to see more detailed information.
At the moment, almost 130 modules at the University of Lincoln have online lists available through the “Reading List” button on a Blackboard module site menu.
(Other modules should have lists in Word/PDF documents, also available through Blackboard: please contact your lecturer(s) for information. The Library is introducing a new online reading list system for the University of Lincoln, using Talis Aspire software. You can find out more by visiting: http://lists.library.lincoln.ac.uk/)
Tags: availability, Blackboard, books, holdings, library catalogue, LOOKUP, modules, reading lists, Talis Aspire
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Posted on July 2nd, 2012 by Paul Stainthorp
We are about to start work on re-building the e-journals A-to-Z website at the University of Lincoln.
As part of the Find it at Lincoln project, we are re-populating the A-to-Z with the most up-to-date information about our electronic journal holdings, and making sure that the Library has better processes for keeping it up to date in future.
This process will involve ‘wiping the slate clean’ before quickly repopulating the A-to-Z with as much accurate information about the University’s full-text journal holdings as possible.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused while this website re-building work is going on.
Access to e-journals and databases via the Portal e-Library page will be unaffected.
Please contact the Library if you have any questions or are unable to access the e-journal you need while this work is going on.
Tags: A-to-Z, e-journals, ERM, Find it at Lincoln, holdings, re-populating
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