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New Emerald App

From 12/19/11 Emerald email announcement:

Emerald is committed to providing the content your patrons need, delivered in the most convenient ways.

Our first app provides a feature-rich interface with which to find, read and save Emerald content on-the-go.

Key benefits to your patrons:

Find what you need, when you need it: Search and browse Emerald's extensive online content library of almost 100,000 journal articles

Personalize your experience: Use your Emerald profile to manage your marked lists and saved searches on-the-go

Spread the word: E-mail links to your friends/colleagues and share content via built-in Facebook and Twitter functionality

Enhance your knowlege: Read fulltext content through the integrated browser. Most content is available in easy-to-read PDF versions

Find out More

EBSCO Update

From EBSCO:

Coming in January 2012: The profile default values listed below will be updated to ON. This change will affect new profiles and existing, non-customized profiles:

EBSCOhost Interface

Autocomplete Keyword

Allow user to change languages dynamically during the session

Language Translation for Full Text

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) Interface

Autocomplete Keyword

Allow user to change languages dynamically during the session

Language Translation for Full Text

Display Text to Speech

Display Visual Search

Also, we recently released multiple enhancements to EBSCO's Search Box Builder. Read about those on this page.

Please visit EBSCO's Support Site http://support.ebsco.com to learn about all of EBSCO's products, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or request Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Online Support Form: http://support.ebscohost.com/contact/askus.php.

Journal Suggestions for the Web of Science

A message from Michael Bragg, Thomson Reuters:

Over the last year library liaisons inquire about specific journals that Thomson Reuters may wish to review for inclusion in the Citation Indexes that comprise the Web of Science. As you know each journal is evaluated and must meet certain collection development standards before being accepted for indexing.

You may already know about this process but if someone would like to recommend a journal the first step will be to check and see if this journal is already covered in Web of Science. You can do this by consulting our master journal list. http://science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/ Look for the database marked “Web of Science.”

If the journal is not on the list, you can check and see if it is currently in the evaluation process by submitting this form http://science.thomsonreuters.com/info/jrneval-status/ . Once this is submitted our Editorial Department will be in touch to keep you updated.

If the journal is not currently being evaluated, then you can ask the journal publisher to submit the journal for evaluation at this website: http://science.thomsonreuters.com/info/journalsubmission/ It is best that the publisher submit the journal since they must provide the full text copies and we will have to contact them during the process. Because of this in the Access field is for the publisher, but since it’s mandatory you can just put in the publishers name.

#Database News

Conclusions and areas for further discussion include the following:

While the survey shows overall e-book usage has not increased significantly in 2011 over 2008, ebrary’s usage data suggests e-book usage has grown substantially. One theory is that students may not know they are using digital books and care more about the information vs. the container.

Average use by students would continue to grow if more e-books were released at the same time the print edition was made available by the publisher. The majority of survey respondents indicated they would choose digital books over print if they were available.

Librarians are becoming more prominent as a source for determining what resources students find trustworthy

Social media will increasingly become a key driver of e-book discovery and usage. However, there is a need for more reliable social media geared toward research as today’s resources are not necessarily trusted.

For more information on our Global Student E-book Surveys, please read the press release.

#Library news #vendors

This is a list of journal additions and removals from the Gale databases.

ProQuest’s Technology Collection offers a deep interdisciplinary content set that rivals the size and quality of other technology databases. Three core content areas make up this collection:

9 million + full-text articles from nearly 3,000 high impact factor scholarly journals, trade & industry publications, and news sources.

7.7 million + searchable figures, tables, graphs, and other illustrative data that improves search efficiency, through more precise, focused discovery of relevant articles and publications.

16.8 million+ abstracts and citations across a wide-range of scientific disciplines, bringing researchers current, non-embargoed literature from serials, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs, select books, and patents. Pouring in daily are A&I records from scholarly, peer-reviewed sources such as the Engineering Research Database, METADEX, and the Advance Technologies Database w/Aerospace.

#New Products

Summon Release 2.0.10 - Thursday, November 10

Email from Serials Solutions: The latest release of the Summon service, version 2.0.10, is scheduled to be released on Thursday, November 10. The items below are some of the enhancements that you will notice in this release. Enhancements • Index Enhanced Direct Linking – This new technology leverages publisher provided information in the Summon index along with the Serials Solutions knowledgebase in order to enable users to click-through directly to more full text content than previously possible with OpenURL linking alone. Please see the Support Center for more details. • Database Recommender in the API – A new parameter "s.mr" has been added to the Summon API to allow the maximum number of recommendations to be configurable. • User Role in the API – A new parameter "s.role" has been added to the Summon API to allow the control of authenticated users vs. unauthenticated users. • Google Analytics – Your Summon instance can now be tracked through Google Analytics. This can be enabled via the Administration Console. You will need to create the google analytics account prior to enabling this in Summon. Bug Fixes • English-AU, English-UK, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese - Replaced comma with period for digit grouping in numerical values. • Export to RefWorks via Proxy – Exporting capabilities to RefWorks for off-campus users has been resolved

#Summon

Some highlights of the added content:

*Afghanistan's Opium Trail, Mehran Bozorgnia, Journeyman Pictures

*China: The Great Leap Forward, Journeyman Pictures *The Golden Cage: A Story of California's Farmworkers, Susan Ferriss *Health Care on The Critical List, Roger Weisberg *Inside Pinochet's Prison, Journeyman Pictures

*Kuwait: A Changing Nation, Journeyman Pictures

*Mothers' Way, Daughters' Choice, Kyoko Gasha *Strike Dice! Betting on My Father, Natalie Picoe, Michael Solomon

Nursing Reference Center

What did you think of this trial?

#trials

Search across Alexander Street Press streaming video collections.

Wiley may be Down tonight

Wiley will have emergency downtime today 6:30 to 7:00 pm.

RILM is Now Unlimited

RILM's institution’s simultaneous-user—based subscription will automatically upgrade to unlimited access in the first half of November. There will be no additional fees for this expanded access until the anniversary date of your renewal, at which point unlimited, FTE-based pricing will apply. EBSCO will provide an optional graduated, multi-year ramp-up scheme to make any price changes easier from a planning and budgeting perspective.

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