Demo av Early English Books Online & CSA Illumina

Välkommen till en demonstration den 3 februari av databasen Early English Books Online (EEBO) som är en ny resurs på biblioteket. EEBO innehåller faksimilupplagor av det stora flertalet böcker tryckta i England, Irland, Skottland, Wales och Brittiska Nordamerika och övriga världen på engelska under perioden 1473-1700. Samlingen innehåller för närvarande 100.000 böcker. Demonstrationen inkluderar även en visning av CSA Illumina.
Mer information och länk till anmälningsformuläret hittar ni här:
http://www.sub.su.se/subskurser/visakurs.aspx?kid=798

Test: Keesing's World News Archive

Keesing’s World News Archive is a web-based database with more than 95,000 articles, the first from 1931-87 as Keesing’s Contemporary Archives, and then as Keesing’s Record of World Events from 1987 to the present. Articles are added at the rate of about 150 articles per month, providing a detailed summary of global news. Keesing's was founded in 1931 with the intention of creating a lasting archive of articles on the world's political, social, and economic events. The library has a test period until February 25th.
http://www.keesings.com/

New journals from Institute of Physics (IoP)

Stockholm University Library has a new subscription to a large number of journals from IoP. The journals are available via the alfabetical list on our website:
http://www.sub.su.se/startasok/e-tidskrifter.aspx

Test: Law, Music och Social work collection Oxford Scholarship Online

Oxford University Press lanserar tre nya ämnespaket, Law, Music och Social work, i Oxford Scholarship Online. Biblioteket har tillgång till dessa som en testprenumeration t o m 20 feb. 2009.

Authors workshop from Emerald on Feb 9

A representative from the academic publisher Emerald is coming to "Stora Växthuset" in the main library for a presentation on academic publishing. Her presentation will cover

• How to get published in the right journal
• What editors and reviewers are looking for
• ISI rankings of journals
• Key questions that make or break your paper
• How to peer review your own work

The workshop is free for students, researchers or employees of Stockholm University and will take place in "Stora Växthuset" on the entrance floor of the main library. However, space is limited so registration is required by February 2. The presentation is on February 9th from 10-12. You can register here.

Ebrary gets a new interface

Our largest collection of e-books, Ebrary, has a completely new interface now. One big change is that you can view books without having to download the ebrary reader plug-in. However the plug-in is still needed if you want to highlight text or save your notes within the book. Ebrary has also provided us with this description of new features available in the new interface.

New database: Abbreviations Online

Abbreviations online is a database dealing with medieval Latin and is designed for use in both learning and teaching medieval Latin paleography. Users can look up all the different abbreviations for a given word.

New database: vLex Global

vLex Global is a broad legal database covering 90 countries. The database contains over 20 million documents including case law, government documents, books, journals and more. The database producer is based in Spain and works with publishers and law libraries around the world. Students and researchers can write to ejouren@sub.su.se to ask for the username and password to vLex.
http://vlex.com

Digitala Kartbiblioteket även utanför campus

Fr o m vecka v 4 2009 kan användarna av Digitala Kartbiblioteket använda tjänsten utanför universitetet/högskolans nät. Man behöver numera inte gå via en proxy.

Obs! Däremot måste all registrering av nya abonnemang och uppdatering av abonnemang göras när man är inloggad på resp universitetet/högskolas nätverk. För övrigt fungerar tjänsten som tidigare. Leverensen sker via länk i mailet där adressen måste vara en godkänd domänadress som är anmäld till Metria. Varje användare har månadskvot som tidigare."

Free online access to Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press offers free online access to all journals via EUP Journals Online at http://www.eupjournals.com/ in January and February 2009.

New database: Oxford Art Online

A new gateway through which users can access Oxford's premier art content.

Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Search separately or all four resources at once. Oxford Art Online gives access to more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images contained within Grove Art Online.

New database: Early English Books Online (EEBO)

The library now has access to Early English Books Online.

EEBO contains digital page images of virtually every english language work printed from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. The collection contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.

New database: International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations

The library has access to a new online resource from Kluwer, the International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations.

This is online version of the 36 -volume looseleaf publication. It features:
• Country overviews of over 60 countries
• English translations of the important labour and industrial relations laws of over 20 nations
• Covers individual as well as collective labour relations
• Covers major international bodies such as NAFTA and OECD
• Searchable pdfs

New journal from AIP: Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

JRSE is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal in the field of renewable and sustainable energy. JRSE is freely available and will cover all areas of this diverse field, including:

Bioenergy
Power distribution
Solar energy
Energy conversion
Wind energy
Geothermal energy
Transportation
Energy efficient buildings
Nuclear energy
Marine and hydroelectric energy
Energy storage
Renewable energy resource assessment

Test: Caselex

The library has a test subscription to the international case law database Caselex. We have access to the database from now until March 1, 2009. Caselex provides english language case digests of cases from national courts across the EU and the European Courts and covers the time period from 2000 up to the present.

The areas of law covered are:

• Company law
• Competition law
• Consumer Protection law
• Employment law
• Environmental law
• Freedom of Movement law
• ICT and Media law
• Intellectual Property law
• Public procurement law
• Social Security law

Journal of Table of Contents Search

A free internet service, JTCS, has just been released which allows users to keep up to date on the latest research by subscribing to table of content feeds with links to articles from 11.000 journals.

The libraries largest databases, Scopus and EBSCO Multiple Database Search, both cover more journals and let users create alerts so in many cases they would do a better job of keeping researchers up to date on literature. However, JTCS provides a free alternative for anyone looking for a quick and simple way to get table of content updates on journals in their subject area.

Test: GeoBase and GeoRef via Engineering Village

The library has a test subscription until 081231 to GeoRef and GeoBase via the Engineering Village interface. GeoBase is a multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation.The GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. The database contains over 2.9 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

Nya källor i PressText

Helsingborgs Dagblad
Norrbottens-Kuriren
Östergötlands Folkblad
Piteå-Tidningen
Artiklarna är sökbara i PressText fr.o.m. november 2008.

American Chemical Society launches new platform

The new offering provides a fully integrated web platform

Features
Heavy use of article figures to make the core content more accessible. For example a thumbnail viewer lets end-users flip through all the figures in an article at the TOC level.

Better search and browsing with search result filters.

Better Full text articles, including a figure browser, in-line reference displays, related articles, and as soon as publishable articles; aiding reader comprehension and content discovery.

Better author resources.

Ability to search supplementary material - supplementary material such as Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint files, other text or PDF files, etc are indexed for searching.

Social Bookmarking links are provided so end users can post articles on social networking sites such as Connotea, Delicious, Facebook, etc.

TS Webbtjänst i nytt gränssnitt

TS webbtjänst har uppdaterat gränssnittet på tjänsten som erbjuder information om tryckta och digitala medier. Databasen innehåller all den information som finns i TS tryckta publikationer, dvs. Svensk Annonstaxa, Svensk Reklamtaxa, TS-boken och Dagspressens Detaljspridning.