Category: Proquest

Migrating resources to the new ProQuest platform

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The following resources have been migrated from the CSA Illumina, Dialog DataStar and Chadwyck-Healey platforms to the new integrated ProQuest discovery platform:

* ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
* ARTBibibliographies Moderns
* Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
* British Periodicals, 1680s-1930s
* DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index)
* IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
* Sociological Abstracts

* AEI (Australian Education Index)
* BEI (British Education Index)
* ERIC

Configurations for access to all these resources on the Proquest platform have been enabled in Library OneSearch, and their previous category and sub-category assignments recreated. Access to all of these resources is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. All of these resources are remote searchable in Library OneSearch.

For the titles in the British Periodicals, 1680s-1930s collection, SFX entries for the full-text content has been migrated from the Chadwyck-Healey to the new ProQuest platform. Outbound SFX integration (from the new platform to SFX) has also been configured and enabled.

Due to current licensing arrangements, in the native interface of the new ProQuest platform, the three education databases (AEI, BEI and ERIC) are managed separately from the other resources on the platform (see illustrations below), although the ERIC database appears in both ‘collections’.

In addition, full-text backfile access to The Economist (from 1992), currently available on the new ProQuest platform, has been enabled in SFX.

New resource: Berg Fashion Library – access until end July 2011

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the Berg Fashion Library has been enabled in eSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

The Berg Fashion Library provides cross-searchable access to a range of Berg collections – including the Berg Encyclopaedia of World Dress and Fashion online, and selected e-books, reference works, images, and additional resources. The collection includes a purpose-built classification system for the study of dress.

In the first instance, access to the Berg Fashion Library will be provided until the end of July 2011.

LION (Literature Online) – Shibboleth enabled

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Off-campus access to the LION (Literature Online) service is now by university username and password (using Shibboleth). The three LION databases listed in eSearch are:

  • ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)
  • LION (Literature Online)
  • MLA International Bibliography

A guide to Shibboleth authentication on LION has been added to the eServices Support wiki.

New resource: The John Johnson Collection

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the online version of the Bodleian Library’s John Johnson Collection has been enabled in eSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password (using Shibboleth) from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

Made available by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, this online collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising.

Set up a Personal Profile in the Collection to make use of the ‘Lightbox’ and ‘My Archive’ features.

A Shibboleth support page for this resource has been added to the eServices support materials wiki.

LION (Literature Online) – direct links to Oxford Reference Shelf

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

From a search result set in the LION service, it is now possible to link directly to relevant related entries in the Oxford Reference online collection (see sample illustration below). Examples of such entries would be directory and biographical listings for authors, or definitions and explanations of terms.

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As LLR’s OUP Reference subscription is to the ‘premium’ collection, NTU customers will have rights to access (either by IP or Athens authentication) the large majority of OUP reference materials. However, there may be instances (such as with the Literature Collection – see illustration below) where such material is not included in NTU’s subscription profile.

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LION (Literature Online) – direct links to JSTOR materials

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

From a list of search results in LION, it is also possible (where certain thresholds are met) to link directly to the full-text of materials held within the JSTOR archive. The direct link to the JSTOR full-text will only appear where material is included as part of NTU’s JSTOR subscription profile – in other words, such links should be relied upon to resolve to the appropriate full-text.

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Withdrawn resource: Dissertation Abstracts

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Proquest have withdrawn the previously free-to-use time-restricted Dissertation Abstracts service (which provided citations and abstracts from US doctoral dissertations and masters’ theses for the two previous years). This service is now only available as part of a paid subscription. As a result, this resource has currently been withdrawn from eSearch.

Proquest maintenance window: Sunday 18 February

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Between 3am and 3pm on Sunday 18 February, work on the Proquest server group will mean that the ABI-INFORM Global database (currently on trial access) will be unavailable.