Subscription access to JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) extended

The range of subscription collections accessible through the JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) platform has been extended. In addition to the collections originally enabled in early November, access is now available for the JoVE Biology, JoVE Neuroscience, JoVE Clinical and Translation Medicine collections, and, within the JoVE Science Education collection, to the General Laboratory Techniques and Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology sub-collections.

The listing for JoVE in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch has been updated to reflect this extension of access, and the new journal titles have been activated in SFX.

Access to JoVE remains direct on-campus, and by university username and password from off-campus. The complete list of collections available through the library’s JoVE subscription is as follows:

* JoVE Applied Physics
* JoVE Bioengineering
* JoVE Biology
* JoVE Clinical and Translation Medicine
* JoVE Environment
* JoVE Immunology and Infection
* JoVE Neuroscience
* JoVE Science Education (General Laboratory Techniques; Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology)

GMID: off-campus access currently unavailable

Off-campus access to the GMID (Global Market Information Database) service is currently unavailable, due to technical problems affecting the GMID platform. On-campus access is unaffected. A number of university library services (relying on university username and password access to GMID for off-campus access) are reporting similar problems. A note alerting customers to the issue has been added to the GMID record in the ‘Find Databases’ section of Library OneSearch. A further update will follow once the GMID technical team has confirmed that Shibboleth-enabled access is working normally once more.

New resource: JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments)

Access to JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments) has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is the world’s first peer reviewed scientific video journal devoted to publishing scientific research in a visual format. All JoVE articles are indexed in subject-relevant indexing sites, including PubMed/MEDLINE, SciFinder and Scopus.

Publishing in JoVE allows authors to dynamically present their methods, data analyses and results clearly, accurately, and professionally with the guidance of JoVE’s professional videographers and editors.

Libraries and Learning Resources has a subscription to the following journal sections:

* JoVE Immunology and Infection
* JoVE Bioengineering
* JoVE Applied Physics
* JoVE Environment

Access to the four subscribed video journal titles has also been enabled in SFX.

Video content on the JoVE platform is delivered in both HTML5 and Adobe Flash compatible formats (and the site auto-recognises and delivers the correct format for the requesting browser). All version of Flash greater than v10 are currently (November 2014) supported.

Video content that is *outside* the LLR subscription range comes with a 20-second ‘taster’ preview. Each video screen clearly indicates whether the requested video is inside or outside of LLR’s subscription range.

UK Press Online – off-campus access problems resolved

Technical problems which were preventing off-campus authenticated access to the UK Press Online service have now been resolved. Off-campus access to the service is available once again via university username and password.

Oxford Handbooks Online – individual eBook records discoverable in Library OneSearch

Now that the library is able to provide persistent deep-links to individual titles in the Oxford Handbooks Online collection which work from both on-campus and off-campus locations, individual catalogue records for each of the 244 subscribed titles have been made available in Library OneSearch. For more details on this collection, see the earlier post from August.

OxforOnline - collection filters

Oxford Handbooks Online - branding

New resource: ProQuest Central

Access to the new ProQuest Central ‘meta-collection’ has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access to the resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

The resource is described as follows:

ProQuest Central is a multidisciplinary database providing abstract information from more than 11,000 titles (8,000 of which are available in full-text). Amongst the 160 subject areas covered by the collection are business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology and social sciences. ProQuest Central can be searched in its entirety, as a single collection, or searches can be restricted to one or more of its specialist component collections.

Remote searching (metasearching) across the ProQuest Central collection has been enabled through Library OneSearch. Titles available in full-text within the ProQuest Central service have been enabled in SFX.

The full-list of collections held within ProQuest Central is as follows:

  • ABI/INFORM Complete (1971 – current)
  • Accounting & Tax (1971 – current)
  • Banking Information Source (1971 – current)
  • Canadian Newsstand Complete
  • CBCA Complete
  • Hoover’s Company Profiles
  • OxResearch (1986 – current)
  • Pharmaceutical News Index
  • ProQuest Asian Business & Reference (1971 – current)
  • ProQuest Biology Journals (1998 – current)
  • ProQuest Career and Technical Education
  • ProQuest Computing (1998 – current)
  • ProQuest Criminal Justice (1981 – current)
  • ProQuest Education Journals (1988 – current)
  • ProQuest European Business (1971 – current)
  • ProQuest Family Health
  • ProQuest Health & Medical Complete
  • ProQuest Health Management
  • ProQuest Military Collection
  • ProQuest Newsstand (1984 – current)
  • ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
  • ProQuest Political Science (1985 – current)
  • ProQuest Psychology Journals
  • ProQuest Religion (1986 – current)
  • ProQuest Research Library
  • ProQuest Science Journals
  • ProQuest Social Science Journals
  • ProQuest Sociology (1985 – current)
  • ProQuest Telecommunications (1995 – current)
  • Snapshots

 
ProQuest Central

PsycINFO now available through the ProQuest platform

The PsycINFO database previously accessed through the EBSCOhost platform is now available through the ProQuest interface. Links and all related metadata have been updated in Library OneSearch, including the transfer of the previous category/subjects assignments. Access remains direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Remote searching (metasearching) of the PsycINFO service has also been enabled in LOS.

PsycInfo - ProQuest

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) available on EBSCOhost

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is now accessible to library customers on two separate platforms. In addition to the existing access on the ProQuest platform, the ERIC is now also available through the EBSCOhost service. A parallel listing for the EBSCOhost version of ERIC has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to augment American education by increasing and facilitating the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

New resource: Child Development and Adolescent Studies

Provided through the EBSCOhost platform, access to the Child Development and Adolescent Studies database is now available through Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

Child Development and Adolescent Studies provides access to all issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927-2001, and a range of newer material covering issues related to the growth and development of children and adolescents up to the age of 21.

New resource: Educational Administration Abstracts

Access to the Educational Administration Abstracts service has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Provided through the EBSCOhost platform, access to the service is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

Educational Administration Abstracts provides access to almost 200,000 bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration; including educational leadership, educational management and educational research.

New resource: Education Abstracts

Produced by H. W. Wilson, access to the Education Abstracts database is now available on the EBSCOhost platform through Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

Provides access to indexes and abstracts from more than 680 periodicals and books related to all aspects of education, including: adult education, comparative education, government funding, higher education, school administration and teacher evaluation.

British Education Index now accessible through the EBSCOhost platform

The British Education Index (BEI) which was previously accessed through the ProQuest platform is now available through the EBSCOhost service. All links and metadata, including category/subject assignments, have been updated in Library OneSearch to reflect this change. Access to BEI is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.