Pamphlet collections from leading UK libraries to be released in JSTOR

Hi Everyone,

We have received the following notification from JSTOR:


"We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of more than 20,000 19th Century British pamphlets into the JSTOR archive. This collection of materials was created by RLUK (Research Libraries UK) with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme to provide researchers with online access to some of the most significant collections of pamphlets held in UK institutions. The pamphlets are from collections held by: University of Newcastle, Durham University, University of Manchester, University College London, University of Liverpool, London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of Bristol.

The first set of approximately 8,000 pamphlets will be available at the end of January 2009, followed by regular releases of additional material. They will be freely accessible to all JSTOR participating institutions through June 30, 2009 as we work to evaluate delivery, presentation, and use of the content, and develop an understanding of how best to address the needs of researchers and students working with it."


For more information please see the JSTOR website or read the PDF handout.

Thanks,

James.

New ebrary User Interface

Hi Everyone,

Further to my email last week about the new ebrary interface please see the message below which gives some more information about the changes.

Thanks,

James.

Dear Customers,

Further to the recent announcement from ebrary regarding the launch of their new user interface on Tuesday 20th January (2am GMT on Wednesday 21st ), we would like to clarify that this is a platform update only and will not involve any change to the ebrary reader you currently use.

From Wednesday, ebrary eBook content will be displayed in QuickView, a new interface that requires no installation of any software or plug-ins. From QuickView you can launch the current version of the reader you are using to take advantage of richer functionality such as printing, highlighting, adding titles to your bookshelves etc.

Should you have any users who would prefer to bypass the QuickView option and go straight to the ebrary reader, they can do so by changing their preference in the ‘My Settings’ area, as outlined below:

1) Click on My Settings
2) Choose the ebrary reader option
3) Click on ‘Set Reader Preference’
4) Now anytime they are logged into ebrary (or for Athens users) they will be directed straight to the reader and will bypass QuickView



Any user in your institution who has already created a personalised bookshelf will have all their information transferred over to the new user interface so there will be no loss of information for them.

You can find more information about this change at the new UI FAQ’s available here: http://www.ebrary.com/corp/techUIfaq.jsp

You should all have received information on how you can access a demo site of the new user interface to test it for yourselves – if you haven’t received this email, or you have any questions/concerns about this new release then please do contact me and I will be happy to help in any way I can.

Kind regards

Sara

Scopus & Science Direct Down Time - Sat 10th Jan

Hi Everyone,

Please note the following information sent to us by Elsevier about down time on Saturday.

Thanks,

James.


On Saturday, 10 January, Scopus, ScienceDirect, The Admin Tool and 2collab will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately eight hours starting at 7:30 p.m. UTC/GMT (2:30 p.m. EST).

We apologize for the inconvenience,

Regards,

The Elsevier Team.