Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

I have recently taken on a subscription for the Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. It is a reference work, so is listed in the electronic books sub-section of Business & Economics as well as being with the databases.

It contains many articles about all aspects of economics, so may have wider appeal than just economics students. Although it is called a dictionary, the articles are really quite detailed, so give much more than just a basic outline of the topic. It is also really easy to use and has search and browse facilities.

Sue

ScienceDirect and Scopus schedule outage August 2-3

Hi Everyone,

Please see the following message from Elsevier about access to ScienceDirect & Scopus.

Thanks,

James.

From 05:30 EDT on Saturday August 2, to 01:30 EDT on Sunday August 3 (09:30 UTC to August 3, 05:30 UTC), ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to an upgrade of the administrative system that will improve the access and entitlements process to both platforms.
As a consequence, Email alerts and RSS feeds for ScienceDirect and Scopus will not be sent from 11:30 EDT on August 1 (15:30 UTC) until the downtime has finished. Email alerts and RSS feeds can still be created until 05:30 EDT on August 2 (09:30 UTC), but they will not be sent until after the upgrade is completed.

One of our largest back-end upgrades, the new system will cater to your needs in what is now a more complex scientific community due to increasing internationalization and cross-border collaboration.

The main tangible benefit for you and your users will be simplified access to Scopus and ScienceDirect. For instance, individuals will have single login details for access to all of their entitled content regardless of access point.

We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime may cause you and look forward to offering you this superior service in the future.

Business Source Premier becomes Business Source Complete

Hi
We have upgraded Business Source Premier. It is now called Business Source Complete and we have this for a year's trial - ending September 2009.
The new database has greater coverage with some titles extending back as far as 1886, but this is for abstracts only. It has other full-text content, as well as journal articles and includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Gill

informaworld downtime: 04.00 - 06.00 GMT July 15th

Hi All,

Please see the following information about informaworld downtime next week...

James

Dear account administrator,

A short period of downtime is scheduled on informaworld on Tuesday 15th July 2008, 04.00-06.00 GMT (05.00-07.00 BST) to allow us to complete some essential maintenance. This replaces the downtime on 12th July.

Some users may experience impaired performance for a short time after the downtime has been completed. The informaworld team would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience this might cause.

Yours faithfully,

informaworld support
support@informaworld.com