Westlaw problems

We have been having problems over the last few weeks accessing international material on Westlaw. We do have a subscription covering all international material. If anyone reports to you that they have a ‘not covered by your subscription’ error message can you take their details please – I want to find out what’s going wrong.

Westlaw have been working on this and suppressing errors messages all over the place but I need to make sure they have covered everything although it appears to me to be ok on and off campus now.

We seem to be the only university who has this problem.

Sue W

Enhanced Business Searching Interface

Hi All
Business Source Complete now has an additional interface that can be accessed from the BSC entry on the EBSCO list. This is the enhanced business searching interface which can be used to provide easy access to company profiles, country reports, industry profiles and market research reports. These can still be accessed using the main interface, but are a little more hidden.

These reports and profiles contain information that is likely to be very useful to many other subject areas. For example the country reports contain quite detailed information, (economic, investment, social and environmental) about a wide range of countries. The industry profiles have many reports about specific industries in different countries. These could be good for answering the type of queries about automotive industry in nigeria etc etc.

Sue

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

Grove Dictionaries of Art and Music Relaunched

The Grove Dictionaries of Art and Music have recently been relaunched.
They are now part of larger gateways called Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online.
Both gateways are being marketed as the most substantial electronic reference resources available in these two subject areas.

The dictionaries are still there along with other electronic reference tools as follows:

Oxford Art Online includes:
Grove Dictionary of Art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. You can also search over 5000 images.

Oxford Music Online includes:
Grove Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. We also appear to have access at the moment to the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, but according to JISC and the Oxford website, this is supposedly a separate subscription.

Both will use Athens off campus. The gateways have been made live in the appropriate areas, but Athens access off campus can only go ahead on James's return as he has admin access.

You can click here for more info on the art or music gateways.

Gill