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The Knowledge Issue 2

Newsletter of NES Knowledge Services Group. Contains an overview of developments during 2006-7 and some information about goals for 2007-8.


http://www.elib.scot.nhs.uk/portal/elib/upload/The_Knowledge_issue_2.pdf

Problems with new Athens accounts

The national ATHENS service has been experiencing difficulties since Monday (20 August) am. This has prevented the creation of new accounts from outside NHSNet, and also the adding of all new accounts to the e-Library's user database.

Please accept our apologies for the delay in issuing new account details, and for the inability to use the personalisation features (including joining Shared Spaces) which this is causing. We hope the problems will be resolved soon.

If you have any queries, please contact athens.admin@nes.scot.nhs.uk

Updates to Journal content

The following titles have been added to the Journals@OVID collection:

Current opinion in supportive and palliative care
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Journal of addiction medicineJournal of neurologic physical therapy
School psychology quarterly

The following title has been added to the Science Direct collection:

Explore: the journal of science and healing

Updates to OVID journals content

Due to changes in publisher the following journal titles are no longer available via the Journals@OVID service:

Immunology and cell biology
Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry
Somnologie

As a result of publisher changes the following titles are now only offering archive access:

Journal of vascular and interventional radiology
Health care food and nutrition focus

The following titles have been added to the Journals@OVID collection:

Journal of thoracic oncology
Innovations: technology and techniques in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery

Finally the following list have new titles:

Professional case management (Previously Lippincott's case management)
Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention (Previously Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation)
Current opinion in endocrinology, diabetes and obesity (Previously Current opinion in endocrinology and diabetes)

Copyright and electronic resources

After the copyright event on the 14th June there was some interest in what the rules were for electronic resources.

I have looked in to this issue in a bit more detail and the general conclusions seem to be that ebooks and ejournals have their own licences, which must be adhered to. The terms and conditions of these licences are generally available from publisher websites. In cases of aggregators who provide access to a range of journals from different publishers, you should refer to the policies outlined by each individual publisher. These may vary so if you are in doubt it is always preferable to refer to each individual publisher licence.

Therefore in terms of printing or sending articles by email to end-users you should only really be doing this if it is allowed within the terms of the licence. It is also worth remembering that most of our electronic resources require an Athens username and password so you can
always refer users to this point of access.

In the absence of any licence it is suggested that you treat and electronic resource like it was a printed item, therefore you could implement the rules as outlined by our CLA licence.

So the general rule would be to read the publisher's licence.

Virtual training

Click on the Virtual Training announcement on the e-Library home page at http://www.elib.scot.nhs.uk/ for information on online training for OVID, Proquest, Ebsco-Host, Web of Science and Refworks.

If you would like more information about these sessions or enquire about training on other services please contact derek.boyle@nes.scot.nhs.uk