EBSCOhost 2.0

EBSCOhost will be updating their interface in the summer of 2008. Some of the key features will be:

* A cleaner, simpler user interface
* Related Images readily available beside the Result List
* Results directly from NewsBank
* Instant article previews from mouse-over action
* Expand/Collapse side panels
* Search history displayed above Result list
* SmartText Searching to provide full results from partial Find field terms
* Multi-database access to Authority files
* URLs that can be bookmarked
* A convenient, streamlined Cite process for all citation styles

There is an EBSCOhost 2.0 Flash overview, available at
http://www.ebscohost.com/flashViewer2.php?marketID=1&topicID=981
and some information describing EBSCOhost 2.0 features at
http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=969

Virtual training - Web of Science

Web of Science are providing some online training sessions in March

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

Copyright advice on the SLAINTE website

A new intellectual property rights and copyright section has been added to the SLAINTE website. It provides copyright information for library and information professionals.

It can be accessed at

http://www.slainte.org.uk/copyright/copyrightindex.htm

Updates to journal content

The following Science Direct titles have been added to the e-Library:

American journal of human genetics
Cell metabolism
Biochimica et biophysica acta (BBA) - gene structure and expression is now called
Biochimica et biophysica acta (BBA) - gene regulatory mechanisms

The following OVID titles have been added to the e-Library:

Academic physician and scientist
World allergy organization journal

The following Proquest titles have been added to the e-Library:

Administration and management special interest section quarterly

Canadian women's health network
Clinical diabetes
Community care (also added to Ebsco-Host)
International journal of men's health
Medical marketing and media (also added to Ebsco-Host)
Work programs special interest section quarterly

RCM midwives journal (Ingenta) has also been added to the e-Library

The following Science Direct titles have been archived in the e-Library:

Seminars in anesthesia, perioperative medicine and pain (also MD Consult)
Annales d'urologie
Clinical techniques in small animal practice
Disaster management and response
Environmental hazards
International congress series
Neural regeneration research
Cardiovascular research
European journal of echocardiography

This is due to a change in publisher. Therefore no up-to-date access is now available.

The following Science Direct titles have been removed from the e-Library:

American journal of hypertension
Journal of the European academy of dermatology and venereology

The following Ebsco-Host title has been removed from the e-Library:

International journal of paediatric dentistry

SFX

Over the next few weeks we will be introducing a new service called SFX.

SFX is an OpenURL linking resolver that allows users to link directly to the electronic full-text for a reference (the SFX target) plus other linking options. It is similar to the Links@OVID service that you will be familiar with but will be available from a lot more databases and not just confined to the OVID collection.

You will therefore notice the SFX target icon against references which will open up a new window and display information on where to access the full-text of the reference.

This initial implementation of SFX will only provide the user with details on linking through to our subscription resources, however the way that SFX is set-up means that there will always be an SFX target even when we do not have full-text, so in some cases you will not be directed to full-text. However as this service develops we will be offering the user the option to request the article via a document delivery service if it is not available in full-text. The intention therefore is not to fully promote the service until other features are in place but as you will begin to see the SFX icons appearing when you are searching the databases it is important that you are aware of this new development.

If you would like more information about the SFX service, please contact derek.boyle@nes.scot.nhs.uk

If you would like to read up a bit more on SFX, you can do so at http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/SFXOverview

Updates to journal content

The following Ebsco-Host titles have been added to the e-Library:

Plant molecular biology reporter
Analytical letters
British poultry science
Assessment in education: principles, policy and practice
Compare: a journal of comparative education

The following Science Direct title has been added:

Journal of science and medicine in sport

The following titles have been removed or archived:

Urban studies (Ebsco-Host) - Archived
Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery (Science Direct) - Removed

Updates to journal content

New updates for 2008!

Journals added:

Ebsco-Host

International journal of obesity
Molecular biology
Social security bulletin
Canadian journal of urban research

OVID

Heart insight
International journal of play therapy
Methodology

Proquest

Advanced rescue technology
Administration and policy in mental health and mental health services research
EMS: emergency medical services
Research in the schools
Uro-gram

MD Consult

Ultrasound clinics
PET clinics
Sleep medicine clinics

Emerald

Journal of management history

Science Direct

Journal of crohn's and colitis
Journal of crohn's and colitis supplements
Psychiatry
Alpha omegan
Obesity research and clinical practice
Science and justice
Diabetes and metabolic syndrome: clinical research and reviews
Diabetes and metabolism
American journal of cardiology

Journals removed or archived:

OVID

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
American journal of cardiology

Science Direct

Clinical techniques in equine practice
Journal of hand surgery (Am)
Journal of hand surgery: European volume
American journal of medicine
AORN journal

Proquest

Journal of consumer research

Ebsco-Host

Personality and social psychology review
Applied occupational and environmental hygiene

Titles changes:

Ebsco-Host

International journal of laboratory hematology (Previously Clinical and laboratory haematology)
Developmental neurorehabilitation (Previously Pediatric rehabilitation)
Quarterly journal of business and economics (Previously Nebraska journal of economics and business)

MD Consult

Anesthesiology clinics (Previously Anesthesiology clinics of North America)