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The Journal Citation Reports database has been updated with data for 2007, giving access to the most recent set of Impact Factors for academic journals. The Science and Social Sciences editions are both available. JCR is part of the Web of Knowledge suite of databases.

British Standards Online (BSOL) has had a facelift. The search interface has been revised and the login procedure has changed. Full details are in the LIS guide to BSOL (PDF). Please contact us if you have any problems accessing or using the new BSOL service.

The Science Direct ejournals service has added some useful new features.

Refining a search simplified
A new navigation pane on the search results page provides a view of the research output on a subject by year, by content type or by journal/book titles with the most results. By using these filters you can refine your search results without having to return to the search form.

Quickly evaluate articles before reading them
Preview tabs provide quick access to the important article assessment components: the abstract, figures/tables and references. These tabs are on the results page, the table of contents page and the article page.

Reference information available without scrolling to the foot of articles
Full reference information displays as a pop-up within the body of a paper when the cursor moves over a reference marker.

More information (with screenshots): http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/news/releases/

Not using Science Direct? Read more about it.

The JSTOR ejournals service has a new interface. Navigating the database and retrieving information is made easier by the following new features:

• The ability to limit by discipline within Basic Search
• Previous searches can be re-run as searches are automatically saved
• When a search is run, you can carry out another search within the list of results
• Advanced Search now offers proximity searching so that you can search for one word or term within 5, 10 or 25 words of another
• Advanced Search now has a journal title search box
• The ‘MyJSTOR’ feature allows you to take advantage of personalised features – you can save and email citations and export them to bibliographic software
• The Browse option allows you to browse by publisher (as well as by discipline and title)
• Printing and saving in pdf format is now simpler
• You can view thumbnails of the pages of an article
• ‘Images in JSTOR’ allows you to search for images within the database

More information in the LIS Guide to JSTOR: http://www.swan.ac.uk/media/Media,7608,en.pdf

As of the 1^st April 2008 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) was converted from a Government agency to an independent organisation.  The Office for National Statistics  is now the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority. 

In conjunction with this conversion, the Office for National Statistics has a newly designed website . Access to the ONS website is now via the UK Statistics Authority website.   The function and the search tools used to locate statistical information on the ONS website have not been altered. 

More information in the LIS Guide to the ONS site: http://www.swan.ac.uk/media/Media,22682,en.pdf

Some members  of staff  may encounter problems when trying to renew Zetoc  Alerts. If you have a Classic Athens Account ( i.e. your username begins swa9…) please  select “Eduserv Athens” from the drop-down list titled Miscellaneous Organisations that appears on the  Alerts page of the Zetoc web site. 

Not using Zetoc Alerts? Find out more: http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/alertguide.html

We now have electronic and print access to the two journals listed below for material published during 2008:

Water Resources Research http://www.agu.org/journals/wr/      

Elservier produce a large range of support materials for both the CrossFire Commander and the Beilstein and Gmelin databases; newly available is the CrossFire Commander 7.1 Quick User Guide (updated to take account of the new version of the client software). These support materials are free and can be found via the Mimas website.

Support materials: http://www.mimas.ac.uk/crossfire/elsevier_support.html

Commander 7.1 Quick User Guide (PDF): http://www.info.crossfirecommander.com/QUGXF71BS.pdf

Following my earlier messages concerning compliance with the terms of the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), I would like to take this opportunity of reminding you that there are specific regulations relating to the material you are permitted to post to the Blackboard VLE. For full details of our Blackboard Acceptable Use Policy please refer to the information at: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/lis/HelpAndGuides/copyright/BBcopyright/

Any breach of the licence or copyright infringement discovered could result in severe consequences for both the University and the individual placing the content on to Blackboard; therefore it is imperative that all requirements of the licence are fulfilled, or full acknowledgement and explicit permissions from the rights holder/s are attached to any third party materials appearing on Blackboard. Anything not compliant with the requirements of the licence or without copyright permission must be removed from Blackboard.

Any member of academic staff at Swansea University can request digital copies be made through LIS. However under the terms of the license only designated people may carry out the digitisation, and for the purpose of the license this is staff from the Scanning Team, located in the Inter-Library Loans Office, on Level 2 of the Library & Information Centre. If you have any doubts as to whether your BB modules comply with the terms of the license, please contact your subject team librarian, a member of the scanning team, or email digex@swansea.ac.uk

May I also remind you that you are required under the terms of the CLA Higher Education Trial Digitisation license to make your digitised work available ‘for one course of study’, i.e. 52 weeks, only. As part of the licence conditions we are required to ask you to ensure that the course content continues to be relevant to the course of study for which it is intended. Staff in the Inter-Library Loans/Digex office will be contacting academic colleagues over the summer period to renew relevant CLA scans.

Full details of the licence requirements can be found under ‘Digitisation Licence’ on the LIS webpage, along with general copyright information and clearance procedures at: http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/HelpAndGuides/copyright/digitization/

General information on copyright is at http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/HelpAndGuides/copyright/

Information relating to linking to LIS Resources can be found at: http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/HelpAndGuides/SubjectGuides/linking_resources/

Paul Reynolds
Head of Bibliographic Services
p.r.reynolds@swansea.ac.uk

The search interface to the COS Funding Opportunities database has been updated. The new design retains the same basic functionality but is generally more user friendly. Some interesting new features include:

New Advanced Search features

• Compact form with the most important and popular fields at the top
• Additional fields that users can choose with just a click
• The Search Exclusion field has returned, by popular request

New Search Results features

• Compact view to scan results quickly
• Mouse-over pop ups to show key record information without clicking in to the full record

New Record View features

• Compact view to allow you to easily scan more information up front
• Key information is highlighted

There is also a new option on the default Simple Search page to find Funding Opportunities with Deadlines in the Next 6 Weeks.