Category Archives: access platforms

AAAS/Science – Important Changes to the Science Website

September 29, 2009 – 8:37 am

We are in the process of migrating www.ScienceOnline.org to Web 2.0.
Starting 28 September 2009, the Science navigation bar will feature a new Science Journals tab.
When you select Science Journals from the menu you will navigate to the Science Journals landing page, where you will be able to access all AAAS journals, including our newest publication, [...]

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JSTOR Training Available

September 23, 2009 – 10:53 am

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We, Jenny McKillop and Michael Gallagher, would like to introduce ourselves as part of JSTOR’s recently reorganized Education & Outreach team. We are dedicated to assisting you in training others to use JSTOR. As the school year begins for some, we’d like to point out some JSTOR training resources available to you, free of charge.
The [...]

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Elsevier launches new web platform on mental health research

September 17, 2009 – 8:23 am

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new web platform – Elsevier Mental Health. Elsevier Mental Health is a website bringing together information and resources from all of Elsevier’s products and services in clinical psychology, psychiatry and other areas of mental health. It links to online books, journals top cited and top [...]

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The all-new ProQuest Platform

August 31, 2009 – 3:05 pm

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Join our platform e-mail list to receive the latest updates on the all new ProQuest platform
Dear Colleague:
Recently, we announced that we will be launching our all-new platform in 2010—removing the virtual walls between platforms. Soon, users at every level will instantly find specific information as well as discover more across a full spectrum of subject [...]

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Introducing Books In Print 2.0

August 5, 2009 – 8:58 am

Dear Books In Print Customer:
The time has come for Search to meet Discovery.
This month, Bowker announces the beta-release of Books In Print® 2.0 (BIP 2.0) an enhanced version of the book discovery and collection development platform that you already rely on for online book reference information, BooksInPrint.com®.
BIP 2.0 combines rich, comprehensive Books In Print content with [...]

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HeinOnline’s July 2009 Newsletter, Issue #7

August 4, 2009 – 8:29 am

July Content Release
Below is a snapshot of July’s Content Release:
15 libraries updated
9 titles added and 170 journals updated in the Law Journal Library
Including volume 122 (2008-2009) of the Harvard Law Review
10 titles added to the Legal Classics Library
44 titles added to the World Trials Library
Kavass’s Current Treaty Index (2009) & Treaties in Force (2009) added [...]

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JSTOR Update | August 3, 2009

August 4, 2009 – 8:17 am

Multidisciplinary and Discipline-Specific Collections at JSTOR
The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales [1946- ]
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 15, 1929) – Vol. 10, No. 54 (November 30, [...]

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Elsevier and NextBio Sign Partnership to Enrich ScienceDirect Content

July 15, 2009 – 10:51 am

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Amsterdam – June 12, 2009 – Elsevier today announced a new partnership agreement with NextBio, provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data to enrich ScienceDirect content. This agreement allows for an integration of NextBio’s unique set of ontology-based semantic tools [...]

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JSTOR Update | July 13 , 2009

July 15, 2009 – 8:43 am

Updates to the 19th Century British Pamphlets Collection
The following pamphlet content was originally released into the JSTOR archive on May 28, 2009 into one collection titled Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection. The content is now separated into the following two collections:
Manchester Selected Pamphlets (19th Century British Pamphlets)
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Release Content: 1799-1900
Contributor: The University of Manchester, The John [...]

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Project MUSE News: MUSE Releases Search and Custom Print Features

July 9, 2009 – 9:00 am

New Discovery Features, Sheridan Custom Print Now Available on MUSE
Project MUSE is excited to announce two new features that help users more easily locate articles relevant to their research.
MUSE also introduces a new option to custom print and package articles in MUSE journals.
The new features are:
-A ‘Search this Journal’ search box. This search box appears [...]

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