tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191763322024-03-13T02:27:18.713+00:00This blog has now been transferred to http://bathsciencenews.wordpress.com. Please change your bookmarks, and visit the new blog for an associated RSS feed.Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-10829525107997011422007-03-01T13:34:00.000+00:002007-03-01T13:39:04.105+00:00

Always in beta...This blog has now been transferred to http://bathsciencenews.wordpress.com Please change your bookmarks, and visit the new blog for an associated RSS webfeed.Features on the new weblog include better tagging and categorisation (so you can view just the posts relating to maths, or chemistry, or ejournals), and coming soon are RSS webfeeds for new books available from the library.

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-22940534491418732872007-02-22T17:21:00.000+00:002007-02-22T17:25:24.728+00:00

The Library has signed up to a nationally-negotiated deal for a collection of RSC material. Most of their journal and database content is included.These additional e-journals are now on the Library's A-Z listing:-Soft Matter-Molecular BioSystems-Natural Product Reports-Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences-Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry-The Analyst-Chemical Biology-Journal of

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We're in the middle of putting together a webpage with information on ordering books and other items for the library collection. Basically it covers the basics, such as how to suggest an item, our ordering procedures and suppliers (and why it might take longer than the overnight delivery Amazon might promise..), what an 'urgent' order means, placing a hold on ordered items and so on. Is there

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Just a reminder that our access to Elsevier's SCOPUS database will end on 31st March this year, at the end of the free trial period.We asked for users' views on the database in November, and from these, and the usage statistics, it was clear that there was not sufficient demand to justify trying to fund the subscription, a cost which could only have been met by dropping other databases.WoS has

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By their nature, journals take a lot of time and organisational energy for a library to provide. Back in the day (and well, still today) we had printed volumes to maintain - making sure we had sufficient shelf space, binding volumes to help keep continuous runs, keeping vertical files / spreadsheets / serials modules on a library management system up to date, contacting publishers or suppliers to

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-72284018663232322352007-02-09T12:55:00.000+00:002007-02-09T13:00:31.669+00:00

We've extended our Biosis Previews archive online back to 1926 - previously we had back to 1969. Biosis is available via the Databases page on the library website.

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The library has access to Faculty of 1000 Biology for a month. F1000 Biology, from BioMedCentral claims to be 'the next generation literature-awareness service that highlights and evaluates the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a Faculty of over 2000 of the worlds leading researchers'.F1000 Biology allows you to set up alerts for papers

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UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is now live and freely available at: http://ukpmc.ac.uk"Based on PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Institutes of Health free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, UKPMC provides a stable, permanent, and free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications."This may be important to Biology and

Linda Humphreyshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03253080028984748817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-1168258467281890832007-01-08T12:13:00.000+00:002007-01-10T15:45:46.946+00:00

It's that time of year again (ie. on the cusp of a new semester) when we try to make sure the library has copies of texts on student reading lists. Please let us know as soon as possible of changes to your semester two reading lists. Many thanks to those organised souls who have already sent their updates and/or recommendations.

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A note of caution from the Serials and E-resources Librarian here in the Library. At this time of year many of our online journal subscriptions are being renewed, and we would ask that you report any difficulties you have in accessing a particular ejournal in case it is a subscription issue. You can either email myself or Linda, with as much of the following information as possible:*the title of

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If I had to say the most asked-for service from the library in 2006, it would be requests for a loan reminder email, sent a day before your items are due to remind you to renew or return their items. Well, starting the new year off in great service style, loan reminders, otherwise known as "underdue notices" are now available. You must opt in by going to the library catalogue or Your use of the

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This little piece of news has snuck onto the library website news section, and onto our new informational tv screens around the library, but it really deserves a bigger reception. Printing and photocopying charges have been reduced, yes REDUCED! with the installation of new machines that allow double sided printing at a reduced price. Usually it's 6p per page - double sided prints are 9p per

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-1166173367711550272006-12-15T08:52:00.000+00:002006-12-15T09:02:51.726+00:00

We have added the Oxford Journals Digital Archive package to our A-Z ejournals listing. This contains 144 journals from volume 1, issue 1 up until the end of 1995, including:Annals of Botany - 1908Bioinformatics - 1985Biometrika - 1914Glycobiology - 1991Human Molecular Genetics - 1992Human Reproduction - 1986IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics - 1938IMA Journal of Management Mathematics - 1990IMA

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-1165925573547439432006-12-12T12:11:00.000+00:002006-12-12T12:13:45.336+00:00

We now have access to a web version of EndNote http://www.myendnoteweb.com/. The functionality in terms of importing records from Library databases and outputting to Word in a variety of formats is much the same.Advantages of EndNote Web over EndNote:- Easier to use- Can access your database from any locationDisadvantages:- Maximum capacity of 10,000 records (but this sounds like plenty to me!)-

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-1165246646926840032006-12-04T15:33:00.000+00:002006-12-04T15:37:27.266+00:00

If you're working in the field of neuroscience or cognition, you might be interested in MIT CogNet. This is a collection of material from MIT publishers, available from http://cognet.mit.edu/library or via the Computer Science or Psychology Library webpages at http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/subjects/cs/e-books.html#MIT. You will need to go via the library website if you are off-campus, and use

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The library has employed 8 postgraduate students for the role of part-time Library Student Helper. As the name suggests, the job is to provide a point of assistance when needed (helpers move around the library building), but also to help keep the library environment one which is conducive to study. The role consists of tasks such as limiting noise and food & drink consumption in the library,

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-1164801304061151312006-11-29T11:53:00.000+00:002006-11-29T11:55:04.750+00:00

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has launched a free online resource called CiteXplore which links scientific literature to biological databases. According to its developers, CiteXplore is a tool which integrates articles from scientific journals with databases containing biological information such as DNA and protein sequences, functions and structures of molecules and

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Annual Reviews have activated our subscription and we now have access to the Biomedical suite of AR titles online. You can find these on the A-Z ejournal listing on the library website, under their individual titles. These are the titles we're now subscribed to, with start dates:Annual review of biochemistry 1996 vol.65Annual review of biomedical engineering 1999 vol.1Annual review of

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Over the next two weeks we're running focus groups to try to gather thoughts from undergraduate and postgraduate students on how the library communicates with them. There are two focus groups:Undergraduate: Monday 27 November, 12.15pm - 1.05pmPostgraduate: Tuesday 5 December, 12.15pm - 1.05pmWe're offering a pizza lunch as an incentive for volunteers to come along to give an hour of their time,

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That's short (well sort of..) for Secure Prompt Efficient Electronic Document delivery. The Inter-Library Loans Department will launch a new service on Monday 20th November enabling Library users to both submit and receive their ILL requests electronically.People can send in their requests via a web form and then have scanned copies of journal articles or book chapters delivered directly from the

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-1162914759401861802006-11-07T15:50:00.000+00:002006-11-07T15:52:40.223+00:00

Is there any interest in adding the Biosis online backfile of 1926 to 1968 to our current online subscription of 1969 - current? Please let me know your thoughts.. Thanks, Kara

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-1162392621880225072006-11-01T14:48:00.000+00:002006-11-01T14:53:34.923+00:00

A non-library, non-resource, non-anything post...The first of November - a beautiful clear day in Bath. This pic was taken from Level 5 of the library building, early afternoon. You can just see the legs of the clever guy who was soaking up the sun rays and taking in the view - Dave, the library postmaster says you can see 50 miles from up there today, it's so clear.

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-1162391043700998402006-11-01T14:12:00.000+00:002006-11-01T14:46:19.846+00:00

The Lancet journal is podcasting - they've added a weekly audio byte to their website. "The audio summaries feature our editorial staff discussing the highlights from the week's issue, and usually include at least one interview with the study author of a key paper. Also produced is a monthly audio summary for The Lancet Infectious Diseases and The Lancet Neurology".Go to http://www.thelancet.com/

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-1161960667728630132006-10-27T14:46:00.000+00:002006-10-27T14:51:08.206+00:00

MIMAS are switching Beilstein to a new server with a new means of access on 1ST NOVEMBER. On-campus access will be IP-based so *should* be easier, with no registration necessary. Off campus access will require you to go via a web-registration page each time you login. These are the options:1. Via BUCS networked computersFrom the Start menu, select Programs then MDL CrossFire Commander 7. You will

Kara Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10602767120557060811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176332.post-1161878109657445302006-10-26T15:53:00.000+00:002006-11-09T09:14:08.263+00:00

We have had the Scopus database from Elsevier on trial for the last 12 months. We have to decide by 1st December whether or not we want to purchase it. The price will be £15,000 per annum.It has an easy interface and some good citation searching features but I am under the impression that there may be gaps in its journal coverage.What do you think? Will anyone be highly inconvenienced if we lose

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