ScienceDirect Maintenance
ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance between the hours of 7:30 a.m and 4:30 p.m. Saturday, 28 August. During this time, upgrades will be implemented as part of the launch of the new SciVerse platform. For more information about SciVerse, please visit www.acceleratescience.com.
Elsevier, producer of ScienceDirect, is launching SciVerse to bring together solutions like ScienceDirect, Scopus, the web content from Scirus, and SciTopics into one point of access. Three applications that will be introduced in this upgrade are Methodology Section Search Application (full-text article searching within the methodology section only), Sentence Matching Application )displays query words in the full sentences where they appear), and Prolific Author Search Application (finds the most “prolific authors” publishing articles about search terms).
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Wiley Interscience to become Wiley Online Library
Wiley is working on its final transition from Wiley Interscience to Wiley Online Library. This final transition will occur over the weekend of August 7-8.
Anyone attempting to access either Wiley InterScience or Wiley Online Library during the transition period will see a message explaining the reason for the unavailability. We apologize for this interruption in service and will do all that we can to ensure a smooth transition to Wiley Online Library. We will send you a further update soon after launch to confirm that the site is live.
Among the promised features of the new interface are:
Among the features and benefits of the new online service are:
- A clear and simple interface
- Intuitive navigation
- Enhanced discoverability
- An expanded range of functionalities
- An array of personalization options
For more details, see Wiley’s list of benefits and features.
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The EKS Library Expands Resources with OmniFile Fulltext
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Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content – indexing, abstracts, and full text – from six of Wilson’s full-text databases: Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers’ Guide, Social Sciences, and Wilson Business.
Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science.
Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text coverage in accordance with varying journal licensing.
Visit the H. W. Wilson site to learn more about OmniFile brought to you by the EKS Library, or visit the Library’s databases webpage to begin your OmniFile search today.
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250 New Audio eBooks
On April 15, 2010, the Library began offering a new collection of downloadable audio books via Ingram’s eAudio Book Platform courtesy of the NCLive consortium. The initial collection contained 750 titles, focusing primarily on language learning, history, biography, and classic literature. The eAudio content is downloadable to either an iPod or MP3 player, and playable on a PC or Mac computer.
On Friday, May 14, the library added the second installment of downloadable audio books to it’s new collection. As with the previous installment, the new titles were made available with an LSTA grant from the State Library of North Carolina. The new titles include approximately 250 new titles, as well as additional copies of previously of audio books, bring the total number of titles to just under 1000 and the number of copies to about 1300.
Each audio book user will need to set up their own personal “bookshelf” within MyiLibrary, which functions much like a shopping cart. After adding items to their bookshelf, patrons can then download their audio book and listen directly from their computer, or add it to their iPod or MP3 player.
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New Database Interfaces
Now that the semester is over, here is a chance to examine two databases of long standing that have recently received face-lifts. LexisNexis has for the past two years been developing a whole new look to its Academic line of databases. Books in Print is employing Acqua Browser, a popular interface seen in many public libraries.
New LexisNexis Interface
The first thing you will notice about the new LexisNexis interface is that the standard Easy Search has all the basic search boxes front and center. Easy Search is no longer a stripped down version of Power Search but a flexible tool in its own right.
What LexisNexis use to look like.
You will also noticed that LexisNexis has moved all the major navigation to one place. The former interface placed its major items (News, Legal, Business, and People) along the top of the screen, leaving Easy Search and Power Search along the side with miscellaneous links. The new interface places all the searches along the side. The types of searches have increased and each is easily found with the sliding menu bar. Choices now are News, US Legal, International Legal, Companies, Subject Areas, and a comprehensive list of Sources.
LexisNexis now makes it easier to limit search by providing a menu that allows one to limit by subject category, source type, publication, industry, company, geography, and language. The experience is a clearer, easier, and more powerful way to find what you need.
Books in Print has done more than simplify its search interface. Besides the Aqua-Browser relevance cloud on the left-hand side the the screen, there are a wealth of ways to limit your selection from the right-hand menu. Once you find just the book you are after, you have a wealth of information. Not only do you get bibliographic and publisher information, but review and chapter snippets.
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New Audio eBooks Available
The Library has now added 750 audio eBooks to its collection. These eBooks are part of the Ingram (MyiLibrary) eAudio Book collection. The audio eBooks are available from the Library’s Databases, Articles, etc. page. These eAudio books can be downloaded to an iPod, any MP3 player or to one’s PC or Mac. Although anyone can search the collection, one must create a [free] username and password to borrow an audio eBook.
Borrow is the operational word here. One may borrow 5 audio eBooks for 7 days. Just like any physical book or CD that one might borrow from a library, once an audio eBook is borrowed, no one else can use it. Unlike a physical book, one does not have to worry about returning an audio eBook. Once the borrowing period is reached, the audio file is erased and becomes available once again for someone else to borrow.
As mentioned above, Ingram eAudio Books can be played on an iPod or any MP3 player. Ingram also offers a free MP3 player for the PC that will automatically queue up the audio eBooks you have borrowed.
New Resources Added to the Online Catalog
A few months ago the library announced that over 350 ebooks from Ingram’s MyiLibrary collection were available through the Databases, Articles, etc. page of the library website. MyiLibrary joined netLibrary, the Gale Virtual Reference Library, and ABC-CLIO eBook Collection as resources available to students, faculty and staff 24×7 from any computer on the Internet.
Now MyiLibrary eBooks can be found on the library’s online catalog, just like the other eBooks in the library’s collection. One may even limit one’s search to eBooks by using the “Limit to:” drop down menu below the search field and selecting “eBooks.” Now one not only doesn’t have to remember four different databases to find an eBook, but one can search for eBooks on a single familiar interface.
One of the special features of MyiLibrary books is that it does not require a special reader be installed on your computer. For instance, most netLibrary eBooks require that one have the Adobe Reader installed, though some eBooks require the DjVu reader from Lizard. All of these considerations are handled by MyiLibrary itself. The disadvantage of such a system is that you must use the MyiLibrary controls to move from page to page. The advantage is knowing that it does not matter what, if any, reader you have installed on your computer.
Periodicals by Title List Mantenance
The Periodicals by Title list will be unavailable on Saturday, April 24, 2010 from 11:00 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. due to necessary maintenance.
LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator Now Available
The Job & Career Accelerator™ is an online tool funded by the State Library of North Carolina that will assist North Carolinians hunting for jobs or seeking out a career. It provides step-by-step assistance for job seekers at all experience and education levels—from exploring and matching suitable occupations, to finding available jobs in their area from a database of over 5 million up-to-date job postings. Job & Career Accelerator users can easily create professional resumes and cover letters, master interviewing and networking techniques, improve work related skills, and prepare for occupation related exams.
Access to this resource is available through LearningExpress Library, one of the EKS Library’s databases. The icon for the Job & Career Accelerator is in the upper left-hand corner of the database’s welcome screen. To take advantage of all this tool has to offer, simply register to create a free account.
For more information, Ask Ethel or call the reference desk at 704-233-8097.
New Content Added to PBS Videos Database
NC LIVE has added 24 new PBS videos to its collection of more than 400 online videos, including Ken Burns’ The War, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion, Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Shakespeare’s King Lear, and more. The site has also been updated with a new more modern look and feel.
All videos in this collection can be streamed online by accessing the PBS Videos database through the Ethel K. Smith Library homepage at http://library.wingate.edu/. Just click on the link for Databases, Articles, Etc., then scroll down and click on the link for PBS Videos and enter your Wingate Network userid and password if prompted.
For more information, just Ask Ethel or contact the reference desk at 704-233-8097.
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