New Interface for Project MUSE

Seems like every vendor is jumping on the “new interface” wagon. Project MUSE “offers full text access to current content from nearly 400 high quality journals in the humanities and social sciences. A highlight of MUSE’s new web site is wider range of functionality at the individual journal article level, including the ability to email a link, find more articles from the same author(s), and share the article via popular social bookmarking services. Color indicators allow users to easily determine to which content they have full text access, at both the journal and article level.”

A Video Version of the Periodic Table

[from the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus, 8/22/08]
A Video Version of the Periodic Table
The University of Nottingham, in England, has put a high-tech twist on the periodic table, creating a clickable version that points to short YouTube clips about each element.
The Periodic Table of Videos, as their creation is called, features 118 videos, each about 2 minutes long. Scientists perform experiments with the elements or describe unusual properties of each one. In the clip about Beryllium, for instance, a researcher refuses to open a jar holding a sample of the element, explaining that exposure to it can cause a rare and deadly disease. (Another researcher interviewed in the video explains that the element is used in the processing of medical X-rays.)
The “most watched” elemental video, according to the site, is the one for Sodium. If you drop sodium into water, the reaction is explosive, as researchers demonstrate. —Jeffrey R. Young

PubMed Now Indexes Videos of Experiments and Protocols in Life Sciences

For faculty who teach in the life sciences and use visual online resources to enhance learning, this will be of interest:

(from the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Wired Campus) PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s online database, is now indexing videos from The Journal of Visualized Experiments. According to the publication’s official blog, JoVE is “the first video-journal to ever be accepted for publication in PubMed.”

The online, open-access journal publishes videos of experiments and protocols in the biological and life sciences and offers its video-articles to science bloggers to illustrate their posts. <full article>

Blackwell Ejournals Moving to Wiley Interscience

Blackwell ejournals will now be part of Wiley Interscience. Blackwell was purchased by John Wiley & Sons.  Blackwell Synergy will close down June 27 at 9 pm and the content will appear on Wiley Interscience on June 30 at 9 pm. It appears the content will be offline during the transition.  Journals will automatically be forwarded to their new address.

Grove is Gone …

Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online are now part of Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online respectively.

SpringerLink package ejournals in Serials Solutions and SFX

Earlier this month, we loaded City Tech’s SpringerLink package ejournals into Serials Solutions (“Find/browse ejournals by title or subject”). Be aware that although SpringerLink indicates that it has 1900+ titles, we have access to about 1300+ titles–our ejournal set is custom for CUNY SpringerLink participants. Be aware that the icons indicating access and coverage are not reliable: if you are browsing, the icon seems to indicate partial access. Just click through to the ejournal and you often will find complete coverage.
SpringerLink is also enabled in SFX aka Find it! which means if you search other databases or Google Scholar (provided you’ve customized Google Scholar to link to NYCCT), you can link through to full text in SpringerLink.

RefWorks enabled in CUNY+

Exporting from CUNY+ to RefWorks is now working. Here are some brief instructions:
1. After searching, check off the box to the left of the author on the results screen
2. select save/mail/export from the yellow menu
3. export the selected records to RefWorks (by leaving the e-mail blank and selecting “Full View” as the format). [select “go”]
4. next screen will prompt you to select RefWorks
5. RefWorks will open up and ask you to login if you have already started your session.

New Enhancements for the WilsonWeb CX Edition Interface

from the publisher: New Enhancements for the WilsonWeb CX Edition Interface
* New “My WilsonWeb” profiles. Using their email address as their password, library users can create their own sub-account within WilsonWeb, where they can create and manage saved searches, search histories, email alerts, and RSS feeds.
* RSS feed for new search results. Configure RSS updates via links on the Search Results or Search History pages.
* New “Content Discovery Keys” on Search Results page. Convenient links launch related searches, allow users to narrow results by author, subject, publication year, document type, and database (for multiple-database searches), or select previous searches from the Recent Searches listing. Continue reading “New Enhancements for the WilsonWeb CX Edition Interface”

Pop Culture Universe trial

We’re trialing an interesting new product–Pop Culture Universe. It covers [from the publisher’s website] “new technology (iPods, gaming, gadgets)…Internet memes and chatspeak…movies, TV, radio…music…comics and graphic novels…sports and pastimes…fads, fashion, and fast food.” And it has tools for instructors to incorporate popular culture into the classroom as well as resources for student work. This product is on trial until Sept. 30.
See our trials page.  Contact Monica Berger if you want the username/password for off-campus access.