TRIAL: Bloomsbury Collections

We have trial access to Bloomsbury ebook collections until 18th November 2014.
Take a look at this resource and let us know what you think.

Access Bloomsbury Collections ebooks from:
http://ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/ (Login required off campus)

For information about the available collections, see
http://ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/about/collections (Login required off campus)

Bloomsbury’s eBook collections cover almost 4000 titles across the humanities and social sciences, featuring content from Bloomsbury’s latest research publications as well as a 100+ year legacy including Continuum, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical Press, Berg, The Arden Shakespeare and Hart Publishing.

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CSA databases withdrawn

We have not renewed our subscription to the CSA databases collection (formerly on the CSA Illumina platform, more recently on the ProQuest platform).

Usage of these databases had declined substantially since we introduced Discover, and analysis of their coverage showed that the journals they covered were already included in Discover and/or other databases like Web of Science, Scopus and BIOSIS.

If you were a regular user of CSA databases please contact your liaison librarian to discuss alternative sources.

Major purchase of CUP ebooks

We are delighted to announce that we have purchased all Cambridge University Press e-books published between 2005 and 2010, and prior to 1993 - some 4,732 titles in all. Furthermore, we will purchase their 2011 and 2012 lists too.

The titles include scholarly monographs and contributed volumes for which CUP have electronic rights, but not textbooks. By early 2011 CUP plan to make new e-books available on the platform at the same time that the printed book becomes available.

The Cambridge Books Online site has no restriction on the number of simultaneous users who can access it, and its e-books are presented as simple PDF files that we know readers prefer. Each chapter has been assigned it own DOI (Digital Object Identifier). This allows you to build a stable link to any chapter, which will work off-campus too, by just adding the chapter's DOI to the end of this URL: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/

Catalogue records will be uploaded shortly but in the meantime you can search Cambridge Books Online or browse by subject:

Humanities
Social Sciences (you'll find Archaeology and History here!)
Science & Engineering
Medicine

Off-campus access is available via EZproxy as usual.

Duke Journals Scholarly Collection Expanded now available

For 2010 we have started a subscription to the Duke Journals Scholarly Collection Expanded. This is a collection of 35 journals, mainly in the humanities, from Duke University Press. We already subscribed to several Duke journals, but this collection adds the following additional titles for little cost:

American Literary Scholarship
American Speech
boundary 2
Camera Obscura
Common Knowledge
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Eighteenth-Century Life
Ethnohistory
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Journal of Music Theory
Modern Language Quarterly
Nka: Journal of African Contemporary Art (launching in 2010)
Pedagogy
Poetics Today
positions: east asia cultures critique
Public Culture
Small Axe
Social Text
South Atlantic Quarterly
Theater

Access is available for all volumes that currently exist online. Duke University Press are currently engaged on a backfiles digitisation programme so several titles are already available back to Volume 1, and the number of such will increase steadily.

All titles are listed in our library catalogue and have been activated in SFX / find it @ liverpool.

Taylor & Francis SSH Collection 2009

As mentioned previously, we have renewed our subscription to the Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) Collection for 2009.

This collection has been significantly expanded for 2009 and now includes over 1,000 titles. The additional titles come mainly courtesy of T&F's acquisitions of Haworth Press and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Furthermore we have updated our records for existing titles in the collection as we now typically have access back to 1997 (or to volume 1 if we or JISC have purchased the backfiles).

Finally, T&F's policy is that newly-launched journals are included in the collection for the first two year's of their life. In year 3 we will lose all access to such journals unless we elect to subscribe to them in addition to the collection. We have temporary access to over 30 such titles.

See our catalogue records for details of the titles included.

Taylor & Francis collections for 2009

From 2009 we will no longer subscribe to the Taylor & Francis Full Collection, but will instead subscribe to their Social Sciences and Humanities collection, together with the new Informa Healthcare collection.

This change was precipitated by the transfer of the Taylor & Francis medical and healthcare journals to Informa Healthcare, a separate division of Informa plc.

Our analysis showed that it was only the medical content within the Taylor & Francis STM Collection that meant that the overall collection provided acceptable value for money. The 'rump' Science & Technology collection would have provided us with poor value. Furthermore, there were several poor value subscriptions tied into the ST Collection, and by dropping the collection we have been able to cancel the worst of these.

The consequences of this decision are:

We can still access over 700 Social Sciences and Humanties journals on the Informaworld platform. Our access typically extends back to 1997 and we will update our records, as previous years have been digitised since we originally catalogued this collection.

We have lost access to about 300 Science & Technology journals on the Informaworld platform. Where we hold (or held) individual subscriptions to titles in this collection we will still have access (to the subscribed years).

We have temporarily lost access to nearly 160 Medicine and Healthcare journals on the Informaworld platform. Once our subscription to the Informa Healthcare collection is active we will once again be able to access these journals, back to Volume 1.

We will soon have access to all titles on the Informa Pharma Sciences site (where we currently access Current Medical Research and Opinion) back to Volume 1. This will include the Expert Opinion series of titles (and about 20 title which are also hosted on Informaworld).

We will continue to be access the complete backfiles over 120 journals in the following subject areas:

Behavioral Science (i.e. Psychology)
Business, Management and Economics
Geaography, Planning, Urban and Environment

because we (or JISC) have purchased the backfiles in perpetuity.

Brill journals archive now available

The full archive of all journals published by Brill, a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences, including their Martinus Nijhoff (law) and VSP (science) imprints, have been purchased nationally by JISC and are now available to us. The archive extends from Volume 1 up to and including 1999. Where we hold a current subscription to the journal we also have access to 2000 onwards. All of the available journals have been added to the library catalogue and have been activated in SFX / find it @ liverpool.

588 additional Taylor & Francis e-books purchased

This time last year we purchased over 6,000 e-books from Taylor & Francis. We were also granted trial online access to the remaining T&F e-books, and we have now purchased 588 of those titles - the ones that were used 5 times or more. We will also continue to have trial access to the other T&F e-books for another 12 months.

SAGE journal backfiles purchased

We have been subscribing to the SAGE journal backfiles since 2007. We have now purchased these backfiles so that we are assured of perpetual access to them.

Cambridge Journals Digital Archive purchased

We have purchased the complete Cambridge Journals Digital Archive so that we will have permanent online access to all CUP journals back to volume 1.

All content has been scanned from the original published material and reproduced as high-resolution, searchable PDFs. Journal covers, content listings, prelims, plates and maps are reproduced in their entirety, providing a complete digital reproduction of the original journal. Article headers and references are created as HTML files to allow easy access to data and reference linking between articles. DOIs are registered for each article, facilitating full reference linking to the archive content via CrossRef.

Catalogue records and SFX / find it @ liverpool will be updated shortly.

1,500 e-books purchased on Oxford Scholarship Online

We have purchased about 1,500 e-books from Oxford University Press in Oxford Scholarship Online. They are all of the available titles in:

Biology
Business and Management
Classical Studies
Economics and Finance
History
Linguistics
Literature
Mathematics
Music
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science

Each e-book will appear in the catalogue soon, but in the meantime you can access them directly from http://www.oxfordscholarship.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/search/advancedquery.

You can print up to a single chapter from each Oxford Scholarship Online title or up to 5% of the pages of any title, whichever is the greater. Content is printed by HTML page unit – each is the equivalent of five print pages. To print any page from the Oxford Scholarship Online site, simply use the Printer Friendly link in the left-hand navigation area. A preview window will appear with the correctly formatted pages, minus the site navigation components.

find it @ liverpool links appear in Oxford Scholarship Online. These allow you to quickly find out if we also have the title in print, and particularly for the OSO titles that we have not purchased, find out whether we have online access to them elsewhere, for example in ebrary Academic Complete.

Blackwell journals now in Wiley InterScience

As of July 30th we believe that we have access to all the Blackwell Publishing journals that we should have access to, including subscribed titles that are outside the NESLi2 collections, and to our purchased Blackwell Publishing backfiles.

Wiley-Blackwell report that 1.6 million additional articles from Blackwell journals have been successfully loaded onto Wiley InterScience. After a few additional downtime hours they have now made the Wiley InterScience site live again. There may be intermittent service in the short term while they stabilize the site. They have also now permanently shut down the Synergy site.

They have redirected most links to their nearest equivalent on Wiley InterScience. However, they are still working on the OpenURL links which currently redirect to the Wiley InterScience homepage rather than the journal page, as they should. These links will be back in place in a few days. If you are not familiar with Wiley InterScience then please use the online tutorials or sign up for a free online webinar here: http://www.interscience.wiley.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/tutorials

To view the full list of Wiley-Blackwell journals go to http://www.interscience.wiley.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/. You will see here several new subject areas which they have added to now reflect the full depth and range of the Wiley-Blackwell list. Wiley InterScience now includes 1,400 current journals, and 660 titles with backfiles back to volume 1. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology will continue to be hosted on a separate site: http://www.blackwellreference.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/subscriber/uid=919/beos_subscriber

There is still some missing content from Blackwell which they are working through. This includes some issues, articles, parts of articles (e.g. article loaded in xml but not in PDF) plus some missing metadata and articles which need to be fixed due to special character rendering issues. The full list of missing content which they are working through will be listed on their transition site: http://www.interscience.wiley.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/transition and this will be updated weekly.

Work is well underway on the new Wiley-Blackwell online platform which will include many of the best features of Synergy as well as InterScience and which we will be launching in early 2009. More information about this new service will be provided in due course.

Blackwell Synergy site ceases June 30th

Following the merger of Blackwell Publishing with John Wiley and Sons, the Blackwell Synergy site will cease to be available after June 30th 2008. All content on the Blackwell Synergy site, including current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print, will be transferred to the Wiley InterScience site as of 1st July 2008.

A completely new, 'next-generation' Wiley-Blackwell site will be launched in 2009 that we are promised will include the best features of both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience and which will introduce innovative new functionality and capabilities.

Wiley-Blackwell assure us that:

- all Blackwell journal access rights will be transferred, enabling continuous access to our licensed content
- existing Synergy URLs and links will redirect to the content on Wiley InterScience
- they will work with link resolver vendors (e.g. our SFX / find it @ liverpool service from Ex Libris) to redirect links to Wiley InterScience
- DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) are persistent and so will continue to work after the move to Wiley InterScience
- they have upgraded Wiley InterScience to accommodate the addition of Blackwell books, journals and customers
- the accounts for all registered users on Blackwell Synergy will transfer to Wiley InterScience so that users continue to receive the journal E-TOCs and other alerts that they have signed up for

Note that:

- Wiley Interscience does not include icons to indicate whether you are entitled to full-text access (but the new Wiley-Blackwell site coming in 2009 will)
- the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology will remain on its existing platform for now
- Linguistics Abstracts Online will remain on its existing platform for now