RSC - new platform launched

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has just launched the new RSC Publishing platform enabling searches across all RSC-hosted journal, database and book content published from 1841 to the present day, through one simple search.

Portico

Portico

Portico is an electronic archiving service. Portico provides all libraries supporting the archive with campus-wide access to archived content when specific trigger events occur and when titles are no longer available from the publisher or other sources. Portico preserves scholarly literature published in electronic form and ensures that these materials remain accessible.

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The IReL subscription to the SPIE Digital Library has been discontinued (see IReL website). The SPIE journal titles available on Portico have being added to the A-Z listing: Journal of Applied Remote Sensing; Optical Engineering Journal; Proceedings of the SPIE (or The SPIE Conference Proceedings Series). Catalogue records will be created which will redirect to titles archived on Portico. The link to Portico (also available on the New Resources page of the Library website) gives a title-listing and access to all available journals on that service.

Please check New Resources regularly for updates on new database titles.

PRTLI - €75 million in research funding for TCD

See the Irish Times of today for news of a large amount of research funding secured by TCD and UCD.

The UCD-TCD Innovation Alliance is to benefit from 50% of the total of €358 million being earmarked for third-level research.

TCD is to receive more than €75 million in capital funding aimed at Biomedical Sciences Development.

The Government is committing €259 million in capital funding (directed at buildings) and €99 million in recurrent funding (directed at current and other costs) to the projects under Cycle 5 of the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions. - SEÁN FLYNN Education Editor

A new look for the Wiley, RSC and ProQuest platforms

Several of our suppliers will be changing platforms over the next couple of months:

Wiley Online Library:
The target launch period for Wiley Online Library is over the weekend of Saturday, July 24th and Sunday, July 25th 2010. ***This has now been postponed until the weekend of 7–8 August 2010.
Wiley will confirm when Wiley InterScience will be taken down and when Wiley Online Library will be put up nearer to this target launch date. Wiley Online Library will completely replace Wiley InterScience.

News, training and screen shots of the new platform can be found here.

RSC, The Royal Society of Chemistry:
*July 27th 2010** – RSC Publishing platform will be launched*

All dynamic links to content will be set to resolve to the new platform*

The RSC Publishing platform and the old website will run in parallel to give time to highlight any broken links and amend as necessary

ProQuest:
No date confirmed for launch. Before end 2010.

The amalgamation of several companies, including Chadwyck-Healey and CSA with ProQuest has meant that several different platforms are used for the ProQuest resources. A project has been in place in ProQuest over the past year to produce a new platform for these resources. This is due to be available before the end of 2010.

Some resources will not be added to the new platform immediately, the plan is to migrate them in 2011: for example: EEBO, LION, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.

RSC : new platform to be launched

RSC Publishing is about to launch a new platform on July 27th 2010, which, it is promised, will provide powerful, fast access to journals, books and databases. Both platforms will be available in parallel for a time, until any issues arising from the changeover are resolved.

The reader will be able to search across 977,589 articles using one simple interface and refine the results through intuitive filters.

* All dynamic links to content will be set to resolve to the new platform.

Further details to be posted when platform changes.