EBSCO eJournals A to Z list and LinkSource linkresolver

The TCD catalogue's A to Z of electronic journals is working again. The link resolver, linking citations to full text articles is also back. If there are any further issues with this, please contact the Library at once, either via the Duty Librarian or directly to the Electronic Resources Librarian.

EBSCO LinkSource and A to Z ejournals

There is a worldwide issue with EBSCO's link resolver LinkSource and with the E-journals list which means that neither the E-journals list in the TCD catalogue or the 'click here for TCD ejournals' link within databases is working. EBSCO is aware of this problem and is working to resolve it.

JSTOR - new platform

JSTOR launched its new platform today.

There have been several issues reported, amongst them:
1. temporary off campus access problems for some libraries.
A temporary solution may be to advise off campus users to switch from JSTOR's homepage to the login page instead) https://www.jstor.org/action/showLogin

2. Changes to the interface
a. Searching. Now includes all content - subscribed or not - by default.
You can tick a box in the Advanced Search to limit to "Include only content I can access", but it's clear from the screen which items we have access to.

b. LinkSource. JSTOR still doesn't display the TCD linksource icon, however it does show a small box "Go to article" with the text "Trinity College Dublin provides links to recent articles" which brings you to the catalogue via the LinkSource menu. See, for example, the article: Review: Palestinian Children: Dying to Live / Lori A. Allen.

Google Scholar and LinkSource

LinkSource is partially working on Google Scholar at the moment, i.e. books can be found but a search for print journals is not being carried out in the TCD catalogue. Attempts underway to have it fully operational.

LegalTrac (Gale) and LinkSource

LinkSource has been implemented on LegalTrac from the Gale group.

European Business ASAP (Gale) on Infotrac platform and LinkSource

LinkSource has now been implemented on the European Business ASAP database. The TCD icon appears whether there is full text available or not. Therefore, click on the reference or text box first for quickest access to an article.

Dialog's IPA, DIFT and LinkSource

LinkSource has been implemented on International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA) and Drug Information Fulltext (DIFT)

JSTOR and LinkSource

LinkSource has been implemented on TCD's JSTOR databse.

Note re TCD LinkSource icon : The usual icon is not appearing on JSTOR. At the moment, the onscreen message reads: Trinity College Dublin provides links to articles through SFX and shows an SFX link button instead of our usual blue TCD button. JSTOR is in the process of developing this aspect of its service and its technical staff is currently working on updating the new JSTOR website to support customized buttons and link text for institutions. JSTOR expect to implement this feature in the next couple of months.

OpenURL-compliant links are for the titles to which JSTOR provides links to current issues on several publishers' sites. A list of these titles is available here.

International Medieval Bibliography (Brepols)

TCD link resolver LinkSource has now been implemented on the International Medieval Bibliography from Brepols.

TCD icon does not appear on the results screen. The icon appears on the bibliographic reference (2nd) screen, at the top.

Engineering Village (Elsevier)

The TCD link resolver LinkSource is now implemented on Elsevier's Engineering Village.

The TCD icon doesn't appear on the Search Result List but on clicking on Abstract or even on Detailed, the icon appears on the lower left hand side.

ERIC, AUEI, BREI and LinkSource

The following databases on the Dialog Datastar platform are now working with LinkSource:
Australian Education Index - 1979 to date (AUEI)
British Education Index - 1975 to date (BREI)
ERIC - 1966 to date (ERIC)

On journal article search results you will see the familiar blue tcd link resolver icon.

Scopus

Following on the Scopus trial which ended in December 2007, TCD Library now has a subscription to Scopus (Elsevier).

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources covering more than 15,000 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, medicine and social sciences.

Coverage 1966-
Cited reference searching 1996 -
Subject Coverage: - by number of source titles that are used [Scopus Info web site]:
Life Sciences >3,400 titles
Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
Social Sciences > 2,850 titles

Scopus offers citation searching - as ISI's Web of Science has been doing -
therefore researchers can demonstrate the impact of their own publications by identifying citations to their work in the titles indexed in Scopus.

Other features:
Full text linking to the Library's collection of electronic journal titles,
Direct export to EndNote

Learn more here about Scopus.

LinkSource on the ProQuest platform

These are the databases on the ProQuest platform:
1. ABI/Inform Global
2. CINAHL
3. Nursing Journals/ProQuest [known as ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source]
4. Dissertations Abstracts/Digital Dissertations [now, Dissertations and Theses]

LinkSource on ProQuest:
LinkSource doesn't operate in exactly the same way on all 4 of the above.
CINAHL - The tcd icon giving the option to "check tcd ejournals" appears on the very first search-results screen. The ‘stretched’ appearance of the tcd icon is governed by ProQuest and cannot be altered.

ABI/Inform Global and Nursing Journals – the tcd icon does not appear on the first search-results screen. It appears if you click on the abstract link below your reference. The resulting screen will show the tcd icon on the top right hand side. Clicking on this will bring you through the LinkSource menu of suggested resources and, from there, on to the full-text resource.

If in ABI or the Nursing Journals there is a full-text link on your first results-screen, attached to the reference you want, you will not need to go any further.

Dissertation Abstracts, now Dissertations and Theses – the tcd icon won’t appear at all.

Please note: The link resolver depends on the ‘target’ database being OpenURL compliant. LinkSource is therefore depending on the technology of the database containing the article. Some databases are not fully compliant and you may reach the journal level rather than the article level or even just a search screen within the database. In this case, you’ll need to repeat the search for the article once you're in the full text database.

TCD LinkSource installation UPDATE

Summary update on LinkSource installation. 9/10/07
Apologies - this Blog won't take screen shots.

The work on installing the link resolver, LinkSource, is continuing.

The link resolver will enable a user to link from an article citation in one database to the article full text in another.

The link resolver depends on the ‘target’ database being OpenURL compliant. LinkSource is therefore depending on the technology of the database containing the article. Some databases are not fully compliant and you may reach the journal level rather than the article level or even just a search screen within the database. In this case, you’ll need to repeat the search for the article in the full text database.

See the TCD link resolver icon here (LinkSource) icon : and the text accompanying it is usually Check TCD e-journals

This icon will appear on a search results screen, in most cases.

There are a few databases on which it behaves differently. eg. Cinahl – the icon displays on the search result screen, stretched out, on the right hand side. This shouldn’t affect its functionality, however.

If you do a search, for example, in the Web of Science and choose the following reference; click on the tcd icon below the reference and a screen with the following information appears:

Title:
Satellite glial cells in sensory ganglia: Their possible contribution to inflammatory pain
Source:
HANANI, M. Brain, Behavior, And Immunity Volume: 21 Issue: 5 (2007-07-01) ISSN: 0889-1591
Revise Request
Resources Located for this Citation
View this article at Science Direct

Click on the View this article … line, and you should be brought to the full text article.

Note 1: If the message indicates that there are no results, it may be because, a) we don’t have it; b) we have it but it’s not set up with the link resolver yet – later on, when the link resolver is rolled out on more databases, I would ask you to let me know; c) it’s not working, or not working to the level you think it should – again, later on, can you let me know.

Note 2: Revise request – if you come up with no results, there is no point in using the Revise Request option on this screen.

There are various reasons why you may not find the full text of an article:
The library doesn’t subscribe to full text
The library doesn’t subscribe to the date range
A recent article may not have appeared in the vendor’s database yet
A database is not OpenURL compliant.


If you don’t find full text,
search the A-Z of e-journals listing manually (i.e. typing in your journal title as before) or
search the GEAC catalogue.

The database providers with whom I am working to date to provide a functioning link resolver at the moment include, ProQuest, EBSCO, Elsevier, Emerald, Thompson Henry, amongst others.

All these communications are at varying stages, as there are many technical details to sort out. Once the process is begun with any supplier, it goes live immediately, before any testing and corrections can be made. Therefore, HANDLE WITH CARE.

I will be compiling an FAQ as I go along, so if you have any queries about the link resolver, or comments on how (or if) it is working in your subject area, please let me know.

Regards,

Cliona

LinkSource work in progress

Work is progressing on installing the link resolver, LinkSource, across the Library's database platforms. There may be some testing of TCD icons linking to e-journals, etc., as different platforms have differing requirements.

I hope the work won't be disruptive, the databases will work in the usual way, with the added bonus of direct linking through to TCD e-journals gradually being installed across all platforms.