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.

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.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and ChemSpider

Summary of RSC press release:

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has acquired ChemSpider.

ChemSpider is a free online service providing a structure centric community for chemists.

ChemSpider is a single source of structure-based chemistry information, providing access to almost 21.5 million unique chemical entities sourced from over 200 different data sources and integration to a multitude of other online services .

You can read the announcement in full on the website.

RSC and ebooks

Not all books published by the RSC become part of the RSC eBook Collection.

There are a number of reasons for this, such as not having the right to publish a book in digital format or other contractual issues.

This is the case with the 2nd Edition of Nanochemistry, for example, which includes material from other publishers.

For a list of books not included in the RSC eBook Collection, click here.

Ebooks and GEAC, Library OPAC

Ebook packages which HAVE MARC records for each title in the Library catalogue:
ACLS Humanities ebooks,
ECCO
Hein
LexisNexis
LWW Nursing
MOML
MyiLibrary
Past Masters

Ebook packages which DON’T have MARC records for the individual titles in GEAC (although there is a general record for the package in the catalogue):
LION
SAFARI
ORO (Oxford Reference Online) 250 books
SourceOECD
WWO (There may be title access for some of these via EEBO although the format of the EEBO ebook will be different to that in WWO.)

*New resources (record loading to be advised):
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) 800 titles.
MEMSO (Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online) 500 titles

RSC E-book Collection

RSC E-book Collection is now available from our databases page. This resource provides access to more than 700 titles published between 1968-2008 and a further collection published in 2009.

MARC records will be uploaded to the Catalogue in due course.