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.

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.

SpringerLINK - some general information

SpringerLINK full text of 1336 ejournals and some eBooks.

Through an IReL (Irish Research eLibrary) subscription, Trinity College Library has access to the full text of 1336 electronic journals on the SpringerLINK database platform. These ejournals cover the fields of biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities and economics. Kluwer Academic journals are now part of this package; however Brill Academic Publisher is not.

In general, with the exception of the book series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, the eBooks on SpringerLINK do not form part of the IReL subscription and are not available to TCD users.

Of the top four most-used journals in TCD on SpringerLINK during the last year, only one is in the TCD print collection. However, all ejournals might be available through other Library database platforms. For example, the most used ejournal: Jrnl of Autism and Developmental Disorders is on Academic Search Premier : 1993 to present (Embargo: 1 year), ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source : 1997 to present (Embargo: 1 year) and SpringerLINK : 1997 to present .

SpringerLINK generally does not have an embargo on the most recent issues, unlike the other two platforms mentioned, although its coverage may not encompass an equivalent number of years.

An individual user can register from within TCD’s account (that is, from where you can see the database by finding it through the Library system) and this allows the use of features such as RSS feeds and favourites linking. Downloads are free for the journals to which TCD Library subscribes, but if other items outside our subscriptions are found, these can be purchased from SpringerLINK via your personalized homepage. To avoid paying twice for the one resource, a user should check first however, that the required item is not already available through the Library from another supplier.

Springer is developing a new, more user-friendly interface at the moment and plan to launch this in 2010. A feature of this new interface will be a facility to search by Citations which should be a useful tool for all researchers.

TCD Library databases can be reached from the main Library Web page under Databases & E-Books or by searching the catalogue for the Database name or the journal title.

JSTOR – Scholarly Journal archives

JSTOR provides a digital archive of scholarly journals (complete runs of journals, select monographs, transactions and conference proceedings), both in multidisciplinary and in discipline-specific collections.

Via IReL (the Irish Research eLibrary), TCD Library has access to the JSTOR collections: the Ireland Collection (nearing completion), the Arts and Sciences I to VII, the Life Sciences Collection, Public Health Reports and, temporarily, the 19th Century British Pamphlets.

The JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collection consists of seven parts. Arts and Sciences I began with supplying the archives of core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology and also provides titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics. The next group, Arts and Sciences II adds to the collections in I. Group III introduces languages and literature, IV focusses on Business, Education and Law and Group V, VI and VII build on all that has gone before. There are between 100 and 150 titles in each group.

The Ireland Collection has titles and resources across the arts, humanities and sciences. A recent addition to the JSTOR Ireland Collection has been, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. TCD library keeps the hardcopy of the Transactions in Early Printed Books stacks; 33 volumes, covering 1787 to 1907. Through the database, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), TCD readers have online access to the 7 volumes of the Transactions published in the Eighteenth century. With JSTOR, there is online access to the full run.

It is important to note that JSTOR is an archive. It will not provide access to current journals. There is a “moving wall" with most titles, that is, a time-lapse between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is usually between three to five years. For example, JSTOR has now uploaded the archives of the RIA’s Ériu, covering the years 1904 - 2005 (Vols. 1 - 55). The moving wall here is three years. The Library has the current (Vol. 58, 2008) issue in hard copy.

The archive is being added to continually. A full list of JSTOR titles and collections can be accessed from JSTOR's Collections at your institution page under Resources for Librarians on the JSTOR website. The journal titles may also be found through the TCD Library website's list of ejournals or easy access to the full JSTOR collection is on the Library's website under Information Resources: Databases: J.

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