TCD Staff - new email system

IS Services will install a new staff email system, beginning during the first quarter of 2008. When this is complete, staff should have up to 10 times the previous email storage capacity. More information in the IS Services newsletter.

Trial - Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive

Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive

TCD Library has trial access to this Archive up to the end of November 2007. Further details on the Archive available here. Access to the trial site is as detailed in the email circulated.

Trial Access to Irish Times Digital Archive (1859-1996)

TCD Library currently has trial access to the Irish Times Digital Archive (1859-1996).

ProQuest, CSA, Chadwyck-Healey

ProQuest-CSA is now the company which supplies the following: ProQuest, CSA, Chadwyck-Healey and Safari databases.

TCD has subscriptions to the following:
On ProQuest platform:
ABI/Inform Global
CINAHL [Provided by EBSCO from 2008]
Nursing Journals/ProQuest [known as ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source]
Dissertations Abstracts/Digital Dissertations [changed to, Dissertations and Theses, and now [2010] ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)

With the same 'look' as before:
Chadwyck Healey [now ProQuest-CSA]:
LION
MLA
Film Index International
EEBO
Patrologia Latina
International Index to Music Periodicals
Palmers Index to the Times
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
British Periodicals (Collection 1 - Just purchased)

CSA [now ProQuest-CSA]:
British Humanities Index
Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts
LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts
Ulrichs

Safari Books online is also a ProQuest-supplied product on its own [Safari] platform

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

Web of Knowledge. Training session on new interface

Thomson Scientific has launched a new interface to Web of Knowledge.
Rachel Mangan of Thomson Scientific will provide a training session on the new interface:

Time: 10.00-12.30
Date: September 20th, 2007
Venue: South Training Room.

We will be hosting this session on behalf of ourselves, DCU and UCD.
Rachel will supply updated quick reference guides on the day of the training session.
Please let Arlene know if you are able to attend the session.

We will continue to link to the old version for the moment.

On the current interface you can click on a preview of the new version. Click here to learn more.