Scopus releases 2013 Journal Metrics

Elsevier is pleased to announce the release of the 2013 Journal Metrics based on Scopus data.

The metrics provide alternative, transparent and accurate views of the citation impact a journal makes, and are all available for free download at www.journalmetrics.com. The impact metrics are based on methodologies developed by external bibliometricians and use Scopus as the data source. Scopus is the largest citation database of peer-reviewed literature and features tools to track, analyze and visualize research output.

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)

SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa. As a field-normalized metric SNIP offers researchers, authors and librarians the ability to benchmark and compare journals from different subject areas. A component of the SNIP calculation is the raw Impact per Publication (IPP) which measures the ratio of citations per article published in the journal.

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SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that ‘all citations are not created equal’. With SJR, the subject field, quality and reputation of the journal have a direct effect on the value of a citation. It is a size-independent indicator and it ranks journals by their ‘average prestige per article’ and can be used for journal comparisons in the scientific evaluation process.

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The SNIP is developed by Leiden University's Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS). The SJR is developed by the SCImago research group in Spain.

More information, including a downloadable file with all journal metrics, can be found on www.journalmetrics.com.

Turnitin downtime - 5pm Saturday 26th July to 5am Sunday 27th July

Due to a system upgrade the Turnitin assignment submission part of BREO may be unavailable from 5pm on Saturday 26th July until 5am on Sunday 27th July.

Clinical Skills Net - healthcare students only

If you're a healthcare student using Clinical Skills Net, you may find that it has disappeared from your BREO home page following the latest upgrade. You should be able to get it back yourself:

• click ‘Add a Module’ from your BREO gateway page and choose ‘Clinical Skills’ from the list 

If this doesn't work, you will need to contact your tutor, who can pass it on to the BREO team. 

Stylesight - combining with WGSN

The fashion service Stylesight will be merging with WGSN (World Global Style Network) on 4th August. They have released some pre-launch information here - we'll give you more information as it becomes available.

Web of Science upgrade – Expected 13 July 2014

There will be some upgrades to Web of Science on 13th July:

• Personalize the Number of Search Fields on Basic Search - You can select whether one or three search fields appear on the Basic Search page and register or sign in to save that setting.
• Linked Hot Papers and Highly Cited Papers Badges - Learn more about Web of Science records that are Hot or Highly Cited within Essential Science Indicators.
• Updated Medline - Search the most current version of the Medline data from the NLM with the up-to-date MeSH indexing and thesaurus.
• Improved Google Scholar Full Text Linking - More accurate links to Google Scholar from Web of Science for additional full-text options.
• Improved JCR Category Display - Improved representation of JCR categories in the Journal Information box.
• Persistent Sort Order - Sort order selection persists during a session

There is more information available here. 

Browsers supported:

Windows® Operating Systems & Browsers
• Windows 7 and Windows XP
• Internet Explorer 8 and 11
• Firefox 27
• Google Chrome 33
Macintosh® Operating Systems & Browsers
• Mac OS X10.7 and Mac OS X10.6
• Safari 6.0
• Firefox 27

Important note for Windows XP users of Internet Explorer 8:
Please download the KB2416400 patch (available here: http://search.microsoft.com/en-us/DownloadResults.aspx?q=KB2416400) if you receive the error “HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917).”

BREO upgrade 12th / 13th July

see the Learning Technology Team blog for more details.

Web of Science upgrade and intermittent availability, Sunday 13 July 14.00 to Monday 14 July 02.00

Web of Science Maintenance: Sunday 13 July 14.00 to Monday 14 July 02.00 -  Intermittent access.

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Thomson Reuters have now confirmed details of the Web ofScience upgrade that commences on 13 July 2014 (previous announcement regarding this at http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/news/2014/20140704.html ).

Please be advised that Web of Science will undergo scheduled maintenance from Sunday July 13, 2014 at 14:00 BST until Monday July 14, 2014 at 02:00 BST.  During this time, Web of Science may not be available intermittently.  Thomson Reuters apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Release notes to support the upgrade at: http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/wok_5_14_releasenotes.pdf

Dawsonera ebooks update

We think Dawsonera ebooks are working this morning, but we've had no official word from our supplier. Please let us know if you continue to have problems with it.

University IT downtime 8pm 11th July 2014 – 8am 14th July 2014

We've been warned that all university systems and services will be down from

8pm Friday 11^th July 2014 – 8am Monday 14^th July 2014 for an upgrade. This will affect all services except your email account, including the library catalogue and remote access to digital library resources.

Web of Science tutorials on YouTube

Web of Science have made a selection of useful tutorial videos available here on YouTube.

Dawsonera ebooks down again

We've just been informed that Dawsonera ebooks are unavailable again. We will try to keep you informed as we get news from our supplier.

Dawsonera ebooks - page failures

We've had this message regarding Dawsonera ebooks:

If you experience a 'page failure' then refreshing the page or waiting a few seconds and trying again should resolve the issue.

They are still working on the problems and hopefully it will be back to normal soon.

Dawsonera ebooks - intermittent access

We've been advised that access to Dawsonera ebooks is still likely to be intermittent while our supplier investigates the problem. Hopefully they will have it fixed soon. In the meantime we can only suggest you keep trying. Clear your browser cache in between attempts though or you may be bringing up a cached error message.

UK Access Management login problems resolved

We understand that the problems we have been having with login to UK Access Management Federation resources (including RefWorks and Dawsonera ebooks) have now been resolved. Please let us know if you have any further problems.

UK Access Management Federation problems

We seem to be having intermittent login problems with UK Access Management Federation resources, including RefWorks and Dawsonera ebooks. This has been reported to ICT and we hope to have it fixed soon.

SiD Downtime Thursday 3rd July

Please note that SiD Online, the PAD enquiry centre and Tell Us will be unavailable from 9am on Thursday 3rd of July for an essential upgrade. This downtime will last up to 4 hours, with a minimal risk of disruption for the rest of the day. This will not affect other University services.