Friday 15 December 2017

Dawsonera ebooks - downtime Tuesday 2nd January 2018 23:59–02:00


We've been alerted that on Tuesday 2nd January 2018, dawsonera ebooks will be offline between 23:59–02:00 GMT for conduct routine system maintenance.




"My EBSCOhost" Folders unavailable 4th January 2pm - 3pm

"My EBSCOhost" will be having some software updates on 4th January. Your account and folders will be unavailable during this time.

Tuesday 12 December 2017

NewsBank special reports - December



NewsBank’s Special Reports are news articles, images, maps and other useful content grouped for convenience under specific topics and themes. They enable users to quickly locate information while helping them gain better insight into current global issues and events.

Following is a listing of ones that may be of particular interest at this time.

December Topics
Year in Review - 2017
Issues in the News - Human Rights
World Health
World Politics and Government
Natural Disasters

Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events
Education Around the World
Mental Health
World Economics
World Environment
World Terrorism and Conflict

Each Special Report features current and retrospective coverage with new articles added daily. They constitute a unique value to your users and are included with your NewsBank subscription. There are over 60 Reports to be sure the information you need is always available.

Special Reports are easily accessible from the left side bar on your online resource menu page, on search screens and the Other NewsBank Products link in full-text newspaper products.

Please view and share this video with others. It shows you how to find Special Reports, what they are and how they can be used.  http://newsbank.com/videos/how-find-use-special-reports


Web of Science – New Features and Updates

Web of Science released a new version on 10th December - here's what they have to say about it:


Discover More Open Access!

Web of Science users will now be able to discover millions more open access articles amongst the content they already search every day—and they can be confident that they are discovering links to the final, trusted version of an article, from the journals that meet our high editorial standards for Web of Science Core Collection, our specialized index collections and those of our regional partners.

Web of Science is the world’s first research platform to implement this OA discovery technology, resulting from our partnership with Impactstory.

You will see a new filter for Gold (including Gold Hybrid), Green Published, and Green Accepted OA:


(Note: Number of open access records available will depend on your institutional Web of Science collection entitlements)

Simpler Navigation – Helping you get what's most important to you more quickly

We’ve redesigned your view of search results sorting options—making them easier to access. Sort now with a single click, by: Date, Times Cited, Usage Count, and Relevance… or click the drop down to reveal all available options.



Key Metrics at a glance: Better visibility of the Citation Network within the full record

A newly redesigned full record view presents a clean and easy-to-read view of an article’s Citation Network and Usage Counts.

Easily see newly added content that cites the current content with the Times Cited link, and the research that influenced the current article with the Cited References link.



Better visibility into what research is of most interest to users of the Web of Science

An updated look of the article-level widget will now show you how users of the Web of Science globally are interacting with an article. If a Web of Science user anywhere in the world has clicked through to access the full text of the publication, downloaded the article data to EndNote or other bibliographic software, or saved the data to a file, it registers as a use. This is a great way to find relevant, useful articles that may have fewer citations because they’re simply new or may be in fields of research that have lower citation counts overall.




Be the first to know...Web of Science now indexes Early Access articles

Web of Science is now working with publishers to index Early Access publications – these are final, accepted versions of articles that have a static DOI and online publication date, but do not yet have final volume, issue or page numbers.

They will be given an "Early Access" document type in the Web of Science Core Collection, which will allow you to search, filter, and easily identify these articles as early access.

Now get your Web of Science search alerts DAILY!

You will be able to now receive Web of Science Core Collection search alerts daily in addition to weekly or monthly – save your search and have the results emailed to your Inbox.


What's new? For more details on these enhancements and other Clarivate Analytics news, visit this LibGuide.