Separate Catalogue records for Print and Electronic Journals

We often have access to the same journal in print and electronic formats and, in the past, we have added the link for the e-journal to the catalogue record for the print journal. In future, to enable us to manage our journal subscriptions more easily there will be seperate catalogue records for the print and electronic formats of a journal.

For example, Archaometry is a journal for which we have both print and electronic subscriptions.

• If you search the Library catalogue limited to Journals for Archaeometry you will find two records, one for our print copy and one for the electronic journal - try it.
  
  
• If you search the Library catalogue limited to Electronic Resources for Archaeometry you will find one records, the one for the electronic journal - try it.

The work to create separate print and electronic journal records has started and will be continue over the summer.

Please contact a member of the Science and Engineering Team if you have any questions or comments.

Pubmed Wizard: "open-access review of scientific and medical literature"

From the press release :

"BioWizard, LLC (www.biowizard.com), a leading developer of online information solutions for the life sciences industry, announces the launch of PubMed Wizard, an online resource enabling the universal open-access review of scientific and medical literature.........

Using PubMed Wizard, authors and researchers can now post comments, share ideas, and ask questions on a live archive of all published literature, giving everyone in the community a voice and allowing ground-breaking research to rise to the forefront of scientific debate."

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• open-review
• databases
• research

Rudd Sound Bites

Rudd Sound Bites is the blog of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.

The blog aims to "encourage global discussion of the most critical issues regarding food policy and obesity".

Join the debate at http://ruddsoundbites.typepad.com/

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• obesity
• psychology

Google Accessible Search

Google have produced a version of their search engine designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily accessible by blind and visually impaired users. Google Accessible Search works in the same way as regular Google but helps you to find the most accessible pages in your results set.

For more information about Google Accessible Search read the FAQ's or try a search yourself.

Changes to ScienceDirect

There have recently been some changes made to ScienceDirect which have simplified access for off-campus users via Athens.

To search ScienceDirect from off-campus you now simply need to first login to Athens at https://www.liv.ac.uk/athens and then follow the link to ScienceDirect. You can then search ScienceDirect as usual without any need to login further.

Please contact a member of the Science & Engineering Team if you have any questions or comments.

Maney Publishing e-journals

To access this trial go to Maney Publishing on Ingenta Connect. Off-campus users first login to Athens.

We already subscribe to the journals marked by an icon in the list of Maney journals on Ingenta Connect. A new agreement means that we now have the option of cancelling these subscriptions and subscribing to one of more e-only bundles instead:

• Materials Science & Technology
• Health
• History & Humanities
• Botanical & Environment

Please let us know what you think.

Sedimentology

Sedimentology is now available online back to issue one.

New JSTOR collections available

We have expanded our range of JSTOR journal archive collections. We now have access to:

• Arts & Sciences III - 150 titles including the Language & Literature Collection, plus music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.
• Arts & Sciences IV - will include a minimum of one hundred titles when it is completed in 2006, including law, psychology, and public policy and administration and business and education titles.
• Arts & Sciences Complement - will include a minimum of 150 titles by the end of 2008. Journals may be focused in any of the more than thirty arts, humanities, and social sciences disciplines covered by JSTOR. The aim is to introduce important titles that JSTOR were unable to include in earlier collections and to capture journals that cross discipline boundaries.
• Ecology & Botany Collection - twenty-nine titles in the biological sciences. Topics covered by the ecology journals are wide-ranging, from biodiversity and climate change to conservation and experimental biology. The botany titles include plant biology, systematic botany, and taxonomy.

See catalogue records for all available titles, or search JSTOR.

Marine Biology materials from Port Erin

The Port Erin Library collection has been moved to the Harold Cohen Library and is available to borrow.

The library catalogue has been changed to show where in the Harold Cohen Library each book and journal in the Port Erin collection is to be found. As a quick guide:

• Books with class numbers beginning PORT E and anything with a class number beginning PORT E Z - ST31 Stack 2 Open Access Store
  
  
• Journals with class numbers beginning PORT E - ST30 Stack 2 Closed Access Store (The catalogue says Ask for HCL Store ST30). You will need to go to the library issue desk and ask library staff to get these for you)

Over the next 12 months the Port Erin Collection will be given Library of Congress class numbers (the same as the rest of the science books and journals in the library).

As soon as they are re-classified the books and journals will be moved to a new location. The library catalogue record for each book and journal will be updated to show the new location.

If you have any questions contact David Clay

Harold Cohen Library - Stack 2

Stack 2 in the Harold Cohen Library is closed for public access until Friday 14th July so we can unload the books and journals from Port Erin and make them available.

If anyone needs a book or journal shelved on stack 2 please ask at the Issue desk and the library staff will go and get it for you.

Update: Stack 2 has now re-opened and is available for public use.

Library Opening hours from July to September

The library opening hours over the summer vacation are:

Harold Cohen Library

Monday 09.00 - 21.30 (Unstaffed after 19.00)
Tuesday - Friday 09.00 - 21.30 (Unstaffed after 17.00)
Saturday 09.00 - 17.00 (Unstaffed after 13.00)
Sunday Closed

Sydney Jones Library

Monday - Wednesday 09.00 - 17.00
Thursday 09.00 - 19.00
Friday 09.00 - 17.00
Saturday 09.00 - 13.00
Sunday Closed

24-hour Opening will start again in the Harold Cohen and Sydney Jones Libraries at the start of the first Semester, 2006/07.

Port Erin Library

The Marine Biological Station Station Library at Port Erin on the Isle of Man has now closed.

The books and journals from this library are being transfered to the Harold Cohen Library. They will be available to borrow from Monday 17th July 2006.

All books and journals formerly in the Marine Biology Library at Port Erin are listed on the library catalogue which will be updated to show their new location.

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• Marine-Biology