Renewing your books online made easier

From today there is a change in how you 'login' to the Library catalogue to renew your books or to see what you have on loan, etc.

Instead of typing your name, University id number and Library PIN, as in the past, you will login with your (Computing Services) Managed Windows Service ('email')  username and password.

Choose the first Username/password box 'for University of Liverpool students and staff' and use your familiar MWS login as a student or member of staff of the University.

We hope this change will make things easier by allowing you to use the same password for the Library as you use to login to the University managed network.

You will not need your Library PIN any more.

Oxford University Press Online Archives

You can now access over 160 Oxford University Press journals, usually from their first volume up until the present.

JISC has purchased Oxford University Press Online Archives on behalf of all UK HE Institutions and we have licensed this content so that you can have access. You can see a list of the journals included in the Archive here.

We then have access from 1997 to date thanks to our individual journal subscriptions, or because we have signed up to an 'all titles' NESLi2 agreement with Oxford University Press.

Access the Oxford University Press Online Archives through the library catalogue or search the entire OUP Journal collection from volume 1 to date.

Copyright scanning licence

The University has signed up to the Copyright Licensing Agency's HE Licence for photocopying and scanning.

The licence allows academic departments to scan items from UK published print originals owned by the University which can then be placed into VITAL for the use of students on a particular module.

More information from the Library's Copyright Webpage, or from your subject librarian.

Krugle - a search engine for source code

Krugle is designed to locate code, and related technical and licensing information, and to provide answers to code-related technical questions.

To find out more about this resource and how it works read About Krugle.

TechXtra - finding technology information!

TechXtra is a freely available resource which cross-searches 25 different databases in engineering, mathematics and computing. In many cases you should be able to click straight through from your search results to the full text of articles and reports. TechXtra can help you find articles, books, quality websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints and the very latest research.

So if you're looking for engineering, mathematics and computing information on the web try TechXtra. For more information about coverage and how to search this resource see the about TechXtra section of the website.

American Journal of Physics

The full-text of all American Journal of Physics articles from 1933 to the present day are now available online. Access is available via the Library catalogue or through the American Institute of Physics' Scitation website. Off-campus access is via EZProxy.

PsycARTICLES - archives now available

We now have online access to the archives of most APA journals through PsycARTICLES e.g.

• Developmental psychology 1969-
• Journal of abnormal psychology 1906-
• Journal of applied psychology 1917-
• Journal of comparative psychology 1921-
• Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 1937-
• Journal of counseling psychology 1954-
• Journal of experimental psychology 1916-1974
• Journal of experimental psychology: animal behavior processes 1975-
• Journal of experimental psychology: general 1975-
• Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance 1975-
• Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory and cognition 1975-
• Journal of personality and social psychology 1965-
• Professional psychology : research and practice 1969-
• Psychological Bulletin 1904-
• Psychological Review 1894-
• The American psychologist 1946-
• The journal of educational psychology 1910-

Access is available via the Library catalogue or through the PsycArticles web site. Off-campus access is via Athens.

Update - Building work on the Sydney Jones Library

Work is starting today to build temporary partitions on the Senate House side of the first and second floors of the library. The first few rows of PCs will be unavailable while the work is being done.

Journals from the American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Here's a quick reminder that we now have online access to all American Insitute of Physics journals. This gives us access to the following additional titles:

• AIP Conference Proceedings
• Chaos
• Geochemical Transactions (open access on BioMed Central from 2006)
• Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
• Low Temperature Physics
• Physics of Fluids
• Physics of Plasmas

Access is available via the Library catalogue or through the AIP's Scitation web site. Off-campus access is via EZProxy.

Athens made easier

Some databases, such as British Standards, require you to be logged into Athens to authenticate yourself as a Liverpool user before you can access their content.

The re-written Athens information page should clarify things for you and give you some tips to simplify your access to resources, particularly from your own PC.

Web of Science: Author Finder

You may find Web of Science's new Author Finder tool useful, particularly when tracking down those RAE references. Web of Science has broad coverage of science and technology journals and Author Finder makes searching for authors easier than before.

Login to Athens via the Liverpool University Athens login page. Then go to Web of Knowledge Choose Web of Science and Author Finder. Follow the steps to track down papers by an author.

You can then copy your chosen references from the list of papers. The references are in a format that needs just a little editing to fit into Crossref's required format on its FreeTextQuery page. So if you wish you can go on to discover the papers' URLs and DOIs.

References for RAE: URLs and DOIs

The 2008 RAE submissions require, for journal articles that are available online, the URL (Web address) and the DOI (Digital Object Identifier (Web address that won't move!))

To help you find these, you can use the free DOI lookup tool at http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/ You type the bibliographic details of the article into the boxes and it will return the DOI. You may prefer http://www.crossref.org/freeTextQuery/ where you can copy in your reference in a single line in the format shown. (Maximimise the window first!)

You should be able to track down the DOI of your papers provided that:
a) the publisher is a member of CrossRef - most are, see http://www.crossref.org/01company/06publishers.html
b) the publisher has registered the DOI in the CrossRef database (very recently published articles may not be in there.)

If the publisher is in CrossRef, but this tool doesn't return the DOI then you can usually find it on the e-journal site for the article, by viewing the table of contents, abstract or full-text.

URLs for e-journal articles are often very long, and not necessarily re-usable, so if you can find the DOI using the tool above I would suggest quoting the URL as: http://dx.doi.org/ ... where you replace ... with the actual DOI for the article.

Otherwise, just provide the URL for the Abstract or Full-Text of the article, by right-clicking a link to it and choosing 'Copy shortcut'.

If all this sounds like too much hassle, please feel free to call upon your subject librarian, listed at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Library/subjects/engineer/eng/engcontact.html to find the DOIs and URLs for you. And please let us know if there's anything else we can do to help the RAE process.

Update: there is now a Library Web page on RAE Submissions: DOIs and URLs

Intute: science, engineering & technology

New gateway for science and engineering internet resources.

The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) has relaunched with a new name INTUTE. Intute brings together EEVL: the internet guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, PSIgate: Physical Sciences Internet Gateway and GEsource: geography and environment gateway to form a new web gateway - Intute: science, engineering & technology.

Intute aims to help you find the very best available web resources for teaching, learning and research. The Intute gateway offers access to high quality websites which have all been selected and evaluated by subject specialists. Try Intute now!