JISC / SURF Model License to Publish

JISC and SURF have produced a model license intended to "help authors make appropriate arrangements with publishers for the publication of a journal article."

The key features of the model license are (from the press release):

• "copyright in the published work remains with the author;
• the author grants the publisher a licence to publish the work;
• the licence takes effect as soon as the publisher has indicated that it wishes to publish the work;
• once the article has been published, the author can make it publicly accessible – in the form in which it was published by the publisher – by making it available as part of a digital scientific collection (a “repository”).
• if the publisher so requests, the start of such public accessibility can be delayed for a maximum of six months".

Use of the License to Publish is supported by the Wellcome Trust who have recently issued a Position Statement in Support of Open and Unrestricted Access to Published Research.

For more information and to download a copy of the 'License to Publish' please go to the SURF Copyright Toolbox.

Engineers: what can your academic library do for you?

An article on how your library can help, from the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre.

Information skills surgeries for Science, Engineering & Medical students

Having trouble tracking down the right information?
Finding that Google isn’t good enough?
Struggling to use library e-resources off-campus?

Why not drop in on a Monday lunchtime between 12 and 1pm to the Wolfson Computer Suite on the first floor of the Harold Cohen Library. There you will find library subject specialists in Science, Engineering & Medicine ready to help you with some hands-on searching.

Learn the ins and outs of the library catalogue
Find your way around the library Web pages
Expand your search beyond your reading list
Track down recent publications on your subject
Access electronic journals and get the full-text on screen

Whatever your question, we will do our best to help. No need to book, just turn up.

Dates for the Autumn term
Mon 6th Nov
Mon 13th Nov
Mon 20th Nov
Mon 11th Dec

Royal Society e-journals - access back to 1665, and to all titles

We now subscribe to the Royal Society's complete package of journals. This means that in addition to our existing subscriptions to the Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings titles we get access to:

• Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
• Biology Letters
• Journal of the Royal Society Interface
• Notes and Records of the Royal Society

By subscribing to the Royal Society's complete package we also get access to their journal archive, right back to the very first volumes published in 1665.

Our extended subscription officially starts in 2007, but the Royal Society have kindly granted us access for the remainder on 2006.

To access these journals go to the library catalogue. Because of the numerous title changes over the years, there are 30 catalogue records!

Coming in 2007: online access to all Nature Publishing Group journals

We don't normally announce new e-resources until access has been set up, but we thought you might like to know about this one in advance.

We have signed up to a 'big deal' that will give you online access to all Nature Publishing Group journals.

From January 2007, you will have online access to:

Nature

the 14 Nature Research Journals:

Nature Biotechnology
Nature Cell Biology
Nature Chemical Biology
Nature Genetics
Nature Immunology
Nature Materials
Nature Medicine
Nature Methods
Nature Nanotechnology - new Oct 06
Nature Neuroscience
Nature Photonics - new Jan 07
Nature Physics
Nature Protocols - new Jun 06
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

the 7 Nature Reviews journals:

Nature Reviews Cancer
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Nature Reviews Genetics
Nature Reviews Immunology
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Nature Reviews Neuroscience

the 8 Nature Clinical Practice journals:

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine
Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism
Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology
Nature Clinical Practice Neurology
Nature Clinical Practice Oncology
Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology
Nature Clinical Practice Urology

and the 39 Academic Journals (published on behalf of societies):

Bone Marrow Transplantation
British Dental Journal
British Journal of Cancer
British Journal of Pharmacology
Cancer Gene Therapy
Cell Death and Differentiation
Cell Research
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics - new Jan 07
EMBO Journal
EMBO Reports
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
European Journal of Human Genetics
Evidence Based Dentistry
Eye
Gene Therapy
Genes and Immunity
Heredity
ISME Journal - new May 07
Immunology and Cell Biology - new Jan 07
International Journal of Impotence Research
International Journal of Obesity
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
Journal of Human Hypertension
Journal of Investigative Dermatology
Journal of Perinatology
Kidney International
Lab Animal
Laboratory Investigation
Leukemia
Modern Pathology
Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Therapy - new Jan 07
Neuropsychopharmacology
Oncogene and Oncogene Reviews
Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases
Spinal Cord
The Pharmacogenomics Journal
Vital

Science magazine - now available online back to 1880, plus STKE

We now have online access to Science magazine back to 1880, rather than just back to 1997, following our decision to purchase the online archive. At the same time we have agreed to extend our subscription to cover Science STKE - the Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment. These additional services officially start in 2007, but the publisher has granted us 'trial' access for the rest of 2006.

The catalogue record for Science has been updated accordingly, and a new one will soon be created for Science STKE.

Or just go to Science or Science STKE.

Find and search Charles Darwin manuscripts and publications

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

This new fully searchable online resource complied by the University of Cambridge includes the entire work and correspondence of Charles Darwin. It contains the most comprehensive bibliography of Darwin’s work and is the largest collection of his work ever assembled. It includes over 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images. The collection is an ongoing work and further editions and translations of material will appear soon. You can also download free mp3 versions of some of his works from this site.

Build your own search engine

You can create a search engine that concentrates on a subject of your choice and that prioritises or restricts search results to websites and pages that you, or your friends and colleagues have specified.

Google Custom Search allows you build a search engine for a topic of your choice that either searches the entire web, prioritising results from web pages you or your colleagues have specified, or searches only those pages you have specified. Look at the examples of how this works.

Rollyo allows you to create a search engine that searches a web sites selected by you on a subject chosen by you. To see how this works look at Brian Greene's String Theory Search Engine.

Other examples include Swicki or Yahoo Search Builder.

These tools are free but will need to register to use them.

SciFinder Scholar now available

SciFinder Scholar is now available for staff and research students at the University of Liverpool.

Our current subscription allows for up to 5 simultaneous users so please be aware of this when trying to access the resource.

SciFinder Scholar may be accessed from any PC or Mac on campus or from off campus via the dialup and VPN services only.

Before you can use SciFinder Scholar you must install the SciFinder client software on your computer, which means you need Administrator rights for your computer.

Installation instructions and the SciFinder client are available from the SciFinder Scholar Information page.

If you have any questions please contact Clair Sharpe.

ScienceDirect Major Reference Works

The Library has a trial of all Major Refererence Works (MRWs) on ScienceDirect until 27th November 2006.

To access this trial go to ScienceDirect Major Reference Works and click on ALL.

Off-campus users should first login to Athens and then follow the links above.

Note that we already have access to two of the MRWs: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences and Comprehensive Composite Materials.

After trying the ScienceDirect MRWs please complete the feedback form.

POL Library Closure

The POL Library will close at 16:00 today, Friday 13th October.

Community of Scholars

The Library has a trial of the Community of Scholars database on the CSA Illumina platform until 10th November 2006.

To access this trial:

• go to CSA Illumina (off-campus users should login to Athens and then follow the link to CSA Illumina)
• click on the Specific Databases link
• check the Community of Scholars checkbox and click Continue to Search

Community of Scholars™ provides authoritative information about more than 1 million scholars and organizations around the world, together with verified affiliation and publication information. The database comprises international faculty at 4-year universities and their departments. Community of Scholars covers 1,091,749 scholars in 2,213 Universities.

If you would like more information about Community of Scholars please contact your Subject Librarian.

CINDAS materials properties databases trial

Until 25th October 2006 we have trial access to two materials properties databases from CINDAS (Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis at Purdue University):
Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database (MPMD)
Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database (TPMD)
Details of how to access the trial are at:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/library/techserv/ejrnl/etrials.html#cindas
Please let us know what you think of the databases via the feedback form.

Business Source Premier: new full-text database

The Library now has access to Business Source Premier, a database of more than 8,800 full-text journals, including top management and marketing titles such as:
Harvard Business Review, from 1922
California Management Review, from 1958
Academy of Management Journal, from 1958
Academy of Management Review, from 1976
Journal of Marketing Research, from 1964
Journal of Marketing, from 1936
Journal of International Marketing, from 1993

Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. The database is updated daily.

Access Business Source Premier from the Library's database pages or directly at http://search.ebscohost.com/. If you're accessing from off-campus login to Athens first. Search the database using the generic EBSCOhost platform, or the Business Searching Interface designed especially for it.

As Business Source Premier duplicates a lot of the material available via the much smaller ABI/INFORM Select electronic serials package, ABI/INFORM Select will be discontinued from the end of 2006.