Synlett and Synthesis backfiles now available online

We now have acccess to the online archives of Synlett and Synthesis. Many thanks to the publisher, Georg Thieme Verlag, who granted us access immediately we placed an order.

You can now access Synlett back to its first volume in 1989, and Synthesis to its first volume in 1969.

Sage e-journals backfiles now available

We're delighted to announce that we now have online access to over 300 SAGE journals back to their first volume. We have updated our catalogue records and our link resolver (Get Full Text).

SAGE have digitised their journals with all content appearing under the current title. We have catalogued them likewise though we will later correct our catalogue records so that changes of title are correctly represented..

TRIAL: Thieme e-journals

We have a trial of all Thieme e-journals until 31st March 2007. We have activated these titles in our link resolver (Get Full Text) and we will add records to the library catalogue soon. Until then you can go to Thieme Connect and navigate to any of the journals listed below. Note that we already subscribe to Synlett and Synthesis (and have just purchased their backfiles).

If you use these journals and think we should have access to them, please leave a comment.

The titles covered are:

American Journal of Perinatology
Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery
Endoscopy
European Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes
Facial Plastic Surgery
Homoeopathic Links
Hormone and Metabolic Research
Informationen aus Orthodontie and Kieferorthopädie
International Journal of Sports Medicine
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery
min - Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
Neuropediatrics
Orthopedic Trauma Directions
Osteosynthesis and trauma care
Pharmacopsychiatry
Plant Biology
Planta Medica
Seminars in Hearing
Seminars in Interventional Radiology
Seminars in Liver Disease
Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology
Seminars in Neurology
Seminars in Plastic Surgery
Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Seminars in Speech and Language
Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis
Skull Base : An Interdisciplinary Approach
Synfacts
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
Zentralblatt für Neurochirurgie

MORE NEW e-journals : Cambridge University Press

We are delighted to announce that we now have access to all Cambridge University press journals online. This gives us access to 131 additional CUP journals in a wide range of subject areas, including:

• Biofilms
• The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
• International Journal of Tropical Insect Science
• Parasitology

See our catalogue records for the full list. Please note that several titles have been acquired from other publishers in 2007 and no content yet appears on the CUP site.

NEW e-journals: Institute of Physics

We have had online access to most IOP journals for some years now but we've now extended this to include access to all IOP journals, including new titles such as:

Bioinspiration & Biomemetics
Biomedical Materials
Journal of Instrumentation

See our catalogue records for the IOP journals included in this new NESLi2 agreement.

Institutional Repository: Let Us Know If You're Ready to Participate

The University of Liverpool is creating an Institutional Repository, the main purpose of which will be to provide open access to work produced by our researchers.

This is expected to be advantageous to the researcher, whose work is more likely to be cited; to the department, whose RAE performance is enhanced by increased citation; and to the University, increasing its visibility and prestige.

Prior to the full roll-out of the service we will be running a pilot Repository. We would like to hear from any researchers, departments or research centres that want to participate in the pilot phase.

Making Your Research More Visible: read more and tell us if you're interested (available on-campus only)

Botanicus Digital Library

Botanicus is "a freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of digitized 18th and 19th century botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library".

The encyclopedia currently includes over 147 titles, 988 volumes and over 502,000 pagesand you can subscribe to an RSS feed to alert you when new content is added. You can browse the collection by title, author or date of publication.

The images in these books, unless otherwise noted, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License
meaning you can use them for your presentations, academic materials, non-profit publications, or non-profit web sites, provided you attribute them to the Missouri Botanical Garden.

NEW e-journals Big Deal: Royal Society of Chemistry

We have started a subscription to the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2007 NESLi2 agreement. This includes online access to a number of additional jounals:

The Analyst
Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, A-C
Chemistry World
CrystEngComm
Green Chemistry
Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
Journal of Environmental Monitoring
Molecular BioSystems
Natural Product Reports
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences
Soft Matter

plus the Issues in Environmental Science and Technology book series

See our catalogue records for all of the titles included in the RSC NESLi2 agreement. Note that we have archival access to these journals through the JISC's purchase of the RSC Journal Archive.The agreement also gives us access to 4 databases based on printed RSC abstracts journals:Analytical Abstracts Catalysts and Catalysed Reactions Methods in Organic Synthesis Natural Product Updates. These are listed as Royal Society of Chemistry Databases in our Chemistry databases web page.

New Nature Newsblog!

Nature has started a news blog which gives readers the opportunity to comment on stories which appear on Nature’s news site and the Nature podcast. The Nature Newsblog provides a digest of science news stories and a forum for comment and debate. Why not check it out to see what is being discussed and add your own opinions about recent news stories. Nature also hosts a range of other science related blogs that are worth investigating and which also allow readers to comment.

Online access to all Nature Publishing Group journals

The Library is delighted to announce that we have signed up to the Nature Publishing Group's first-ever NESLi2 agreement at the Platinum level, which means that we have online access to all NPG journals in 2007: both the Nature-branded journals and the journals that NPG publish on behalf of societies.

Catalogue records have been created for all of the available journals, or just follow the links from the NPG journals site.

If you have any questions please contact your Subject Librarian.

Information skills surgeries: new dates for the Spring term

We are continuing the Harold Cohen Library drop-in sessions, so if you are having trouble tracking down information, want help using library e-resources, need to find your way around the Library web pages - whatever your question, we are here to help.
Come along on a Monday between 12-1pm to the Wolfson Computer Suite on the first floor of the Harold Cohen Library. You will find library subject specialists in Science, Medicine, Engineering and Vet Science ready to help you with some hands-on help and advice.
Every Monday 12-1pm during the Spring term :15th Jan, 22nd Jan, 29th Jan, 5th Feb, 12th Feb, 19th Feb (HCC2), 26th Feb, 5th March, 12th March, 19th March (HCC2), 26th March. No need to book, just turn up!

New Scientist now available online from 1989

We now have access to the New Scientist online, from 1989 onwards. However, all is not as straightforward as it might be! Although IP authentication is used on campus, you aren't allowed to read articles straight away. So at first you will get a message that says you need to subscribe to read the rest of the article. Over on the right of the screen you will see your Institutional IP Login displayed and a button to login using your IP address. Click the button and you will see the full article.

Off campus access is currently via EZproxy.

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) launched

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) has launched and is intended to provide free online access to to peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences.

As well as mirroring the US Pubmed Central, UKPMC enables UK researchers to deposit articles that have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

In fact, researchers whose work is supported by a member of the UKPMC Funders Group maybe required to deposit a copy of their research outputs in UKPMC. From the JISC press release:

"Members of this group now require that articles describing the results of research they support are made available in UKPMC with the aim of maximising its impact. The UKPMC service will ensure that articles resulting from research paid for by any member of the funding consortium will be freely available, fully searchable and extensively linked to other online resources."

A list of the UKPMC funders and details of their open access policies are available from the funders section of the UKMPC.

"Most Important Science Stories of 2006"

The Scientific American have published their selection of the most important science stories of 2006. Its an interesting insight into what is considered important !

Continuing the list theme, the New Scientist have produced a list of the best articles it has published to mark its 50th anniversary.

Psychology Past Exam Papers

Psychology past exam papers are kept in the Sydney Jones Library. The exam papers are available from the Short Loan Collection (number 17) and from the shelves by the photocopiers on the ground floor. The exam paper collection doesn't include examples of multiple choice papers at the request of the Department/Faculty.

There are no copies of Psychology exam papers in the Harold Cohen Library.

If you have any questions about this please contact David Clay.

Elsevier Book Series - now available online!

We now have online access to the following Elsevier book series on ScienceDirect :

• Advances in applied microbiology
• Advances in catalysis
• Advances in ecological research
• Advances in experimental social psychology
• Advances in genetics
• Advances in heterocyclic chemistry
• Advances in inorganic chemistry
• Advances in microbial physiology
• Advances in physical organic chemistry
• Advances in parasitology
• Advances in the study of behaviour
• Methods in enzymology
• Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology

We're in the process of adding links to these books to the library catalogue but in the meantime you can access these books series via Science Direct ( click on this link for off campus access).

If you'd like to know more about this please speak to your Subject Librarian.