Sci Talks : free online videos of science lectures

Sci Talks is a free online collection of video recordings of science lectures, many given by top scientists. The collection contains thousands of videos on a wide range of scientific topics with more being added daily.

Users can also register for free username and password so they create their own collection of favourite videos from the site and share these with students and colleagues.

'Get Full Text' replaced by 'find it @ liverpool'

Our OpenURL service, Get Full Text, powered by LinkFinderPlus has now been replaced by 'find it @ liverpool' powered by SFX.

SFX is the market leading OpenURL software from Ex Libris, who absorbed Endeavor Information Systems (the providers of LinkFinderPlus) earlier this year.

Where you have been used to seeing:

You will now see:

When you click on one of the new links, an SFX window will open (we may 'brand' this in the University style later).

If we have full-text access to the required article then SFX will tell you which site(s) you can access it from, and then you just need to click on the GO button for that site to go to the article.

Sometimes SFX cannot link you directly to the article itself, but it will take you to the table of contents for the required journal issue, or just to the journal home page. We will gradually fine-tune SFX so that it can link directly to an even higher proportion of journals.

SFX is able to link to a far wider range of journals than LinkFinderPlus has been able to.

Wherever we have full-text access to the journal, or wherever we have it in print, SFX also offers a link to our catalogue record(s) for that journal.

There is an 'Advanced' area at the foot of the SFX window which will in time offer links to find the required journal in other library catalogues etc. In the meantime, that's where you'll find a link to a form to report problems.

TIP: Despite our best efforts, it is sometimes not possible to maintain a link via EZproxy through all the steps that SFX needs to perform to construct a link to an article. If you are off-campus and are denied access to an article, look to see if 'ezproxy' appears in the URL. If it doesn't, try putting it in as follows:

e.g. for: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?...

amend it to: http://scitation.aip.org.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?...

i.e. insert .ezproxy.liv.ac.uk before the first single slash in the URL.

2006 data for Journal Citation Reports

The latest data (for the year 2006) is now available in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database. Journal Citation Reports is used to find impact factors: a relative measure of a journal's importance within its field, together with other measures such as number of articles published, total number of cites and immediacy index.

Access Journal Citation Reports from the Library's Web of Knowledge page.

Darwin Correspondence Project - available online

The Darwin Correspondence Project was founded in 1974 with the aim of locating, researching and publishing the complete letters of Charles Darwin. Following a pilot project, the remit was further extended and now also includes letters written to Darwin.

The Darwin Correspondence Project’s archive of letters is now fully available online. The website features a full-text searchable database of over 9,000 letters and provides a comprehensive overview of Darwin’s correspondence. New letters continue to be discovered and are regularly added to the database.

The website also includes a content area looking in detail at Darwin and religion, giving valuable insight into the ongoing debate surrounding creation and evolution. Towards the end of this month a second content area covering Darwin and science will become available looking critically at Darwin’s scientific attitudes and ideas.

To access this resource visit the Darwin Correspondence Project website.

Annual staff recall

All books issued to staff are due for return on 30th June 2007 at the latest. They cannot be renewed by telephone or on the web; they need to be returned to the Library. Books can be returned and re-issued from 1st June onwards. Items not returned by the due date are subject to a fine of 20p per item per day.