We now have access to MEDLINE through ISI Web of Knowledge, in addition to our access via OVID and Pubmed.  This access is a free add-on to our existing Web of Knowledge subscription.  Check it out, and compare the interface and searching to Ovid and Pubmed!

MEDLINE via ISI Web of Knowledge
1950 – Present
MEDLINE is the premier database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It contains over 12 million records of journal articles in all areas of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on biomedicine.

Vault Online Career Library has changed its name and its look, and is now:

Vault Career Insider

Includes Vault Career and Employer Guides, Career Profiles, Company Research, Diversity Profiles, Industry Research, and an Internship Database.  Also includes downloadable career guides, 3000 insider company snapshots, industry overviews, occupational profiles and career advice articles plus access to online forums.

Free personal registration required for access to this resource

Once patrons create a personalized login, they may use Vault Career Insider from the link on the databases page or catalog to gain access to excellent career information.

You might have noticed that a few of our popular electronic databases look a little different.  We have switched over some of our abstracting and indexing databases to different platforms (many A & I databases offer their content through several different vendors).  Here’s what’s changed!

MLA International Bibliography — Drexel now subscribes to MLA via Proquest’s CSA Illumina Platform.  MLA was previously available from OCLC Firstsearch.  Alternate access to MLA Bibliography on the Chadwyck Healey platform is also available here

PAIS International — Also Previously available from OCLC Firstsearch, PAIS International is now accessible through the CSA Illumina Platform

Cochrane Library — The Cochrane Library from Wiley is made up of several resources previously accessible at Drexel through OvidSP.  These include several Evidence Based Medicine titles such as Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR; Cochrane Reviews); Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE); Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; Clinical Trials); Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR; Methods Studies); NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED; Economic Evaluations); and Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA; Technology Assessments).

*eresource blog-post title opportunities really don’t get any better than that, folks.

Our CCH subscriptions have experienced a few changes!  Wolters Kluwer, who owns CCH and all its content, has rolled out a new portal for all CCH and related content.  It is called Intelliconnect, and all our CCH subscribed content is now available through only this portal.

The biggest change is that users are now required to creat their own login / password to gain access to CCH content.

Here is a list of our CCH subscribed content that is now available via Intteliconnect:

CCH Tax Research Network
Provides full-text access to useful tax handbooks, federal and state tax codes and tables, regulations, rulings, cases, and current tax news. For assistance using the Intelliconnect CCH Portal, please see the User Guide

CCH Business and Finance NetWork
Current awareness tools (i.e., looseleaf services) and full text of primary law in the areas of U.S. advertising, antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, commercial law, computer law, consumer credit, energy law, franchising, government contracts, intellectual property, product distribution, products liability, securities, trade regulation, and transportation law. Also includes current awareness tools on transnational securities law, and full text of the securities laws of more than 30 non-U.S. nations. For assistance using the Intelliconnect CCH Portal, please see the User Guide

CCH Health and Human Resources NetWork
Current awareness tools (i.e., looseleaf services) and full text of primary law in the areas of U.S. employee benefits, employment law, food and drug regulation, health care administration, health law, labor law, medical device regulation, occupational safety, payroll administration, pension administration, and unemployment insurance. Also includes downloadable interactive forms on OSHA compliance, U.S. federal pension and benefits administration, and U.S. federal and state employment, human resources, and payroll functions. For assistance using the Intelliconnect CCH Portal, please see the User Guide

Ebrary has announced some new enhancements which should be implemented soon. This includes new features that they’ve added to their Quickview interface.

Dear Customers, Partners, and Friends:

By the end of the week, ebrary is shipping a number of powerful new features that make it quicker and easier to discover, use, and manage information online.

We have considerably improved our QuickView Reader, which does not require any software downloads or installations. New QuickView features include InfoTools, which turns every word into a network to other online resources; copying; highlighting; annotating; and the ability to turn text into hyperlinks. As you may know, ebrary recently added printing to QuickView as well as integration with RefWorks and EndNote for easy citation management.

Additionally, end-users can now email bookshelf folders containing notes, highlights, hyperlinks, and bookmarks to peers.

Video clips showcasing our new developments are available at www.ebrary.com

Sincerely,

The ebrary team

Thanks to help from the College of Nursing, Drexel now has a site license to the essential nursing resource CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) on the EbscoHost platform.  We previously held a 20-user-limit subscription to this database, which was causing many nursing students to be turned away from the database.

Check out our unlimited CINAHL access for yourself!

The next release of OvidSP is scheduled to go live Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 10:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 GMT). The following platform enhancements will be available as part of this release:

• Customizable Search Fields
• 2 New Limits: Limit to Star Ranking and Limit Date to Last
• Quarterly AutoAlerts
• Improved highlighting in search results
• Links to PDFs of full-text articles—when available—in citations
• Links to full text or the citation are now included when you export a citation to your citation manager or email to colleagues
• Ovid Universal Search™ check box on the main search panel (Sign up for a free trial of this unique cross-platform search solution)
• Ovid Universal Search tab names can be user specified (for Universal Search customers only)
• Link text for the Knowledge Base in upper-right corner now reads Support & Training for additional clarification

Drexel Libraries have offered SFX linking through Google Scholar for a few years now, but there have often been issues with the quality of the linking to Drexel’s resources.  HOWEVER, thanks to Ian Richmond’s investigative work, we can now offer Drexel linking within Google Scholar at a much higher success rate! Take a look!

Students on Drexel’s campus searching Google Scholar will automatically be recognized as Drexel patrons and will see Find it@DREXEL links next to each citation  for which we link to full text.  The ‘Find it@DREXEL’ links will appear in every citation, but for those to which we link to full text the link is much more prominently displayed next to the article title (for the other citations, the Find It link is below the citation and will link patrons to ILL).

From off-campus, patrons may set up their preferences to see results for Drexel when searching Google Scholar.  Complete instructions on using Google Scholar are available here.

We can now much more confidently direct patrons to Google Scholar for article discovery!  Thank you Ian for all your work on this.

Wilson has recently implemented Readspeaker, a tool which converts text-to speech. Now, you can either stream your favorite scholarly articles or download them as MP3s! This service is available for Art Full Text, Library Literature and Information Science Full Text and Legal Periodicals Full Text.

In order to access the audio:

• Find an article
• Choose “Full Text HTML”
• The audio option will be at the top of the page

For more information on Readspeaker, you can go to Wilson’s latest news.

ebrary is launching their new interface January 20, 2009.  The new look allows for quicker navigation and a sleeker look, and the long-time coming QuickView — which allows users instant access to the full text of ebooks WITHOUT DOWNLOADING THE EBRARY READER!  This and other features of the new interface are described in the ebrary technology site.

You may preview the new ebrary interface from their demo site.  To view the new interface, Just go to http://exdemo.ebrary.com/lib/uidemo and use the login information sent via email.  Should you need the login information for the demo, please ask Noelle.