The publisher Palgrave Macmillan is offering FREE access to their entire electronic journal catalog for the month of May.  Check out their offerings here:    http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/jnlindex.html

Check here for a list of Palgrave titles to which we already subscribe.

Drexel now subscribes to the SAGE Premier Collection — a database containing fulltext access to nearly 500 SAGE journals spanning 1999 to present.

See a full list of the accessible titles here in the catalog or here (Excel spreadsheet).

This SAGE Premier collection replaces Drexel’s access to SAGE Full Text collections for Communications, Urban Studies, and Health Sciences, as well as any individual SAGE online journals to which we previously subscribed.

I have had a few folks calling in frustration over accessibility to some of our Ovid journals (from either PsycInfo, LWW Total Access Collection, or Journals at OVID within Medline).  The root of the issue is OVID’s accessibility policy, which is:

1 (one) simultaneous user for full text of each licensed journal on the OVID platform.

Please advise users who encounter a “Users Exceeded” error upon attempting access to fulltext from OVID databases to try accessing the article again at a later time.  We have no way of freeing-up the journal for access from the libraries.

We now have subscriptions to IGI Global’s InfoSci-Journals and InfoSci-Books databases.  Each database offers full text of IGI Information and Computer Science information — covering over 60 ejournals and over 800 ebooks.  Check them out!  Full listings of IGI’s ejournals and ebooks are forthcoming in the Catalog, but the databases are now fully searchable, and all the available IGI ejournals are listed in our SFX knowledgebase.

FYI, IGI Global, who are now branding themselves as a “Disseminator of Knowledge”  is the same company who formerly spread their seed under the name Idea Group.

Taylor & Francis Group recently acquired the publishing portfolio of Haworth Press. After several months of spotty access to these journals through the Haworth site, Taylor and Francis has finally begun migrating these journals to their Informaworld platform.
From November 2008 Taylor & Francis will begin to load journal titles formerly published by Haworth Press to www.informaworld.com.
From this point, no new content with a 2009 volume year will be added to www.haworthpress.com, nor will any new accounts be created on the site. Taylor & Francis expect this load to be complete by mid-December, and for all Haworth content to be available on informaworld from this point.
The Haworth Press site will run in tandem with informaworld until 30th March 2009, after which date the site will be closed.
In order to minimize user disruption Taylor & Francis is offering a free trial to all Haworth Press content on informaworld between November 2008 and February 2009. This will also give us an opportunity to check our holdings on informaworld are correct.
The Haworth Press license currently allows access to purchased volume years only. Once content is loaded to www.informaworld.com, the access model will change to allow online access to current content along with a backfile to 1997, where digitized. Purchased content will be available in perpetuity.
Here is a list of Haworth Journals to which Drexel subscribes / has subscribed. On the Informaworld platform, we will have access to 1997 – Present for all these journals, regardless of the years actually subscribed.

We now have access to 2 new journals from Berg Publishers online, ordered for Westphal College of Media and Design programs:

Journal of Modern Craft

and

Photography & Culture.

Both these journals have just released their first issues.

enjoy!