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Author Archives: Linda Humphreys
SpringerProtocols now available
SpringerProtocols (1980-2012) has been purchased by JISC Collections and made available free to UK HE: “Used primarily in the life sciences, protocols provide individual sets of instructions to allow scientists to recreate experiments in their own laboratories. SpringerProtocols contains more … Continue reading
Web of Knowledge – Trial Access
The Web of Knowledge has opened up additional content to UK HE for a trial period until 25th August. Within Web of Science you can now access the following: * Book Citation Index: Science and Social Science & Humanities from … Continue reading
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Merck Index Online
The Royal Society of Chemistry is now providing access to the Merck Index online. You can view it on the new RSC platform: http://www.rsc.org/merck-index It will be removed from the Medicines Complete platform in due course and we expect to … Continue reading
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Royal Society of Chemistry – open access
Do you publish in RSC journals? As the Library subscribes to the full RSC package, we have 13 free open access credits to use by the end of the calendar year. Making your article open access will help to boost … Continue reading
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New National Chemical Database Service from RSC
The Royal Society of Chemistry launched a new National Chemical Database Service on 2nd January. The service is primarily aimed at researchers and is funded by the EPSRC. Access is currently by IP recognition, so if you are on campus … Continue reading
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New guidance on referencing
Throughout 2012 the Library has been working hard on providing additional support for referencing. We try to focus on explaining the principles behind referencing and have created a guide that sets these out: http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/help/infoguides/reference-guide.pdf There are a number of different referencing styles … Continue reading
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More Elsevier backfiles now available
The Library has purchased seven further Elsevier journal backfile collections, with special funding from the University. Access is now available to pre-1995 material from these collections: * *Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology* * *Economics, Econometrics and Finance* * *Engineering and … Continue reading
National Academies Press e-Books
Free PDFs of more than 4000 titles are available from National Academies Press. Subject coverage is very broad. This is what they say on their website: “The National Academies—National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National … Continue reading
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Update on citation counts in Web of Knowledge v. 5.3
Update from Thomson Reuters: Q: Why is the Times Cited count different in some records in the two different versions of Web of Science? A: Users who navigate between the two versions may note differences in data that in some … Continue reading
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Problems with new Web of Knowledge
The following problems appear to have now been resolved The Library has received reports of a number of problems with the new version of Web of Knowledge (v. 5.3). Response times. The database provider, Thomson Reuters, says: ‘We are currently … Continue reading
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