Changed access to UK Data Archive Census resources

When accessing the following resources and services:
CASWEB, Census Geography Data Unit (UKBORDERS), Centre for Data Estimation and Research (CIDER), Census: Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs), CHCC – Contemporary and Historical Census Collection, Census Registration Service (CRS), Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) and ESDS International from the list of Databases you will be prompted to login via the UK Federation link and re-directed to the UK Federation ‘where are you from’ institutional list. Scroll down to select University of Greenwich from the list before proceeding to the eresource or service.
Note: you may be required to login again to the university portal in a new window and navigate to the My learning / Learning support pages to access the resource. Previous users may be required to re-register.

Science Direct full text searching

Science Direct does not allow searches to be restricted solely to paid-for subscribed content from the usual search screen. This means that the entire holdings of Science Direct are searched by default.

If you want to limit your results only to full text content that the library has paid for or subscribes to then follow these instructions:
  • In Science Direct click on the Advanced Search link in the grey panel
  • Click on the Journals tab above the Term(s) box
  • Next click on the arrow next to All journals in the Source field and highlight subscribed journals
  • Enter your search phrase or keywords (Note: individual keywords must be linked with the word ‘and‘ unless it is a phrase). Phrases and keywords can be combined by using ‘and‘ to link them.
  • Click the Search button

New Resource – British Periodicals Online


British Periodicals Online is a collection of journals published in Britain between the 1680s and 1930s. Thematically wide ranging: from literature, drama and architecture to philosophy, history and the social sciences. 

To access the resource:

Login to the portal with your computer ID and password

Select the My Learning / Learning support page.

In the Search the Library portlet, select the Online databases and academic journals link.

Scroll down to the resource in the list on the next page.

Select the name of the resource to be transferred to the search screen.

Web of Knowledge new features

In early February there will be new features and enhancements to the ISI Web of Knowledge e-resource.

ISI Web of Knowledge
  • Log queries to Search History.
    – Including “Search within results”, Refine and Analyze.
  • Funding acknowledgements:
    – Captured since August 2008.
    – Searchable and exportable.
    – 3 fields: Grant Agency, Grant #, Funding Acknowledgements.
  • CAB Global Health.
ISI Web of Knowledge Additional New features
  • Scientific WebPlus
    – Now uses the Thomson Reuters default login system, so that the ISI Web of Knowledge login credentials can be used.
  • Shibboleth compliance update:
    – to comply with regulations regarding a single sign in.
  • Distinct Author Identification System – Web of Science:
    – All author clusters have been updated.

For a preview of these changes and additions please see the Thomson Reuters presentation at: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/support/documentation/presentations/Q409updates.ppt

Scitable


Nature Education has launched a free, online educational resource for undergraduate biology students and educators. Currently focussed on genetics, Scitable combines scientific information with social media functionality.

Scitable provides students with free online access to more than 180 overviews of key genetics concepts. The overviews are evidence-based and have been vetted by Nature Publishing Group staff. By connecting with other Scitable users via groups, chat functionality and other social media features, students can collaborate online with classmates, or with a wider community of experts, researchers and fellow students.
Scitable is also intended as a teaching tool. Educators can set up public or private groups for their students, providing reading lists, course-packs of Scitable articles and group discussions. Scitable is flexible and can be incorporated into courseware services such as Blackboard.
Scitable currently contains content in the field of genetics, specifically: chromosomes and cytogenetics, evolutionary genetics, gene expression and regulation, gene inheritance and transmission, genes and disease, genetics and society, genomics, nucleic acid structure and function, and population and quantitative genetics. Nature Education plan to expand the service to other subject areas in future. More information can be found at: http://www.nature.com/scitable

ticTOCs


ticTocs is a new scholarly journal of tables of contents (TOCs) service. It’s free and easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than 400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone else keep up-to-date with what’s being published in the most recent issues of journals on almost any subject.

Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or publisher, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text of over 250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or Open Access, allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to permanently save your MyTOCs). ticTOCs also makes it easy to export selected TOC RSS feeds to popular feedreaders such as Google Reader and Bloglines.

Social networking site – Academia.edu launched

Dr Richard Price a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford has launched Academic.edu a social networking site for academics and researchers.
Academia.edu
– Displays academics, faculty members and post-doctoral students around the world in a ‘tree’ format, according to which university / department they are affiliated with.
– Enables researchers to keep track of the latest developments in their field – the latest people, papers, and talks.

Some of the professors on the site include:

– Richard Dawkins http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
– Stephen Hawking http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
– Noam Chomsky http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky

Landmap

The Landmap Service is the UK national archive of satellite mapping data. It provides online access to a range of spatial data for research, learning and teaching. The service also supports the spatial science community with a range of Learning Materials and a dedicated Helpdesk.


To access the resource go to the My learning / Learning support page in the portal. In the Search the Library portlet select the Online databases and academic journals link. On the next page choose Landmap from the alphabetical list to enter the resource.


Note: Landmap requires individual registration to use the download facility and advanced image processing course. Registration is normally once an academic year.

Emerald InTouch

Emerald have developed a (beta) web 2.0 style platform aimed at the publisher / journals communities, which has been adapted and branded for their customer base. The public site is available for users to create public or private communities and comes with a range of content generation and community tools. You can add widgets and other personalisation features familiar to users of iGoogle, MyYahoo and many other sites.