Tuesday 31 August 2010
New books and theses acquisitions
New book:NP201 Admiralty Tide Tables, Volume 1, 2011: United Kingdom and Ireland, including European channel ports, by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. Taunton: United Kingdom Hydrographic Office; 2010. Balfour Library Shelfmark: D.13 (10) (Reference shelves)
New book series:
Meiofauna marina: biodiversity, morphology and ecology of small benthic organisms. Volume 18. June 2010. Munich: Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil; 2010. Balfour Library Shelfmark: GHN (129xviii)
New book donation:
Field guide to the birds of Peru, by Thomas S. Schulenberg ... [et al.]. London: Christopher Helm; 2007. Balfour Library Shelfmark: KZ.8 (31)
New theses:
Colour, carotenoids and the evolution of parental care, by Rose Thorogood. Cambridge; 2010. Balfour Library Shelfmark: Thesis (480) (Library Office)
Land use, food production, and the future of tropical forest species in Ghana, by Benjamin Timothy Phalan. Cambridge; 2009. Balfour Library Shelfmark: Thesis (483) (Library Office)
Mechanisms, ecology and evolution of prey capture by Nepenthes pitcher plants, by Ulrike Bauer. Cambridge; 2010. Balfour Library Shelfmark: Thesis (482) (Library Office)
Re-thinking the species-area relationship for conservation, by Tiffany Lauren Bogich. Cambridge; 2010. Balfour Library Shelfmark: Thesis (479) (Library Office)
Social conflict resolution in groups of the angelfish Centropyge bicolor, by Tzo Zen Ang. Cambridge; 2010. Balfour Library Shelfmark: Thesis (481) (Library Office)
Sociality, social learning and individual differences in rooks, jackdaws and Eurasian jays, by Ira Gil Federspiel. Cambridge; 2010. Balfour Library Shelfmark: Thesis (484) (Library Office)
The life history of brood parasites: co-evolutionary constraints and competitive begging, by Martina Boerner. Cambridge; 2009. Balfour Library Shelfmark: Thesis (478) (Library Office)
Wednesday 25 August 2010
ScienceDirect and Scopus scheduled downtime Saturday 28th August
On Saturday 28 August 12:30 PM - 9:30 PM ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.
Monday 23 August 2010
Bank Holiday Monday closure
The Balfour Library will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday, 30th August.What kind of umbrella will we need?
Disruption in the Balfour Library on Wednesday 25th August
There will be considerable disruption in the Balfour Library on Wednesday. The fire alarm sensor in the ceiling of the domed roof above the main study area needs to be replaced, which will involve men putting up scaffolding, replacing the sensor, then dismantling the scaffolding. This will obviously be quite noisy.
The library will remain open however, and the affected area will be cordoned off, but you will still be able to use the PCs in the bays, and access the journals on the shelves. You will also still be able to use the other part of the library, the Newton Room (the room where the photocopiers are situated), as we will keep the doors to that closed and it should be less noisy.
There will probably be a bit more disruption on Thursday and Friday when we expect that the desks, that have been dismantled in the domed study area to accommodate the scaffolding, will be reassembled.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your continued patience and custom while these works take place.
The library will remain open however, and the affected area will be cordoned off, but you will still be able to use the PCs in the bays, and access the journals on the shelves. You will also still be able to use the other part of the library, the Newton Room (the room where the photocopiers are situated), as we will keep the doors to that closed and it should be less noisy.
There will probably be a bit more disruption on Thursday and Friday when we expect that the desks, that have been dismantled in the domed study area to accommodate the scaffolding, will be reassembled.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your continued patience and custom while these works take place.
Monday 2 August 2010
bX Recommender Service
The University Library is please to announce that it has recently extended its trial of the bX™ article recommendation service with a one year subscription.
bX™ Recommender is a service offered by our software supplier 'Ex Libris'. It enables discovery of other relevant journal articles related to a specific citation. The service operates in a similar way to commercial website usage-based recommendations, such as can be found on Amazon: results are relevant, up to date, and easily accessible.
This is a new service that taps into the power of the networked scholarly community to generate recommendations based on article usage. It represents the growing recognition of the importance of user-driven content and an important step in the convergence of Web 2.0 and the scholarly world.
From a specific citation, the bX™ Recommender service will display a list of other relevant journal articles based on actual usage data from SFX access logs. When a user enters citation data in to the A-Z list of ejournals at ejournals@cambridge at http://camsfx.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/az (either by searching for a specific citation or from the full text locator page) or when following an 'ejournals@cambridge' link from a citation in a database (Scopus, Google Scholar), bX™ will display other suggested articles.
Further details about the trail can be found on the library’s electronic resource pages at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/bX.php
We would be grateful for your feedback on this trial. Please email bx_feedback@lib.cam.ac.uk
bX™ Recommender is a service offered by our software supplier 'Ex Libris'. It enables discovery of other relevant journal articles related to a specific citation. The service operates in a similar way to commercial website usage-based recommendations, such as can be found on Amazon: results are relevant, up to date, and easily accessible.
This is a new service that taps into the power of the networked scholarly community to generate recommendations based on article usage. It represents the growing recognition of the importance of user-driven content and an important step in the convergence of Web 2.0 and the scholarly world.
From a specific citation, the bX™ Recommender service will display a list of other relevant journal articles based on actual usage data from SFX access logs. When a user enters citation data in to the A-Z list of ejournals at ejournals@cambridge at http://camsfx.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/az (either by searching for a specific citation or from the full text locator page) or when following an 'ejournals@cambridge' link from a citation in a database (Scopus, Google Scholar), bX™ will display other suggested articles.
Further details about the trail can be found on the library’s electronic resource pages at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/bX.php
We would be grateful for your feedback on this trial. Please email bx_feedback@lib.cam.ac.uk
New SpringerLink platform
Springer is pleased to announce that the new SpringerLink platform is scheduled to be launched on 7 August 2010. On this date the current site will be discontinued and all users will automatically enter the new platform. The new platform will supply recommendation of related documents for every article or eBook chapter, PDF previews for eBook chapters and enhanced browsing features. Users will be able to view abstracts without leaving search results and will experience improved search functionality – including searching by citation.
Articles and eBook chapters on the new Springerlink platform will be available on and off campus (by Raven login) via the eresources@cambridge A-Z page at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources, and at: http://www.springerlink.com
Wiley Online Library
From the 7th and 8th of August Wiley will be replacing their Wiley InterScience Service with their new Wiley Online LibraryWiley Online Library provides access to online journals, books, and other resources from John Wiley & Sons, including content from the key imprints Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley-VCH, Jossey-Bass, and from hundreds of scholarly and professional societies. Wiley Online Library offers seamless full-text access in a flexible and easy-to-use research environment.
Register for content alerts and RSS feeds to keep current with the latest published research in your subject area.
The Wiley Online Library is available on and off campus (by Raven login) via the eresources@cambridge A-Z page at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/ and at: http://info.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/view/0/index.html (where you can view a slideshow offering information and screenshots of the new platform).
Science Online London 2010
Nature, Mendeley, and the British Library are excited to present Science Online London 2010, September 3-4, 2010 — British Library.
How is the web changing science?
How is the web changing the way we conduct, communicate, share, and evaluate research? How can we employ these trends for the greater good? This September, a brilliant group of scientists, bloggers, web entrepreneurs, and publishers will be meeting for two days to address these very questions. Science Online is about community, and is an experience that you can shape - there is ample opportunity for networking and attending un-conference sessions!
Registration is open now.
More information can be found on the Science Online website at http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/?utm_source=Mendeley_SOLO_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=science_online_website
How is the web changing science?
How is the web changing the way we conduct, communicate, share, and evaluate research? How can we employ these trends for the greater good? This September, a brilliant group of scientists, bloggers, web entrepreneurs, and publishers will be meeting for two days to address these very questions. Science Online is about community, and is an experience that you can shape - there is ample opportunity for networking and attending un-conference sessions!
Registration is open now.
More information can be found on the Science Online website at http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/?utm_source=Mendeley_SOLO_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=science_online_website
Changes to make accessing e-journals 'off-campus' easier
It's now much easier to access most e-journals from 'off-campus'! 1. Using ejournals@cambridge
Just go to the A-Z list of journals available in Cambridge at the ejournals@cambridge website, http://camsfx.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/az
Search for the journal title you need, and then click on the relevant host that has the full text coverage you want. You are now automatically routed to the journal website via a proxy server.
The Raven login window should appear. Enter your Raven ID and password, and the journal website will open.
You won't have to log in anywhere else on the journal website, and once you have logged in to Raven you will not be required to do so again for the length of your web browser session. This method only works via the ejournals@cambridge website however.
2. Using a search engine such as Google, or using a bookmark, with the new 'Off campus access bookmarklet'
This is a link you can add to your web browser's toolbar so that when you're on a journal page that should provide full text access under a Cambridge subscription, you can click on the toolbar to reload the page via the UL's proxy server. You may be prompted to login with a Raven username and password. Instructions are given on the 'Off campus access bookmarklet' website at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/toolbox/bookmarklet.html
3. Reference management tools
You can also use the UL's proxy server and OpenURL link resolver (to check if full text is available for a resource) with EndNote and Zotero, to help you access the full text of resources. See the Reference Management Tools website at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/toolbox/rmt.html
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