Update of Web of Knowledge federated search / search alerts

Posted on by jschulze

There was a recent update on searching within Web of Knowledge via findit.lu. Existing search alerts including the database “Web of Knowledge” have to be updated.

Before explaining how to update we will give you a small theoretical instruction:

Web of Knowledge in general is the name of the comprehensive research platform.
It consists of several databases containing different kind of information. Via findit.lu you have access to the three citation databases (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) as well as to the two conference proceedings citation indexes (Conference Proceedings Citation Index Science and Social Sciences & Humanities).
Details can be found here: http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOK46/help/WOK/h_database.html

If you searched Web of Knowledge using findit’s search engine in the past, you always searched through all databases Web of Knowledge consists of at once.

Thomson Reuter’s technical update doesn’t provide a search of Web of Knowledge on the whole via findit.lu anymore.

There are two ways to deal with this update:

  1.  Choose one of the mentioned citation or conference proceedings databases to perform a search. Disadvantage: You are only searching one of the databases at once.
  2.  For advanced users who still want to search all databases with one search request we suggest to create a Quick Set with all sub-databases and / or use the MetaSearch.

Within the Web of Knowledge interface you can still perform a search above all databases at once.

You will find the “new” sub-databases by searching for “web of knowledge” in the “Find Database”-menu.

Search results for sub-databases of Web of Knowledge

Users holding search alerts which are searching Web of Knowledge are requested to delete the existing search alert and to add one or several new search alerts using the different sub-databases.

This is how to approach:

Connect to findit.lu and choose My Space < History by clicking the x – sign next to the search alert which includes Web of Knowledge. Your old alert is now deleted.

Old search alert at findit.luPerform a new search by searching for the new sub-databases and click the magnifying glass icon next to one of the desired databases. Once you have a list of results from your search, you can create your new search alert.

Need help, creating a search alert? – See our How-to Series, Episode 9.

If you want to search more than one of the mentioned databases, please create a QuickSet (How-to Series, Episode 7) and use MetaSearch to create your search alert.

Need any further assistance? Contact us at help@findit.lu.

De Gruyter databases not available

Posted on by jschulze

Due to the switch to their new web presence de Gruyter databases are not available at the moment. We have contacted de Gruyter and will blog as soon as the issue is resolved.

Following databases are affected:

  • Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon und Datenbank
  • Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie
  • Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL)
  • Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
  • Internationale Jahresbibliographie der Festschriften (IJBF)
  • Internationale Jahresbibliographie der Kongressberichte (IJBK)
  • Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen (IBR)
  • Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ)

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Maintenance Elsevier, Saturday 25th August

Posted on by jschulze

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect and Scopus are expected to be offline for approximately 19 hours beginning Saturday, August 25th, 2012 for scheduled maintenance for a new release. The databases will be offline from Saturday, 13:30, until Sunday morning.

Following improvements will be available after the update:

ScienceDirect: Efficient and effortless access to relevant information thanks to a new design for journal article and book chapter pages as well as improved user experience for e.g. RSS feeds, image search, and many other features and functionality
Scopus: Easy updates with Alerts Features functionality improvement

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Ovid releases OvidOpenAcess

Posted on by jschulze

Ovid has just announced the launch of OvidOpenAcess with immediate and unrestricted access to thousands of full-text resources from peer-reviewed and scholarly international journals.

OvidOpenAcess includes:

  • A growing list of over 70,000 journal articles and abstracts from more than 200-peer reviewed and highly cited clinical and research journals published by Medknow Publications, one of the world’s largest Open Access publishers and affiliated with more than 160 professional medical societies and associations
  • Bibliographic citations of articles published in more than 1,000 unembargoed journals accessible through PMC (formerly known as PubMed Central), a critical digital source of biomedical literature—much of it hard-to-find archival material—from the U.S. National Institutes of Health
  • A wide variety of medical and scientific disciplines, including nursing, general medicine, pharmacology, and alternative medicine, as well as evidence-based medicine and research

Finding the OpenAcess-content is quite easy: Within a single search you will find freely available content displayed in a separate search results set.

Search results with OpenAccess-Teaser
By clicking “View All Open Access Results” the full result list is displayed. Additionally, you can save and export your OvidOpenAccess search results into a project or folder in My Projects.

 

Results list for OvidOpenAccess

findit.lu (e-Journals) partially unavailable

Posted on by jschulze
At the moment there are problems with accessing e-Journals via the “Find e-Journal”-menu. You can still find or access articles by using the QuickSet “eJournals” within the QuickSearch menu.
We are trying to solve the problem as soon as possible.
Apologies for any inconvenience!

findit.lu partially unavailable

Posted on by PP

During last night, a crucial update of the eJournal part of findit.lu failed. It seems to be a serious issue which has been escalated to the software vendor. The software that failed is called SFX from ExLibris. The SFX team from ExLibris Hamburg is investigating with national library IT staff and trying to restore service as soon as possible.

What does it mean?

  • The “eJournal” (“Périodiques”) search in findit.lu does not work.
  • The “findit.lu” button  in bibliographic databases (which takes you directly to an article) does not work.
  • The pop-up window that indicates availability of an article or eJournal does not work.

The “databases” part of findit.lu works. The login and authentification system also works.

This means you can access eJournals through the publisher website, if you know the publisher. For example: all Elsevier journals can be accessed through their Sciencedirect portal, all Springer Journals can be accessed through Springerlink portal.

Any direct links you may have bookmarked to eJournals also continue to work.

Apologies for any convenience.

National library closed 24.-28.7. – Médiathèque stays open

Posted on by PP

Fermeture exceptionnelle de la Bibliothèque nationale pour cause de travaux

La Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg doit informer le public qu’elle est obligée de fermer son bâtiment central, 37, boulevard Roosevelt, à titre exceptionnel du mardi 24 juillet au samedi 28 juillet inclus pour cause de travaux. Cependant la médiathèque restera ouverte pendant cette période et les fonds de la Réserve précieuse seront consultables après rendez-vous préalable. Ces deux services seront accessibles par la cour de la BnL, rue Notre-Dame.

Les travaux ont pour objet des opérations de mise en conformité indispensables pour améliorer la protection des lecteurs et des personnels de la BnL en cas d’incendie. Il s’agit d’actualiser le système de sécurité de la BnL, dans la mesure du possible, dans l’attente de l’ouverture du nouveau bâtiment à Kirchberg.

L’ensemble des travaux s’étirera sur trois mois. Durant cette période, certaines collections seront temporairement bloquées. Un calendrier prévisionnel des travaux avec les effets escomptés sur le fonctionnement du service public de la BnL sera consultable via son site Internet www.bnl.lu. Celui-ci sera mis à jour si besoin.

Pour assouplir les effets des mesures d’actualisation du système incendie, le lecteur pourra, à partir de la date du 23 juillet 2012, emprunter 20 livres au lieu de 15 ouvrages jusqu’à maintenant. Par la présente, la Bibliothèque nationale invite tous les lecteurs à anticiper leurs consultations et emprunts.

La Bibliothèque nationale prendra toutes les mesures possibles pour ne pas gêner ses usagers. Avec l’aide de l’Administration des Bâtiments publics, elle fera en sorte que les opérations progresseront de façon rapide et discrète.

La Bibliothèque nationale s’excuse d’avance de la gêne occasionnée par les travaux programmés qui sont indépendants de sa volonté.

Communiqué par la Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg

Service Communication
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