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New feature: e-book search

After a successful trial of a new e-book search during the last weeks, Consortium Luxembourg is today releasing a new e-book search, giving visibility to the 80.000 e-books on findit.lu.

We are still working on further integration of e-books into findit.lu, alongside databases and e-journals. That’s why the current release is “beta”.

ebook-search findit.luSimply click on the “ebooks”-tab which you will find at the top of findit.lu and check it out!

For a long time you only could search for e-books by using the “e-books” QuickSet on our main page. It could take some time to get back results and it was impossible to get an overview of all e-books available. This update gives you a new way to search for more than 80.000 current scientific and scholarly e-books by title, author, ISBN or publisher. Provided that the cover of the book is available, it will also be displayed in your search results.
The number of e-books will increase dramatically as we will be adding older, public domain books, including novels, which have been digitised by libraries around the world.

Please find a detailed tutorial for using the e-book search here.

If you have any questions or would like to provide us with feedback, please feel free to post your comments on this blog. We look forward to hearing from you!

Ovid releases OvidOpenAcess

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

New Mega Index available: Primo Central

Try out the “Primo Central” Mega Index, select it and execute a query:

Primo Central is the next step in scholarly discovery tools: A single index which includes several hundred million references, abstracts and article full-text from a very large selection of publishers. Previously, only federated search allowed a simultaneous search of publications from different publishers. This functionality is called “Metasearch” in findit.lu (a guide is available). Additionally, you can save such a selection of resources for future searches in a “Quickset” (guide) and, building on that, even have findit.lu execute specific queries in these Quicksets as repeated “alerts” (guide).

While we will not abandon these features, there are some limitations in the concept of “Metasearch”. The most obvious is speed: the results can only be displayed once the slowest publisher has delivered. The second limitation is managing the result list, which can easily contain thousands of hits from different publishers. It is impossible, again for speed reasons, to download them all into findit.lu and then index them locally to allow for easy browsing, for instance by author, publication year, etc. Currently, findit.lu supports 30 to 50 results from each publisher, additional results are loaded on demand.

The new “Primo Central” mega index is a big step to solve these problems. It is an index that is pre-compiled fromreferences, abstracts and article full-text from a very large selection of publishers, overall it indexes sveral hundred million articles. This index is searchable in just one query, lightning fast and offers pre-compiled browsing of the results with facets, such as in the example screenshot below, a search for “service innovation”.

The current release is out of beta, fully functional, but not integrated yet with our subscriptions or print holdings. Stay tuned!

OECD iLibrary Youtube channel launched

The OECD iLibrary has launched a YouTube channel with several thematic videos, highlighting key reports from each OECD iLibrary theme. Below is a short video on the “Employment” theme:

The whole playlist contains seven videos on different themes.

The OECD iLibrary is groundbreaking in its inclusion of interactive statistics modules and data downloads straight from its reports, in various formats. Please check their english quick guide (pdf) or have a look at all the available user guides, including many different languages.

The OECD iLibrary is available via Consortium Luxembourg’s findit.lu portal. It is one of 38 databases available under the letter “O” in the databases list.

Connect directly via this link: OECD iLibrary. (Valid library card from the National library or University of Luxembourg required, more info under Help)

 

Nouveau dans le portail: Sign@l

Sign@l

Librement accessible, la base de données Sign@l référence maintenant les articles et les sommaires de 200 revues francophones en sciences humaines et sociales.

Grâce à un lien avec les principaux portails de revues francophones, dans la moitié des cas les sommaires de Sign@l vous permettent de rebondir directement sur l’article en texte intégral en ligne.

Portée par Sciences Po Lyon, cette base est alimentée par onze centres de documentation et bibliothèques ainsi que par le moissonnage de portails de revues.

N’hésitez pas à découvrir en profondeur les fonctionnalités de recherche avancée de Sign@l.

Sign@l est disponible dans l’onglet “Base de données” sous la lettre “S” ou en cliquant ici.  Vous trouverez également Sign@l dans la liste de bases de données par catégorie sous les catégories en Sciences Sociales.

Rock’s Backpages

Following on from the successful trial of Rock’s Backpages last month, Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of Rock’s Backpages to its Electronic Documentation Portal. Rock’s Backpages is an on-line library of popular music journalism, sourced from freelance contributions to the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day. It is the ultimate rock & roll on-line library – an ever-growing archive of legendary interviews, classic features, and ground breaking reviews.

Rock’s Backpages is available via Consortium Luxembourg’s electronic documentation portal under the letter “R” on the “Find Database” tab.

 
Note: Except for materials in the public domain, all of the content of Rock’s Backpages is the property of Backpages or its content suppliers and is protected by copyright laws. This includes text, graphics, logos, icons, images and software. The compilation of all content on the Rock’s Backpages website at www.rocksbackpages.com is the exclusive property of Backpages and is also protected by copyright laws. The content and software on the website may be used for research or teaching purposes. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display, performance, or for any commercial use not expressly permitted by Backpages is prohibited.
 

New! Oxford University Press Journal Collection

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of the full collection of journals from Oxford University Press to its electronic documentation portal.

The 2011 Oxford Journals Collection includes 228 titles in the fields of medicine, life sciences, mathematics & physical sciences, law, humanities, and the social sciences. It contains some of the world’s most prestigious highly-cited titles, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations.

What are the benefits to you, the user?

  • High-quality content – according to the 2007 Journal Citation Reports, one fifth of these titles are in the top 10% and over two thirds in the top 50% of their subject category.
  • Integrated searching via PubMed and Google Scholar
  • OpenURL linking via CrossRef
  • Supplementary material available such as video, audio, and images
  • CiteTrack alerts users when chosen articles and authors are cited
  • Links to similar articles help to guide research
  • Download references using EndNote, ProCite, BibTeX, and RefWorks
  • Widen author searches by linking directly to Google Scholar

More details are available here.

In 2012, you will automatically have access to the expanded 2012 Collection consisting of 238 titles.

You can access the Oxford University Press collection via the letter “O” in the Find Database tab, by clicking here or search for individual journals via the “Find e-journal” tab.
 

Taylor & Francis – Library and Information Science

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of the Library and Information Science Collection from Taylor & Francis to the BnU Portal.

This collection includes, among others:

  • Collection Management;
  • Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship;
  • Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve;
  • The Reference Librarian;
  • The Serials Librarian.

For a full list of the journals available in this collection, click here.

These journals are available by searching for the journal name via the “Find e-journal” tab or by selecting the “Taylor and Francis Library and Information Science Collection” entry via the “Find databases” tab under the letter “T”.
 

The Journal “Nature” Now Available

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of the journal Nature to the BnU Portal.  You now have access to not only the most recent 4 years via Nature itself but also most articles from 1997 to last year via Ebsco.

Access to Nature is available by searching on the title “Nature” under the “Find e-journal” tab of the BnU Portal.

 

More Springer e-Books Now Available

Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of the 2011 Springer e-books to the Consortium Luxembourg Electronic Documentation Portal.

Access is provided to all English and German language Springer e-books from 2005 to 2011 inclusive. The books cover a variety of subjects including:

  • Architecture and Design;
  • Behavioral Science;
  • Biomedical and Life Science;
  • Business and Economics;
  • Chemistry and Materials Science;
  • Computer Science including Lecture Notes in Computer Science;
  • Earth and Environmental Science;
  • Engineering;
  • Humanities, Social Science and Law,
  • Mathematics and Statistics;
  • Medicine;
  • Physics and Astronomy; and
  • Professional and Applied Computing.

Topics covered in the German collection include:

  • Medizin;
  • Technik & Informatik;
  • Natur- und Basiswissenschaften incl. Mathematik;
  • Wirtschaftswissenschaften; und
  • Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

The e-books are accessible in one of two ways:

1. If the print edition of the book is in bibnet.lu catalogue, then access to the electronic version is automatically provided from book’s details screen.

2. Connect directly to SpringerLink e-books using the link that can be found under “S” in the “Find Database” section of the portal or by clicking here.

And don’t forget, if you want a working copy of the book for your own personal use, you can order it via Springer MyCopy.

MyCopy allows library patrons to order their own personal soft cover edition of those Springer eBooks included in their library’s eBook package. More than 16,000 eBooks are available in this format. Best of all, MyCopy is available to end users for just 24.95€. The price includes shipping and handling. Local VAT and Sales Tax will be added.

To access MyCopy, first connect to Springer e-Books via Consortium Luxembourg’s portal by clicking here.  For full instructions on how to order, click:  How to order MyCopy.

Note: in Windows XP, you may receive a message indicating a certificate problem. It is not a problem to accept the exception and continue with your MyCopy purchase.