Upcoming ScienceDirect Outages

ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance the first two weekends in November:

Saturday, Nov. 6, 9 p.m. HST - Sunday, Nov. 7, 1 a.m. HST
Saturday, Nov. 13, 3 - 9 a.m. HST

The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.

Two new trials

The UH Manoa Library has begun trials to two databases from ProQuest of historical periodicals. Both trials run through Oct. 29, 2010.

American Periodicals Series Online
American Periodicals Series Online contains over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries
American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries is a full-text resource containing full-color scans of original documents archived by the Center for Research Libraries. The collection spans the nineteenth century through the dawn of the twentieth century, containing labor, trade, literary, scientific, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically-significant titles.

Outages: Wiley journals and bX recommender service

Two resources/services will be down this weekend for site maintenance and upgrades.

Wiley Online Library, home of journals published by Wiley and the former Blackwell, will be down for maintenance beginning Friday, Oct. 1, at 11 p.m. HST. The outage is scheduled to last approximately two hours. The University of Hawaii at Manoa has access to more than 900 electronic journals via Wiley Online Library.

Also, the bX recommender service that the Library is currently trialing will be unavailable between 9 p.m. HST Saturday, Oct. 2, and 1 a.m. HST Sunday, Oct. 3.

Trial: bX recommender service

The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library is trialing a new recommender service designed to suggest additional articles that may help you with your research based on the articles you have already accessed. The new service, called bX, is like Amazon recommendations for scholarly articles, generating suggested articles based on the usage patterns of other users accessing similar articles.

To use the new service, go about your research as usual using your favorite databases. When you come across an article you are interested in, click on the "FindIt" button:

If the Library has access to the article you seek, you will be automatically taken to the article. At the top of the article screen, there will be a frame with a link to "Get additional resources related to this." Click on this link.

This will take you to a page with more information about your article. About halfway down the screen, if recommendations are available for this article, you will see a box labeled "bX Recommendations - Users interested in this article also expressed an interest in the following:"

Click on a recommended article title to connect to articles that the Library has access to, or select "View More" to see additional recommendations.

The Library's trial of the bX recommender service runs through Oct. 29, 2010. We would appreciate your feedback on whether the service was helpful - or not helpful - for your research. Please send feedback to uhmeres [at] hawaii [dot] edu.

Outage: EBL (Electronic Book Library)

Due to server upgrades, ebooks from EBL, or EBook Library, will not be available between 7 and 8:30 p.m. HST, today, Sept. 21. The Library has access to about 60 ebooks through EBL.

New database: Art & Architecture Complete

Beginning in 2011, the Library will be switching its subscription from Art Abstracts to Art & Architecture Complete. While our subscription to this new database does not officially begin until 2011, EBSCO has already graced us access and you can begin exploring Art & Architecture Complete.

Art and Architecture Complete is a comprehensive bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 730 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 330 periodicals and 215 books, as well as selective coverage for over 70 publications, and an Image Collection of over 64,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others.

Art Abstracts will no longer be available after Dec. 31, 2010, so please update your bookmarks to link to Art & Architecture Complete.

eRes Updates now available via Twitter

To stay up to date with the latest updates in electronic resources available from the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, follow the UHM Library on Twitter

Trial: American History in Video

The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library is currently trialing American History in Video, a streaming video service from Alexander Street Press. The trial is active through Oct. 24, 2010. Click here to access the trial.

American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 4,848 titles, equaling approximately 1,215 hours.

Upcoming outages

A couple of resources are scheduled for downtime the next two weeks.

ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, Aug. 28, starting at 1:30 a.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until 10:30 a.m. HST of the same day. The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.

EBL, or eBook Library, will be down for maintenance Thursday, Sept. 2, beginning at 8 a.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until 10 a.m. HST. The UHM Library has purchased access to about 60 e-books via EBL.

Two trial resources

The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library currently has free trials to two resources.

Yomidas Rekishikan
Trial through Sept. 15, 2010.

Search or browse through more than 10 million articles carried by the newspaper since its inaugural issue in 1874. Searchable texts of the articles after 1986 to present. Also includes the Daily Yomiuri (English), and Biographical database includes 26,000 contemporary persons in many fields who are linked to related news articles.

Nature Protocols
Trial through Sept. 30, 2010.

Nature Protocols is an online resource for protocols, including authoritative, peer-reviewed Nature Protocols and an interactive Protocols Network.

Wiley outage, Aug. 6-8

Electronic access to Wiley Blackwell journals will be unavailable beginning Friday, Aug. 6, 10 p.m. HST. Access is scheduled to be restored at 6 a.m. HST, Sunday, Aug. 8.

During this extended outage, Wiley will be transferring its journals to its new Wiley Online Library platform. Click here for more information on new features in Wiley Online Library.

The UH Manoa Library has access to nearly 1,000 journal titles via Blackwell and Wiley combined.

Hamilton Library network outage - Saturday 6/26

Access to all electronic resources will be unavailable Saturday, June 26, from approximately 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. This outage is necessary to move our network connections from the temporary fiber connection to the permanent fiber connection.

Hamilton Library network outage postponed

The network outage scheduled for Hamilton Library on Saturday, June 19, has been postponed. Access to Electronic Resources should be available as usual via the UH Manoa Library Electronic Resources Gateway.

Hamilton Library network outage - Saturday 6/19

Access to all electronic resources will be unavailable Saturday, June 19, from approximately 8 to 10 a.m.

This outage is necessary to move our network connections from the temporary fiber connection to the permanent fiber connection.

Asahi Shinbun Online outage

Asahi Shinbun Online "Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries" will be down for maintenance on Sunday, May 30, from approximately noon to 4 p.m. HST.

Hawaii Newspaper Index outage

The Hawaii Newspaper Index, a free service of the Hawaii State Public Library System, is currently down. According to HSL, they are experiencing network outages that are affecting the host server. Their telcom folks are looking into it, but do not have a good estimate as to when the database will come back online.

ARTstor outage this weekend

ARTstor will be performing scheduled maintenance this Saturday, May 1, from 3 to 8 p.m. HST. The digital library will be unavailable during this time.

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

New database: Films On Demand

The Library has begun a subscription to Films on Demand, which provides streaming access to educational videos in the humanities, social and natural sciences, business and health.

Click here to access Films on Demand

New database: Pubget

The UH Manoa Library is now an active institution in Pubget, a search engine for PDFs in the life sciences. It indexes nearly 20 million life science research documents, including those in PubMed and arXiv.

When you search Pubget, it immediately delivers the PDF of all articles available to you via the Library. If an article is not electronically available via the Library, it provides you with other options for finding the article.

Click here to start searching Pubget

ScienceDirect outage this weekend

ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, March 13, starting at 5:30 p.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until 2 a.m. HST Sunday. The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.

Trial: Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism

The Library has a free trial to the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

Trial expires March 11, 2010.

ScienceDirect outage this weekend

ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, Jan. 23, starting at 3 a.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until 3 p.m. of the same day. The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.