Two new e-encyclopedia

Two new encyclopedias are now available via the Electronic Resources Gateway.

• Encyclopedia of Obesity
• Encyclopedia of Stem Cell Research

WDI Online

Our Business Librarian has started a subscription to the World Development Indicators Online from the World Bank. You can access this database via the Library's Electronic Resources Gateway at http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53544.

eBooks now available in eJournal Portal

You can now find eBooks in our eJournal Portal managed by Serials Solutions. (For more info on why we use a third-party management service, please read my May post, Big update, with a bit of background.) The biggest plus is that you will now be able to find the eBooks we have access to in the Safari Technical Books collection. Due to the fluidity of this collection, we did not have title-level entries in the eResources Gateway or the online catalog. Now, via the eJournal Portal, you can find out if we have access to books on everything from using Windows to perl scripting.

To search for eBooks, go to our eJournal Portal and select from the drop-down menu to search by "Title contains all words" (unless you know the exact title of the book you're searching for).

For example, if you search for Title contains all words "iphone," you'll find we currently have access to five titles via Safari related to the iPhone (or at least that have iPhone in the title).

One problem with searching by "Title contains all words" though is that the search does not recognize special characters such as +. So, if you try searching for Title contains all worlds "C++," the search will think you're only searching for "C," which is not a word, and return no results. (We do have access to some books on C++ though, so visit the Safari site to find them.)

Two other big eBook collections now available at title-level via our eJournal Portal:

ebrary
This subscribed collection currently has 38,000+ titles and is constantly growing.

Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg provides free online access to more than 25,000 books in the public domain.

Coming soon: eBook data should be available in the UHM Electronic Resources Gateway in a few months, to provide one-stop shopping for all electronic resources!

The Senses

SciTech recently purchased access to The Senses, a six-volume reference set on the anatomy, physiology, and molecular biology of sensory organs. You can access the title here: http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53523

New journals and one new access point

SciTech recently started an electronic subscription to the British Journal of Pharmacology. You can access the title via the Library's Electronic Resources Gateway at http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53517

The following titles are now available online via Informaworld, electronic home of Taylor & Francis journals:

• Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
• Australian Historical Studies
• Studies in Science Education

Also, 2008+ issues of the journal Economic Botany are now available via SpringerLink, electronic home of Springer journals. This journal was previously available via BioOne but was transferred to Springer this year. You can still access issues from 2002-2007 via the BioOne version.

Thank you to Eileen Herring for catching Economic Botany's migration.

ScienceDirect outage this weekend

ScienceDirect, the online home of Elsevier journals, will be down for a scheduled upgrade this weekend. The outage is currently scheduled to start Friday, Aug. 1, at 11:30 p.m. HST and last till Saturday, Aug. 2, 7:30 p.m. HST. This of course is an estimate, so ScienceDirect may come back sooner, or if they run into problems, take longer to return.

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

Korean database trials

oops, I've been delinquent in updating. The two biggest recent additions are trials for two new Korean databases

E-Article
http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53485

E-Korean Studies
http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53484

Both trials run through Oct. 31, 2008. You must use Internet Explorer to access these databases.