Electronic Resources logins by UH username only

In order to increase Web site security, if you are outside the Library, you will only be able to log in to use Electronic Resources via UH username and password beginning Jan. 12, 2009. This should actually also make it less confusing for most students as most UH services, such as e-mail, MyUH, and Laulima, only allow UH username access. However, if you do not already have a UH username, please go to https://myuh.hawaii.edu:8888/sessionid=nobody/am-sso-check-status to request one.

Encyclopedia of Language and Education

The Library now has electronic access to Encyclopedia of Language and Education. The 10 volume encyclopedia offers the newest developments including two new volumes of research and scholarly content essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization.

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.