Project Muse and locked content

More and more of our databases are displaying material that we don't have access to because we don't pay for that content. Some are databases which have traditionally only provided us with journal articles content, and they are now carrying books as well. One example is Project Muse. Our database description is as follows:

"Full text articles of 400+ peer-reviewed journals from Johns Hopkins University Press."

This is still true but when you enter the database it now says the following, and does not provide an access content filter until after you've done a search:

"New Project Muse search interface:
You may search for articles and/or books on the MUSE website using the search box above."

The search box says: BROWSE or search (click drop-down menu) Books and Journals or Books or Journals.

It's not necessarily a problem, but just an awareness issue since content changes often and sometimes without notice. So if someone tells you at the desk or on chat or email that they found a book in Project Muse they can't get to, the default filter in the left sidebar (for what we pay for) may have become unchecked: "Only content I have full access to."

If the box is unchecked, it will still display citation and "Download PDF" will appear, but there is a small red lock icon next to the citation.
Project Muse does not use UC-eLinks. So if someone happens to find a book here that they want but we don't have access to, they will need to re-verify the title in Cruzcat to see if we own it or Melvyl to place an ILL request.

Access to today's New York Times

We do have access to the full content of the New York Times, back to 1857 when it began.

It does take a few steps to be able to view the content of just today's paper with our subscription, but it can be done. What we do not have is a graphical version that allows the user to turn the pages. The NYT does have a public site, but it has limited full content viewing (after 10 articles you will not see the complete content), and for today's paper, it does not let you electronically turn pages either, as some electronic journals or magazines do.

Steps to see the content for today's NYT:

• from the library home page, type new york times in the Google Custom Search box on the top right
• click on the 4th result in the list
• then click on the blue title, New York Times
• change the Date Range from all dates to today's month, day, and year
• click Search
• change the Sort Results By from Relevance to Publication Date (most recent first)

Now you will see a list of all of the content from today's paper, listed in section order, beginning with A1.

If someone wants to compare that with the public NYT site that includes photos and graphics, they can open two tabs, one with the search above, and the other with the public site.

Quick guide to finding film reviews

This post is not an exhaustive guide, but provides a couple of tips and quick strategies to get you out of a jam with a question.

Search tips:  

• A "contemporary" film review is one that was published around the film's release date.
• If you don't know a film's release date, Wikipedia is quick and handy for this task.
• Always put the title of your film in quotes to keep the words together.
• If the film title was also a book, add the word "film" or your keyword search.

Here are two quick strategies using the film "American Graffiti" (released: August 1973) as an example:

Academic Search Complete:

• in the top search box type: "american graffiti"
• in the 2nd search box type: review
• leave it on "Select a field" for largest search
• limit the published date from "1973" to "1974"
• results: 13 
• click on UC-eLinks if no PDF or full text link is present (click here for how-to guide)

Cruzcat, for reviews in print:

• do a title search for "Film Review" (McH Stacks PN1993.F624)
• we have volumes for 1944-1992, so this is good for older films
• look up the title of the film in the index
• patron can photocopy or scan pages

For more film review sources, go to the Film & Digital Media Research Guide, and click on the articles tab, and use the search tips above.

ArchiveGrid

Great publicly accessible online resource for locating archives nationwide (and searching for materials in them):

ArchiveGrid
http://www.archivegrid.org/

Trial of Filmmakers Library Online

Check it out. Let me know if you like it.
Martha

Filmmakers Library Online: <http://flon.alexanderstreet.com>

<http://daiv.alexanderstreet.com/>


http://flon.alexanderstreet.com

Your access is activated effective today and will expire on June 13, 2011.

Problem with PsycARTICLES database

This information came from a CDL Alert: CSA PsycArticles is experiencing server problems.

Patrons are encountering this message:
When users attempt to access articles online (either by linking from UC-eLinks or by searching the database directly), PDF or HTML interface links to display the full text results in error messages (e.g., Unable to access requested file, /csa/live/ft/psycarticles-set-c/BUL/70/bul_70_4_213.pdf).

CDL reports:
We just received the following information from ProQuest/CSA Technical Support:

A problem developed with the content and the result is the difficulty you're seeing now. We are working on reloading the content into the database to resolve the situation, but the process is not expected to be completed until Monay, April 11th. I apologize for any inconvenience this will cause in the meantime.

Coca cola taste tests

Some students from a psych class at Cabrillo college have come in looking for articles about taste test experiments involving colas (coke and pepsi). PsycInfo had a number of articles, including experiments from 1948.

They are working in groups of 4, and there are 6 or 7 groups. Their paper is due Wednesday.

In PsycInfo use the descriptor "Taste Perception" and KW cola to find 18 relevant scholarly articles. They need to pick the best five for the assignment.

Laura also discovered 14 articles in ASC using SU cola and SU evaluation

Articles & Databases link missing on home page

The Articles & Databases link on the left side of the library home page is missing and it has been reported.
In the meantime, use the Articles link in the center and then click on "More article databases."

Best, Laura

EBSCO changes requirements for using search tags in command line searching

EBSCO reports:

Dear EBSCO Customer,

Please note that over the next few days, we will begin migrating toward a new command line search requirement that all search tags be entered in upper-case ONLY, from the current lower, mixed and upper-case options. Here are the details of this change:
Search Tag Changes
Effective with a software release due this week, EBSCO will treat a short list of command line search tags (when entered in lower or mixed case) as text. Only UPPER CASE instances of these tags will be treated as search tags. The tags that will undergo this change are: AN, AS, AU, BE, DE, DO, DR, GI, IN, IP, IS, LA, RN, SO.

The EBSCOhost search engine will place quotation marks around the tags listed above, whenever they are entered in lower or mixed case. Therefore, a user will see the quotes in search history and saved searches going forward.

For example: if the user enters an american tragedy, they will see "an" american tragedy in their search history.

Please note: While users must only enter these specific tags in UPPER CASE with this software release (so that they will be treated as tags and not text), we highly recommend that all users become accustomed to entering ALL command line search tags in UPPER CASE to accommodate future additions to the short list of affected tags. The current list of tags that will be changed is made up of tags that are not frequently used, to cause the least amount of impact on "super" users who are the most likely to employ command line searching.

Classical Scores Library

We have access until November 10 to "Classical Scores Library," an online collection of scores available at the Music Online site (the home of four of our streaming audio databases -- Classical Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound, American Song, and Contemporary World Music).

Please take some time to browse and test this resource. It is expensive, but there appears to be a one-time funding possibility for acquiring it. I would very much appreciate any feedback regarding the value of this resource (once all of the content has been loaded) to your teaching and research.

The vendor has told me that each score will soon have a link to "available recordings" so that one may play the corresponding audio (in Classical Music Library) while reading the score. However, there appears to be a technical problem with that right now.

To get to the resource, I suggest that you go to:

http://library.ucsc.edu/subjects/music/websites

and then click on any of the links that say "Also available at Music Online."

Thank you,

Paul Machlis

CDLAlert: UC-eLinks does not appear in PubMed

UC-eLinks buttons are not currently displaying in the PubMed interface.
The National Library of Medicine is aware of the problem and is
currently investigating. Currently, there is no estimate for resolution.

Please share this information with your colleagues.

Material type "Music CD" active in CRUZCAT

I have added a new material type (Music CD, code "h") that is now selectable in the webpac. You'll notice that the old COMPACT DISC drop-down menu is gone, as it never functioned properly. Note that the DVD drop-down menu is still there as it works. Currently, Music CD is the last selection on the Material Type drop down menu. If there are no objections, I'm going to leave it as is. If, however, there is a strong desire to reorganize the Material Type list, I will do so. Please let me know if you feel strongly one way or the other Thursday, July 8th.

David

--
David Meyer
CNS

Time Inc. titles no longer in LexisNexis

From: Ellen Meltzer
Date: June 3, 2010 11:48:12 AM PDT
Subject: Immediate Change: Time, Inc. Titles Removed from LexisNexis Academic

To: Users Council (for information and distribution)
CDC (for information and distribution) via Chuck Eckman

LexisNexis has informed us that Time Inc. has decided to withdraw its publications from all LexisNexis services, effective immediately. Previously, LexisNexis Academic was restricted to rolling coverage of the most recent 2 years for the titles shown below. As of June 1, 2010, these titles were removed entirely. The source directory in the LexisNexis Academic product has been automatically updated. (These titles are also available through EBSCOhost’s Academic Search Complete). LexisNexis Academic has been deleted from campus A-Z lists.

The affected titles are:
People
Fortune
Time
Entertainment Weekly
Sports Illustrated
In Style
Money
Business 2.0
Field & Stream
Time Inc. – Last 2 Years
Time Publications

Kerry's business resources guide

Many thanks to Jess for successfully moving Kerry's invaluable Business Resources guide into Drupal. You can access it here:

http://library.ucsc.edu/help/howto/business-resources

or from the list of "How to" guides.

ProQuest / CSA databases down for maintenance, April 10, 7:00 p.m. to April 11, 7:00 a.m.

7 April 2010
ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on April 10, 2010. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, April 10, 2010, at 7:00 PM (PDT) to Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 7:00 AM (PDT).

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, American Periodicals Series
CSA products
UMI products, including ProQuest Digital Microfilm and online dissertation products
ProQuest® welcomes customer feedback. Please email your comments to platform feedback or visit www.proquest.com/go/suggestions.

Please share this information information with your colleagues.

Jayne Dickson
CDL Information Services
California Digital Library
University of California
510.987.0550
jayne.dickson@ucop.edu

PubMed indexing now available back to 1947

"With the addition of the 1947 citations, the MEDLINE/PubMed subset now contains over 20 million citations produced during 63 years of indexing of the biomedical literature."
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma10/ma10_oldmedline.html


Thanks to Christy Hightower for the alert.

Writing class focused on surfing

There is a Writing section that is focused on topics related to surfing. I've helped a couple of students with this topic and have a few strategies to share:

-not using the * symbol for truncating -- too many items come up with "surface"; leaving it as keyword "surfing" worked much better

-adding "NOT internet" to the keyword search was extremely helpful in the article databases

-Encyclopedia of Surfing: McH Ref GV840.S8 W3476 2003
http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/record=b2282202~S5

-article databases: Academic Search Complete; Historical Abs; in Illumina (surfing is a Descriptor in CSA) used Oceanic Abs, both Psych dbs, Socio Abs

-adding ideas/subject terms such as surfers, culture, subculture, counterculture, sport psychology, extreme sports, risk-taking, recreation, coastal management, environmental protection, business, marketing, etc.

Hope this is helpful.

Best,

Laura

Global Books in Print cancelled

Due to systemwide budget cuts our subscription to Global Books in Print has been cancelled and the database is no longer available. If you maintain a web page that linked to this database please update it.

thanks, Frank

OCA certificate/"untrusted site" problem

If you are getting calls about "untrusted site" errors from people trying to access OCA, we are working on a permanent solution. In the meantime, people at the reference desk should tell patrons they two choices:

- you can click through and add the exception (there is no security risk)

or

- the patron can download the new root CA http://certs.ipsca.com/Support/hierarchy-ipsca.asp

--
David Meyer
CNS, McHenry Library

Economist Intelligence Unit Profiles and Reports database

There is an additional step once you get into this database to be able to have access to country profiles, reports, profiles, etc. Click on "Enterprise Client Access" in the lower left part of the screen. That is the only way you get to the data. I have added this note to the database description in Drupal.