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.

"Linked full text" removed from EbscoHost

"Linked full text" as an option has been removed from EbscoHost. The reason being that it never worked.

It appeared as recently as last week, so it must have taken effect very recently.

Thanks to Tasha Keagan for following up on this. Please send any search anomalies (as she says) to ejournals@library.ucsc.edu; even is you have to wait it's totally worth it!

-Annette