New in the Wageningen Digital Library: Archive

Book covers introduced in Wageningen Yield (WaY)

March 24, 2006

In our repository Wageningen Yield (Way), it is now possible to see images of book covers when they have been published recently and covers are available. There are not that many books in Way, but a few examples are the following records

We are planning to introduce this feature in our catalogue in due course, please let us know whether you find this useful at servicedesk.library@wur.nl

Open Access Publication Fund formed

March 24, 2006

Under the Open Access publication model journals are freely available via the internet; no subscription is needed. The publishing costs are covered by an Article Processing Fee (APF), which is paid by the authors (or their employers).

Wageningen UR Library has a membership relation with two Open Access publishers: Biomed Central (BMC) and Public Library of Science (PLoS). Until now the membership fee for Biomed Central covered the Article Processing Fees for Wageningen UR authors.
BMC changed their Open Access business model, which makes publishing much more expensive. A membership now yields - like PLoS - a deduction of only 15% per article (average APF is € 1000,- per publication). Apart from this supporter membership one can choose for a pre- or postpay model. Prepayment offers a small discount on the APF.

Because Wageningen UR is positive about the Open Access initiative and the Wageninge UR authors have the intention to publish more in Open Access journals, it is decided to create a publication fund. In 2006 this fund will contain € 7000,- for covering the Article Processing Fees under the postpayment model. Only the costs of articles directly charged by BMC or PLoS to Wageningen UR Library will be paid from this Open Access Fund.

In 2006 Wageningen UR library will discuss the future policy concerning Open Access Publishing with all parties involved.

New databases

March 2, 2006

Library Wageningen UR offers two new databases available through the Ebsco host : Communication & Mass Media Index and Gender Studies Database.

Communication & Mass Media Index is a combination of two formerly produced databases, CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. Other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study are added to create a research and reference resource of a broad scope and depth of the communication discipline. Included are all important journals from the field, such as Communication Research, Communication Studies, Gazette and the International Journal of Advertising. Citation searching and Author Profiles (address information combined subjects and journals) are special features of this database.

The Gender Studies Database covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship. The scope is interdisciplinary and includes women's studies, men's studies, ethnic and health issues. The database indexes scholarly and popular publications, including journals, newsletters, books, book chapters, websites etc. This database includes almost 700.000 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to present. Search options in this database are limited: only index and keyword searching are available.

Improved linking to Wageningen UR library resources in Google Scholar

February 23, 2006

Google Scholar is a specialized search engine for scholarly content. Google Scholar is still in beta testing and far from perfect, but it has the potential of becoming an important source for discovering scholarly information. Google Scholar works closely with the library community to improve their search engine. To improve easy access to scientific literature for its institutional users, Wageningen UR Library has now made the holding data of its electronic journal collection available to Google. As a result, having found a reference to a journal article in Google Scholar that is also part of the Electronic Journals collection of Wageningen UR, you will see a link “Get it from WUR Library” underneath the resource description. Clicking on the link will open the Wageningen UR Library SFX menu for this article.

Linking is far from perfect, but whenever this link appears, there is a good chance you can get the full text on your screen in just a few mouse clicks .
The linking from Google Scholar to SFX, works also from outside WURnet. For this, you should first log in to My Library and then start Google Scholar from the Digital Library, e.g from a Portal Page or from the catalog record for Google Scholar.

New features in Web of Science

February 15, 2006

As of January 2006 new features have been added to ISI Web of Knowledge and Web of Science. You can now:

ABI/INFORM Global

February 07, 2006

ABI/INFORM Global is one of the most comprehensive business databases on the market. It includes in-depth coverage for over 2,700 publications, with more than 2,000 available in full text. The database covers scholarly journals, but also newsletters, newspapers and other sources. Topics include business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory and corporate strategy. The subject indexing makes it a key tool for business-related topics such as human resources, accounting, finance, operations and marketing issues

Included in ABI/INFORM Global is ABI/INFORM Archive™. This retrospective companion to ABI/INFORM provides cover-to-cover, full-images complete with illustrations and advertisements. Titles include:

ABI/INFORM Global also offers access to additional databases, such as: Hoover's Company Records (corporate data, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, and more) and ProQuest Asian Business and Reference (Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more. Coverage: 1971-present)

Go to: ABI/INFORM Global

The directory of Open Access Journals Passed the 2000 journals mark

January 18, 2006

The number of journals collected by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has surpassed the 2000 journals limit. Journals frequently used by patrons of Library Wageningen UR include Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, Current Science and BMJ british medical journal.

It is important to note that more evidence has become available on the larger impact of articles published in Open Access (OA) journals compared to traditional journals (Hajjem et al., 2005).

Five more open access journals tracked by ISI

December 20, 2005

Open Access journals are growing in number and gaining in popularity. An important step in the acceptance of these journals in the scientific community is the fact that those journals are covered in databases such as Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports (JCR, the database that produces the journal Impact Factors each year). Recently it was announced that five more BioMed Central journals were accepted for inclusion in Web of Science and JCR will calculate the Impact Factors for these journals in 2008. Among the new candidates are BMC Developmental Biology, BMC Plant Biology and BMC Structural Biology. A comprehensive list of the 30 open access journals published by BioMed Central which are tracked by Web of Science and JCR is listed here.

Springer and Kluwer Archives electronically available

December 7, 2005

Springer has announced that all of their journal archives are now electronically available. The collection covers some 1400 journals, e.g. Euphytica, Plant & Soil, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, and Planta amongst others.
Totalling an 1.8 million additional full text articles. Currently our catalog records haven’t been updated yet, but linking to the journals with SFX works seamlessly.

Go the archives

Course Libraries in EDUweb

November 28, 2005

Wageningen UR Library facilitates the creation and maintenance of so-called Course Libraries. For this purpose, a special web part was added to the Home Page which EDUweb provides for each Wageningen University course.

In the Virtual Learning Environment of Wageningen University, a Course Library is a digital library environment tailored towards a specific Wageningen University course. A Course Library consists of links to bibliographies, databases, web sites, and electronic and hard copy books, journals and journal articles relevant to the course to which it is linked.

Lecturers can compile Course Libraries from all sources available through the Wageningen Digital Library. They can then provide a link to a read-only version of the Course Library for use by students.

The links that are included in a Course library will be constantly maintained and updated by Wageningen UR Library. Sources which are no longer available (e.g. web sites that cease to exist) will automatically be removed from the Course Library.

More information on how to create and maintain a course library.

If you have any further questions or if you need help in compiling a Course Library, please contact one of the information specialists of Wageningen UR Library.

CAB-archive added

November 2, 2005

CAB-Abstracts, the most popular bibliographic database at Wageningen UR, now covers the period 1910-2005. This means that more than 60 years of bibliographic data have been added.

New version of SFX

October 6, 2005

As of today, a new version of the SFX software is available in the Wageningen Catalogue and other bibliographic databases in the Wageningen Digital Library.

The SFX menu is divided into 3 sections, Basic, Additional and Help. Default only the options in the Basic section are displayed. You can see the other options by clicking the buttons

Two new options have been added to the SFX-menu:

Annual Reviews Biomedical Sciences + Backfiles

September 29, 2005

Wageningen Digital Library now offers access to more Annual Reviews titles. By signing a contract for the Annual Reviews Biomedical Sciences 7 new Annual Reviews could be added to the collection. All subscribed Annual Reviews titles are now available from Volume 1 on.

New Annual Reviews titles

Link to all Annual Reviews

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

September 14, 2005

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, one the most important international encyclopedia is now fully available for students and staff of Wageningen UR. Go to: Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

All Mary Ann Liebert online journals available via Wageningen Digital Library

September 14, 2005

The Wageningen Digital Library now offers access to more than 50 e-journals of Mary Ann Liebert Publishers. Some important new titles are:

See http://www.liebertpub.com/urls/ for a list of all titles.

Unlimited access to FAOSTAT

September 07, 2005

FAOSTAT is a comprehensive set of statistics in the field of agricultural production data. Although FAOSTAT is freely available trough WWW for all users, downloading data is limited to only 10 records per query. Since early September we have secured access to the full dataset of FAOSTAT through the use of our citrix server. Please use the catalogue to access the full set of data FAOSTAT.
The FAOSTAT available from the FAO site, has some more actual data but is limited in the transfer of data.

SciFinder Scholar 2006

August 31, 2005

A new version of SciFinder Scholar has been installed on the Wageningen Digital Library.

The main features are:

Most Blackwell Journals available

July 07, 2005

The consortium of Dutch University Libraries signed a contract with Blackwell for the cross-access to all journals available in at least one of the participating libraries. This adds about 500 new journals to the Wageningen Digital Library.

Go to: Blackwell Synergy

Oxford Reference Online PREMIUM

July 07, 2005

Wageningen UR Library has upgraded the Oxford Reference Online subcription from Core Collection to Premium Collection.
The Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles from the acclaimed Oxford Companions Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This adds up to an additional 140,000 entries.

Some highlights from the Premium Collection:

Go to: Oxford Reference Online

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

June 22, 2005

We currently have trial access to the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS).
ELS was formerly published by the Nature Publishing Group, but has been taken over by Wiley. We wish to investigate whether there is a need for this encyclopedia within Wageningen UR. The trial period runs until July 20th, 2005.

If you wish to comment on this trial, please use our Recommendation form

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Impact Factors 2004 available

June 22, 2005

As of June 16th the 2004 edition of the Journal Citation Reports has become available. A new facility in this edition is the possibility to compare the impact of groups of journals with the help of the "Aggregate Impact Factor"

ISI Journal Citation Reports

Science Express

June 10, 2005

Science Express is a new feature of Science and Science Online, produced in cooperation with HighWire Press, that provides rapid electronic publication of selected research papers and Perspectives that have recently been accepted for publication in Science. Science Express papers are published online on the same weekly schedule as Science Online in PDF format within 2 weeks of acceptance, typically 4 to 6 weeks before they would appear in print. ScienceExpress papers are considered to be published on the day they are posted and are citable. The online publication date will appear in the print version of the paper.

Go to Science Express

Scopus contract signed

June 9, 2005

Scopus is a new navigational product for all science from Elsevier. Scopus covers 25 million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers. Wageningen UR has tested a beta version of Scopus for more than a year. Elsevier will officially launch Scopus this month. Because of the broad coverage of the database, its user-friendly interface and the rapid increasing usage during the test period, Wageningen UR library decided to sign a Scopus contract for the period 2005-2007.
SFX-functionality (important for a.o. full-text linking) is available in Scopus.
Notice: The coverage of all 14.000 journals is not completed yet!

Go to Scopus

PsycArticles

May 25, 2005

Wageningen UR offers access to PsycARTICLES via the OVID interface.
PsycARTICLES is a database from the American Psychological Association and includes access to nearly 53 full-text journals covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists. You can find PsycARTICLES in our catalogue or get access via the publishers' or aggregators' sites.

Important message concerning Web of Science

May 25, 2005

'View Full Text' button in Web of Science might be confusing.

When you have performed a search in ISI Web of Science and you want to access the full text of the article, use the 'SFX button' which is implemented by Library Wageningen UR. This button always leads to the correct information about availability within Wageningen UR.
Due to licensing restrictions, full text of an article may not be available when the 'View Full Text' button, added by ISI, is used as you can see in the following example:

The 'SFX' button leads to our catalogue and provides access to the full text of the article. The 'View Full Text' button is a link to APA journals, which is not a subscription database for Wageningen UR

Keesings Historisch Archief

(Dutch language)

May 24, 2005

Keesings Historisch Archief nu online beschikbaar via de Wageningen Digital Library.

In dit archief vindt u feitelijke en geobjectiveerde informatie over alle belangrijke politieke en economische ontwikkelingen in de wereld na de Tweede Wereldoorlog, bijeen gebracht door een Nederlandse redactie. Het archief wordt voortdurend geactualiseerd en is full-text doorzoekbaar. Het online archief ontsluit op dit moment circa 100.000 artikelen die sinds 1946 zijn verschenen in Keesings Historisch Archief. Vanaf 1991 is een deel van de artikelen langer geworden: naast korte, feitelijke berichten zijn er langere overzichtsartikelen gekomen.
Zoeken in de Landenprofielen (tabblad boven aan het scherm) levert korte feitelijke informatie (oppervlakte, staatsvorm, aantal inwoners e.d.) op over een land. Binnen het Archief kunt u voor het zoeken op landen de lijst van Landennamen gebruiken. Dit om verwarring over naamgeving en schrijfwijze te verkomen.

Ga naar: Keesings Historisch Archief
Meer informatie over Keesings Historisch Archief

Message concerning response times of QPat

May 18, 2005

We received the following message from Questel-Orbit, concerning QPat:

"Because of the success of FamPat, launched this past February, we have had an unanticipated increase in usage in both our online and QPAT services, which has resulted in some decreases in response time. Over the next month, we will be increasing the capability of our services in order to meet both current and future needs."

Backfiles Medline available

April 12, 2005

Recently the 1950 - 1965 segment of Medline (OLDMEDLINE) has become available. Please note that if you search this segment separately it is not possible to search for MESH headings. If you search it in combination with other segments it is possible to search for Mesh headings across all segments (including OLDMEDLINE).

More journals and backfiles of the Royal Society of Chemistry

March 24, 2005

Starting January 2005, Library Wageningen UR offers, via a 'package deal', access to more journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Besides that, there is access to electronic backfiles (archives) of the journals.
The new RSC journals are: Dalton transactions, New journal of chemistry, Methods in organic synthesis, Natural product updates, Natural product reports, Faraday discussions, Annual reports sections A, B, C, Catalyst and catalysed reactions, CrystEngComm.
List of available journals

The archive covers the period 1841-1996. The oldest article (april 1841) was published in the Memoirs of the Chemical Society of London.
Available issues in the archive.

Debate on Plagiarism

February 9, 2005

Some sites and publications on Plagiarism

'Slip of the pen' in e-mail Newsletter

January 27, 2005

In the latest e-mail newsletter the information on searching journal titles is not correct! The text should be as follows:

Tips: searching for journals

If you know the title (or the first words) of a journal, the best way of searching is as follows:

If you don't know the exact title, or are unsure of the first words and/or the order they are in, then it is best to search as follows:

Official Documents of the United Nations

January 20, 2005

The Official Documents of the United Nations (ODS) are now available free of charge at: http://documents.un.org/welcome.asp?language=E
The bulk of the documents in the database are from 1993 onwards. ODS provides access to the Resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. At present, there are approximately 800,000 documents in this database. The UN hopes to add approximately 100,000 documents per year. Almost all these documents are available in each of the UN's six official languages. This database, however, does not contain the UN Treaty Series or the UN Sales Publications.

SourceOECD: OECD's Online Library

January 13, 2005

Wageningen UR Library now offers access to all periodicals in SourceOECD, OECD's Online Library.

Available titles a.o. are:

See: http://new.sourceoecd.org for all titles.

Wageningen UR Library SFX services Wageningen UR Library introduces SFX

June 4, 2004

Starting September 1st, Wageningen UR Library will offer linking to library services through SFX.
SFX is a system for making direct links from references in databases and bibliographies.
If full text is not available, SFX will lead you to other useful options such as Order via the library, (track down the) Holdings in Wageningen Catalogue, Find related information on the Internet etc.
More options will be added later.

More information about SFX at Wageningen UR Library.

Warenwet

January 12, 2005

Vanaf 1 januari heeft geheel Wageningen UR via internet toegang tot de Warenwet.
Met WARENWET.nl hebt u 24-uur per dag vanaf elke gewenste plek toegang tot:

All IOS Press Journals available

January 07, 2005

Wageningen UR Library now offers access to all 64 e-journals of IOS Press. This adds more than 60 new journals to the collection, e.g.:

Link to IOS Press

New edition of SciFinder Scholar

January 06, 2005

New in the SciFinder Scholar database:

Furthermore there is information about new MeSH terms, how to get more out of your search and a warning about the maximum number of index terms that can be analyzed .... more

Access to QPAT

December 15, 2004

Since the beginning of December Wageningen UR has access to QPAT ‘s patent databases. QPAT consists of PlusPat, a bibliographic patent database, and full text patent dabases.
PlusPat is the main database within QPAT's databases. Pluspat provides access to over 46 million patent documents issued from over 70 patent-granting authorities. Coverage from the 1920's for the U.S. and most western European countries.
Full text databases within QPAT are: US Patents, US Published Applications, European Patents, European Published Applications, PCT Published Applications, Japanese C documents. QPAT offers legal status information as well. Patent full text pdfs are available from over 25 countries, including:
U.S., France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Belgium since 1920
EPO and WIPO since1978
Japan since 1980

A QPAT training for WUR users will be held on Thursday January 27, 2005.
The training will be divided into two parts.

Session I from 10:30-12:15 at Plant Research International, Lecture room 2.002
QPAT Presentation including database coverage, QPAT features & functionalities followed by a short demonstration for audience who will not participate in the 2nd session in the afternoon.

Session II from 13:30-15:30 (Place to be announced)
Hands-on with demonstrations, exercises & questions

Please register if you want to participate. Send an e-mail to servicedesk.library@wur.nl before December 31. Let us know if you want to follow Session I, or both sessions.

Have a look at QPat

DLO Publications now part of WaY Index

December 6, 2004

The databases 'Publications Wageningen UR Research Institutes 1985-' (formerly called 'DLO Publications') and 'Wageningen University Publications 1986-' have been merged into our new database Way Index [.....more]

Oxford Scholarship Online

November 29, 2004

The full text of a selection of Oxford books on Economics and Finance is now available online for Wageningen UR users. This is a collection of (at present) 155 e-books in the fields of: Economic Development, Growth, and Environmental Economics; Econometrics; Economic History; Economic Systems; Financial Economics; History of Economic Thought; International Economics; Macro- and Monetary Economics; Microeconomics; Public and Welfare Economics; South and East Asia. A key feature of e-books is the ability to move from references in the e-books to other online resources, i.e. online journals. Links to these e-books can be incorporated in online course material, i.e. EduWeb.

Go to Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics and Finance.

Major changes to CAB Abstracts

November 26, 2004

CAB Abstracts, our most intensively used bibliographic database, has been updated recently. New fields are added, such as authors e-mail address, and DOI (a number that provides a stable link to an electronic item). What is more important is that the indexing for authors has changed as well. A search for 'Giller in AU' gives many results now, whereas previously one had to include the initials or a wildcard. From now on new additions to the CAB database will become available monthly rather than 4 times per year which it used to be. This is an important improvement for My Library users who have alerts on new search results in CAB abstracts, the so called SDI service.

Google Scholar

November 26, 2004

With Google Scholar you can restrict your Google search results to academic texts. Google Scholar searches only journal articles, theses, books, preprints, and technical reports across any area of research. Read more in news@nature.com or go to Google Scholar

Wageningen UR Library SFX services Wageningen UR Library introduces SFX

June 4, 2004

Starting September 1st, Wageningen UR Library will offer linking to library services through SFX.
SFX is a system for making direct links from references in databases and bibliographies.
If full text is not available, SFX will lead you to other useful options such as Order via the library, (track down the) Holdings in Wageningen Catalogue, Find related information on the Internet etc.
More options will be added later.

More information about SFX at Wageningen UR Library.

New set of JSTOR Backfiles added

November 8, 2004

Library Wageningen UR proudly presents the addition of a very important set of journal backfiles to its rapidly growing collection of e-journals.
This new General Science Collection of JSTOR consists of some very interesting journals (back to the year 1665), e.g.:

Journal Backfiles added to the Wiley Interscience Collection

November 3, 2004

Three sets of backfiles have been added to the Wiley Interscience electronic journal collection:

Important set of backfiles added to Elsevier Science Direct Collection

November 1, 2004

Eight sets of backfiles have been added to the Elsevier Science Direct Collection of Library Wageningen UR. In 2003 the three most important sets were purchased (Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics an Molecular Biology; Environmental Sciences). Now the following sets have been added to the collection:

Backfiles make electronic journals available from the very first issue on.

MILIEUWEB.nl

October 27, 2004

MILIEUWEB.NL is een naslagwerk met enerzijds wetten en besluiten op het gebied van Milieurecht en anderzijds een rechtspraakoverzicht milieu.

De Wet- en regelgeving is onderverdeeld in diverse rubrieken: Grondwet, Privaatrecht, Lagere overheden, Adviseurs, Algemeen bestuursrecht, Rechtsbescherming, Strafrechtelijke wetgeving, Milieuwetten ministerie VROM, Milieuwetten ministerie V&W, Milieuwetten ministerie EZ, Milieuwetten ministerie LNV, Groene wetten ministerie LNV, Aanverwante wetten betreffende de leefomgeving en Subsidies.

Bij het Rechtspraakoverzicht Milieu is geput uit de jurisprudentie van de Raad van State, de Hoge Raad, gerechtshoven, rechtbanken en kantongerechten, alsmede de internationale hoven waaronder het Europese Hof van Justitie (vanaf 1998). Elke uitspraak heeft in de kop verwijzing naar rolnummers en publicaties in de jurisprudentietijdschriften: Jurisprudentie Milieurecht ("JM"), Tijdschrift voor milieuaansprakelijkheid (TMA), Jurisprudentie Bestuursrecht ("JB"), Administratiefrechtelijke Beslissingen (AB), Milieu en Recht (M en R), Milieurechtspraak (MR), Bouwrecht (BR) en Nieuwsbrief Stichting Advisering Milieurechtspraak (StAB).

EcoSal = Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology

October 15, 2004

EcoSal is the new, continually updated Web resource based on the classic ASM Press publication Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology.
Like its print-edition predecessors, EcoSal is a comprehensive, coherent archive of the entire corpus of knowledge on the enteric bacterial cell, but now it's continually expanded, updated, and revised.
EcoSal is comprised of several hundred modules of information and interpretation with links to cognate sites containing extensive tabular and pictorial presentations, as well as to active databases of primary research information

The Land, Soil and Water Database improved

September 23, 2004

The Land Soil Water Database (LSW) has a new look and the search functionality has improved.

New: Consumer and Household Studies Database

September 9th, 2004

The Consumer and Household Studies database (formerly Home Economics Database) contains bibliographic descriptions in the field of home economics, family studies and consumer sciences. Included is literature on social and economic aspects on a macro as well as a micro level of all kinds of households, both private and institutional.

Consumer and Household Studies

Wageningen UR member of PLOS (Public Library of Science)

August 26th, 2004

Wageningen UR Library signed a contract with PLoS for an institutional membership. As one of the results of this, Wageningen UR authors get - with the current level of membership - a discount of 20% on the publishing charges of PLoS Journals (PLoS-Biology and PLoS-Medicine).

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource (the Open Access Model). One of the PLoS projects is PLoS Journals. PLoS states that: "PLoS has launched a nonprofit scientific publishing venture that will provide scientists with high-quality, high-profile journals in which to publish their most important work, while making the full contents freely available for anyone to read, distribute, or use for their own research. The PLoS journals are run by professional editors, trained scientists, and physicians, in close collaboration with editorial boards. Papers published in these journals are peer reviewed using a uniquely consultative process between editors and experts in their field, and are produced to the highest editorial and production standards. Under the open access model, PLoS makes all published works immediately available online, with no charges for access and no restrictions on subsequent redistribution or use."

PLoS Biology was first published in October 2003; PLoS is now accepting submissions for PLoS Medicine and will publish the first issue in October 2004.

For more information and access to PLoS Journals, go to the PLoS website

An extra reason to use "My Library".

July 23rd, 2004

Wageningen UR staff and students do not have to type in the general username / password for " ERL databases" (Webspirs) if they are logged in to their "my library" account . Registered users who are not logged in still have to give in username and password. Note that users will still be asked to give in their personal user account name and corresponding password when they use saved histories or SDI facilities.

Oxford University Press starts Open Access experiment with Nucleic Acids Research (NAR)

July 1st, 2004

Oxford University Press (OUP) is initiating an Open Access experiment with one of its flagship journals, Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), recently listed by ISI as one of the top ten 'hottest' journals of the decade in biology and biochemistry. This initiative is in response to calls from the academic community to make research freely available online without the barrier of a subscription to access.

more...

ERL server (WebSPIRS, WinSPIRS) successfully moved to WURNET environment.

June 22, 2004

On Monday June 21 the ERL-server has been moved to the WURNET environment. Files and configuration settings have been changed.

After this upgrade nothing changed for WebSpirs users.

WinSPIRS users: don't forget to reconfigure the erlclnt.cfg file: erl.bib.wau.nl must be changed to erl.library.wur.nl

Telefoon: 0317 484440
E-mail: servicedesk.library@wur.nl

All Emerald Journals available online

May 13, 2004

All publications of Emerald are now available via the Wageningen Digital Library.
This package adds appr. 150 journals to the list of electronic journals available for Wageningen UR. Emerald Journals cover several subjects: food science (British food Journal), medicine, engineering, economy, marketing, management, information science.

Link to Emerald Fulltext

ASHS Journals available online

April 14, 2004

All publications of the ASHS are now available via the Wageningen Digital Library.
ASHS is the American Society for Horticultural Science. Founded in 1903, the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) is an organization dedicated to advancing all facets of horticultural research, education, and application.

List of ASHS publications:

Link to ASHS publications

Plaza Kluwer heet nu Kluwer Informatiebronnen

March 31, 2004

Vanaf 31 maart 2004 worden de juridische databases van Kluwer onder een andere naam - Kluwer Informatiebronnen, in plaats van Plaza Kluwer - aangeboden. Tevens is de website veranderd. Naast de mogelijkheid om vanuit de website zoekmachines (Google etc.) te gebruiken, biedt het systeem ook The Knowledge Link:

The Knowledge Link is een smart information tool voor het aanbrengen van stabiele en blijvende koppelingen vanuit eigen documenten naar de informatiebronnen van uitgeverij Kluwer. Dit kan zijn wet- en regelgeving, jurisprudentie, literatuur of artikelsgewijs commentaar, afhankelijk van de abonnementen op de betreffende bronnen.

ASAE Technical Library available

All publications of the ASAE are now available via the Wageningen Digital Library. ASAE is the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, an organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems.

List of ASAE publications:

ASAE Standards
ASAE Journals
- Applied Engineering in Agriculture
- Transactions of the ASAE
- Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
Annual Meeting Papers
Section Meeting Papers
Conference Proceedings
Textbooks
Monographs
Special Publications

Link to ASAE Technical Library

AACE Digital Library Journals and Proceedings available.

The Digital Library is an online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

Link to AACE Digital Library

Manual for EndNote Version 7 available

EndNote is a reference database. It specializes in storing, managing and searching for bibliographic references, figures and tables in your private reference library. EndNote is also a bibliography maker. It builds lists of cited works automatically in any format or journal style within the word processing programme Microsoft Word, facilitating the compilation of bibliographic reference lists of articles, reports or books.

Link to EnNote7 Manual

Off-campus access to Wageningen Digital Library resources

From June 1st 2003 onwards, you can use your 'My Library' account to access electronic journals, bibliographies and other restricted-access electronic resources from computers outside the Wageningen UR network. As a result you can utilize these resources from home or while you are travelling. This off-campus access is only available while you are logged in to 'My Library' on the Wageningen Desktop Library homepage and then only if you access these resources through the links provided in the Wageningen Digital Library, not from a publisher's website. If you already have an account but forgot your password please follow the instructions on the login page to receive a reminder of your password by e-mail.

All back issues (1905-2003) of the Journal of Biological Chemistry are now available online.

In anticipation of the Centennial of the JBC in 2005, all back issues of the JBC are now available online. The entire archive of JBC, 1905-2003, is available, searchable and free!
The publisher - the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) - states to be a strong supporter of Open Access publishing. The free archive is one of the results of that policy.
Open Access - in its simplest version - means that all papers published in a journal are available free to everyone from the day they are first published. Under Open Access the costs associated with journal publishing are no longer covered by subscriptions, but are borne by the authors/granting agencies as page charges.

Click here for the JBC Archive

Grote uitbreiding van het aantal beschikbare kranten via LexisNexis

Het aanbod van Nederlande kranten in de Digital Library beperkte zich tot nu toe tot enkele landelijke bladen (De Volkskrant, Trouw, NRC Handelsblad, Het Parool, Algemeen Dagblad). Bibliotheek Wageningen UR heeft de licentie uitgebreid met "Nederlandstalige Nieuwsbronnen", waarmee een groot aantal regionale kranten, het Financieele Dagblad, het Agrarisch Dagblad en de Boerderij online beschikbaar is gekomen.

Voor een overzicht van beschikbare kranten en bladen, zie lijst. Nederlands nieuws vindt u op http://www.lexisnexis.nl/lnn/ln/UvW

Kwekerscatalogi

Bij de Speciale Collecties van de Bibliotheek Wageningen UR is sinds 2000 een grote collectie kwekerscatalogi (ca. 35.000) aanwezig. De collectie is grotendeels opgebouwd en overgedragen door Plant Research International (PRI), aangevuld met catalogi afkomstig van de firma Sluis & Groot en van Praktijkonderzoek Plant en Omgeving (PPO). De catalogi zijn momenteel alleen toegankelijk via een aparte database op de kweker, dus niet op titel of jaar van de catalogus. Er kan gezocht worden op naam en locatie van de kweker en op assortiment. De database wordt nog steeds aangevuld met nagekomen catalogi. Ze was al enige tijd online beschikbaar op de website van de Speciale Collecties: Kwekerscatalogi. Hierbij is tevens een overzicht opgenomen met links naar andere belangrijke collecties kwekerscatalogi. Om er een bredere bekendheid aan te geven is de database recentelijk ook opgenomen in de shortcuts van de desktop.

Cartografische toegang tot de RAF-luchtfoto's

De colllectie van ca. 91.000 luchtfoto's van de Royal Air Force uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog (vnl. september 1944 / april 1945) heeft als belangrijkste, geografische ingang een set kaartbladen waarop de vluchtgebieden als met potlood omlijnde vakken zijn aangegeven. Op de website van de Speciale Collecties zijn deze kaarten nu ook te raadplegen: RAF. Voor gebruikers van deze collecties die uit het hele land komen, is dit een belangrijk hulpmiddel om van te voren te kunnen bepalen van welke gebieden er foto's aanwezig kunnen zijn. Ter plekke zijn er ook nog aparte vluchtkaartjes aanwezig waarop de luchtfoto's in stroken, de zogenoemde runs, zijn ingetekend. Dus het blijft voorlopig nog wel noodzakelijk dat men de collectie ter plekke komt raadplegen. Onder 'more information' is ook een overzicht met links naar andere collectie met luchtfoto's van Nederlands grondgebied te vinden.

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins online journals no longer available.

Since 2004 all Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins electronic journals are only available via the Ovid platform. This move caused an extreme rise in subscription fees. Because of this, Library Wageningen UR was forced to withdraw the journals from the Digital Library. They are still available in print.

It concerns the following titles:

Wageningen Tulip Portal

Wageningen UR Library has an unique collection of historical and recent literature on the tulip. Wageningen University and Research Centre produces modern scientific and practical knowledge about tulips. This site is developed by Wageningen UR Library to make both available for the general public.

Wageningen Tulip Portal

More information (in Dutch).

Wageningen UR Library subscribes to BioOne

Since the beginning of this year all members of Wageningen UR have access to the journals of BioOne. BioOne is an aggregator of electronic journals in the field of Bioscience. The collection is rapidly expanding in number of titles and currently contains 68 journals. The Library subscribed already to nearly half the number of journals on paper which have now become electronically available.

Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

Wageningen UR Library has acquired access to the ISI-ESI database for the year 2004. The Essential Science Indicators is a tool that analyzes research performance of companies, institutions, countries, scientists and journals. It allows rankings to be made quite easily and identifies significant trends in current research.

ESI can be accessed via Web of Knowledge.

De Krantenbank (Landelijke Dagbladen) is verhuisd naar LexisNexis Academic

De Krantenbank (het archief van de landelijke dagbladen NRC Handelsblad, Trouw, Algemeen Dagblad, NRC Handelsblad, de Volkskrant en Het Parool) is van naam en host veranderd. De dagbladen worden nu gehost door LexisNexis onder de naam Landelijke Dagbladen.
U vindt de dagbladen nu op: LexisNexis Academic

Het pakket beschikbare kranten wordt voor Wageningen UR binnenkort uitgebreid met het Financieele Dagblad, Agrarisch Dagblad en een aantal regionale kranten.

Als uw zoekactie geen resultaat oplevert, ligt dit waarschijnlijk aan de beveiligingsinstellingen van uw browser. Onderin uw scherm ziet u dan een éénrichtingsverkeer-teken.
Voorwaarden voor het goed functioneren zijn:

Bij LexisNexis is aangedrongen op een elegantere oplossing voor dit probleem.

Add-to-Shortcuts functionality improved

Apart from a change in the button, used for selecting personal shortcuts, ( instead of the shopping cart ) an important functionality has been added. From now on you can select every electronic source from the Wageningen Catalogue to be added to your list of personal shortcuts in My Library.

All Dekker Online Journals added

A very interesting set of more than 90 online journals of Dekker Publishers has been added to the Wageningen Digital Library. See: Dekker Journals

Warning for the users of SDI-profiles in Webspirs databases

We are confronted with the following problem:

If you change your password of your My Library account, your SDI-profiles in WebSpirs databases will become inactive. That means: No output will be received when a database is updated. This problem is caused by the fact that in Webspirs the old password is still active. The database provider is trying to solve this problem.

Please contact our Service Desk for instructions:

Telefoon: 0317 484440
E-mail: servicedesk.library@wur.nl

Database TUiN

Database TUiN offers information in Dutch on historical and existing Dutch gardens, parks, estates, cemeteries and land art features in the Netherlands and other 'Green Monuments'. Archival collections of 25 of the most celebrated Dutch garden and landscape architects will become available in TUiN. The work of the famous garden architect L.A. Springer (1855-1940) is now searchable. Images of his designs are included.

In celebration of this event an exhibition of Springers' work is held at the Museum Casteelse Poort in Wageningen from November 14th till May 31st 2004.
Our latest acquisition, the oeuvre of garden architect Mien Ruys (1904-1999), will in due time also be made available through the database TUiN: http://library.wur.nl/tuin

PsycINFO Database

At last, after requests of several departments, a trial for PsycINFO is available until January 1st 2004. After this date the use of the database will be evaluated. Whether this trial will be changed into a real subscription will depend on usage statistics and user appreciation.

PsycINFO is the leading international bibliographic database on psychology and behavioural sciences of man and animal. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, sociology, education, physiology, anthropology, business and law.
The database, produced by the American Psychological Association, covers over 1300 journals. Available from 1872 and onwards! At this moment the database contains almost 2 million records and approximately 55.000 records are added each year.

PsycINFO recently has added cited references appearing in journal articles, books, and book chapters to its records. Comprehensive coverage of cited references began in 2001, but references appear in records from 1988 on.

JSTOR Journal Archive

JSTOR is a digital archive collection of core scholarly journals. It is unique in that complete archives of these journals have been digitised, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century. The JSTOR archive combines page images for display and printing with a linked text file for full-text searches of major scholarly journals. Staff and students of Wageningen UR can search , view and print JSTOR journal articles at any time and off-campus access from any location (My Library account needed).

http://www.jstor.org

Currently, there are six collections available, with a further collection to be released in Autumn 2003. Wageningen UR Library subscribes to 4 of the available collections.

Biological Abstracts Backfiles

As a result of repeated requests of Digital Library Users 20 years (1969-1988) of bibliographic data have been purchased and added to Biological Abstracts, which is available on our ERL-platform (WebSpirs, WinSpirs). The database now covers the period 1969-2003.

Biological Abstracts provides comprehensive worldwide coverage of research in the biological and biomedical sciences.

Web-of-Science: more years and improved

Web-of-Science is now available directly via an ISI-server under the umbrella of Web-of-Knowledge. You will find Journal Citation Reports and Current Contents Connect there as well.

ISI Web of Science provides access to Science Citation Expanded , Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Recently Wageningen UR Library was able to buy the backfiles from 1945 and onwards. At the moment Web of Science contains almost 33 million articles from more than 8,700 scientific journals.
Web of Science offers a unique search method: cited reference searching. You can navigate forward, backward and through literature by searching on citations. With this method you can find out how ideas are picked up in the scientific world and how often a researcher is cited.
Furthermore, searching options in version 6.0 of Web of Science have been considerably improved:

Not new but very convenient is the possibility to export search results to database management packages like EndNote and Reference Manager.

Powerpoint Presentation: Web of Science 6.1

Elsevier Science Backfiles

Library Wageningen UR purchased some important Elsevier Backfile Collections.

Until recently the Elsevier Science Journals were, in their digital format (PDF or HTML), available from 1995 onwards. It was decided to purchase some important backfile collections (1994 backwards), which Elsevier completed recently:

All journals are available from Volume 1, Issue 1.

For lists of journals available in the subject categories, see: Backfiles on ScienceDirect

Off-campus access to Wageningen Digital Library resources

From June 1st 2003 onwards, you can use your 'My Library' account to access electronic journals, bibliographies and other restricted-access electronic resources from computers outside the Wageningen UR network. As a result you can utilize these resources from home or while you are travelling. This off-campus access is only available while you are logged in to 'My Library' on the Wageningen Desktop Library homepage and then only if you access these resources through the links provided in the Wageningen Digital Library, not from a publisher's website. If you already have an account but forgot your password please follow the instructions on the login page to receive a reminder of your password by e-mail.

New Journals

See: Recently added electronic journals

Access

Access to all services mentioned above is restricted to students and staff of Wageningen UR. If you have any questions please contact the Service Desk of Wageningen UR Library (servicedesk.library@wur.nl, telephone +31-317-484440


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