New in the Wageningen Desktop Library

Free Articles of the 2006 Nobel Prize Laureates available now

December 14, 2006

As a tribute to this year Nobel Prize Laureates, Elsevier provides free access to the articles published with Elsevier by these extraordinary scholars:

To read more about the Nobel Prize Laureates and their groundbreaking discoveries go to More...

Christmas holidays

December 12, 2006

All library locations in Wageningen will be closed from Saturday 23 December 2006. They will reopen on Tuesday 2 January at 11.00 a.m.

Digital Library gets a face-lift

December 11, 2006

Wageningen Desktop Library, the digital library of Wageningen UR Library (http://library.wur.nl/desktop) will get a face-lift in 2007. The digital library will adopt the Wageningen UR house style and will be renamed Wageningen UR Digital Library.
Shortcuts, the fast access to the bibliographical resources will be called Search. The Wageningen UR Library Catalogue and the most used resources will get a more prominent place there.
You will find the complete collection of personal electronic services (alerts, favourite resources, status of loans) under My Library.

Also, searching databases of Wageningen UR Library, such as the catalogue and Artik will change slightly. Please check the help icons and the search tips on the search screens.

During the reconstruction of the digital library from 27 to 29 December, the availability of the systems cannot be guaranteed. The library requests your understanding. As of January 1, Wageningen UR Digital Library can be found at http://library.wur.nl.

Wageningen Yield publications sustainably archived by the National Library (KB)

November 27, 2006

The articles, book chapter, conference proceedings or reports published by members of Wageningen UR and submitted in electronic form in our repository WAY will now be archived by the National Library of the Netherlands. The National Library has a leading role in the world for sustainably archiving electronic documents. The National Library of the Netherlands archives the electronic journals of leading publishers such as Elsevier, Springer and Oxford amongst others as well.

The electronic archiving by the National Library is yet another reason to make sure that electronic copies of articles published by members of Wageningen UR are deposited in Metis/Way, even if they are only preprints.

More information in Dutch

New citation reports in Web of Science

November 23, 2006

Web of Science has been extended with a "citation reports" function, not to be confused with Journal Citation Reports or JCR. This report provides aggregate citation statistics for a set of search results. The report provides two graphs providing an insight in the productivity and citation impact of a research subject. The citation report also features the h-index, a unique metric that adjusts for over- and underweighting of citation data for individual papers in a set.

You can generate the report by clicking the citation report button on the left side of the screen

The h-index was developed by J.E. Hirsch and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102 (46):16569-16572. This index has subsequently attracted a lot of attention in the world of bibliometricians.

SFX in PubMed

The SFX button is now available in PubMed, which results in an improved linkage with our electronic and print content. As a consequence, we removed the Wageningen UR filter in the results page, because this showed only part of the obtainable articles.

Methods in Enzymology

October 23, 2006

Wageningen UR has now full text access to all volumes of Methods in Enzymology. Enjoy the early issues, starting in 1955, with all aspects of protein research. The link to all volumes is: the SFX link in the catalogue record. Links to separate volumes will be made available in the weeks to come.

Blackwell Journal Archives

October 10, 2006

From the following Blackwell journals many backvolumes have been added:

Full Access to Sage Journals

October 02, 2006

Starting 1 October 2006, Wageningen UR has access to all Sage titles. This adds more than 60 journals (e.g. Organization and Environment and Human Resource Development Review) to our digital library.

Wageningen Yield now searchable in Scirus

September 21, 2006

Scirus has now fully indexed all the free fulltext content from the Wageningen UR repository server, Wageningen Yield (WaY). WaY actually contains a lot more publications than those freely accessible 7100 articles, reports, PhD theses etc., indexed currently by Scirus. The selection indexed by Elsevier contains only those publications which are freely available fulltext, which includes amongst others all electronic PhD theses. Interesting to note, is that the Bibliographic database Scopus also presents results from Scirus as their web results. With these developments the exposure of our research output has considerably increased.

Dictionary of Natural Products

August 31, 2006

Wageningen UR has now electronic access to the Dictionary of Natural Products). The dictionary contains more than 507,000 compounds.
You can search in several ways: molecular formula, chemical name, CAS registry number, literature reference and various physicochemical properties. Each entry has an index and a browse function. For a chemical structure search (exact search and substructure search) a special plugin is necessary, available upon request.

A web-based tour is available.

For more information, please contact: Marja Maclaine Pont or Ans Brouwer .

JSTOR improvements

August 31, 2006

1 - Direct Export of Citations Now Available in JSTOR

JSTOR has announced the availability of a direct export feature for citations. JSTOR users may now directly export citations to a.o. EndNote. Choosing the direct export option will automatically open the citation management application, enabling more seamless exporting and importing of the citations.

For more information about JSTOR citation management, please see the Saving Citations help file.

2 - New Search Option: Limit Searches by Language in JSTOR

A new option to limit your search by language is now available as part of the JSTOR search interface. On the Advanced Search form, this option appears under the "Narrow Your Search" section in the format of a drop-down menu that lists the languages for which the JSTOR archive contains a significant amount of article content (English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish). By limiting a search to a particular language, the search results will include only articles in the selected language.

For more information about limiting searches, please see the Search Help file

All volumes of Journal of Food Science available

August 31, 2006

Since August 30 we have access to all volumes of Journal of Food Science, which is from 1936 onwards. When you open the journal in the Desktop Library, you will have to make a small detour along the website of the Institute of Food Technologists and choose "Publications > Journal of Food Science > Read JFS" to access the journal.

Release of a new version of TOXLINE

August 30, 2006

A new version of the National Library of Medicine® (NLM) TOXLINE was released on TOXNET in July. Search results from the two parts of TOXLINE®, TOXLINE Core and TOXLINE Special, are now merged. TOXLINE Core was the PubMed®/MEDLINE® toxicology subset and TOXLINE Special captured other literature

New journal and backfiles from Lawrence Erlbaum added to Desktop Library

August 1, 2006

Recently a subscription was started for Personality and Social Psychology Review. At the same time Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers made more back volumes available for all of their journals. Some go back to Volume 1 (see the list).
Library Wageningen UR holds the following subscriptions:

Open Access journal successful

June 26, 2006

PLoS Medicine obtained an impact factor of 8.4 in its first year of publication; quite an achievement for a new journal, and a sign that Open Access can work.

Open WorldCat added to Desktop Library

June 23, 2006

Open Worldcat is the largest library catalogue in the world. It contains descriptions of about 70 million titles and over a billion items. The major Dutch academic libraries are searchable through worldcat.

Go to Open WorldCat

Impact Factors 2005

June 15, 2006

We are pleased to inform you that the 2005 data are now available for Journal Citation Reports® on the Web. JCR® on the Web is a journal evaluation resource that provides statistical information based on citation data, giving you a systematic means to evaluate science and social sciences journals.

Find Impact Factors in the Journals Citation Reports

Binnenlands Bestuur Select

June 9, 2006

Sinds 7 juni 2006 hebben we een abonnement op Binnenlands Bestuur Select. Dit is het archief van het tijdschrift Binnenlands Bestuur met alle artikelen vanaf 2001 uit het tijdschrift Binnenlands Bestuur en de op internet gepubliceerde artikelen van Binnenlandsbestuur.nl. De toegang loopt via de catalogus.
Zoek in de catalogus het tijdschrift Binnenlands Bestuur en ga verder via de SFX-knop. U moet vervolgens inloggen met de juiste inloggegevens zoals dit voor meerdere abonnementen die via Kluwer lopen het geval is.
Binnenlands Bestuur Select biedt behalve toegang tot de artikelen vanaf 2001 ook themadossiers over verschillende onderwerpen.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Journals available in the Desktop Library

June 2, 2006

More than 250 journal titels on (Clinical) Medicine have been added to the Wageningen Desktop Library collection. A list of journal links can be found at LWW Journals. The list included journals like Arteriosclerosis, Epidemiology, Hypertension, Psychological Review, Spine.

AnnualReports.info available.

April 13, 2006

AnnualReports.info is Netherlands' largest full-text searchable database of annual reports. It contains the annual reports of report publishing Dutch organisations with more than fifty employees.

AnnualReports.info

Sage Journals Online

April 6, 2006

It took some time, but the contract with Sage Publishers has been signed. This means that Wageningen UR Library now has access to more than 250 Sage journals. Sage publishes journals in the social sciences, humanities, and life sciences.

Some titles now available for Wageningen UR are:

Sage Journals Online

Book covers in Wageningen Catalogue

April 4, 2006

In the Wageningen Catalogue, it is now possible to see images of book covers when they have been published recently and covers are available. The covers link straight to Amazon where it is possible, on many occasions,  to make use of the 'search inside this book' feature (remember: the book is available in Wageningen UR Library!). A few examples are the following records

Federated Searching through MetaLib

March 31, 2006

As from today (March 31), Desktop Library users can use MetaLib to search simultaneously for information in a variety of information resources, such as catalogues, bibliographic databases databases or subject-based Web gateways.

Links to MetaLib QuickSearch and MetaSearch options are added to the Portals and Shortcuts sections wherever they are relevant. In the Shortcuts Section you can also directly access the MetaLib interface.

QuickSearch is the easiest way to search a pre-defined set of up to 10 databases. You can directly launch a search without further action and view the combined results. You can browse through this results list, or choose to see a list per database,

MetaSearch enables you to to choose your own combination of databases to search.

All databases accessible through MetaLib can also be searched using their native interface.

New Journals

See: Recently added electronic journals

News Archive

News Archive

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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