Blackwell and Wiley Merge

Blackwell and Wiley have merged, and as a result, from the 30th of June Blackwell will appear on Wiley platform.

During June 28-29 2008, both Blackwell and Wiley will be unavailable while content is moved.

Patents - Trial to Thomson Patent Store

We now have a trial of Thomson Patent Store which gives access to full-text records via Derwent Innovations Index (DII) on the Web of Knowledge platform. Full text PDF links of patents are now added for trial. Trial ends June 7^th 2008.

Derwent Innovations Index^SM is a research tool that provides Web access to more than 14,800,000 patents with links to cited and citing patents, cited articles, and full-text patent data sources.

• EPO

• WIPO

• German Patent and Trademark Office

• USPTO

• English translation of the first page of the patent applications published by the Japanese Patent Office (since 2000)

• Direct access to patents from ARIPO, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Former East Germany, Great Britain-A, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan (original documents 1971-), Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, OAPI, Portugal, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Attention all Night Owls.

From Monday, April 14th 2008, there will be extended opening hours in the Library. The Quadrangle Reading Room on the Q (ground) floor will now be open after the library building closes (up to 1.45am). This is a study area only and there will be no access to books, photocopying or PCs. The room is self-contained with its own toilets and swipe access door. There are 88 reader spaces in the room and these will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. The room will be monitored by an invigilator who will have hotline access to Campus security.

The procedure for use of this room is that room will have to be vacated and all personal items removed when the Library closes. All library material will be removed from the room and entrances to the main library will be locked. Students can then re-enter through the external swipe access door. For security reasons all users of this room must also sign in with the invigilator.

Full details of Opening Hours can be seen here.

Trial of full archive of Royal Society publications

We now have a 60 day trial to the full archive of Royal Society Publishing

Their online journal collection is composed of seven peer-reviewed scientific publications, covering the biological and physical sciences, as well as the history and philosophy of science. Their digitised archive reaches back over 300 years (1665) and includes landmark papers from authors such as Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Alexander Flemming, Jams, Watson, Francis Crick and Stephen Hawking.

EMBiology Trial

A trial to EMBiology 1980-present is now available until 18-Apr-2008

A global biology indexing and abstracting database from Elsevier, EMBiology complements and extends EMBASE coverage in the basic biological sciences. Coverage extends from Biochemistry, Microbiology and Genetics through Biotechnology, Cell & Developmental Biology and Toxicology, to Plant Science, Agriculture & Food Science, Animal & Veterinary Science, and Ecology & Environmental Science.

EMBiology Quick Facts:

Journal coverage: more than 2800 active titles, including Trade Journals and Electronic-only Journals (books, patents & conference abstracts are not included)

Global coverage: cover-to-cover for all titles

Backfile to 1980: 4 million records

Current growth rate: 250,000 records/year

Abstracts: currently 85% (about 70% for the whole database)

St. Patricks Day and Easter

The Library will be open on St.Patricks Day, Monday March 17th, from 10am to 10pm (Customer and Information Desks closed)

The Library will be closed March 21st - 24th inclusive (Easter).

Further details can be found here.

Oxford Scholarship Online Trial

Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of over 1,900 Oxford books, including Biology, Mathematics, and Physics. Trial access to this database will expire on 20th March 2008 and is UCC access only.