Temporarily Unavailable: My EBSCOhost Folder

EBSCO announced that a systems upgrade will make My EBSCOhost Folder temporarily unavailable on Wednesday, December 21. Service is expected to resume by mid-day.

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H.W. Wilson Databases Coming to EBSCOhost

EBSCO announces migration of H.W. Wilson databases to the EBSCOhost platform. "Over the coming weeks Wilson databases will become available on the EBSCOhost platform. Through December 2011, these database will also be available on WilsonWeb..." read full announcement

Business Source Premier Updates

EBSCO has announced forthcoming updates to the Business Source Premier search interface. The late October changes will align BSP interface with the EBSCOhost interface. Please see the announcement for a list of updates and screen captures of the search interface.

New Subscription Databases

Access to Communication & Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts is now active.

Additional information:
CMMC
Communication Abstracts

MOREnet FY12 Databases

Beginning July 1, 2011 the following resources will be provided by the State's FY12 database contracts:

Annenberg Media

Gale
Business and Company Resource Center
Discovering Collection

Ebsco
MasterFILE Premier
Academic Search Elite
Consumer Health Complete
ERIC
MAS Ultra School Edition
Middle Search Plus
Primary Search
Newspaper Source
Science Reference Center
Professional Development Collection
Book Collection: Nonfiction – High School Edition
Book Collection: Nonfiction – Middle School Edition
Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary School Edition

LearningExpress Library

NewsBank (Kansas City Star and St. Louis Post-Dispatch)


Look for future cancellation announcements on MOREnet FY11 resources.

New Free EBSCO Database

EBSCO Publishing and the John Carter Brown Library Join Forces to Offer Free Historical Database

EBSCO and the John Carter Brown Library have collaborated to bring a new bibliographic database to libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 is a database based on the authoritative bibliography “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750.” European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 is freely available online at: www.europeanamericana.com.

This new database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

While the database is freely available online at www.europeanamericana.com, libraries may add European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 to their EBSCOhost® profiles by contacting technical support at support@ebsco.com. European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 will be the fourth database EBSCO has made available for free, joining Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Teacher Reference Center™ and GreenFILE™.

From: http://www2.ebsco.com/en-us/NewsCenter/publications/ays/Pages/pdfs/ays-issue84.pdf

EBSCOhost Enhancements

EBSCOhost has announced the following enhancements:

• Additional Authorities Available in Related Information, for example, Related Business Videos and Company Information.
• MP3 Downloads are available for content that supports the Text-to-Speech function, from the Detailed Record view.
• The Date Slider reflects the Result List date range unless manually adjusted by the user. Changes made to the Date Slider are sticky--its usage is reflected in the breadbox as a limiter, and in Search History.
• Branding is available for the bottom of a Detail Record, when enabled in EBSCOadmin from the Add Branding or the Modify Branding screen.
• Citations 2010 features the addition of the Harvard and new APA (6th edition) formats.
• Minimum Browser Requirements have changed, and Internet Explorer 6.0 support will cease as of January 2011. See the updated minimum browser requirements in this FAQ.

Two Cancellation Notifications

On December 31, 2010 access to Communication and Mass Media Complete and Facts.com will be discontinued.

Mental Measurements Yearbook WITH Tests in Print

"To alleviate these conditions, EBSCO Publishing, in collaboration with the Buros Institute, has agreed to re-engineer these products into a single database. Furthermore, we will combine the Tests in Print citations with the Mental Measurements Yearbook full-text reviews, into a single, more comprehensive record. There are several advantages to this approach, including:

• Full access to all search options will be provided for these products
• All information for a given test will be available in one concise record
• Direct access to MMY full text will be available through a single TIP/MMY citation
• Users will no longer see two results for the same test

In addition to these search and display improvements, EBSCO will also release new backfile volumes of Mental Measurements Yearbook. Mental Measurements Yearbook currently includes Yearbooks 9 through the current Yearbook. The Buros Institute has recently digitized yearbooks 1-8. This important content will be added to EBSCOhost with this release."

EBSCOhost Updates

"The following information summarizes the most significant changes on EBSCOhost:

•The limiter and the date slider column will move from the right to the left of the Result List, a more intuitive position that consolidates the ways users can refine and work with their results in one area. For a look at the updated Result List, you can copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://support.epnet.com/uploads/CustSupport/Images/communication_images/resultlist1.gif.

•Detailed record pages will be more streamlined, and links to full text, your link resolvers, ILL, etc. will be more prominently displayed on the left.

•Users will be able to select multiple clusters and source types when managing results.

•There will be an enhanced PDF Viewer, Content Viewer, HTML Full Text, etc.

•A "breadbox" will show users which limiters, expanders and source types have already been selected, and enable easy removal of these refinements.

•The Hierarchical Subject Authority File in certain databases will be adjusted to align with the style already in use in our academic databases

•Simpler overall interface elements will increase the intuitiveness of the user experience.



For more information on these and other features, visit http://support.ebsco.com."

EBSCOhost Upgrades

Enhanced PDF Viewer: EBSCOhost features a special view designed to streamline the browsing of an entire issue, or all available volumes and issues, from one screen. Features to enable users to easily navigate and manage open PDFs, including:

• TOC column with instant access to citations with title, author and subject detail
• Hyperlinked access to full test issue content, by article or chapter titles
• A convenient list of hyperlinked thumbnails to illustrations
  
• Expand/collapse arrow to control open PDF view

View a demonstration of this feature (1:42)

Additional User Interface Languages: Dutch, Romanian and Slovenian

A Couple of Trials

Through April 30, 2010, we have access to trials for two EBSCOhost databases "America: History and Life with Full Text" and "Historical Abstracts with Full Text." Currently Owens subscribes to the index versions of both.

If you'd like, submit an evaluation online for each and CM will review your comments.

Popular periodical titles delayed

Four popular magazine subscriptions of Owens Library are delayed this year from the publisher Rodale. The titles are Prevention, Bicycling, Runners World, and Organic Gardening. The customer service message from our vendor Ebsco explained the delay as follows:
"Ebsco was in negotiations with the publisher, Rodale. They have allowed Ebsco to send orders in early Feb 2010. These orders most likely won't be starting until April 2010. I have sent the publishers a claim to advise of start and expire date for each order." Our start and expire dates are 01/01/2010 to 12/31/2010.

Termination of EBSCO databases

The following EBSCO databases will no longer be available as of of access July 1, 2009, due to the change in the MOREnet database contract to Gale.

Academic Search Elite
Alt-Health Watch
EBSCO Animals
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
MAS Ultra - School Edition
MasterFILE Premier
Military & Government Collection
Newspaper Source
Primary Search
Regional Business News

Swine Flu Info from EBSCO

Dear Librarians and Information Specialists,

With the recent outbreak of Swine Flu, we hope the following information is of value to you. Please feel free to pass along this information to healthcare professionals at your institution as well as faculty, staff and students.

Due to the recent global outbreak of Swine Influenza, EBSCO Publishing and the DynaMed Editors have made DynaMed’s information about Swine Influenza free to health care providers and institutions throughout the world. The DynaMed topic on Swine Influenza consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak. DynaMed Editors will continue to monitor information and update this topic as needed throughout this global crisis. Please click on the following link for information regarding Swine Influenza:
http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/swineflu/.

DynaMed is a point-of-care reference resource designed to provide clinicians with the best available evidence to support clinical decision-making. DynaMed is part of the suite of medical products owned and provided by EBSCO Publishing and is updated daily by monitoring medical literature sources.

Current DynaMed subscribers are encouraged to use their access to DynaMed through their institutional subscription to monitor the latest clinical information on Swine Flu at http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/logIn.php.

Should you have any questions or need additional information about DynaMed, please contact us at information@ebscohost.com.

Kind regards,

Susan Entrican
Programs Manager
EBSCO Publishing
sentrican@ebscohost.com