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.

JSTOR Update

JSTOR announced platform update, including both new and upgraded features.

New features:

• A wider range of content formats, including full-text HTML for some journals and downloadable PDFs for all current journal issues
• Multimedia files for some journals
• New personalization features, including the ability to register for Table of Contents (TOC) emails and alerts when new content matches saved search terms
• New informational pages for the titles participating in the Current Scholarship Program

Upgrades:

• Article citation information will reside within the “View Citation” overlay
• The “Collections at your institution” page will list licensed Archive Collections and licensed CSP titles. Please note that the export of an institution-specific holdings file will no longer be accessible from this page, but may be requested by contacting support@jstor.org

Two Cancellation Notifications

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

IBISWorld Subscription Active

IBISWorld is now available as part of the electronic resources collection at Owens Library. "IBISWorld provides thoroughly researched, accurate and current economic, demographic and government data on businesses in over 700 industries."

Upcoming Cancellation - Readers' Guide

The subscription to Readers' Guide Retrospective will conclude on November 30, 2010.

Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context

Select Gale Resource Centers are being upgraded to the revolutionary new In Context experience, including our current subscription to Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center has undergone a name change and is now Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. The url has not changed.

Articles of interest on patron-driven acquisition

In light of our recent discussions on patron-driven acquisition, these articles came across my desktop this morning:

What Al spoke so well to in our TS meeting on Thursday (needing a combo of approval plans, the opening statement is misleading): Problematizing Patron-Driven Acquisitions

YPB/EBL Demand-Driven Approval Announcement