Effective August 5/22, CAS is retiring the ‘classic’ version of SciFinder. Since February of 2021 we have also had access to the newer SciFinder-n platform. Chemistry happens in a lot of places at UofA, so several departments have been notified of this change, and the information on the A-Z database […]
Clarivate has announced that with the release of the 2022 JCR data in the summer of 2023, their journal coverage will be expanded: “In the 2023 release of the Journal Citation Reports™, all Web of ScienceCore Collection™ journals will receive a Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™.This means expanding the JIF from […]
As you may know, as a *general rule*, our Library does not collect audiobooks. There are a few reasons for this, including the fact that many in-demand audiobook collections (e.g., Audible.com) are available for individuals, but not for libraries. However, one of our big ebook collections, O’Reilly Ebooks (formerly called […]
The former Oxford Journals asset on the A-Z database list has been renamed as Oxford Academic (Journals, Books, and Handbooks), effective July 19, 2022. Along with Oxford University Press journal content, this platform now hosts books formerly found on Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford Scholarship Online, and University Press Scholarship Online. The assets for those three ebook collections will […]
Access has been enabled for some new collections from ProQuest and Alexander Street. Please note that these are not new purchases, but rather additions related to a multi-year agreement with ProQuest that provides access to all primary source and archive collections on these platforms: New to ProQuest’s Digital National Security Archive: U.S. […]