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. […]
Ground-breaking Open Research Platform, Octopus, to Launch (Jisc, June 24)“Octopus aims to enable fast, free and fair publishing of research that is open to all and focuses on the intrinsic quality of research. It sets out to avoid researchers being tempted to ‘sell good stories’ in their work, and instead rewards […]