BGSU University Libraries News

The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC) is currently experiencing an outage due to a hardware problem.

This same problem is also affecting access to several OhioLINK research databases, including:
Art Full Text
ATLA Religion Database
Compendex
Gale Business & Industry
GeoRef
Inspec
PAIS
Sociological Abstracts

Access to BIOSIS, ERIC and PsycINFO is NOT affected.

OhioLINK is aware of the problem, and technicians are working to restore access.

The library’s citation management system, RefWorks, is currently unavailable due to a server outage at the vendor’s site. RefWorks is aware of the problem and is working to restore access. If you are trying to access your RefWorks account, please wait and try later in the day. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Due to scheduled vendor maintenance, LexisNexis Academic and LexisNexis Congressional will be unavailable from 9:00pm Saturday, October 1, to 5:00am Sunday, November 1, 2009.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

In addition to our ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus trials, the library currently has a trial to Grzimek’s Animal Life – Online Knowledge Portal. This is the online version of the 17-volume scholarly encyclopedia of the same name, with additional images and interactive tools, audio and video.

 To connect to this resource, visit:

http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=e1000459

As previously announced, BGSU is currently participating in statewide trials of both ISI Web of Knowledge (published by Thomson Reuters) and Scopus (published by Elsevier) through November 18. These trials are part of an Intent to Negotiate (ITN) initiated by OhioLINK on behalf of Ohio libraries. By December, librarians at OhioLINK libraries will evaluate both databases and these publishers’ ITN responses and will select one as the best value for OhioLINK libraries.

Members of the BGSU community are encouraged to participate in this process and provide their feedback. Both products are available from the University Libraries’ Trial Databases web page. Both publishers will also be giving online demonstrations of their products.

Scopus Webinars

Online demonstrations of Elsevier’s Scopus database will be held:

• Monday, November 2, 10:00am (click here to join the meeting) and
• Wednesday, November 4, 10:00am (click here to join the meeting)

For audio, dial 866.501.6993 and enter participant code 333994.

No advance registration is required for either session.

Note: The library will host the November 2 webinar in the Pallister Conference Room (150 Jerome Library). All are welcome to attend.

Information about ISI Web of Knowledge online demonstrations, scheduled for October 27 and 29, was announced previously and may be accessed here.

OhioLINK WoS/Scopus Comparison Report

The OhioLINK Web of Science/Scopus ITN Review Team has created a 24-page report identifying and comparing six key functionalities in the two products that are key to the needs of OhioLINK users. These are:

• General searching for relevant articles/literature
• Citation searching and research evaluation
• Author productivity
• Institutional research output
• Visualization tools
• Citation management

All members of OhioLINK institutions are invited to review this report. Copies are available at the Jerome Library Research and Information Desk. Please contact Amy Fry, Electronic Resources Coordinator, at afry@bgsu.edu if you would like a hard copy mailed to you. Distribution to anyone outside an OhioLINK institution is prohibited.