JISC Mirror Service Closing

JISC has recently announced that the National Mirror Service is to close from July 31st 2007, at the end of the current contract with Eduserv. For full details please see the JISC press release:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/03/news_mirror.aspx

Lexis-Nexis User Group

Did you know that the Lexis-Nexis Butterworths Academic User Group meets each year in Spring and Autumn? On each occasion a meeting is held in London and a similar one in a Central or Northern location (e.g. Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds) usually on consecutive days. The User Group web-site has, amongst other things, minutes of previous meetings and details of Lexis-Nexis contacts: http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/academicusergroup/

EduServ Chest Data Messenger 15th February

Contents:
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- Further discounts available on PsycARTICLES agreement
- Potential new agreements - Guildford Press, IOS Press, Mary Ann Liebert (Journals) Inc.
- Feedback required on potential agreement for Books 24x7
- Renewal of Research for Libraries agreement
- ESDU adds Interactive Graphs to Chest agreement
- Your data wishes

Full information will be appearing on the web site:
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/messenger/messenger.html

JISC Collections weekly update issue 25

CONTENTS:

1. JISC Collections agreement for the Art Museum Image Gallery
2. The future of online learning: The JISC National E-Books Observatory project
3. Special notice affecting subscribers to the Oxford Journals Archive
4. Two new journals added to the Institute of Physics Journal Archive agreement
5. Uncovering the secrets beneath Britain's landscape
6. Stating the case for international law: new JISC Collections agreement is available
7. What is the NESLi2 initiative for electronic journals? Read here to find out more...
8. Consultation on Eighteenth Century Journals II from Adam Matthew Digital
9. Consultation for European Sources Online (ESO)

The weekly update is available on the JISC Collections web site at
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/news_and_events.aspx

JIBS Enhancement Groups

The JIBS committee has been represented for some time on the Web of Knowledge Enhancement Committee, together with Thomson ISI, JISC and MIMAS. This provides us with an opportunity to gather news on developments to pass on to the community, and enables us to feed back suggestions for product enhancements to ISI.

JIBS has recently set up a number of new enhancement groups with Ovid, British Standards and Scopus. We are hoping to have new groups in 2007 for Intute and EBSCO.

Are there any other suppliers that you would like to see JIBS work with in this way?

For example:
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (databases); CSA Refworks;
MDL (Beilstein); Dialog;

Can you suggest any others? Please either email me directly: l.j.humphreys@bath.ac.uk or attach a comment to this posting.

Ingenta merger with Vista

It was announced on 2nd February that "Ingenta has agreed terms to merge with VISTA International, a leading global provider of software systems and support services for the publishing industry. The combined company, Publishing Technology plc, will be the largest provider of publishing-specific software solutions to the information industry."
For further information see:
http://www.publishingtechnology.com/.

Intute enhancement group

The management of the academic resource gateway Intute have invited JIBS to join them in setting up an enhancement group, in order that to established dialoge with the user community aimed at improving the quality and usefulness of Intute. Committee members Sue Cumberpatch and Ian Mayfield have agreed to represent JIBS, but we would like additional representation from amongst the wider membership.

If anyone is interested in joining the Group, please contact Ian (ian.mayfield@port.ac.uk) giving an outline of your position and experience.

JISC Collections Weekly update Issue 24

CONTENTS:
1. The future of online learning: The JISC National E-Books Observatory project
2. Two new journals added to the Institute of Physics Journal Archive agreement
3. Uncovering the secrets beneath Britain's landscape
4. Stating the case for international law: new JISC Collections agreement is available
5. What is the NESLi2 initiative for electronic journals? Read here to find out more...
6. Consultation on Eighteenth Century Journals II from Adam Matthew Digital
7. Consultation for European Sources Online (ESO)

Full details are on the JISC Collections web site at:
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/news_and_events.aspx

Dialog Classic Web (TM)

Dialog Classic Web (TM)

Information World Review
As advertised in this month's IWR:
www.iwr.co.uk

DialogClassic Web is designed for information professionals who want to use the sophisticated search capabilities offered by Dialog Command Language with the added versatility of a Web-based environment.

All DialogClassic Web features are browser-based, eliminating the need to install software.

New Features Available

DialogClassic Web users will experience an entirely new and vastly enriched interface. Here are some highlights of what will soon be available:

Take shortcuts with a new graphical interface with menu icons for common tasks

Create and edit a search strategy before running it with the new Type-ahead buffer

Use new mark-and-copy features and MARKED TEXT window to easily cut and paste portions of your search results into a single document

Save search results and MARKED TEXT in new formats, including Word, HTML, Text and Adobe Acrobat® PDF

Enter command statements up to 2,000 characters long

View Bluesheets and other reference materials in the new Databases pane

Navigate easily back to a specific place your search session by using the new Session navigation pane

Click previous commands and click new “Send to buffer” icon to save time re-entering commands

Link to fulltext journal articles and other documents using Dialog eLinks, including document images for D&B® Company Reports, NTIS Technical Reports, and Investext® Broker/Analyst Reports

Set up and edit Alerts with a fill-in-the-blanks form

Try new form-based interfaces to certain commands: EDIT ADDR, EDIT PROFILE, SAVE ALERT, XSLT

Save search results temporarily on the Dialog service and retrieve later via a direct hyperlink

Load saved search strategies from a file on your computer

Display in-line images in .PNG format (patents, trademarks and chemical structures)

Output data in XML, HTML, RTF (Rich Text Format) and TEXT using new commands for generating data in formats easy to integrate into other applications

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"The DialogClassic Web support page contains links to Quick Reference Guides and other support materials" - I didn't see these

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Impact Factors 2006

Thomson Scientific are expected to release last year's impact factors in June 2007. The JCRWeb database (Journal Citation Reports) is available to subscribers through Web of Knowledge.

"as soon as a specific date has been advised by Thomson Scientific this will be circulated to relevant email distribution lists"