Electronic Resources Update

JSTOR Enhancements

Revised Search Forms

In response to ongoing feedback from researchers and librarians, JSTOR modified  the Advanced Search form. These revisions were previewed on the JSTOR Sandbox from July 2006 to November 2006. Based on usability testing and the feedback received during the preview, the Advanced Search form will now include four new fields for entering and combining full text, author, article title, abstract, and caption field search queries. In addition to these changes to the Advanced Search Form, navigation options and help files for the Basic Search and Article Locator forms have been updated, and the Expert Search form has been removed.

Linking Enhancements

New linking functionality in the JSTOR website is now visible on article view and article information pages. In addition to already-existing links to articles in JSTOR that are referenced within a given article (“reference linking”), information about other articles in JSTOR that in-turn cite a given article (“forward linking”) will now be displayed. Also displayed will be links to articles by authors with the same name as the authors of the article. To further aid in resource discovery, we will also provide “forward linking” via Google Scholar which will enable users to see if an article has been cited by others in articles not necessarily present in JSTOR.

Retrospective capture of linking data is still underway for archived content in JSTOR, so the number and availability of these linking options will continue to grow over the next several months. The retrospective portion of this work is expected to be completed by the end of 2007.

CAPMAS: New Web Access

CAPMAS is now available via the web (http://163.121.117.194/pls/fdl/msr_intr).

Access is limited to one simultaneous user with the same username and password (libamun/ libamun). We are no longer tied to one public computer, PAL 106, to access CAPMAS. Instead, go to the list of library databases: http://www.aucegypt.edu/library/libdata/

NOTE: CAPMAS is only viewable using Internet Explorer browser! It does not work using Netscape or Firefox.

New Interface: Encyclopaedia of Islam

We've all been waiting for a better interface for this important resource!

Try it out: http://0-www.brillonline.nl.lib.aucegypt.edu

OCLC's FirstSearch Arabic Language Interface

Now users can navigate and search using a new Arabic language interface!

WorldCat, OCLC's cooperative catalogue, has more than 350,000 bibliographic records referring to Arabic materials held by OCLC member libraries. Users may now search in Arabic script and display the results in the language of the bibliographic record. Translations of online Help are also available.

To optimally view the Arabic interface, users will need to have Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 or higher, or Netscape version 6 or higher.
 

JSTOR NEWS

Reference Linking Functionality Released

Reference linking enables JSTOR users to follow a link from a reference in an article directly to the cited article. At this time, the capability is internal --links are currently available only between journals archived in JSTOR. In the future, JSTOR expects to provide reference links to content external to the JSTOR archive, and to support Open URL links through link resolvers.

Approximately 18,000 links are currently available from a small number of journals. JSTOR will continue to add links throughout the coming monhts for all content. Completion is expected in 2007.

See: http://www.jstor.org/help/reference.linking.html

JSTOR Indexed in Google and Google Scholar

JSTOR has released a new crawl site to enable search engines to index the scholarly literature in the archive. This crawl site is available to public search engines who sign a license agreement with JSTOR and contains the full-text or optical character recognition (OCR) files for the majority of journals participating in JSTOR.

JSTOR's first crawl site partner is Google. Currnelty, more than 2 million of the full-length articles and book reviews archived by JSTOR are searchable in both Google and Google Scholar.

America: History & Life --New Interface

New interface with the following enhancements:

1) Full-text links to more sources, including ProQuest's Dissertations and Theses Database
2) A combined simple and advanced search screen
3) New on-screen help tips
4) New retrospective coverage from JSTOR journals dating from 1838-2005
5) New search history funcionality that will record search histories and allow users to refine, rerun, and save previous searches
6) Enhanced expand and collapse record functionality that allows the viewing of abstracts on the same page as the records results list, making reviewing abstracts easier

JSTOR --Article Locator

The Article Locator is a new search form that allows you to find a specific article with an easy, fill-in-the-blank form. To locate a single article, enter as much information as you have from an article reference or citation. The form will search multiple fields of a citation simultaneously, such as author name, article title, journal title, volume/issue information, year, etc.

The Article Locator was available for preview from June 2005 to August 2005 as the JSTOR “Citation Search.” During the preview period, we received over 150 messages from JSTOR users who had tested the form. Based on this feedback, we made several improvements to the form, including:

 

- Renaming the form to “Article Locator” to better reflect the functionality.

- Refining the “near match” capability to result in closer matches when no exact match is found.

- Returning more detailed information to better indicate the nature of any errors encountered.

 

The Article Locator may be accessed directly at:

http://www.jstor.org/search/ArticleLocatorSearch

Engineering Village2 --New Search Enhancements

Faceted Searching in Quick and Expert Search
    See Librarian's Corner for a brief explanation of facets.

RSS Feeds from Engineering Village 2

Autostemming available on Expert Search

PsycInfo and PsycArticles (OVID) --New Interface

PsycInfo and PsycARTICLES has a new look with these new features:

Find Similar
Find Citation
Find Citing Articles

Emerald Full Text --New Interface

See Emerald's Librarian Toolkit for more information on its new look.