Author Archives: Lorne Madgett

U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection: Access Down

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

UPDATE: March 31, 2011 – Access Restored on new Proquest Platform – for details see: ProQuest Acquires CIS & UPA from LexisNexis ************************************************************** Due to a change in provider (the collection has moved from LexisNexis to ProQuest), a new agreement … Continue reading →

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IEEE Xplore: Site Down Due to Storm

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

*UPDATE* They found their snow shovels. IEEE back online.* IEEE reports its Xplore Digital Library is down due to storms on the East Coast. You can follow their tweets as they try to get back online at: http://twitter.com/IEEEXplore …or look … Continue reading →

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Gale’s “Literature Criticism Online” Titles: Some Full-Text Gaps

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

If you are ever read a .pdf online from one of Gale’s “Literature Criticism Online” titles, such as: Children’s literature review Classical and medieval literature criticism Contemporary Literary Criticism Drama criticism Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800 Nineteenth-century literature criticism … Continue reading →

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CiNii Open Access: “Shouldn’t we have access?”

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

We do have access. Just not as much as advertised. Unfortunately, many of the coverage dates for CiNii: Open Access Journals in our ejournal A-Z list exaggerate our access. We are working to get these dates corrected. Do continue to … Continue reading →

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Emerald eJournals & eBooks: More Added!

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

Our access to ejournals & ebooks from Emerald has grown. Along with Emerald Management Plus [ currently offering 225 journals from 24 management disciplines  ] we now have: Emerald Engineering eJournal Collection – includes all 19 journals within Emerald’s engineering, … Continue reading →

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China Academic Journals & CNKI Titles: Sites Down

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

**UPDATE** The power is on and the journals are back* Due to power outages at the platform site, several Chinese journal collections are unavailable: China Academic journals from East View / CNKI. Stay tuned.

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Confidential Print: Middle East, c1839-1969: New Resource

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

“Anyone working on the Modern Middle East will find the Confidential Print: Middle East collection extraordinarily useful. This collection is an absolutely invaluable resource for both researchers and teachers because of the range of documents available and the ease with … Continue reading →

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Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954: New Resource

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

“Jewish Life in America makes available to scholars some of the American Jewish Historical Society’s most important and valuable archival collections. Anyone researching the history of the American Jewish community will benefit from this treasure trove of primary sources.” – … Continue reading →

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JSTOR: Down for the Moment

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

*UPDATE* JSTOR is back* “JSTOR is experiencing temporary problems. We are sorry for the interruption, and will be back online as quickly as possible.” –JSTOR site This also means several journal collections (like University of California press) are also down. … Continue reading →

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New Journal Added: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

Who knew? Apparently, many people are pleased that we now have access to the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology from 1990 to the current issue. Enjoy! ne·phrol·o·gy, noun [ \ni-ˈfrä-lə-jē\ ] : a branch of medicine concerned with … Continue reading →

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