Open Access Week: 19 – 23 October 2009

PROMOTING OPEN ACCESS TO THE UJ SCIENCES COMMUNITY

19 – 23 October is the Open Access (OA) week. The library is taking an initiative to promote OA awareness to all University of Johannesburg users. Below you can see the planned activities on each of the Campus Libraries. Please, attend these lectures in the Library and learn how OA can benefit your teaching, research and learning needs. Ask your students also to participate and learn about OA and Institutional Repository.

What is Open Access? What initiatives are available for OA? What resources I can use, which are Open Access (OA)?

Visit the UJ Sciences Librarian “Open Access Portal” to have your questions answered and much more…. I have created one step to most of the resources relevant to you. Comment on this post, how do you feel about the OA initiative.

OA fact:

Astronomy researchers who made their Astrophysical Journal article open access using the arXiv.org e-print server doubled the citation rate of their articles. (Source: Stevens-Rayburn, Sarah. Account of 2003 AAS Publication Board meeting email to PAM electronic discussion list, November 13, 2003.

http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0311&L=pamnet&D=1&O=D&P=1632)

I’m highlighting some of the Top Open Access resources. Full list is available on the Open Access Portal:

• UJDigispace (UJ Institutional Repository and Theses & Dissertations
• Open Science Directory (Open Science Journals)
• ArXiv.org (Physics, Mathematics & Statistics, e-prints)
• South African Open Access Journals, etc.

Visit the official Open Access web.

Open Access initiative is a movement towards opening opportunities for developing countries to have access and to publish their research. Thanks to eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries) and  especially Irina Kuchma, who is visiting many countries, institutions and libraries to promote and train on the usefulness of Open Access and implementation of institutional repositories.

The Library programme for the Open Access week:

APK: Library, 3rd floor Auditorium
Date	Time	Activities
19 October 2009	10:00	Welcome/Exhibition
	10:20	Guest Speaker: Ms Madelein van Heerden, CSIR“Making you famous”
	11:00	Open Discussion
	11:15	Demonstration of UJDigispace
	11:30	Closing
APB: Library Training Room
20 October 2009	10:00	Welcome/Exhibition
	10:15	Presentation: UJDigispace and Open Access
	11:00	Open Discussion
	11:15	Demonstration of UJDigispace
	11:30	Closing
DFC: Library Training Room
21 October 2009	10:00	Welcome/Exhibition
	10:15	Presentation: UJDigispace and Open Access
	11:00	Open Discussion
	11:15	Demonstration of UJDigispace
	11:30	Closing
SWC: Conference Hall
22 October 2009	10:00	Welcome/Exhibition
	10:15	Presentation: UJDigispace and Open Access
	11:00	Open Discussion
	11:15	Demonstration of UJDigispace
	11:30	Closing
APK: Library, 3rd floor Auditorium
23 October 2009	10:00	Review and Closing

Political Science Complete TRIAL (Until 31/10/09)

 

Political Science Complete (on EbscoHost) 

Trial until 31 October 2009

Political Science Complete (PSC) provides full text for over 400 publications, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals, (including top-ranked scholarly journals). PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. The database also features more than 165 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 27,000 full text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association

Additional sitting places for APK Library

The University of Johannesburg  Library & Information Centre has embark on a various projects this year: One Book One Library (read now, discuss in September), organizing a Conference in 2010 – “The Future is NOW: New Roles and relationships for Academic Libraries“, etc.

One of them involve providing more sitting space for students in the Library. At Kingsway Library the first  30 new  tables were added (25/8/09) on Level 2, next to the Sciences, Health Sciences & Engineering Book Collections. Students have  now 81 sitting tables on that  floor.

More sitting spaces will be available in 2010.  

Also coming in early 2010 is the new Library Computer Training room, with 50 seats and 26 computers (currently we have 13 computers). Will keep you posted….

 

OVID visit @ UJ Library

Ovid Regional Sales Manager for Southern Africa, Connie Munsters has visited the University of Johannesburg Library & Information Centre on the 24th of August 2009.  Some of the topics discussed were: E-books; Ovid Universal Search and Ovid Journals platform- the searching strategies.

The meeting was attended by the UJ Information Librarians and representative from the Collection Development.

The UJ Library subscribes to the following databases, available on the OVID Platform:

Some of  these databases are Bibliographic, but Ovid provides links to the full-text articles if available through Subscription or Open access. Direct link to the UJ Library is also available (Currently there are some problems with the linking) .

• Analytical Abstracts (1 Simultaneous User; Bibliographic)
• ATLA (Religion)(Unlimited users; Full-text)
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (Non- Anglo-American; 1 Simultaneous User; Bibliographic)
• Index to Legal Periodical & Books (American Legal Literature; 1 Simultaneous  User; Bibliographic)
• Parasitology (1 Simultaneous User; Bibliographic)
• Philosopher’s Index (2-4 Simultaneous Users; Bibliographic)

Please leave a comment if you have any queries or experience a problem. E-mail me on: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za

Online Books in the UJ Library (Full-text access)

The University of Johannesburg Library collection of Electronic Books grow each year. Most of the databases are purchased by the Engineering Faculty, but many of  these titles are relevant to the Sciences.

Have a look and make use of these collections. Why not recommend some of these books as an additional reading material to your students?

• The Online Book databases are IP Authenticated
•  Unlimited users (only SAFARI IT books has 5 simultaneous users).
• Remote access (see the comments to each database)

Direct links to the Online Books are available on the Sciences Librarian Portal and the individual Subject Portals.

AccessEngineering   (Remote Access – YES)

• Biomedical Engineering Books (6) 
• Chemical Engineering Books (12)
• Communication Engineering Books (39) (Wireless Security; 3G Wireless Networks; etc.)
• Energy Online Books (7)
• Environmental Online Books (20) 
• Green/Sustainable Online Books (10)
• Material Science Engineering Books (5)
• Nanotechnology Engineering (5)
• Optical Engineering (18)

> CRCnetBase Online Books  (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)

The books in these collections cover a wide subject spectrum of interest to Scientists: Energy; Environmental & Ecological; Computing; Remote sensing; Chemistry and many more. The number of books grow each year with new publications.

MechanicalEngineeringNetBase  (233 e-books) (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)

TellecomunicationsNetBase  (205 e-books) (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)

EngnetBase  (1288 e-books) (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)

ElectricalEngineeringnetBase  (404 e-books) (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)

ENVIROnetBASE (572 e-books) NEW! Currently full-text only ON CAMPUS

• Earth Science (10 e-books)
• Ecological Economics (8 e-books)
• Ecology (60 e-books)
• Environmental Modeling & Systems Analysis (18 e-books)
• Environmental & Ecological Risk Assessment (39 e-books)
• Environmental Engineering (Over 100 e-books)
• Environmental Health (31 e-books)
• Environmental Law, Management and Compliance (45 e-books)
• Environmental Toxicology (62 e-books)
• General (6 e- books; Energy Portfolios, Global Warming; Soil; Organic Chemicals, etc.)
• Geology (14 e-books)
• GIS and Mapping (44 e-book)
• Hazardous Materials (14 e-books)
• Landscape Ecology (9 e-books)
• Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry (58 e-books)
• Resource Management & Sustainability (30 e-books)
• Turfgrass Science & Engineering  (3 e-books)

MATERIALSnetBASE (333 books) (Currently Full-text ON CAMPUS ONLY)

> ICE Virtual Library (Conference Proceeding, 1836-2002)

> Referex  (via Engineering Village 2/ EV2)    (Remote Access – YES)

The Library subscribes to 2 collections Electronic & Electrical Books (411) and Materials & Mechanical Books (521). These are some of the subject collections:

• Applied Mathematics (7 books)   
• Atomic & Molecular Physics and Optics (15 books)
• Computer Science Applications (11 books)    
•  Computational Theory & Mathematics (6 books) 
• Computer Graphics & Computer-Aided Design (12 books)  
• Computer Interfacing (6 books) 
• Computer Networks & Communication (43 books)
• Electrical Power & Distribution (11 books)        
• Energy Engineering & Power Technology (12 books)
• Environmental Engineering (9 books)    
• Environmental Science (7 books)   
• Information Systems (10 books)  
• Materials Science (17 books)  
• Plant Maintenance (8 books)    
• Software (34 books)  

> SAFARI (IT books; 5 Simultaneous users)    (Remote Access – YES)

> Science Dissemination Using Open Access (Free access, Web 2.0; Open Access) 

 Enjoy your reading. If you have any comments, please let me know.

Project Muse TRIAL (Until 2/9/2009)

The University of Johannesburg Library has arranged a TRIAL to Project Muse. Direct link to the Project Muse  journals is available on the Sciences Librarian Portal.

View additional TRIALS.

Trial ends: 2 September 2009

Full-text access to the journals is available only ON CAMPUS.

Project MUSE offers full text, affordable access to current content from prestigious Humanities and Social Sciences journals. MUSE is the most reliable source of titles from many of the world’s leading University presses and Scholarly societies, Journals with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected Scholars in their fields. Read MORE about Project Muse.

The following Subjects can be of interest to the Sciences users:

• Geography;
• History of Science, Technology & Medicine;
• Mathematics;
• Science, etc

If you need help, please let me know (pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za) or leave a comment.

Springer Books Online TRIAL (Until 5/10/2009)

University of Johannesburg Library has arranged a TRIAL to the Springer Books Online. View more TRIALS.

Access is available from the SpringerLink Database. Just login with your Surname/Student or Staff number/Library PIN. Need help? (pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za)

Trial ends: 5 October 2009

Full-text access to the journals is available REMOTELY.

TIPS for searching:

1. SpringerLink database – Keyword search to retrieve articles and books results or
2. Click on any of the links below to view the individual Book Series & Books

Book Series:

• Physics & Astronomy (11);
• Engineering (10) incl Applied Maths, Computation, Robotics; 
• Chemistry (8);
• Biomedical & Life Sciences (7);
• Computer Science (3);
• Unspecified Book Series (1008) 

Books:

• Computer Science (9,188 books)
• Artificial Intelligence, incl. Robotics (6,167 books)
• Computer Communication Networks (5,680 books)
• Software Engineering (5,609 books)
• Database Management (4,835 books)
• Data Encryption (4,835 books)
• Algorithm Analysis & Problem Complexity (4,577 books)
• Computation by Abstract Devices (3,822 books)
• Engineering (2,232 books)
• Mathematics & Statistics (2,085 books)

Springer books are  for the Science & Engineering Departments. Let us know if you find the trial useful. leave a comment.

Cambridge Journals Online TRIAL (Until 20/8/2009)

University of Johannesburg Library has organised a TRIAL to Cambridge Journals Online.  Direct link to the Cambridge Journals is available on the Sciences Librarian Portal. View more TRIAL Databases.

Trial ends: 20 August 2009

Full-text access to the journals is available only ON CAMPUS.

Subjects & Journals of interest to the Sciences Departments:

• Agriculture Journals (12)- Animal Science; Chinese Journal of Agricultural biotechnology; Experimental agriculture; Parasitology; Plant Genetic Resources; Seed Science Research, etc.
• Animal Science Journals (10)- Advances in Animal Biosciences,etc.
• Biology Journals (6)
• Biomedical Science Journals (22) - BioSocieties, Genetic Research, Microscopy and Microanalysis, etc.
• Computer Science Journals (12) – Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, Journal of Functional Programming, Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, Robotica, etc.
• Earth and Athmospheric Science Journals (13) – Environmental Practice, International Journal of Astrobiology, Marine Biodiversity Records, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Unit, etc.
• Ecology & Conservation Journals (14) – Bird Conservation international, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Practice, Systematics and Biodiversity, etc.
• Engineering Journals (8)
• Mathematics Journals (20) – Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, Composito Mathematica, Journal of K-Theory, The Review of Symbolic Logic, etc.
• Molecular Biology Journals (10)
• Physical ScienceJournls (11) – Journal of Plasma Physics, Laser and Particle Beams, etc.
• Plant Science  Journals (13)

For any comments or queries, please contact me  (pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za) or leave a comment

Reaxys Online: CrossFire Beilstein & Gmelin TRIAL (Until 30/9/2009)

Reaxys Online: Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Databases is on TRIAL until 30/9/2009.

The Library subscribes to CrossFire & Reactions: Beilstein & Gmelin in CD-Rom format. Now this product is made available online, and the Library has recently a presentation by Elsevier on its functionality.

Click here to Access Reaxys . Read more  about this product.

Features:

• The TRIAL will run until 30 September 2009.
• The access is available only ON CAMPUS
• The access is IP Authenticated for all UJ Campuses
• Multiple users
• Make use of Reaxys Training Manuals to easy your searching needs

Access is available through the Sciences Librarian Portal and Chemistry Subject Portal. View more TRIAL Databases.

Dr. Jörg Hellwig, Sales Manager Elsevier Science & Technology visited the UJ Library to present the new Reaxys Online, during his May-June SA tour.

Please contact me for more information or if you experience any difficulty in accessing or using the list. pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za, 011 559-2621.

MyiLibrary Online Books TRIAL (until 30/9/2009)

MyiLibrary  is an Online Books Database and a TRIAL has been arranged for UJ users until 30/9/2009. More TRIALS…

• Password is required. If you are UJ user contact me on: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za, 011 559-2621 for access.

Reasons to consider MyiLibrary include:

• Access to content that is never off the shelf and is available anywhere, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and takes up no additional space
• Quality front-list titles from leading publishers, many exclusive to MyiLibrary, flexibly priced to suit any budget
• Flexible access including IP range and Athens for access to titles on the MyiLibrary platform, to suit your organization’s preference
• Integration into OPAC systems, making it easy to find and view e-books alongside your other information resources, supported by good quality MARC records
• Comprehensive reporting on e-book usage activity
•  About the MyiLibrary
• View Content
• Click here for HELP.

CASE: A to Z Journals List: New upgraded library resource

CASE: A-to-Z Journals

The Library and Information Centre announces the upgrading of the A-Z List, which provides access to the full-text electronic journals. Improvements include:

• Better integration with UJLink: Library Catalogue and
• More direct access to individual electronic journal titles.

CASE: A-to-Z Journals features:

• It is fully customizable; comprehensive hence integrates the journal titles in UJLINK.
• Case unlike EbscoHost A-Z is less dependent on human factor. CASE integrates with III’s Millennium to provide efficient work flows and system uploads are automatic.
• CASE will enable UJ LIC to manage our electronic resources as an integrated part of the library system and not as a separate entity.
• The UJ LIC user will have a choice of printed and electronic journals from the library’s WebOPAC (UJLink). This service will complement the ERM system and Link resolvers (UJLink and Web Bridge) that we are using.
• CASE provides a complete solution to help UJ LIC to administer, manage, and display their electronic journals, from aggregators and publisher databases they subscribe to.

Other features of CASE include:

• The list is easily accessible to users.
• Users can search from titles within a specific database
• Users can search for a specific title using the search interface
• CASE Coverage Data Service will enable UJ LIC to supply recent data of their electronic journal subscriptions from aggregator and publisher databases (title, ISBN and holdings).
•  Coverage Data delivered directly to millennium server. Coverage Data service includes 200 + resources, 1,270,000 + holdings statements and 480,000+ full text holdings statements.
• MARC Service provides in-depth, pre-catalogued information for any e-serial that UJ LIC offers.
• Web based profile manager assists the Electronic Resources Librarian to administer the collection with ease and make it accessible to the UJ LIC users.

Please note: If you want the journal to open in a new window, right click on the title.

The CASE: A-to-Z Journals list is available on the UJ Sciences Librarian Portal and all individual Sciences Subject Portals.

The UJLink: Library Catalogue, also provides direct link to CASE: A-to-Z Journal.

NEW features in the UJLink: Library Catalogue:

• When you search for journal title through the Library Catalogue, additionally to the PRINT, you can have an ELECTRONIC  journals availability.
• You can also search through the Library Catalogue: Electronic Resources  (links to the databases and its individual journals collections

Please contact me for more information or if you experience any difficulty in accessing or using the list. pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za, 011 559-2621.

Library System (Millenium-Innopac): Server upgrade

Due to a major server upgrade, the Integrated Library System (Millennium-Innopac) will be inaccessible from 16h00 on Thursday 9th July 2009 until 18h00 on Friday 10th July 2009.    

Please note that the system may be available sooner.

Services affected are:

• UJLink: Online Catalogue
• E-Resources (Databases)
• All Circulation functions
• Acquisitions, Serials & Cataloguing

The Library apologises for any inconvenience

JSTOR: Sciences Journals per Discipline

JSTOR is an important full-text database for the Sciences researchers. You can find journals dated back to the 19h Century.  The Moving wall is between 3-5 years (no full-text).  Click HEREfor direct access to JSTOR.

I would like you to have a look at the journals available on JSTOR per Discipline. You will need to log-in for full-text access:

• Aquatic Sciences (15 titles)
• Biological Sciences (217 titles)
• Developmental & Cell Biology (11 titles)
• Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (72 titles)
• General Sciences (27 titles)
• Geography (21 titles)
• Health Sciences (13 titles)
• History of Science & Technology (20 titles)
• Mathematics (57 titles)
• Paleontology (12 titles)
• Population Studies (17 titles)
• Statistics (46 titles)
• Zoology (55 titles)

If you have any queries with searching JSTOR and journals accessibility, please let me know: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za

CABI launches enhanced Life Sciences delivery platform

CABI has launched a new and improved version of its database platform CAB Direct, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases in life science information – CAB Abstracts and Global Health.

The new CAB Direct offers a better experience for students and researchers as they search for important life science information. The content on CAB Direct has not changed, but the new design will improve its discoverability – saving researchers time and effort.

“Researcher behaviours and expectations are evolving, and the new CAB Direct has been created to ensure we are evolving with them,” said Cristina Ashby, Product Development Manager at CABI. “New technologies have offered an excellent opportunity to create a better, more intuitive and effective product.”

Enhancements include: 

• MyCABDirect – a personalised area where users can set-up email alerts and RSS feeds based on their search results; share information; and save important searches
• Faceted searching – users can finely filter information to fit their research needs, based on CABI’s indexing terms and metadata
• The capability to view full text at the search results level
• Improved user experience, through a more intuitive interface
• Suggestions for spelling variations

The new and improved CAB Direct will also abstract snippet views at search results level; save searches to social book marking sites and provide COUNTER compliant usage statistics.

CABI is also pleased to announce the number of full text articles available on CAB Direct, and all other platforms that host our products, has reached 50,000.

Visual demonstration  on how to use the new CAB Direct. To view the new product platform please visit www.cabdirect2.org  

 Source: CABI, Media release, 9 June 2009

Leave a comment. Do you think the new platform is improved?

CABI visit to UJ Library & Information Center

Mr Chris Ison from CABI will be visiting South Africa in July 2009. Hi will visit the UJ Library on the 22nd July. He will demonstrate the new CABI platform.

• Place:Library Auditorium, APK, Level 3
• Date:  Wednesday, 22 July 2009
• Time:  09:00 – 11:00

All Botany, Biochemistry & Zoology researchers who do make use of the CABI databases are welcome to attend the presentation. Please confirm your attendance with Pavlinka Kovatcheva: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za.

The UJ Library has a current subscription to the following  CABI databases:

• Aromatic and Medicinal Plants
• Crop Physiology
• Horticulture Science
• Ornamental Horticulture
• Plant Growth Regulations
• Plant Pathology
• Post harvest Research

To access the CABI databases go directly to the Sciences Librarian Portal: Quick link to Sciences Resources or go directly to Botany Subject Portal, Biochemistry Supject Portal or Zoology Subject Portal.

 

ONE BOOK ONE LIBRARY PROJECT

The University of Johannesburg Library & Information Centre and the Department of English are proudly announcing the project “One Book One Library“. 

The aim of the project is to emphasize the role of the library and reading in an academic environment. The book that has been selected is The three letter plague by Jonny Steinberg.The award-winning author Jonny Steinberg travels to explore the lives of a community caught up in a battle to survive the ravages of HIV/Aids. For more information on the book and the project, please visit the UJ Library website.

Three-Letter Plague

 The  UJ community of students and staff are requested to read the selected book over a period of two months, from 13 July to 17 September. Between 15-17 September a series of events related to the book and the themes in the book will take place. The full program will be announced in due time. Copies of the book are available in the Library (all Campuses).

The project creates the opportunity to discuss and explore issues and ideas relevant to our community and our world. The idea is to stimulate intellectual discussion and interaction among students in conjunction with faculty, staff and community members (from the Library website).