The Library and Information Centre announces the upgrading of the A-Z List, which provides access to the full-text electronic journals. Improvements include:
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Better integration with UJLink: Library Catalogue and
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More direct access to individual electronic journal titles.
CASE: A-to-Z Journals features:
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It is fully customizable; comprehensive hence integrates the journal titles in UJLINK.
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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.
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CASE will enable UJ LIC to manage our electronic resources as an integrated part of the library system and not as a separate entity.
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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.
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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:
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The list is easily accessible to users.
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Users can search from titles within a specific database
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Users can search for a specific title using the search interface
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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).
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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.
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MARC Service provides in-depth, pre-catalogued information for any e-serial that UJ LIC offers.
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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.
