NEW TRIAL: PsychiatryOnline

From the vendor:

PsychiatryOnline is a powerful web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR®—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., the most trusted and respected name in psychiatric publishing.You get instant access to classic, must-have resources such as

• References including DSM-IV-TR®, DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion, and the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
• Journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services
• Textbooks including The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
• Self-assessment tools for study, board certification and recertification review, and lifelong learning
• Clinical & research news from Psychiatric News

The trial runs until 2007.03.30

• PsychiatryOnline.com User Training Guide

new E-Book Working Group formed

From the scholarsportal list:

Please check out this posting on SPOT News about the formation of a new Scholars Portal E-Book Working Group.

http://www.scholarsportal.info/spot-news/?p=145

The focus of the group will be on recommending an appropriate e-book platform to host e-book content licensed by OCUL.  The group will NOT be making recommendations on content or e-book purchasing arrangements.  The group will be holding a “kick off” call this week.  Check in periodically on the SPOT Doc WIKI to monitor it’s progress.

NEW TRIAL: Historical Statistics of the United States

Historical Statistics of the United States has long been the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history. Over 37,000 tables of data are available, and can be customized and downloaded. Essays written by experts in the field help place the data in historical context. Trial access is avialable until 2007.03.22

Scholars Portal documentation

They’ve set up a wiki, called SPOT Docs, at <http://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/dashboard.action>. I’ve added it to the set of links on the right.

ScienceDirect outage on February 24th

From the vendor:

ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, February 24th for approximately 9 hours starting at 06:00 AM EST (11:00 GMT).  During this time we will be carrying through a large-scale rebuilding exercise on some of core aspects of the underlying technologies, which will help ensure that the system continues to provide a high level of reliability in the coming years.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this will cause to ScienceDirect users, which we hope we can minimise by providing this advance notice.

Tony McSean
Director of Library Relations
Elsevier
32 Jamestown Road
London NW1 7BY
 
+44 7795 960516
+44 20 7424 4242

OED is healthy again

From the vendor:

We are pleased to report that as of now, today’s previously reported technical trouble with the OED Online has been resolved. If your subscription was affected, IP-authentication and/or access in general should be restored shortly. (Please let us know if this fails to be the case.)

Again, we do apologize for any inconvenience you have experienced.

problems with OED online

From the vendor:

At present, the OED Online is experiencing widespread difficulties that may result in failure of IP-authentication or even lack of access to your subscription entirely. Please know that we are working hard to rectify the matter as quickly as possible, and we will send further notice once things are back to normal. Please accept our apology for the inconvenience.

China National Knowledge Infrastructure

China National Knowledge Infrastructure
Promises to put over 17 million full-text articles of all academic subjects contributed by 7,000 journals, nearly 3,000 in social sciences and humanities alone, at the fingertips of users. The archive begins with 1994. All articles appear as they were in the original print edition with the added convenience of full-text and other search capabilities. Users can either retrieve the articles by specific subjects or browse them by journal title, and a list of titles is available upon request”

Trial goes until the end of February.

CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences

New database trial: CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences

CSA’s brand-new Illustrata product provides Web-based access to indexed tables, figures and other objects found in the scholarly research literature. Initial release is focussed on Natural Sciences and will be of interest to those in Agriculture, Environmental Sicne, Earth Studies, Geology, Meteorology, Biology and Medicine. Later releases will target Technology and Social Sciences.

The trial goes until March 7, 2007.

Scholars Portal Day presentations

If you would like to view the presentations from Scholars Portal Day, please visit the wiki at:
http://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/display/spdocs/Presentations. Included are both the PowerPoint presentations and the videos of the presentations where available. To view the video presentations you will need QuickTime 7; if you don’t already have it installed on your computer, you can get it from Apple.