Showing posts with label jstor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jstor. Show all posts
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
JSTOR Ireland Collection
See, I said, I'd write another post about JSTOR. I am very pleased to write that we now have access to JSTOR's Ireland Collection, an interdisciplinary collection of material covering the arts, humanities,and sciences. The Ireland Collection contains around 75 journals, including some current journals and some that stopped publication in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. There may also be the odd monograph and some manuscript pages. There's a title list here, which should also make its way on to our A to Z journal titles list sometime soon.
Monday, 30 January 2012
JSTOR Trial
Happy New Year! Gosh, we've been quiet recently. I like to think that is because the Library is a well-oiled machine that does not require much input. You, of course, may have a different view.
Anyway, this is a short post to say that we have a trial of more JSTOR material. For the next two weeks we will have access to JSTOR Arts and Sciences collections IX and X. These will be available primarily on-campus only (this is is the nature of trials, I'm afraid) though you should be able to access these collections through the search box on the library home page or the advanced search page. Unfortunately, they will not be accesible through Athens.
More information about the collections, including a journal title list, can be found here and here
You know, I enjoyed writing about JSTOR so much, when I find the time, I'll write another post about JSTOR.
Anyway, this is a short post to say that we have a trial of more JSTOR material. For the next two weeks we will have access to JSTOR Arts and Sciences collections IX and X. These will be available primarily on-campus only (this is is the nature of trials, I'm afraid) though you should be able to access these collections through the search box on the library home page or the advanced search page. Unfortunately, they will not be accesible through Athens.
More information about the collections, including a journal title list, can be found here and here
You know, I enjoyed writing about JSTOR so much, when I find the time, I'll write another post about JSTOR.
Friday, 14 January 2011
JSTOR goes mobile
As use of the Internet through mobile devices increases, an increasing number of websites and services now have mobile-friendly versions. JSTOR have now followed EBSCO in developing a mobile version of their service, JSTOR Mobile. As the name suggests, it's a version of the JSTOR electronic resource specifically tailored for mobile devices. It's still at the beta stage, so what's described below might change.
As you'd expect, the interface is a stripped down version of JSTOR
You enter your search topic and get a list of results. If you click on a result, you will be presented with a mobile-friendly citation as seen below
The authors' names are hyperlinks that lead to results of searches for the author, you can email yourself, or immediately click, a link to the full-text in the "full" JSTOR site or you can view individual pages.
On-campus, if you are connected via a wi-fi network, you won't need to login, but without wi-fi, or if you are off-campus, you will need to login. To access JSTOR this way, you will need an Athens account Contact the library for if you want to be set-up on Athens (and Athens account will give you access to "full"-JSTOR, Dawson, Lexis-Nexis and other DBS library subscribed resources). Mobile JSTOR is by no means perfect, but as stated above, this is a Beta release, so hopefully an improved product will be available soon.
JSTOR mobile is best used for only searching JSTOR and emailing the citations to yourself so you can read the articles on a PC or laptop at a later time. You shouldn't need to login to be able to do this.
As you'd expect, the interface is a stripped down version of JSTOR
You enter your search topic and get a list of results. If you click on a result, you will be presented with a mobile-friendly citation as seen below
The authors' names are hyperlinks that lead to results of searches for the author, you can email yourself, or immediately click, a link to the full-text in the "full" JSTOR site or you can view individual pages.
On-campus, if you are connected via a wi-fi network, you won't need to login, but without wi-fi, or if you are off-campus, you will need to login. To access JSTOR this way, you will need an Athens account Contact the library for if you want to be set-up on Athens (and Athens account will give you access to "full"-JSTOR, Dawson, Lexis-Nexis and other DBS library subscribed resources). Mobile JSTOR is by no means perfect, but as stated above, this is a Beta release, so hopefully an improved product will be available soon.
JSTOR mobile is best used for only searching JSTOR and emailing the citations to yourself so you can read the articles on a PC or laptop at a later time. You shouldn't need to login to be able to do this.
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Another (short) miscellany
A couple of things to pass on
1) Our JSTOR journals have been added to our A to Z Journal collection.
2) Last week, or sometime in the recent past anyway, I mentioned that we're replacing WebFeat with new federated search software from EBSCO (EHIS). Anyway, we're still waiting for all our databases to be connected up to it, which is why there's been no formal announcement and indeed why WebFeat is still working, but in the interim, you can look at EHIS off-campus through WebFeat - scroll down to the very bottom and you'll see it. I think the interface is a vast improvement on WebFeat (sorry WebFeat), though perhaps the only change EHIS makes at the moment is that you can now access Encyclopaedia Britannica off-campus if you so wish.
1) Our JSTOR journals have been added to our A to Z Journal collection.
2) Last week, or sometime in the recent past anyway, I mentioned that we're replacing WebFeat with new federated search software from EBSCO (EHIS). Anyway, we're still waiting for all our databases to be connected up to it, which is why there's been no formal announcement and indeed why WebFeat is still working, but in the interim, you can look at EHIS off-campus through WebFeat - scroll down to the very bottom and you'll see it. I think the interface is a vast improvement on WebFeat (sorry WebFeat), though perhaps the only change EHIS makes at the moment is that you can now access Encyclopaedia Britannica off-campus if you so wish.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
JSTOR: update
I'm pleased to say that JSTOR is now available off-campus. Access is via 'Search All Resources'. Click the link and away you go.
New students who have been inquiring about logins to 'Search All Resources', we're in the process of tidying up the user database and we'll get you sorted out next week.
New students who have been inquiring about logins to 'Search All Resources', we're in the process of tidying up the user database and we'll get you sorted out next week.
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
New Database - JSTOR
I'm very pleased to welcome JSTOR to the list of electronic resources to which DBS Library subscribes. I shall shamelessly plagiarise* from wikipedia the following paragraph:
JSTOR is slightly different from other electronic resources that we have; it's a not-for profit service and more pertinently for our students, access to journals is embargoed, which means there's a significant time delay on access to full-text of nearly all JSTOR journals, agreed upon with individual publishers, but normally 3-5 years. Most journals have a "moving-wall" embargo, which is a delay between what's on JSTOR and the current issue of the journal, but 3 publishers operate a fixed-wall, with no new content being added to JSTOR after a certain date.
JSTOR has an arts-based bias, with arts here being a catch-all term for social sciences, humanties and law. It has a good reputation and provides some social cachet. We might be, thus far, the only private college in Ireland, if not the world with a subscription to JSTOR.
For now access is restricted to on-campus only until we sort out off-campus authentication issues. When that happens we'll inform you.
* Actually since I'm quoting the source and linking to it, this doesn't qualify as plagiarism, but I digress...
JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a United States-based online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions.
JSTOR is slightly different from other electronic resources that we have; it's a not-for profit service and more pertinently for our students, access to journals is embargoed, which means there's a significant time delay on access to full-text of nearly all JSTOR journals, agreed upon with individual publishers, but normally 3-5 years. Most journals have a "moving-wall" embargo, which is a delay between what's on JSTOR and the current issue of the journal, but 3 publishers operate a fixed-wall, with no new content being added to JSTOR after a certain date.
JSTOR has an arts-based bias, with arts here being a catch-all term for social sciences, humanties and law. It has a good reputation and provides some social cachet. We might be, thus far, the only private college in Ireland, if not the world with a subscription to JSTOR.
For now access is restricted to on-campus only until we sort out off-campus authentication issues. When that happens we'll inform you.
* Actually since I'm quoting the source and linking to it, this doesn't qualify as plagiarism, but I digress...
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