After a trial during the spring, and then nothing, suddenly we appear to be subscribed to SCOPUS, Elsevier’s massive bibliographic database. Larger than Web of Science or any other database of ite kind. There is even an ‘ejournals@cambrigde’ icon to highjlight resources which to which we have full text online access: 
flickr. However, I could not make it work!
One important limitation of SCOPUS is that nothing prioir to 1996 is inclueded in the database - so you will have to switch to another database for older references.
25 July 2008
New Database - Northern Ireland: A Divided Community, 1921-1972: Cabinet Papers of the Stormont Administration
Presents a full record of every cabinet meeting for the duration of the Stormont administration, the devolved government of Northern Ireland, 1921-72. Separate files exist for each Cabinet meeting and include minutes and memoranda. The discussions and decisions reflect the wide range of problems and activities involved in making the new administration work. Topics debated and reported in just one sample year of the Troubles (1970) include: policing, arms and explosives, social need, Prevention of Incitement to Religious Hatred, Army occupation of factories, road spiking, routing of Orange Day parades, dock strikes, law and order, riots and the roles of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).
URL for resource: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cambuni.
No passwords are needed on campus, and off-campus access is available via Raven.
If you like this, try these:
Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957 - 1963 has complete coverage of the Cabinet Conclusions
(Minutes) and Memoranda during the Macmillan Administration, 1957-1963, a period which
witnessed events such as the foundation of the EEC by Treaty of Rome, the building of the
Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 18th – 20th century. This includes over 200,000
House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present.
New Database - International tables of crystallography
Definitive resource and reference work for crystallography. Each volume in the series contains articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. Emphasis is given to symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal
structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals. The data are
accompanied by discussions of theory, practical explanations and examples, all of which are useful for teaching. International Tables for Crystallography Online provides the full set of
all the Volumes A to G including A1 (6000 pages) in pdf format and provides access to the
International Tables Online site hosted by the International Union of Crystallography.
URL for resource: http://it.iucr.org
No passwords are needed on campus, and off-campus access is available via Raven.
If you like this, try this: Science Direct contains articles covering a broad range of subjects,
including Chemistry, Materials Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.
New Database - Dictionary of medical biography
Provides authoritative biographical coverage of major medical practitioners in all times and cultures. While its emphasis is on practitioners within the Western medical tradition, it also covers practitioners of alternative medicines, as well as major figures within traditional Chinese, Indian, and Islamic medicine. In addition, special essays survey these medical traditions, which are more difficult to appreciate within a biographical framework. Overall, the Dictionary of
Medical Biography concentrates on the nuances of medical practice, and the social context within which ideas of health, disease, and therapy exist.
URL for resource: http://ebooks.greenwood.com
No passwords are needed on campus, and off-campus access is available via Raven.
ISI Web of Knowledge news
An upgrade to ISI Web of Knowledge on 20 July introduced new features, including:
Citation Map’s Introduction in Web of Science (visual map image displays)
support of browser back button from Full Record to Summary page
inclusion of DOI metadata information in Search Summary, Full Records and Output
sort by Times Cited for results in the All Database search
search by Address in the All Databases search.
Web Based training materials, including Free Web Ex sessions on “New in the Web of
Knowledge — Citation Mapping and other enhancements” are available at http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/support/training/webtraining.
Web of Knowledge is available from http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/.
No passwords are needed on campus, and off-campus access is available via Raven.
ATHENS and RAVEN - Major Changes to Access control for electronic resources
Please note that current unexpired ATHENS accounts will cease to work at the end of July 2008. All new users of electronic resources should use RAVEN to authenticate themselves as current staff or students of the University and obtain access to ATHENS protected services. Existing ATHENS users are strongly encouraged to move to using RAVEN before 31 July and must do so thereafter to continue to have access to electronic resources.
For further information please visit: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/athenschanges.html
All resources can be found using the links on the electronic resources pages of the University
Library website at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/
Some dude from Norway, Alexander Refsum Jensenius, has written a short step-by-step instruction on how to export references from Google Scholar . could be useful. Commenters point to web apps like CiteULike, WizFolio and a downloadable app for organizing PDF files called Papers - which is Mac only.
The Lent Term 2007 computer service course timetable is now available.
It is essential to register for courses - the titles of available courses are are linked to the corresponding booking forms. If you book a place but cannot attend the course, please use the form to cancel your booking.
Unless otherwise specified, courses assume basic computing skills. Courses marked are suitable for beginners; those marked require some prior knowledge or experience (as detailed in the course description). If extra runs of over-subscribed courses are added after initial publication of the timetable,
they will be marked .
Coming soon (it says here)…
Introducing the most important and innovative indexing advancement in over 30 years, CSA Illustrata provides web-based access to indexed tables, figures, maps, graphs, charts and other images contained in scholarly articles. This unique tool provides researchers precision, efficiency, and relevance in the data discovery process. Users can display the full image, including captions and label text – all of which can be easily saved or imported and used for presentations, lectures or research. The first database in the family, CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences, includes tables and figures from more than 1,000 journals from prominent publishers resulting in more than 1 million indexed images.
Zoho, a provider of a suite of online office products and productivity tools, has introduced the beta of its free wiki product, Zoho Wiki. A wiki is a collaborative web based document which can be edited by either anyone (open) or only ceratin perople (closed). Zoho itself is an excellent free web based software portal with word processing, spreadsheet and many other applications. It makes collaborative production of documents much easier by keeping the files on the web for each person to access. Zoho is a brand of the software company AdventNet, Inc.
In addition to the standard wiki features, the new Zoho Wiki offers the following:
A WYSIWYG editor (Zoho Writer’s) that includes features such as spell check, revision history, differences between any two versions, and reverting to any older version.
Grouping functionality—In addition to setting your Wiki as public (by default) and private, you can have your Wiki viewed and/or edited by a selected group of members.
Zoho Single Sign-on means you can use your existing Zoho ID to access it (no need for separate signup/in).
Embedding of objects into wiki pages such as a Zoho Sheet chart, Zoho Show slide show, Zoho Creator application/form, or YouTube video.
Other than the wiki associated with the username, a user can create two more wikis with a Zoho account. And there is no limitation to the number of pages per wiki.
Microsoft has added Live Search Books to its growing list of Live Search options - a rival project to Google Book Search. Live Search is the new improved MSN Search and Microsoft’s attempt to catch up with Google. Let me remind you that Live Search already offers an Academic option similar to Google Scholar with a useful emphasis on references. And, naturally, there’s maps as well, like Google maps but, some say, better?
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