With thanks to Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems, Cambridge University Library, I pass on the following excellent news:
The University Library (UL) has today announced the official launch of a new portal for online journal access: ejournals@cambridge. The new portal, which staff have been trialling, provides a more comprehensive list of all titles available electronically in the university. The portal will be maintained by the University Library, replacing its current list of ejournals, and will include its own subscriptions along with those of the dependent, faculty and departmental libraries, and those arranged through departmental co-ordination schemes.
ejournals@cambridge contains over 9,500 journal holdings and more than 7,500 individual titles, including 2,700 open-access journals and brings in, for the first time, ejournals acquired as part of databases such as Literature Online and SourceOECD. As a comparison, the UL’s previous electronic journals site listed around 4,500 journal titles.
The new ejournal list can be browsed by journal title, title keywords, subject, or ISSN. It simplifies the process of locating ejournals where back issues and current copies are held by different providers. Extensive help pages are provided for users, including access information, forms for reporting problems and recommending new titles, and FAQs. Users are encouraged to take time to explore this additional information, particularly if you cannot locate the title you are looking for.
Alongside the creation of ejournals@cambridge, the UL is extending off-campus access to ejournals not covered by Athens, using the University’s own Raven password system. Publishers whose journals have been made available via Raven so far include: ACM, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Physics, American Mathematical Society, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, CSIRO, Nature, and Oxford University Press.
Off-campus access to journals from other non-Athens publishers will follow in the next few weeks when they have granted permission and more titles will be added shortly to ejournals@cambridge, particularly in the field of law.