Library News

Wilson Business Periodicals Index and the Index to Legal Periodicals will no longer be available to SU Library users as of Wednesday, December 17, 2003. Applied Science & Technology, Biological & Agricultural Index and Essay & General Literature Index will be unavailable on Wednesday, December 17 but will be re-instated by OCLC/FirstSearch on Thursday, December 18.

For additional information on this change, please feel free to contact Nancy Turner, Electronic Resources Librarian, at 443-2237 or nbturner@syr.edu.

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Problem Solved!

The printing and e-mail functions are now working properly on Lexis Nexis' Academic -- for some time this has been a problem for our remote users.

Thanks to the upgrade of our Ezproxy software for authentication of remote users by Michael DeSalvo, these two systems are now compatible and we can take full advantage of this important database and all its features.

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600 new peer-reviewed journals are now accessible through the Full Text Journal Locator. Freely available from the DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals, these journals represent a wide variety of subject areas, from information science (Journal of Digital Information) to chemistry (BMC Biochemistry) and the fine arts (Scope: an on-line journal of film studies). Journals can be located through a title or subject search from http://libwww.syr.edu/research/ej/index.html.

The Directory website defines itself as a "service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact."

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