Poets on Screen

An interesting feature on the LION database, The Poets On Screen Library contains 896 clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work. You will need to have RealPlayer or Windows Media Player installed on your PC to view these clips. Poets reading their own work include Paul Muldoon, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Margaret Atwood, Richard Wilbur, Roger McGough and many more. The resource features hundreds of poets whose work is read by others e.g. Yeats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Tennyson, Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Hopkins, Donne, Heaney, Hardy, Blake. Lion is listed on the Library's A-Z of databases

Blu-ray in the Library

UCC Library has started to acquire Blu-ray discs for the collection. The first movies available in the Library in this format are:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Departed
There Will be Blood
For now, they are for library use only, and can be viewed on the 4 Blu-ray players in the Multimedia area on Q+3.
What is Blu-ray? Click here.

Environment & Planning Journals

Online access is now available to the Environment and Planning series of journals (A, B, C & D)from Pion Ltd. The years available to IReL members are 1998 – 2008.

Web of Knowledge Enhancements

There are some new enhancements to Web of Knowledge:
Citation Mapping • Be the first to see the beta version of this powerful new Web of Science® visualization tool. Visualize citation relationships and understand the meaning of a cited reference search. Map citations by author, institution, country, subject, and more!
Additional All-Database search options • Now you can sort by Times Cited* and search for specific addresses within an All-Database search, making this powerful feature even more flexible and convenient.
New 2007 Data for Journal Citation Reports®** • The new 2007 data provides the most current information available to determine a publication's impact and influence in the global research community.
Collaborate and share material easier with EndNote®Web • Designate read/write access for shared EndNote Web folders. Link to the full text of articles directly from EndNote Web records.
Unique DOI number •
View the DOI number in the full record and after export to bibliographic management tools.

Access through the Library website at: http://booleweb.ucc.ie/databases/elec.htm

Wiley InterScience now includes Blackwell journals

1.6 million articles from Blackwell journals were successfully loaded onto Wiley InterScience over the weekend and the site went live again this Monday.

Blackwell Synergy merging into Wiley Interscience

As of Monday, June 30th 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience.
Blackwell Synergy will be closed at the end of business (Pacific Standard Time) on Friday June 27th and it is anticipated that the migration will be completed by Monday June 30th. Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable.

As of June 30, 2008, all journal content on Blackwell Synergy will be merged into Wiley InterScience.

After June 30th, Blackwell Synergy will no longer be available.

2007 Data now on Journal Citation Reports

The Journal Citation information for 2007 is now available at Journal Citation Reports (part of Web of Knowledge) The Social Sciences edition covers over 1,700 journals, while the Science collection covers over 5,900 titles.Useful information gan be gained from the data, including:
* Number of articles published in the journal in for a given year.* Number of citations to that journal from articles published in a given year.* Impact factor of the journal, and how it ranks in impact in relation to other journals. Access Web of Knowledge from Electronic Resources list on Library website.