Electronic Resources

My Health Minnesota -> Go Local, a free database of health services throughout Minnesota, recently celebrated its first birthday! The project is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries, the Mayo Clinic Libraries, and the MINITEX Library Information Network, in collaboration with the National Library of Medicine.

Minnesota citizens can use Go Local to find more than 5,000 hospitals, nursing homes, physicians, support groups, pharmacists, libraries, rehabilitation programs, and other health services in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, plus reliable health information about a multitude of diseases and conditions from MedlinePlus. The database is searchable by location, diseases/health issues, and providers/facilities/health services. My Health Minnesota -> Go Local continues to grow daily as we add resources throughout the state.

In its first year, My Health Minnesota -> Go Local has been used by people all over Minnesota, plus across the United States and in other parts of the world. You're invited to check out this resource for yourself at: http://medlineplus.gov/minnesota. Please direct questions and comments or suggest resources to be included by e-mailing golocal@umn.edu.

Posted by Rita Baladad at 10:50 AM | Permalink

Gale is pleased to announce a major enhancement to the Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) suite of K-12 resources for the coming year!

In addition to Kids InfoBits, InfoTrac Junior Edition, InfoTrac Student Edition, Junior Reference Collection, Discovering Collection, and Professional Collection, you now have access to 4 additional resources effective immediately:

- Student Resource Center Gold
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Educator’s Reference Complete
- General Science Collection

Minnesota libraries with current subscriptions to these resources will receive a pro-rated credit for the remainder of their subscription. Robin Sabbath of Gale’s Customer Center will be contacting you about the amount of your credit. If you have questions now, please call her at 800/347-4253 extension 1884 or email her at robin.sabbath@cengage.com.

You can call Gale’s Large Account Technical Specialist Andrew Soifer at 800/347-4253 extension 8890 for any technical assistance with these resources.

If you have other questions regarding this enhancement, please contact MINITEX at http://elm4you.org/contact/ or 612-624-4150 or 800-462-5348 and ask for Reference Services.

More information on these resources follows.

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Posted by Rita Baladad at 5:04 PM | Permalink

The new Project Muse interface went live on Sunday, August 17:

Project MUSE is pleased to announce the release of a new web interface, enhanced with many features to aid ease of navigation, expand discovery, and encourage deeper interaction with the wealth of scholarly content offered by MUSE.

Online now at http://muse.jhu.edu, the new site design offers several new tools and resources for scholars, librarians, and publishers. MUSE offers full text access to current content from nearly 400 high quality journals in the humanities and social sciences, from some 100 not-for-profit publishers, and the web site's improved features will help users find, utilize and share this content more readily and efficiently.

A highlight of MUSE's new web site is wider range of functionality at the individual journal article level, including the ability to email a link, find more articles from the same author(s), and share the article via popular social bookmarking services. Color indicators allow users to easily determine to which content they have full text access, at both the journal and article level.

Improved navigation in the site's informational pages makes it easier for researchers, librarians, and publishers to access tools such as training guides, usage statistics, journal holdings information, and technical documentation. A new search feature also offers the ability to search only the informational pages, to quickly locate key details such as pricing, upcoming journal additions, or supported technologies. An entirely new section is dedicated to information for current and prospective publishers of journals in MUSE.

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Posted by Rita Baladad at 8:36 AM | Permalink

ELM made it on Mpls/St Paul Magazine's reference website list!

 "This little-known website is an extraordinary online resource," stated the blurb on ELM in the most recent issue (Jan 2008) of the MPLS/ St. Paul magazine!  The Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) was the only reference website listed in the article "Guide to Weird, Wacky Wonderful Local Websites" (p 186).  Let's make ELM more than just a "little-known website" this year!  For training or promotional materials contact the MINITEX Reference Services department at 1-800-462-5348.

Posted by Rita Baladad at 11:45 AM | Permalink

The Oxford Islamic Studies Online Database has just been launched. Oxford Islamic Studies Online contains over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines. See the OUP website for more details.

Special pricing is available for first-year orders placed by 12/31/2007--unlimited access subscribers receive an extra 20% discount in addition to the network discount of 20%. Contact MINITEX for a trial or pricing.

Posted by Rita Baladad at 12:52 PM | Permalink

This fall Amazon will release the Kindle, a device which will allow users to wirelessly tap into Amazon's eBook store.  The device has the advantage over older readers that have to be connected to a computer.

More Kindle

Not to be outdone, Google will soon offer eBook users the opportunity to pay for the full version of copyrighted works.  Up until this point Google has made only limited excerpts of copyrighted books available as part of their Google Book Search Partner Program.  Unlike the Kindle, Google's eBooks must be read online.

More Google

Posted by Ed Keane at 11:17 AM | Permalink

East View is headquartered in Minneapolis, USA, with major offices in Russia and Ukraine.

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EBSCO Publishing Expands Shibboleth Authentication Service
 
IPSWICH, Mass. - August 2, 2007 - EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has expanded its Shibboleth authentication service to support Shibboleth version 1.3. The standards-based, open source middleware software provides Single SignOn (SSO) for the Web within organizations. Sites using Shibboleth can make authorization access decisions regulating individual access to their protected online resources. ...more

Posted by Ed Keane at 3:50 PM | Permalink

American Theological Library Association recently announced they will not offer its Religion Database on the CSA platform after November 1, 2008. Libraries who wish to renew their Religion Database subscriptions with the CSA interface may do so this year, and may do so through MINITEX. You can direct questions on ATLA to Ed Keane at MINITEX, (612) 624-2925. keane022@umn.edu

The ATLA Religion Database is also available via:

EBSCO Publishing
OCLC FirstSearch
Ovid, offering the Ovid Gateway and SilverPlatter platforms.

Posted by Ed Keane at 9:16 AM | Permalink

Subscriptions to LexisNexis Academic now include added additional content and functionality, including Country Analysis and Company Dossier which were previously separate subscriptions.

http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicmigration/viewpage.asp?p=3

Posted by Ed Keane at 12:29 PM | Permalink

Subscriptions to CINAHL on Ovid or Proquest platforms will no longer be available after July 1, 2007. As of July 1, 2008 all CINAHL subscriptions will be on the EBSCO platform.
http://www.epnet.com/uploads/thisTopic-dbTopic-586.pdf

Posted by Ed Keane at 11:36 AM | Permalink

LexisNexis will launch a completely redesigned version of LexisNexis Academic for all subscribers in 2007. A beta version will be available to all subscribers beginning in January 2007. Migration to the new service will take place in July 2007.
http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicmigration/viewpage.asp?p=3

Posted by Ed Keane at 11:29 AM | Permalink

EBSCO continues to offer a steady diet of electronic resources that offer a variety of content to a variety of audiences at a variety of prices. Among those we think might of interest to area institutions are EconLit with Full Text, COIN Educational Products and Education Resource Complete.

To see more, go to the press releases or read a product description.

Posted by Ed Keane at 2:03 PM | Permalink

In what may prove to be an acquisition with immeadite repercussions in the academic eBook Market, Ingram has purchased e-Book Hosting Platform, MyiLibrary, and Coutts Information Services. MyiLibrary can now offer subscibers content from an array of well-known academic publishers.

For more information on the acquisition check out the Ingram Press Release.
Or to go to MyiLibrary's Homepage

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