IoP produce ‘free-to-read’ subject collections

The IoP has brought out six subject collections bringing together the very best of the research published in IoP Journals. The collections cover the following hot topics:

• graphene
• biomedical engineering
• semiconductors
• metamaterials
• quantum information
• materials science

Each area is divided into sub-topics containing a list of relevant articles which are all free to read. Within each topic there is also the opportunity to explore further with short videos featuring experts in the field.

Barbara

Liaison Librarian Physics and ORC

 

IoP produce new guide to copyright and licensing

 The IoP has recently produced an introduction to copyright and licensing in the UK. This is intended to help address some of the questions from researchers around these issues. It includes sections on Creative Commons, Open Access and dealing with copyright works as well as a the answers to some frequently asked questions. The guide can be accessed via the IoP Publishing website.

Barbara
Liaison Librarian Physics and ORC

Muddled Maps in Internet Explorer 10

If you use Digimap and you are experiencing muddled up maps in Internet Explorer 10 then there is a quick and simple solution to the problem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you press F12 on your keyboard you will open up a set of options at the bottom of the browser. One option is the Browser Mode, if you change this to Internet Explorer 9 then the maps will no longer get mixed up.

The problem arises due to the underlying technology used at EDINA http://edina.ac.uk to deliver the maps. EDINA staff are busy implementing a fix to the software they use, in the meantime the solution above will keep the maps in order.

There are more details and some images to help with this problem on the EDINA Digimap blog page: http://bit.ly/129PHdl

Karen 

Ocean and Earth Science Liaison Librarian

EJ Richards catalogue

Photo by misterbisson.

We have rather belatedly found out that the EJ Richards library catalogue only works on Internet Explorer and not Chrome or Firefox.  Many apologies about this.

We are looking into a solution but in the meantime, if you do need to see what is available in the library please use Internet Explorer to access the catalogue.  Please note the holdings of the library are only available in this catalogue and are not listed in WebCat or TDNet.

Web of Knowledge possibly unavailable this weekend

Scheduled maintenance will take place  on the Web of Knowledge service beginning on Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 2200 GMT and ending by Monday, 29 April 2013 at 0100 GMT. Web of Knowledge (including EndNote Web and ResearcherID) may not be available during that period.

Barbara

Experience the new Reaxys

A new version of Reaxys, a key chemistry database is available to try, with the old version still available until June. Videos, guides and webinar are available.

The new features enable you to:

• Gain faster insights into the data
• Automatically create multiple synthesis plans
• Instantly share data with colleagues
• Search more than 16,000 periodicals by topic
• Optimize query construction with streamlined forms

Michael

Laser Physics / Laser Physics Letters

Two journals we have formerly had access to, Laser Physics and Laser Physics Letters, are no longer available to us as they have moved from their previous suppliers and are now on the IoP platform. We have access up to the end of 2012 (see TDNet for details) and some articles continue to be freely available. We will be trying to negotiate access to these titles from the beginning of 2014 but meanwhile if you need articles from them which are not freely available you will need to use Inter Library Loan (ILL). If you use these titles a lot it might be worth setting up Table of Contents alerts to them from Journal TOCs or RSS feeds from the journal home pages. This will enable you to read the titles and abstracts of items that may be of interest to you.

Barbara

Physics/ORC Liaison Librarian