Problem with Library resource? Please NEVER contact the vendor

Please can I remind everyone that if you have a problem accessing an Online Library University of Liverpool resource, please never contact the vendor or supplier, please contact me initially (Online_Librarian@embanet.com; + 44 (0)151 794 4345). If the Library cannot solve the problem we will, if necessary, contact the vendor or supplier ourselves. This is very important and the Library appreciate your co-operation with this.

Major Interruption to University Computing Services Fri 31st Aug & Sat 1st Sept

Please can I draw your attention to a notice issued by the University Computing Services as it will affect access to the Managed Windows Service (MWS) and hence the Online Library and University email this Friday (31st Aug) and Saturday (1st Sep).

There will be a major interruption to the computing services between 16:30 Friday August 31 and 15:00 on Saturday September 1st. In order to install the first phase of the upgrade to the campus data network backbone to 10 gigabit, there will be no access to most core services, including the MWS, University email and Windows Terminal Service from 16:30 on Friday 31 August until 15:00 on Saturday September 1st. We apologise for this interruption to service but it is an essential step to improving the performance of the campus network. Much of the other work to complete the upgrade to the network can be undertaken without the need for major service interruptions. Iain Stinson, Director Computing Services, CSD Helpdesk, helpdesk@liv.ac.uk, Computing Services Department.

No Librarian Service or Computing Helpdesk: Monday 27th August

Monday 27th August is a Bank Holiday in the UK so although all Online Library resources should be available as normal, the Library enquiry service and the University Computing Services Helpdesk will not be available. Normal service will resume the following day. If you have an enquiry please email as normal and your enquiry will be dealt with on Tuesday 28th August.

Tips on using ebrary e-book collection

If you want to use ebrary, the academic e-book collection available from the Library, you must download the ebrary reader before using it. Also, make sure that your browser allows pop-ups from site.ebrary.com, and your cookies are enabled. Don't forget that if you try to access ebrary on a different or new computer, you must also download the ebrary reader on that computer to get full access.

Ebrary has over 31,000 books available so it's very likely you will find something you are interested in. You can access it from the Library management collections page, computing collections page or the public health collections page. Login to EZproxy using your Managed Windows Service (MWS) username and password to authenticate yourself as a University of Liverpool user.

Historical medical films to be made freely available on the web

Over 400 historical medical films are to be digitised and made freely available online for the first time, via a new collaboration between the Wellcome Library and JISC Collections. The material consists of over 100 hours of moving image content from the Wellcome Library's unique and historically significant collection of film.

Featuring in the archive are films exploring global health issues and how they have been tackled, including: footage on malaria (a 1946 film shows huts in Kenya being sprayed with DDT to check an epidemic); films that illustrate advances in public health care (looking in particular at immunization, and the introduction of free-to-all health services): some of the medical greats of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (such as Ivan Pavlov's famous research first describing the phenomenon now known as 'classical conditioning' in his experiments with dogs).

All items are to be digitised over the next two years and made freely available via the Wellcome Library's website and JISC's Film & Sound Online service. It's anticipated that films will start to become available online from Autumn 2008.

Open access public health journals from BioMed Central

Public Health students and staff may be interested in taking a look at BioMed Central. BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.

Keeping up to date with RSS - the easy way

Want to learn how to keep up to date using RSS feeds? Take a look at this really simple guide.

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Blackwell Synergy downtime today

Blackwell Synergy will be unavailable for a few hours today - this is their announcement:

"To further improve the quality of our service, we are planning to perform system maintenance on the 3rd of August 2007 at 11:00pm BST(6:00pm EDT, 3:00pm PDT) for up to three hours. Blackwell Synergy will be unavailable during this time. We thank you for your patience and apologize for any inconvenience."

For MSc students: Morgan and Claypool Synthesis Series e-books

The Library now has access to the Morgan and Claypool Synthesis Series. Synthesis is an innovative information service for the research, development and educational communities in engineering and computer science.

It combines authoritative content with advanced digital delivery to create a product that is substantially more useful than traditional print and digital publications. The basic component of the library is a 50- to 100-page electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field.

For the researcher, it provides an ideal introduction to new fields. For the student, it provides a source of information on advanced topics that can be more accessible than the journal literature and that can be relied upon to be authoritative and complete.

Add your Managed Windows Service (MWS) username and password when prompted to get access.

World Scientific e-journals trial - extended coverage

The Library trial of World Scientific e-journals now also includes access to volumes from 2001 onwards for most titles (or from the first available volume if that is later than 2001).

WSP publish 79 journals in a range of subject areas including: Computer Science; Economics, Finance & management; and Medical & Life Sciences.

Catalogue records and SFX (find it @ liverpool) have been updated.

This trial lasts until 9th September. If you use any World Scientific Press e-journals please leave a comment.

New! ScienceDirect and Blackwell Synergy e-journal backfiles purchased

The Library are delighted to announce that we have been able to purchase almost all of the remaining Elsevier e-journal backfiles on the ScienceDirect platform. We now have access to the full backfiles of more than 1,400 e-journals on ScienceDirect.

We have also been able to purchase all of the remaining Blackwell Publishing e-journal backfiles and now have access to the full backfiles of more than 200 e-journals on Blackwell Synergy. We will be granted access to the backfiles of the remaining titles as the digitisation process is completed by the publisher and the titles are released on Synergy.

Catalogue records are in the process of being updated, and SFX (the software underlying 'find it @ liverpool') has been quickly updated and will be updated more carefully later on.