Powder Diffraction File updated

The latest edition of the Powder Diffraction File is now available in the George Green Library. The database may be searched through the PC next to the enquiry point on floor C ; library staff at the desk or in the next door office can help if you require any assistance. Please note that there is no printer attached so you may wish to bring a disc or memory stick to save your results.

Keeping up-to-date in Life Sciences via RSS

SciFeeds delivers the most recent life science literature as it is published direct from RSS feeds. You can browse for over 100 journals within life science by subject, see the most recently updated Table of Contents (TOCs) of each journal, search the content of TOCs (it's a bit slow), see the most 'popular' articles, and if you register, you can do a lot more. There are also links to the full text of articles.

Providing access to material electronically

Would it help your students if you were able to provide access to a book chapter or journal article electronically?

If so, the HE scanning licence may be able to help. The Scanning licence enables the digitisation of material published in the UK and some US published material within copyright law. This can help support students undertaking a particular module and increase the circulation of key extracts.

Within Information Services, we have a budget to allow us to acquire PDFs of chapters and articles that fulfil the requirements of the licence. We can then provide a link to the digitised extract through the online reading list system or embedded within a WebCT module.

If you would like more information on this service, please contact us.

Redesign of the IS website: we need your views

Over the next year, the IS website will be redesigned. For this to be a success we need your help.

We are running user feedback sessions between November and February and we hope that you can come along and give us your views. Come and tell us what you want from the IS website, what you like and don’t like about the current site and want you want to see. We are also looking for users to test the current website and the new design.

To register to take part please email is-web@nottingham.ac.uk with your name and position at UoN (eg UG student/staff). You will receive an email back asking for a little more detail before your place in a group is confirmed. Lunch is provided at all sessions so please confirm you are able to attend asap, or if you are unable to attend please let us know so we can allocate your place to someone else.

Focus groups are taking place for both staff and students and the dates and times can be found at:

http://webapps.nottingham.ac.uk/blog/ccztb/security-page/

SAFARI - Downtime - 27th November.

I have just been informed that Safari will be doing required maintenance on their servers tomorrow morning - Thursday 27th November. The planned downtime is scheduled to be between 0930am – 1130am Safari services will be inaccessible and a message will be displayed advising users of the downtime.

Advanced Notice: E-Library Gateway unavailable 13th-14th December

As a consequence of vital maintenance work in the Cripps Computing Centre, e-Library Gateway (the University's gateway to e-journals and other electronic library resources) is expected to be unavailable on Saturday 13th December. We hope to restore normal service during Sunday 14th, but the system may still be subject to disruption and should be considered "At Risk" for that day.

IS apologises for any inconvenience caused and hopes that this advanced notice helps you to plan accordingly. During eLG's unavailability it will of course still be possible to connect directly to the website of any e-resource - you may wish to bookmark in advance those resources you will need to use.

JACS gets a makeover

The American Chemical Society is developing a new, dynamic online version of JACS (Journal of the American Chemical Society). It aims to explore "new approaches to the presentation of chemical and related research". It includes virtual issues, selected recent articles on themes such as Total Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products, competitions and RSS feeds.
ACS want feedback from their readers so have a look at http://pubs.acs.org and especially at JACS Beta