By Catherine L Sharp, on 3 January 2012
Owing to essential maintenance, MetaLib will be unavailable between 08:00 – 11:00 on Thursday 5th January 2012.
Alternative lists of ejournals and other eresources will be available during that time.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
By Catherine L Sharp, on 14 March 2011
By Catherine L Sharp, on 26 November 2010
UCL users trying to access JSTOR off-site via the ejournals or databases list may see a message that access has been suspended. UCL Library Services is in contact with JSTOR support about this problem. In the meantime, please use one of the following two options for access:
1. Click “login” at the top right of the JSTOR home page. On the next screen, scroll down to “Access JSTOR through a participating institution”. Choose United Kingdom and UCL (University College London), as in the screenshot below. You’ll then be prompted for your UCL username and password, and should be able to log in and access full text.
2. Log in to the Web WTS service. Open up a browser in that service, and go to JSTOR as normal (via the ejournals list, databases list, or directly.) You should find that you’re able to access full text.
By Catherine L Sharp, on 18 October 2010
UCL now has access to two collections of archives from Cambridge University Press, one covering STM titles, the other Humanities and Social Sciences.
These archive collections have been purchased for UK higher education institutions by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Additional collections will be made available in the future.
The STM collection contains older content of 65 titles, including Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Epidemiology and Infection, Geological Magazine and Visual Neuroscience. The HSS collection, comprising 49 titles, includes the British Journal of Political Science, International & Comparative Law Quarterly and the Journal of African History. All the titles and coverage have been added to the ejournals list.
By Catherine L Sharp, on 21 September 2010
UCL’s access to Current Contents Connect will cease at the end of September 2010.
Users will continue to have access to Zetoc, the British Library’s electronic table of contents of journals and conference proceedings, and to alerting services in indexing and abstracting databases.
Please contact your subject librarian if you have any questions about current awareness services, or about library resources generally.
By Catherine L Sharp, on 2 September 2010
Users trying to link via SFX from databases and reading lists to articles in Wiley-Blackwell journals may see the error screen below.
Wiley-Blackwell is attempting to resolve this problem, which is affecting many institutions. In the meantime, if you see the error, either:
Apologies for the inconvenience.
By Catherine L Sharp, on 19 August 2010
Following a successful trial, UCL has now launched a new article recommendation service, based on SFX. This works in a similar way to Amazon’s “Customers who bought this item also bought…” suggestions. It recommends articles that are similar to the one to which you’ve linked using SFX.
The recommendations are based on actual (anonymised) SFX usage data from SFX customers around the world, including UCL, and take account of articles viewed in the same session by significant numbers of users. They offer another mechanism for finding articles on a topic, as a complement to systematic literature searches.
By Catherine L Sharp, on 29 June 2010
UCL now has access to the complete collection of Wiley-Blackwell backfiles, comprising more than 800 titles. The titles and coverage have been added to the ejournals list. A wide range of subjects is covered; titles include:
Acta Crystallographica
Annals of Applied Biology
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
Epilepsia
Ground Water
Journal of Personality
Language Learning
Naval Engineers Journal
Polar Research
Special Care in Dentistry
By Catherine L Sharp, on 30 April 2010
UCL and many other institutions are currently experiencing problems with linking via SFX to articles in journals published by Nature. Linking to titles from the ejournals list is unaffected.
When trying to link from a bibliographic database like Web of Science, PubMed or Google Scholar to an article in a Nature journal, you may see the error message below. If so, use the ejournals list to browse to the journal title. Once on the journal site, navigate to the volume and issue that you need.
Nature is working on a solution to this problem. In the meantime, apologies for any inconvenience.
By Catherine L Sharp, on 4 December 2009
There are currently some problems with access to certain NetLibrary ebooks via the SFX links in the Library catalogue and in reading lists. Library Services is working to resolve these problems.
There is no institutional login option on the NetLibrary site itself, but if you have difficulty accessing NetLibrary titles that are listed in the Library catalogue or in a reading list, please use one of the following routes instead:
Apologies for any inconvenience.
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