UCL Library Services is pleased to let you know that the central sites card catalogue has been digitised and can now be searched online at http://cardcat.ucl.ac.uk.

The card catalogue forms a record of items acquired by UCL Library Services until the early 1980s, when the computerised catalogue began. Many of the items recorded in the card catalogue will be housed in the Library’s Special Collections or off-site Store.

A continuous programme of adding records to eUCLid, the online catalogue, is in place. Therefore, it is advisable to use eUCLid first to look for material currently held by any part of the Library.

Further instructions on how to use the digitised card catalogue can be found at http://cardcat.ucl.ac.uk.

We currently have a trial for Scopus, Elsevier’s abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web resources.

Updated daily, Scopus covers a wealth of information sources, including:

• 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers;
• over 1,200 open access journals;
• 386 million scientific web pages;
• 22 million patent records from 5 patent offices.

More information about Scopus can be found at http://www.info.scopus.com.

Access is available via IP authentication at http://www.scopus.com. The trial expires on 30th June 2008.

If you wish to personalize Scopus by creating search alerts, document citation alerts and saved searches, you can register by clicking on the Register link on the top right-hand corner of any page.

We currently have two printed guides available: Scopus User Guide and Scopus Research Performance Measurement/Bibliometrics User Guide.

Please email me if you would like some of them.

We have free online access to a selection of UNISA (University of South Africa Press) journals in the areas of arts and humanities, and social sciences, until the end of this year. (From 1997 onward)

Access is available on Informaworld, using the following URLs:
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UCL Library Services is pleased to announce that UCL staff and students now have access to two important electronic resources – the Elsevier backfiles and the THE (Times Higher Education).

Elsevier backfiles: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Nearly all Elsevier titles are available from volume 1, issue 1 on ScienceDirect.  The collections cover a range of disciplines, including Social Science.

Titles like L’Anthropologie and Religion are available

THE (Times Higher Education)
The content of the THE was previously only accessible online at UCL via the LexisNexis database or to personal subscribers.
It is now freely available to all at: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/publicationindex.asp
                 

Further information about UCL’s e-journals, including details of how to obtain regular updates, can be found at: 
      http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/ejournal/