ProQuest have planned downtime for some products on Sunday, 21 August 3:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. (BST)

A full list of the affected products can be found here.

We’re currently experiencing problems with JSTOR title-level journal links in Explore and SFX. Instead of resolving to the front page of the journal, a JSTOR page with an error message is displayed.

While we work to resolve this issue, please use any of the following steps to access content:

• select one of the other platforms displayed on the SFX menu screen if available
• search for the article title in Explore or Google Scholar – these links are operating as usual
• search the ejournal a-z list instead: http://metalib.ucl.ac.uk/V?func=find-ej-1

This issue is not affecting JSTOR eBooks, apologies for any inconvenience caused.

UCL Library Services has signed up to a new journal browsing service called BrowZine. BrowZine is an app that allows browsing of our journal collection in an easy and intuitive way on mobile devices.

The benefits of BrowZine are a simple entry point to view journal titles, either by title search or by browsing titles by subject category; the ability to create your own bookshelf of regularly read titles; the option to save articles for later offline reading; receive notification of new articles; and options to export content to bibliographic management tools.

The vast majority of our scholarly journal content is available within BrowZine, with an emphasis on current content. Archival access is generally available back to 2005, with ongoing developments to extend this. Initially an app for mobile devices, BrowZine has now been further developed to provide a web version.

The BrowZine app is available for download from the following link: http://thirdiron.com/download-browzine. BrowZine Web will shortly be available via Metalib.

If you require any further information on BrowZine, or assistance in set-up and access, then please contact the E-resources Team: lib-eresource-help@ucl.ac.uk

We are pleased to announce that UCL Library Services now has access to all volumes of Methods in Enzymology, previously only available until 1999.

Methods in Enzymology is a highly respected publication in the field of biochemistry. Published for almost 50 years and with over 500 volumes, the series contains much material still relevant today and is an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences, including microbiology, biochemistry, cancer research and genetics.

Westlaw UK have a planned system outage at 12:00 am Sunday, 15 March, 2015  to allow for essential maintenance to be undertaken. 
The maintenance will take several hours to complete, during which the Westlaw UK service will be unavailable. The full service is expected to be restored by 6:00 am Sunday, 15 March, 2015

Links to UCL e-resources through SFX and MetaLib will be unavailable for a short period between 0800 and 0900 on Tue 10 Feb, and should be considered ‘at risk’ for the rest of that morning. This will also affect other links which use the UCL proxy server (‘libproxy’).

During the short outage, if you are using a UCL computer, Desktop@UCL or WTS, you may try removing the ‘libproxy.ucl.ac.uk’ component from the link you are trying to access. For example:

replace http://libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.scopus.com

with http://www.scopus.com

We are pleased to announce that UCL’s access to Times Digital Archive has been increased to cover the period 1785-2008.

The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2008 offers access to 220 years of The Times and contains in total:

• 1.4m pages
• Nearly 70,000 issues 
• More than 11m articles
• Circulation figures for The Times – approx. 430,000

There has been a change to the arrangements for SFX linking in PubMed, to provide search options where full-text is not available, and to ensure that users see up to date, real-time information about full-text availability.

Instead of the UCL filter, you will now see an SFX link at the top right of the abstract screen in every PubMed record.  When you click on the SFX button, you’ll either see a link (or links) to the full text, or a statement that the full text isn’t available.  In the latter case, you can check UCL’s print holdings, and you can also check holdings in other libraries.

This means that there is now no longer an option for a UCL filter.  You can use UCL’s custom URL – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?otool=iukucllib – to access the version of PubMed containing SFX links, or you can use the link to PubMed in the databases list.  Alternatively, you can configure your PubMed preferences to show SFX links.  To do so:

• clear any UCL filter in your personal MyNCBI account
• select NCBI Site Preferences at the top right of the MyNCBI screen
• under PubMed Preferences, click on Outside Tool.
• click the radio button next to UCL (University College London) – SFX, then Save.

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.

UCL students and staff now have access to Rav-Milim Ha-Shalem which is the most up-to-date and comprehensive dictionary available for the Hebrew language today. The dictionary was written and developed by a team of linguists and software developers headed by the renowned computational linguist, Prof. Yaacov Choueka, within the Center for Educational Technology.