Friday 29 October 2010

Wiley Online Library Site Maintenance on October 30th

Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley Online Library may be interrupted during Saturday, October 30th beginning at noon. The expected duration is up to 2 hours.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Elsevier outages on the 7th and 13th of November

Elsevier products ScienceDirect, Scopus and Hub are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 4 hours on November 7th between 10AM. and 2 PM. and for 6 hours on November 13th between 4 PM. and 10 PM. During this time, upgrades will be implemented and maintenance performed. 

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Monday 25 October 2010

No access to DawsonEra books

Since last Thursday there has been a problem with the log-in to the DawsonEra platform. Dawson has been asked to solve the problem as quickly as possible, so that we can access our books again.

I apologize for the inconvenience!

Friday 22 October 2010

Informaworld downtime on Tuesday 26th October

Informaworld will be having scheduled downtime on Tuesday 26th October from 10 am. to 1 pm.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Trial Use: Mary Ann Liebert Publications and IOS Press

We have trial access to the collections of Mary Ann Liebert Publications and IOS Press until the end of the year.

In addition to medical journals the Liebert journals include titles in the fields of Astrobiology,
Cyberpsychology,  Ecopsychology,  Environmental Engineering Science, Environmental Justice,  Industrial Biotechnology,  OMICS,  Stem Cells & Development and  Sustainability.

IOS Press journals cover subjectsin the fields of Biochemistry/Medicine, Chemistry, Computer & Communications Science, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Geosciences, Marine Technology, Mathematics/Electronics/Mechanics, Neurosciences, Physics, Townplanning and Architecture.

Please send your feedback to Infot.TKK at gmail.com or fill in the form.

Wednesday 6 October 2010

Statistical information from the World Bank Open Data


The World Bank is providing free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe. The databases contain statistical information on most of the nations from the following topics:
agriculture & rural development, aid effectiveness, economic policy and external debt, education, energy and mining, environment, financial sector, health, infrastructure, labor & social protection, poverty, private sector, public sector, science & technology, social development, urban development.

The World Bank Open Data resources include databases (such as World Development Indicators WDI, Global Development Finance GDF, African Development Indicators ADI and Global Economic Monitor GEM), pre-formatted tables and reports. The search results or the entire database can be downloaded and exported e.g. to Excel. 

The individual databases can be found in the Nelli portal and can also be used directly at the World Bank Open Data: http://data.worldbank.org/.

Monday 4 October 2010

Wiley search in Nelli out of order

Due to some changes in the Wiley platform, Nelli search of the Wiley Online Library does not currently work. The material can be searched directly at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

We try to fix the Nelli search as soon as possible. I apologize for the inconvenience!