Blog moves to Aalto blogs

From now on e-library blogging will continue at the Aalto blogging site. New posts will no-longer be added to this site.
It is not currently possible to import the old blog posts from this blog to the new one, but that will be done as soon as possible.

CSA databases move to new Proquest platform

CSA (now a part of Proquest) has previously provided us access to over 60 separate databases, which could all be searched in the Nelli portal. Now these databases have been grouped into 21 larger databases and been moved to the new Proquest platform, which also hosts 12 other databases. These can all be searched through Nelli as well as on the platform.

Wiley Online Library Site Maintenance

Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley Online Library may be interrupted on Saturday  -  May 21, 2011. The maintenance begins at noon and takes up to two hours.

SPIE Digital Library in use

We now have full access to the SPIE Digital Library until the end of 2011. The library includes SPIE journals, conference proceedings and ebooks.

The resource can be accessed directly from the link above, but for remote use go through the Nelli portal. You can also search the database in Nelli.

Ellibs e-books now use IP-based authentication

The Ellibs ebook service now authenticates, like the rest of our e-resources, based on user IP-address. This means that anyone can access the material in the university network and that remote use requires Aalto authentication. The books can no longer be accessed with the login based on Otaniemi library card details, and as that is no longer required, all Aalto members can now access the books.

Nelli portal to Aalto identification on Monday 9 May 2011

There will be service breaks in Off campus access on Monday 9th of May 2011, as we move to using Aalto indentification in the Nelli-portal. After the change all users with Aalto identification can remotely use the materials through Nelli.

The old MySpace accounts are available until Sunday 8th of  May 2011.

Unfortunately the MySpace accounts in Nelli can not be converted from the old to the new user names. Please save the references in your bookshelf to eg. Refworks or some other reference management system. You will need to find and save your preferred databases, journals and alerts again after the new log-in begins.

Survey and presentation material for Elsevier Workshop

Please answer the feedback survey about Tuesday's workshop. After the short survey you will be redirected to a page where the presentations can be downloaded and further links are displayed.

Nelli out of use on Wednesday 4-6 pm.

The Nelli portal is down due to essential maintenance on Wednesday the 13th of April between 4pm and 6 pm.

We apologize for the inconvenience!

Elsevier author workshop is full

There is no more room in the Elsevier workshop and unfortunately no larger lecture halls are available for that time. We will try to arrange another workshop as soon as possible.

Elsevier author workshop

Elsevier will hold an author workshop from 9-12 on Tuesday, April 12th in lecture hall E in the main building in Otaniemi.

Author Workshops are aimed at young scientists and provide guidelines on how to publish 'A world class paper'. The content of this 2.5 - 3 hrs. lecture includes - among others - the following topics: 'What to do before writing', 'The language of the manuscript', and 'The structure of the manuscript', tips on 'submitting your article' as well as 'plagiarism'.  Elsevier is offering this lecture, with the aim to present to interested (junior) scientists and PhD students of ALL disciplines insights how editors and reviewers look at their manuscripts which may help to get their manuscripts accepted in leading international journals.
 
Please register your attendance to me at mari.aaltonen@tkk.fi.

ITU-R Recommendations now in free use

The International Telecommunication Union, ITU, has set free access to the standards on radiocommunication (ITU-R). The fulltext recommendations can now be downloaded anywhere, so it is no longer necessary to visit the library to gain access.

Reminder about using Myilibray ebooks

Note when using MyiLibrary books:
The Myilibrary books are easily locked from use due to suspected breaches of copyright. The following instructions were given to ensure continued use of the books:

Printing: Do not try to print more then copyright allows. The limit is given as you select the Print Multiple Pages function.

Browsing: If you want to move quickly ahead or behind in the book use the Go To Page function or the Table of Contents. Browsing quickly with the Previous and Next functions can cause the book to be locked, as if the pages are turned quicker than they can be looked at automated downloading is suspected. The Previous and Next functions can be used when reading or browsing the book at a reasonable rate.

By abiding by these recommendations we can improve access to these books. Hopefully no more books will be locked right before exams!

Aalto log-in at DawsonEra

The DawsonEra ebooks are now accessed with Aalto-login. This causes changes in the ebook links in Teemu, but those should be updated by Moday. Until then, the platform can be accessed through Nelli.

New resources

Aalto University library offers the following new resources for 2011.

-  the online archive of the Royal Society of Chemistry Journals

-  more Nature journals:
Nature Methods
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Reviews Cancer
Nature Reviews Immunology
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

-  Mary Ann Liebert - full collection
Includes 69 journals in biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, alternative and complementary medicine, law, philanthropy, environmental science and sustainability.

- IOS Press - full collection
Includes 78 journals in eg. computer & communication sciences, mathmematics, engineering & technology, chemistry, material science, environmental & energy sciences, neuroscience, biotechnology. life sciences, medicine and social & information sciences.

- Foundations and Trends collection
19 Foundations and Trends journals on technology and business & economics and the journals:
Quarterly Journal of Political Science
International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics
Strategic Behavior and the Environment

- Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

- Handbooks in Economics Series

- Sage Premier
Includes 560 journals on material science & engineering, life & biomedical sciences, social science & humanities and health sciences. This has been in use since late 2010.

The following online journals were cancelled due to minimal use:

Petroleum Science & Technology
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Part F- Journal of Rail & Rapid Transit
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Part M- Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment
International Journal of Control
International Journal of Systems Science
Advances in Applied Ceramics
Aluminium
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering
Journal of Geoscience Education

OECD iLibrary Seminar

S E M I N A R  I N V I T A T I O N
OECD iLibrary - working with OECD statistical information, data and analysis

Venue: Lecture Hall E, Main Building, Otaniemi
Thursday 17 March 2011, 13.00 hrs – 15.30 hrs

OECD staff will demonstrate the recently launched OECD iLibrary for users in Finland. The seminar will give practical insights into how to use OECD iLibrary as a tool to access and work with data, analysis, and statistical information from the world’s largest inter-governmental think tank.

OECD iLibrary offers integrated online access to all OECD forecasts, reports, books, journals, working papers and statistical databases. It includes interactive features for users to work with data, build their own statistical datasets and easily export them in several formats.

The seminar is targeted at researchers, analysts, journalists, lecturers from universities, research centers and monetary institutions, as well as all organisations in Finland with a need to access and work with OECDs wide range of data and analysis.

The presentation will also provide detailed information to librarians and information specialists with the responsibility for managing access to OECD data for end users within their organizations.

 OECD – mission and background
 OECD iLibrary overview presentation
 Introduction into how OECD iLibrary can be used as a practical tool to access and work with analysis, data and statistical information from OECD
 Introduction and overview energy databases from International Energy Agency, IEA
 Usage statistics and other administrative tools.

Presenters at the seminar are Eileen Capponi, Senior Statistics Editor, OECD Publishing, Michel Guinand, Sales Manager, OECD Publishing and Sanna-Kaisa Nyström, Wize Nordic AB, Representative for OECD Publishing in Northern Europe.

Participation in the seminar is free of charge and open for attendants who have registered to attend no later than 14 March 2011. Please register your attendance to Sanna-Kaisa Nyström, e-mail: sanna-kaisa.nystrom@wizenordic.com Phone +46-(0)8-50 10 31 92.

Wiley Online Library Site Maintenance

Access to the Wiley Online Library may be interrupted for up to 2 hours on Saturday, March 5th, beginning at noon.

We apologize for the inconvenience!

Scopus and ScienceDirect service breaks

Elsevier services Scopus and ScienceDirect will be off use on Saturday, February 26th for about 12 hours starting at 2 pm.

ScienceDirect will also be out of use on Sunday, March 13th from 9 to 11 am.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Changes to DawsonEra log-in: Bookshelves and notes will be lost!

The DawsonEra ebook platform is going to require Aalto log-in from Monday the 7th of March. This means the data saved under the TKK log-in names will be lost. This will affect two functions:

Favourites: Please ensure you copy your favourites list to another program, so you can easily find the books again and enter them into the new favourites list.

Notes: Please download your notes for each book and save them to another program. Once in a book with notes this can be done from the notes section and you will get a document with your notes with a reference to the pages in question.

We apologise for the inconvenience!

Emerald Quiz - Win a Kindle

Get to know our Emerald ebook collections and get a chance to win an Amazon Kidle by answering five simple questions at http://ww2.emeraldinsight.com/quiz/aalto/index.htm

Scopus Download PDF tool

A Download PDF option has been added to the results list of the Scopus database. It allows the download of multiple selected articles at once from the publisher website. This option is always shown, whether we have a subscription to the journal in question or not. So, if we have bought access to the journal the pdf can be downloaded by Scopus, but if no access has been bought Scopus can not retrieve the document.

Scopus now also has SFX buttons beneath the records and you can check our access from the SFX-menu.

Google Scholar linking temporarily out of use

The SFX-linking in Google Scholar was disabled due to moving to the new version of SFX. We try to set up the linking again as soon as possible.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

CSA databases move to new Proquest platform

CSA has previously provided us access to over 60 separate databases, which could all be searched in the Nelli portal. Now these databases have been grouped into 21 larger databases and the searching no longer works in Nelli. The individual databases can still be searched on the CSA Illumina platform, by following the link in Nelli.

In a few months, however, access to the Illumina platform will cease, as Proquest (which CSA is now a part of) moves all of its databases to a new platform. After this migration it is no longer possible to search the separate databases. The new platform includes the 21 larger databases as well as 12 other databases. These can all be searched through Nelli as well as on the platform. These will be made available in Nelli as soon as possible. The old CSA databases have (CSA) in the title and the databases on the new platform are marked with (Proquest).

Temporarily no access to Wiley Chemical Handbooks

We currently have no access to the Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry or the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. The publisher has been notified and asked to return access as soon as possible.

I apologise for the inconvenience caused!

Wiley service break 5.2.11

Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley Online Library may be interrupted on Saturday, the 5th of February. The maintenance takes place between noon and 2 pm.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused!

IEEE Xplore back in use

IEEE Xplore is back online and can again be used normally.

We apologise for the break in service!

IEEE Xplore unavailable for now

A notice from the IEEE Xplore Support:

"Due to inclement weather and subsequent power issues in the New Jersey IEEE corporate office, IEEE Xplore is currently unavailable. IEEE is working diligently to restore service as soon as possible and we will provide updates to you as we receive them.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Gmelin and Beilstein databases now on the Reaxys platform

The Gmelin and Beilstein databases, which have been previously used on the Crossfire client software, are now used on the web-based Reaxys platform. The old clients can no-longer be used.

Reaxys can be found in the Nelli-portal and remote use is also possible through Nelli.

Move to new SFX: Monday the 17th of January 2011

As I posted last year, we are moving to a new version of SFX-linking and the SFX-window will have more content and a new look. The move was delayed several times from the original timetable, but has now been confirmed to take place on Monday the 17th of January. There is a possibility of a Nelli usage break of up to 5 minutes.

Important changes in the Nelli-portal

The Nelli portal will start using Aalto identification in the beginning part of 2011.
Unfortunately the MySpace accounts in Nelli can not be converted from the old to the new user names. Please save the references in your bookshelf to eg. Refworks or some other reference management system. You will need to find and save your preferred databases, journals and alerts again after the new log-in begins.