New trial – Mint Global

Trial available until 25th June 2009

Mint Global is made up of four databases: Companies, Market Research, News and Scanned Reports.  It is produced by Bureau van Dijk and covers 50 million companies around the world.

Go to: Mint Global trial – Note: you will need to allow pop-ups for this site (see below for how to).

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New trial – Palgrave Connect ebooks

Trial available until 7th June 2009.

Palgrave Connect is an ebook collection in the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business. Over 4000 Palgrave Macmillan ebooks are available in collections organized by year of publication and by discipline.

Go to: Palgrave Connect trial

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New trial – MedicinesComplete

Trial available until 20th June 2009

Provides online access to some of the world’s leading drug and healthcare references.

The integrated search scans all of the databases, bringing together a wealth of clinically proven, unbiased information:

• More than 10,000 drug, poison, interaction and herbal monographs
• The latest advice on prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs and medicines
• Up-to-date guidance on disease treatments, disease management and therapeutics
• The latest advice on analysing, formulating and preparing drugs, medicines, and many other pharmaceutical products
• The combined knowledge of hundreds of leading experts, scientists and researchers
• Over 100,000 references to original research, scientific papers, reports and case studies
• Complete international coverage

Go to: MedicinesComplete trial

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Searching journal impact factors with Journal Citation Reports

What are journal impact factors?

Journal impact factors are used to determine leading journals within disciplines or sub-disciplines. Impact factors are produced by Thomson Reuters based on citation data analysis provided for the journals they index.

Where can I find journal impact factors?

Journal Citation Reports is an online tool that provides data for more than 7,500 journals published in the sciences and social sciences from 1997 onwards.

The Library subscribes to Journal Citation Reports produced by Thomson Reuters.

Go to: Journal Citation Reports

Wiley Interscience downtime Monday 18 May

Online books and journal articles published by Wiley Interscience will be unavailable for approximately one hour starting at 6:00pm on Monday 18th May 2009.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

STAT!Ref now optimised for mobile devices

STAT!Ref is an electronic resource for healthcare professionals which is now optimised for delivery on mobile devices.

Just  log  in  as you normally do, using the Connect link on the Library’s  STAT!Ref page, and most mobile devices will be automatically redirected to the mobile URL and you can begin searching premier healthcare info right away.

Alexander Street Online Jazz Festival

To celebrate the launch of their Jazz Music Library, Alexander Street Press is holding an Online Jazz Festival from Tuesday 12th May to Thursday 14th May, 2009.  Note: this is an American site, so the festival will not kick off in Australia until around mid-afternoon or later on the 12th, and will continue into Friday 15th.

For the duration of the festival, they are providing free access to more than 18,000 jazz recordings in streaming audio.  There will also be free music downloads, interviews, videos and more.

Find the festival at: http://alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm

New trial – Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques

Trial available until 31st May 2009.

Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques (CPET) provides researchers with the skills and understanding of fundamental laboratory procedures needed to ensure greater success at the bench.  CPET takes the novice researcher from very basic skills like weight and volume measurement, through reagent preparation and the use of routine instrumentation, and finally into advanced topics such as real-time PCR and bioinformatics.

Go to: Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques trial

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