Scopus and other Elsevier products - access restored

 Access has now been restored to Scopus and other Elsevier products!

ScienceDirect (from Elsevier) articles improved for iOS and Android

Elsevier has improved its ScienceDirect mobile interface to make reading articles on a tablet/phablet/phone easier. Changes include saving articles/references to Mendeley and RefWorks, and the ability to view references without leaving the article.
(The usual "authenticate through the library first" instructions still apply.)
More here:
http://blog.sciencedirect.com/posts/reading-articles-on-your-mobile-device-just-got-better

Access to ScienceDirect for new, unemployed PhDs

If you've received your PhD within the last 5 years, and are unemployed, you have till August 31 to apply for access to ScienceDirect, Elsevier's platform for ebooks and journals.

Details at:
http://blog.mendeley.com/elsevier/researchers-can-stay-up-to-date-between-jobs-with-free-access-to-sciencedirect/

Elsevier Acquires Knovel

The UofC Library subscribes to several of Elsevier's products, including Scopus, and its journals via ScienceDirect. We also subscribe to Knovel, a suite of science and engineering handbooks.

Elsevier very recently acquired Knovel; view the press release: http://why.knovel.com/news-a-events/2182.html?catid=40%3Aknovel-press-releases

SciVal trial available

If you’d like to participate, let Andrew Waller (Licensing and Negotiation Librarian (Collections); Open Access Librarian (Centre for Scholarly Communication)) know by Thursday, July 21 and your name will be added to the list. His email is waller ucalgary ca. Since this is a public blog, and the trial is for UofC faculty, staff, students, please email him from a ucalgary address. The trial starts July 25.

What is SciVal?
Andrew can also email you a Webinar recording of what SciVal can do.

Apps for Science Competition

Build a library & science app and win up to $15,000:
http://appsforscience.com

Scopus Visit

Faculty and students are invited to an event hosted by Elsevier/Scopus. It is a come-and-go event where one can ask our Elsevier reps questions about Scopus. Lunch will be provided.

The coordinates:

Tuesday, April 7
MacKimmie Library Tower, Room 909 ("MLT909")
12:30-2:30 pm

Topics may include:
- General Scopus overview
- Focus on A&H content (but feel free to ask about Sci/Tech content!)
- Marketing ideas & usage

PSA - Scopus, ScienceDirect Scheduled Outage Saturday, April 4

...Enjoy your Saturday afternoon/evening instead!
Local times for the outage are 3 p.m. - midnight

Email from Elsevier:

On Saturday, 4 April, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and 2collab will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately nine hours starting at 10:00 p.m. UTC/GMT (6:00 p.m. EDT).

We apologize for the inconvenience,
Regards,
The Elsevier Team.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Content and Google/Google Scholar

This blog entry is making the rounds:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/science_directl.html

Basically, Elsevier has allowed Google to crawl its ScienceDirect content. So, the next time you search Google or Google Scholar, you just might get some results for ScienceDirect journals. A comprehensive crawl will take some time though. We'll see how this goes.

Remember, if you are using Google Scholar, access it via the Library's Research Databases page. That way, you'll get the SFX button for linking to full-text:
http://library.ucalgary.ca/researchdatabases/pages/rdd-g.php

ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Unavailable Saturday, March 3

ScienceDirect will be unavailable again tomorrow (Saturday, March 3rd) for approximately 9 hours starting at 06:30 AM EST (11:30 GMT). The changes are necessary to improve the performance of ScienceDirect and to ensure a high level of reliability in the coming years
We apologize for any inconvenience that this will cause to ScienceDirect users, which we hope we can extenuate by providing this advance notice.