OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center Maintenance

The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center will be unavailable for a short time Wednesday, May 25th, between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.  A good reason to sleep in?

JSTOR Is Back!

Ashland University Library once again has access to nearly 1,000 scholarly journals in JSTOR.  JSTOR is the preeminent historical collection of academic journals across a broad range of disciplines.  What distinguishes JSTOR from other databases is that instead of emphasizing recent content, JSTOR has assembled an archive of major journals from their earliest available issue up to about five years before the current year.

Ashland's subscription includes the JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I-IV and VII.  You can see which JSTOR journals are available to us using JSTOR's Browse by Title function.  Green circles beside the journal titles indicate the titles and volumes to which we have access.

Over the coming weeks we will be adding records for these journals to the Library Catalog, so that a title search in the Library Catalog will be the quickest way to see whether we have access to any given journal, as it is now for journals in other databases.  We'll post a note to this blog when all JSTOR titles have been added to the Catalog.

We will also be adding our JSTOR holdings to our OLinks file.  When that is complete the "Find It" links in other databases will link directly to individual JSTOR articles.

Let us know if you have any questions about JSTOR.  You can call the Reference desk at 419-289-5402, e-mail us at library@ashland.edu, or text us at 419-768-6106.

ERIC Documents Unavailable

Full text of ERIC documents is currently unavailable through each of the ERIC interfaces.  Users who try to connect via the "Find It" link get a page saying that PDF files are currently unavailable.  The producer has indicated that they will keep us informed as they work through the problems, but they have given no indication how long it may take.

EBSCO's Enhanced PDF Viewer

EBSCO databases such as Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, and Education Research Complete have a new PDF viewer that allows quick navigation from one article to full text of other articles in the same journal.  A brief video describing the new features can be viewed at http://www.ebscohost.com/special/movies/pdfViewer/ThePDFViewerInEBSCOhost.htm

If you have trouble viewing PDF articles in an EBSCO database, contact the AU Reference desk at library@ashland.edu or 419-289-5402.