Cambridge University Libraries now makes available all the journals published by Berghahn in its “Open Anthro” collection.
Cambridge anthropologists can now read double the journals formerly available and Cambridge now supports the conversion to full open access of articles published in these journals.
Launched in 2020, Berghahn Open Anthro is a subscribe-to-open model being piloted by Berghahn Books in partnership with Libraria. This model was developed in part through a 2019 ground-breaking collaborative meeting between publishers, libraries, funders, and OA experts that was held at MIT.
This week, we were able to buy permanent purchase to this long-requested database of Ukrainian and Russian art history books and journals From the supplier’s promotional material:
The collection documents the history of modern Russian and Ukrainian art. It encompasses critical literature, illustrated books, and art periodicals. It also offers a selection of early 20th century art-related serials. These historical sources of pre- and post-revolutionary art reflect the diversity of artistic thought in the first thirty years of the 20th century.
This is hugely welcome news for our researchers, with requests for this database coming in regularly over the years but with enough money to make the purchase only coming now. The books and journal issues were scanned from microfilm, so are all in black and white (as many would of course have been originally), which takes a slight shine off the delight, but our students and academics have been…
Cambridge University Libraries are delighted to announce that BrowZine, a new tool for accessing and interacting with online academic journals, is available to University members.
You can pick up Cambridge’s installation of BrowZine at this URL
BrowZine gives you the ability to browse journal titles by their titles and to see those titles in subject areas of relevance to you.
Scientists love BrowZine because the organization of journals by a subject taxonomy lets you select those journals you want to read for your research by drilling down to the journals in your subject areas.
Once journals are found, they can be stored into a personal bookshelf, or online personal library, if you like. BrowZine then updates you with new articles published in these journals and clearly displays unread articles new to your bookshelf.
Scimago journal ranking (https://www.scimagojr.com/) is now included in BrowZine and you can choose to display journals by that ranking or inspect any journal’s Scimago rank details.
Our BrowZine is fully integrated with our institutional journal holdings.
Users can create their own account to enable notifications, share article links, and export to reference management software.
Clarivate Analytics Introduce New Open Access Data in Journal Citation Reports.
Clarivate Analytics have announced the addition of open access data to Journal Citation Reports profile pages to increase transparency around open access models in scholarly publishing. The new data show each journal’s articles by access model. This provides the research community with transparent, publisher-neutral information about the relative contribution of articles published free to read and re-use under Creative Commons licenses (‘gold open access’) to a journal’s overall volume of content and citations. The new feature is in beta until the launch of the 2020 Journal Citation Reports in June (JCR data 2019).
For the approximately 5,200 hybrid journals in Journal Citation Reports, readers will now quickly and easily be able to identify:
the number of papers published via the traditional subscription model, and
This title will be included in iDiscover in the next 24 hour update. All articles in the journal found via citation databases will be accessible to full members of the University via OpenURL linking.
About the journal
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine launched in March 2013 as the fourth Lancet specialty journal following in the footsteps of The Lancet Oncology, The Lancet Neurology, and The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The journal offers the same unique fast track experience offered by its sister journals for all authors of research papers that are selected for peer review, where articles can be published online within 8 weeks of submission. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine is indexed in PubMed, and has been approved for indexing and abstracting in SciSearch®, Journal Citation Reports, and Current Contents® by Thomson Reuters.
Reputation and Impact
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine has an Impact Factor of 22·992® (2018 Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics 2019), and is ranked as the number one journal in the fields of critical care and respiratory medicine (2018 Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics 2019). The journal provides an authoritative and independent forum for the highest quality research, reviews, and news in all areas of global respiratory medicine or critical care with a particular focus on research that will have an impact on clinical practice.
The CORE Team is happy to inform you that Claus Wolf, with CORE’s support, has developed the OA Helper – a brand new application, which enables iOS users to search for scientific articles in their devices without hitting a paywall. Fascinated by Open Access and Open Source, Claus Wolf implemented CORE Discoveryand CORE Recommender into this application.
Claus Wolf says: “Open Access provides a level playing field on which innovation can be built and also serves as a field for learning. Creating a tool that would support Open Access for macOS & iOS users thus seemed like a worthwhile endeavour and it turned out to be a great learning opportunity for him.” To install this application on your device, just visit the Apple Store site.
We are delighted to launch the Lean Library browser extension for use by all members of the University of Cambridge.
The common problem for e-resource access experienced off-site –
Researchers and students search for articles and online resources off-site and hit paywalls and login pages. They miss out on access to content that they have rights to access or find the routes to login cumbersome and frustrating. Often the article is available to the researcher thanks to subscriptions held by Cambridge University Libraries, but it is made unnecessarily difficult to download and read it.
How Lean Library can help in providing a solution –
A new browser extension is now available for all members of the University that offers a solution to this problem, thanks to an initiative of Digital Services, Cambridge University Library. The extension is called “Lean Library” and cleverly integrates subscription access for the researcher with the Open Access alternative. Once installed, for the off-site user the extension will deliver the article in the browser regardless of where on the Internet the search is made.
In the last resort, when there is no OA version available, Lean Library will display a pop-up with a link to the University Library’s Inter Library Loan page and request form, inviting the researcher to submit an ILL request to obtain the article.
How to get Lean Library for your own use –
The Lean Library extension can be downloaded from this link:
Please note that this link recognizes which browser you are using. Lean Library works with most modern browsers (including Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox). Downloading is a simple process and takes seconds. Just under the button to download on the Lean Library site you will see a “Privacy statement” which it is recommended to all users to read before proceeding. A web page for Cambridge with essential information about Lean Library is available here:
The Lean Library Implementation Team really hopes we can improve the experience of the off-campus user with the Lean Library extension. We have designed a poster which is available from the above page and flyers are available for display in libraries. Please get in touch via the email: cam-leanlib@lib.cam.ac.uk
Please help us to promote the extension in your library communities. The first signs are – Lean is doing a good job:
“A bit of feedback. It’s only bloody brilliant! I didn’t expect it to work, but it just does. Really slick.” – Office of Scholarly Communication
“Downloading the extension to my preferred browser (Chrome) was very easy and super quick. I really like the application, it works very well, the messages alerting me of the availability of open access versions pop up very quickly indeed so a user wouldn’t have spent ages trying to find one.” – Office of Scholarly Communication
“I’m pleased to report that Lean Library went down very well with the 1st year MML PhD students so I think this is a great service that will be very popular with our user community” – Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
The University of Cambridge Journals Co-ordination Scheme is delighted to provide access from 2018/2019 to the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins “Total Access Collection with Neurology”.
The LWW Total Access Collection is a collection of all LWW journals available on the Ovid platform.
LWW journals are highly respected in clinical medicine, and range from essential core journals to specialized resources in such areas as nursing and bioscience.
All titles in the collection can be found in iDiscover, as can article indexing for the journals in the collection. A browsable list of journals is provided from the Cambridge LibGuides A-Z here:
RSS feeds are now available on Cambridge Core, to alert you to the latest publishing in journals and subjects of your choice.
You can activate the journals feeds from the journals listing page, or from your chosen journal homepage, issue page or article page. In each case look for the RSS icon, which appears as in the image below. Simply click the icon to sign up to the feed. On the journals listing page the icons are over on the right hand side, corresponding to each journal in the A-Z list. On journals homepages themselves, the icons appear in the image at the top right of the page, next to the existing email alerts icon.
For RSS alerts by subject, choose your subject on the ‘Browse Subjects‘ page, open the subject page and click the same icon at the top right of the page. The subject RSS feeds will alert you when new content is published in both books and journals in your chosen subject.
In all cases, clicking on the icon will open a new tab from where you can sign up for RSS feeds.
If you have any feedback or questions for us about these new feeds, please email us at: corefeedback@cambridge.org
If you’re not familiar with RSS feeds, there is a recently updated explanation here.
Please note that the RSS icon will not appear on journals which are no longer published, even if they have content hosted on Cambrdge Core, as these titles will no longer be providing any new content.
RUSQ disseminates information of interest to reference librarians, information specialists and other professionals involved in user-oriented library services. The decision to move RUSQ from subscription based to open access was based on many factors, most notably the open access movement strongly supported by librarians. Other factors include ensuring a continued pool of strong authors and articles, ease of access for readers as well as broader worldwide access as the cost for professional journal subscriptions is extremely prohibitive.
“It is essential for RUSA to clearly live the values that we espouse as professionals; the move to open access is an important step in that direction,” states RUSQ Editor, Barry Trott. Read more about the transition from the editor in the first open access issue out this fall.
“RUSQ has earned its distinction as a major title in the literature of librarianship, dating back to its origin in 1960 under the title RQ. The RUSA board is pleased with the decisions and invites librarians everywhere to engage with RUSA and its many authors through RUSQ,” says RUSA President, Chris LeBeau.
RUSA represents librarians and library staff in the fields of reference, specialized reference, collection development, readers’ advisory and resource sharing. RUSA is the foremost organization of reference and information professionals who make the connections between people and the information sources, services and collection materials they need. Learn more about RUSA.
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