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Crickey, you wait months for a blog posts and then a number greater than one come along practically simultaneously.  I'm bored writing about JSTOR (I'm not really), so I'll write about Zotero, as there are two interesting developments on that front. 

The first is the release of ZotPad, which is the more astute of you will have correctly deduced is an app that brings Zotero functionality to your iPad.  It is limited in that as yet, it provides read-only access to data and attachments stored on the Zotero server and allows the user to browse items by libraries and collections. Downloading and viewing the following file types is supported: PDF, MS Office , iWork , RTF, plain text, csv, and images.  You will also need a Zotero account and to have stored your data on the Zotero server (which may well be a safer storage place than your PC or laptop.  Zotpad will cost you $5.99 (yes $) if you feel that that this app is the thing for you.

Perhaps of more significance is the release of Zotero 3.0, the first version of Zotero that is not dependent on Firefox. Zotero 3.0 will work standalone or can integrate into Google Chrome and Apple Safari. It will, of course, work in Firefox if that's what you prefer.  The release also has some new features, including deduplication, better word processor integration and greater compatibility with other reference management software. You can download Zotero 3.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux, and I for one will be downloading Zotero 3.0 after I finish typing this.

One upon a time two of our electronic resources, Warc and Westlaw were available to students through Moodle. Then they weren't.  Now they are back on Moodle, hopefully to stay.  I offer sincere apologies for the length of time this has taken.  

See, I said, I'd write another post about JSTOR. I am very pleased to write that we now have access to JSTOR's Ireland Collection, an interdisciplinary collection of material covering the arts, humanities,and sciences. The Ireland Collection contains around 75 journals, including some current journals and some that stopped publication in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.  There may also be the odd monograph and some manuscript pages.  There's a title list here, which should also make its way on to our A to Z journal titles list sometime soon.  

Happy New Year! Gosh, we've been quiet recently.  I like to think that is because the Library is a well-oiled machine that does not require much input.  You, of course, may have a different view.

Anyway, this is a short post to say that we have a trial of more JSTOR material. For the next two weeks we will have access to JSTOR Arts and Sciences collections IX and X.  These will be available primarily on-campus only (this is is the nature of trials, I'm afraid) though you should be able to access these collections through the search box on the library home page or the advanced search page.  Unfortunately, they will not be accesible through Athens.

More information about the collections, including journal title lists, can be found here and here

You know, I enjoyed writing about JSTOR so much, when I find the time, I'll write another post about JSTOR.

Here's an interesting new service from Emerald.  Reading ListAssist draws together articles from Emerald's journal and book content in over 50 subject-specific reading lists.  I doubt many of you are interested in the engineering reading lists, but you may find some interesting articles in the Business, Management & Economics, Library & Information Science and Social Sciences themed reading lists.  They all have been created by teachers and students for teachers and students, so should be relevant good quality material.  

Each list is presented as an Excel spreadsheet and for most there's an accompanying PDF editorial.  Each list also comes with an abstract giving a brief overview of content and coverage.

There's a caveat, and that caveat is that access to articles within the reading lists will be subject to whether we subscribe to that journal or not.  For DBS, that basically means that if the article is from Emerald Backfiles you won't see it, but you should see most of the non-Backfile material.  Have a look anyway and see what you think.