Electronic Resources Delivery (NK) 14/05/2009

1. Relocation from Blue 1.4 to Red B.13: Despite a shortage of electrical and network points and the need to abandon some furniture to store, we have now relocated to Red B.13, the ‘Recording Studio’. The limited space available made it necessary to sort and, where possible, dispose of files and other material which had accumulated in Blue 1.4 over the years. Hopefully we will be able to move back at the end of the year.

2. Staffing: Olivia has now returned to work and will be working on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for the first six months.

3. The UK Access Management Federation: Problems with Shibboleth authentication for the following services which were reported in the last update have now been resolved:

Proquest

•  ABI Inform Dissertations and Theses
• ProQuest Asian Business and Reference
• The Guardian (1821 – 2003) and The Observer (1791 – 2003)

StatRef

We are testing Shibboleth authentication with Brill and Academic Library.

4. Enquiries: Electronic resources enquiries dealt with since last report (28th March to 12th May): 379

5. Changes to resources: Electronic resources lists, links and descriptions continue to be amended to reflect current subscriptions.

Music databases: The following databases are now available only through EBSCO:

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
• RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
• RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600
• Index to Printed Music

PIRA: We now subscribe to PIRA through CSA rather than Dialog.