What’s New

Transfer Your EJC Alerts by January 31

The OhioLINK EJC will have a new interface beginning January 8, 2007. The new interface will look familiar to current EJC users, but it will also offer better performance and more functionality. Read more about the new interface here.

EJC users who have created e-mail alerts or saved searches on the current EJC interface will need to migrate that information to the new system by the end of January (Updated 1/3/07). Here’s how to create a new account in the new EJC and transfer your information:

1. Connect to the new EJC.
2. Look for "Create an Account" and follow the prompts to create your new account.



3. Log into your new account.
4. Under My Account, look for "Migrate saved searches from your old ScienceServer account." You will need to know your old account name (this information was e-mailed to current account holders).



5. Your existing alerts and saved searches display. Click each one that you want to migrate to the new system.

Web Feeds for New Issues
You can also subscribe to new issue alerts via a Web feed. To set up a Web Feed (RSS) that will notify you when new issues are loaded:

1. From the journal page, right click on Web Feed.
2. Depending on your browser, Copy Shortcut or Copy Link Location
3. Paste the shortcut into your RSS Reader.

See the RSS Help page for more information.

If you have any questions about the EJC, or problems to report with the new interface, please use this form to contact the OhioLINK staff, or contact your local library for assistance.

ODCE 2007 Preliminary Program Announced

ODCE 2007: The Convergence of Learning, Libraries and Technology Conference is set for March 4-6, 2007. You can view the preliminary program (PDF) and register online for ODCE 2007, Ohio's premier higher education conference, at the conference Web site.

This year's conference will feature five pre-conference workshops, more than 40 sessions, technology demonstrations at Innovation Island, keynote speakers and more, covering:

• E Squared: Effectiveness and Efficiencies
• STEM2: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine
• Who are the Learners? -- Serving New Audiences
• WMP: Wireless, Mobile and Personal
• Reinventing the Learning Environment: Walking the Walk
• What's The Buzz? -- Vendor Presentations

Five pre-conference workshops will be offered on Sunday, March 4:

• Demystifying Tech Apps for Busy Educators
• Are Students Too Old to Hear a Story?
• Laptops in the Classroom: Next Generation Learning Environments
• Breaking the Barriers of Distance Learning for Healthcare Programs
• Options in Electronic Bibliographic Management

Registration fees are $325 for the entire two-day conference or $200 for only one day. There is a reduced fee for students. Register by February 8 and receive $50 off regular registration fees. Pre-conference workshop fees are $100 each.

Chat with a Librarian Closed Dec. 15 Through Jan. 1

OhioLINK’s Chat with a Librarian service will be closed for the holidays beginning 5 p.m. on December 15. Regular hours will resume on the morning of January 2.

If you need assistance, please contact your library or try KnowItNow for assistance from Ohio’s public libraries.

New E-Books Cover Genetic Engineering, Foreign Culture, History & More

Need a quick fact, illustration or overview of a topic? Try the Electronic Reference Books Collection, which now contains 501 reference books, including encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections and guides.

OhioLINK has recently added 11 new e-books to this collection:

• Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated History of Their Impact
• The Crusades: An Encyclopedia
• The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History
• The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History
• Genetic Engineering: A Reference Handbook Second Edition
• Industrial Revolution in America: Automobiles
• The Judicial Branch of State Government: People, Process, and Politics
• Pop Culture Germany!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle
• Turning Points in History: Colonial America from Settlement to the Revolution
• Turning Points—Actual and Alternate Histories: Native America from Prehistory to First Contact
• World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia

Looking for more e-books? Try OhioLINK's other e-book collections: the History E-Book Project, netLibrary, Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection and the Safari Tech Books Online Collection. Your library may provide additional e-books, so be sure to ask what is available.

Going Away for the Holidays? OhioLINK Delivers.

Going away from campus for the holidays and still need research materials? No problem. You can always pick up your OhioLINK books and other library materials at any participating OhioLINK library, including two public libraries: Cuyahoga County Public Library and Westerville Public library.

Here’s how:
1. Request an item from the OhioLINK Library Catalog.
2. Select your institution. Enter your name and ID.
3. Select a pickup institution from the list.
4. Select a pickup location at the pickup institution.

You’ll need to take your library card and a picture ID (for some people these are one and the same) with you when you pick up your requested materials.

If you’re going out of the state for the holidays, remember you still have access to more than 100 research databases, thousands of full text articles, 19,000+ e-books, 1,900 digital videos and much more from OhioLINK and your library. All you need is your name and ID information to access OhioLINK online anywhere, anytime.

New EJC Interface Coming January 8

The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center will have a new interface for the New Year beginning January 8, 2007. Faculty, students, staff and librarians at OhioLINK member institutions can catch a sneak peek of the new interface now.

The new interface will look familiar to current EJC users, but it will also offer better performance and more functionality. New features include:

• My Articles – A function of My EJC, the My Articles features allows you to create and save your favorite articles for easy reference later.
• Password retrieval – In the old interface forgotten passwords were irretrievable. Now you can automatically generate a new one.
• Find similar articles in the EJC with just one click.
• Collapsible/Expandable panels allow for faster browsing of titles with extensive numbers of issues or long back files.
• Quick links to the complete article from both the issue and article level page helps you get the full-text article more quickly.

These oldie-but-goodie features are still available and worth trying out if you haven’t already:

• Journal alerts – Get new issue alerts via RSS feed or go to My EJC and create an account to create a list of favorite journals and set up e-mail notifications.
• My Searches – Put your research on autopilot. Save your searches and set times for the system to automatically execute them and e-mail you the results.

It is possible to migrate your saved searches from the old system to the new one. Go here for instructions on doing so.

If you have any questions about the EJC, or problems to report with the new interface, please use this form to contact the OhioLINK staff, or contact your local library for assistance.