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SFX: Remove vendor name from target name?

Submitted by roland.samieske on Wed, 2012-03-21 12:17

Hello:
This note is intended for members of the SFX committee and ERAC
Stephen Francoeur would like us to consider removing the vendor names from the target names in the SFX menu, since most of the CUNY schools do so on their public web pages that list the databases they license.
As an example, "EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete" would be renamed to "Academic Search Complete".
The exception would be JSTOR. In that case "JSTOR Arts and Sciences 8" would be renamed to simply say "JSTOR".

Mobile databases information

Submitted by angela.sidman on Mon, 2011-12-19 11:04

Per Stefanie Havelka (LE) and Stephen Francoeur (BB) at the most recent ERAC meeting.
 
Baruch College’s mobile databases page
http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/mobiledatabases
 
Lehman College’s mobile databases page
http://www.lehman.edu/library/database-mobile.php
 

Mobile Interface for EZproxy

Submitted by roland.samieske on Wed, 2011-11-30 13:26

Angela asked me to see if there are any developments with regard to mobile interfaces for EZproxy. Here's what I found out:

bX Recommender Service

Submitted by roland.samieske on Fri, 2011-11-04 11:23

This is to inform you that the bX Recommender Service has just been activated in SFX.

The basic settings of the service were determined during the trial run. Here's a listing of the major ones:

SFX: KB Revision October 2011 (#41)

Submitted by roland.samieske on Tue, 2011-10-11 10:24

The KB Update #41 was loaded this morning. The new targets are:
 
JSTOR_ARTS_AND_SCIENCES_10
Arts & Sciences X Archive Collection features broad coverage in business and the social sciences.
For more information: 
http://about.jstor.org/content-collections/journals/arts-sciences-x
 
GALAXIE_SOFTWARE
Conservative and evangelical theological journals.

Linking Issues with ebrary

Submitted by roland.samieske on Fri, 2011-09-23 09:43

I'd like to thank Chip Stewart (CCNY) , Songqian Lu (NYCCT), and Kenneth Rosenberg (QC) for bringing a couple of problems with linking to ebrary to my attention. The two issues were

1) After connecting to an ebrary book through the (proxied) catalog, the ebrary account login function did not work properly, and

2) Outgoing links to ebrary from an SFX menu produced EZproxy error messages.

Pick lists not run on 7/7/11

Submitted by angela.sidman on Fri, 2011-07-08 16:21

The daily pick lists were not run last night, Thursday, July 7th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. The daylong process of closing Fiscal Year 2010/11 pushed the pick lists out of their usual 3:00 pm runtime. CIS and OLS staff will use the weekend to catch up on other jobs which were delayed due to the fiscal year close and our recent moves to new locations. The pick lists will resume again on Sunday night and the data missed on Thursday will be included in those lists.

Thank you for your patience.

SFX: KB Revision May 2011 (#19)

Submitted by roland.samieske on Tue, 2011-05-10 09:59

KB Revision #19 was loaded this morning.

1) eJournal: PROQUEST_TALLAHASSEE_DEMOCRAT_NEW_PLATFORM
Archives of a Florida newspaper.
For more information: http://www.proquest.com/assets/literature/products/databases/gannett.pdf

bX Recommender Trial Active

Submitted by kevin.reiss on Thu, 2011-05-05 10:28

On this past Tuesday OLS activated a 60 day trial of the bX Recommeder Service in the CUNY SFX Find-it Service. This service produces recommended citations based on the citation sent to the SFX service. Recommendations are provided for only article citations. If a given citation has recommendations available they will be displayed at the bottom of the Find-it menu that is displayed to the end user. Not all article citations will produce recommendations.

Fast registration form for new patrons

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2011-03-29 11:35

Please use the Aleph GUI Circulation module's fast registration form. The type of registration form is set up for each workstation in the gui: C:\AL500\circ\tab\circ.ini

[Patron]

FastPatronRegistration=Y  <- if you’d like to use the fast registration form

FastPatronRegistration=N  <- if you’d like to use the detailed registration page

 

FAST registration:

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