Metalib – Infogate

In conjunction with work on quicksets, these ProQuest newspapers are now working in ML:
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Wall Street Journal (1889 – 1991)
New York Times (1851 – 2005)
ProQuest Newspapers (current)
Providence Journal, 1983 – current
Los Angeles Times, 1985 – current
New York Times, 1980 – current
Chicago Tribune, 1985 – current
New York Times Book Review (added to book reviews quickset)
To be done (need to be added to metalib table when activated):
list at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=317&SQ=*&vDBID=5&Grp=1
The Atlanta Daily World (1931 – 2003)
Chicago Tribune (1849 – 1986)
Los Angeles Times (1881 – 1986)
New York Amsterdam News: 1922-1993
Washington Post (1877 – 1992)

Email to rock@brown.edu 3/2/09:

I have been trying to access Lexis Nexus through info gate for a couple of days now and it doesn’t work. I log in to info gate and then when I click on lexis nexis it reads “application error.”

The problem was with the link to the native interface as Lexis Nexis was not set up to be searchable in ML. On further investigation, I saw that an XML gateway config for Lexis Nexis became available in the Oct 2008 CKB update. The set-up requires an addendum to the license which ACN has requested.

LexisNexis makes newspapers, magazines, and law reviews from the Academic product available for cross-searching via an XML gateway. To request access to the gateway, please contact the LexisNexis Academic & Library Web Subscriptions department using the email address provided below. You will be required to execute a short addendum to your LexisNexis subscriber license regarding the use of the gateway technology.

TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) Database
Virtual News Library
World Bank Documents and Reports
World Population Policies 2003
Yiannis Markopoulos

Abstracts in Anthropology
Universal Database of the 2002 All-Russia Census

Activated & Added to MetaLib Table:
Nineteenth (19th) Century Newspapers
Activated, Configured & Added to MetaLib Table:
Universal Database of the 2002 All-Russia Census
Added to MetaLib Table:
Credo Reference
Credo Reference Art
Credo Reference Bilinguals
Credo Reference Biography
Credo Reference Business
Credo Reference Dictionaries
Credo Reference Encyclopedias
Credo Reference Food
Credo Reference Geography
Credo Reference History
Credo Reference Language
Credo Reference Law
Credo Reference Literature
Credo Reference Medicine
Credo Reference Music
Credo Reference Philosophy & Psychology
Credo Reference Quotations
Credo Reference Religion
Credo Reference Science
Credo Reference Social Sciences
Credo Reference Technology

amazon.com — New AWS subscription ID (jmr)
Inactivated:
– Vetgate – Ownership change; config broken

These databases have been slated for cancellation in Oct-Dec 2006:
– Accunet/AP Photo Archive (resourceid=20; BRN03148)
– Archives USA (resourceid=21; BRN03178)
– CollegeSourceOnline (resourceid=88; BRN03078)
– International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (resourceid=3; BRN03191)
– Materials Research Database with METADEX (resourceid=260 & 262?; BRN02689)
– Teatro Expanol del Siglo de Oro (resourceid=169; BRN03203)
These databases were cancelled in the summer of 2006. IRDs were deactivated in InfoGate, category assignments were deleted and MySQL tables were updated.
– Book Review Digest (resourceid=25; BRN02654)
– Essay and General Literature Index (resourceid=126; BRN02653)
– FactSearch (resourceid=46; BRN02697)
– Inspec (resourceid=285; BRN03104)
– IRIS (Illinoise Researcher Information Service) (resourceid=87; BRN03239)
– LexisNexis Statistical (resourceid=100; BRN03214)
– OVID Medline (resourceid=241; BRN02589 & BRN02834)
– Newspaper Abstracts (resourceid=29; BRN02871)
These databases have switched provider from SilverPlatter to EBSCO:
– PsycINFO (BRN# changed from BRN02590 to BRN0292; categories & MySQL tables updated)
– GeoRef (BRN# to change 12/31/06 from BRN02522 & BRN03267 to: BRN03006;)
– Biological Abstracts (BRN# to change 12/15/06 from BRN02637 to ?)

Dissertations of China – BRN03940 (unable to configure – search must be done in chinese)
– linked to China Studies (255) & East Asian Studies (262)
Now searchable separately from Literature Resource Center:
– Contemporary Authors (BRN03879)
– Contemporary Literary Criticism (BRN03881)
– subject links changed to new IRD (Comp Lit & Slavic)

These resources were new as of the May CKB Update. They all have the “expiry date” of 20060831 in their IRDs. See public interface – http://sfx.brown.edu:8331/V/?func=meta-1&mode=simple&INIT_TYPE=NewList

• Annual Reviews
• Brookings Institution
• Chicago Tribune, 1985-current
• EIU ViewsWire
• Index Translationum
• Los Angeles, 1985-current
• National Newspapers Database
• OAIster
• Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
• PLoS (Public Library of Science) Journals
• PLoS Biology
• PLoS Clinical Trials
• PLoS Computational Biology
• PLoS Genetics
• PLoS Medicine
• PLoS Pathogens
• POPLINE
• PROLA – American Physical Society
• Quarterly Index of African Periodicals
• Reference Universe
• Scitation (AIP)
• SPIRES HEP Literature Database
• University of Cambridge Documents

Added to MetaLib – needs to be configured.
not configurable – requires data to be downloaded (jmr)