Project MUSE

From January 1, we have access to Project MUSE.

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

• There are no embargoes on journal content, the MUSE issue appears online before the print version.

• Journals are heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles

• MUSE provides full text access to current content from over 400 titles representing nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers.

Project MUSE can be accessed by visiting their website,http://muse.jhu.edu/, Use your Athens username and password to access your institution’s online subscription to Project MUSE when not on campus. If you do not have an Athens account, please visit either of the libraries at Newton Park or Sion Hill.

Resources available on MUSE

• Receive email notification when new issues and new journals become available on MUSE.

• Install the browser plugin to be able to search MUSE from any page on the web.

• https://muse.jhu.edu/about/resources/guides/guide_intro.pdf

• http://muse.jhu.edu/about/resources/guides/guide_searching.pdf

Single sign-on

Testing for the single sign-on project is finally drawing to a close, with just one database left to resolve. We would like to thank the students and staff that took part in the testing, and are really appreciative of all the positive feedack we recieved.

What is single sign on?

Single sign-on is a way of accessing Library resources using your Bath Spa username/password. In the past students have set-up seperate ‘Athens’ accounts in order to access our resources from home. This would often become a barrier as passwords were very easily forgotten.

In September 2009 the University began testing a product called OpenAthens LA 2.0, which allows students and staff to access Library resources in the same way they would access Minerva or email.

Our sucess in testing this software has enabled the creating company (Eduserv) to use us a case study, presenting our success to potential customers.

In early April we plan to remove all Athens access to our resources, before enabling the single sign-on service across almost our entire range of resources. This may have some implications for Refworks users, for which the following blog post will provide some vital information.

If there are any questions please contact Matt Durant (m.durant@bathspa.ac.uk) or post comments below.

Our EBSCOhost services – available on your mobile!

EBSCOhost have now made many of their services available via Internet enabled mobile phones, allowing Bath Spa students to search and retrieve information on the move.

This means that Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Education Research Complete, Theatre & Dance, MLA & SocINDEX are all available on popular devices such as the iPhone.

EBSCOhost Mobile has the following features:

• Basic Searching
• HTML and PDF Full Text
• Search Modes
• Limiters
• Image Quick View
• Image Collection (depending on the database that has been selected)
• E-mailing articles
• Preferences
• Multi-database Searching
• Branding

To access this service, please enter http://m.ebscohost.com into your mobile’s browser. You will need your Athens username and password.

For support on using this service, please visit the EBSCO Support site.