E-journals list on the Portal

The new list

The list of ejournals available to NIMR staff is now hosted on the Portal. If you go to the new Ejournals page you will see several ways of finding a journal.

1. The "Top 20" journals are listed on the page
2. An alphabetical index is presented at the top, taking you to alphabetical listings
3. On the righthand side there are links to lists of the top 50, and top 200 titles
4. On the righthand side there are links to subject listings of journals
5. Under "Journal help" (top right of the page) there is a link to a popup version of the alphabetical index (a small window that you can leave open on your desktop)
6. At the bottom of the page is a simple tool to search for words in journal titles (search for a single word or an exact phrase)

The page also has links to more general information about journals at NIMR.

Why the change?

All NIMR journal holdings, both print and electronic, are recorded in Webcat (the Library catalogue), with links to their online versions. We also maintain, separately, a simple alphabetical list of links to online journals. That list started about ten years ago with just a couple of dozen titles, and the method used to maintain it was becoming untenable now it has grown to the present more than 1200 titles, with almost daily updates.

The Portal provides ready-made templates for hosting simple databases and allows the same data to be re-used in various different ways. Using the Portal also allows Library staff to keep the e-journals list up-to-date more effectively.

Use of the Portal has steadily increased during 2006, and all staff have been urged to ensure they have access. Extensive efforts have been made over the last 6 months to ensure that all NIMR staff have proper access to the Portal.

The first iteration of the Portal journals list had some teething troubles but it was quickly amended to make it quicker and more usable. We cannot maintain the old list in addition to the new list, so you should expect that the old list will be removed in due course.