Elsevier is integrating the world’s most trusted scientific content from ScienceDirect and Scopus into a single platform.

In August, ScienceDirect, Scopus and the targeted web content from Scirus will be integrated within one platform – SciVerse. SciVerse will combine trusted content with an expanding universe of tools that accelerate search and discovery.

See demonstration video here.

Taken from their website…

Based on co-citation analysis and an innovative visualization technique, SciVal Spotlight customizes unique graphical views of an institution’s research performance indicating growing areas of multidisciplinary strength and identifying key competitors and potential collaborators, which allows research managers to make objective and strategic evaluation and planning decisions throughout the year. Rather than ranking broad subject areas, SciVal Spotlight creates a map upon the Wheel of Science that illustrates for which specific research topics your institution has a Distinctive Competency, revealing research strengths that reference literature from a single disciple as well as those that are highly interdisciplinary.

Do you consider this to be interesting questions…
- How can we best allocate limited internal funding?
- How do we compare to competitors in our areas of strength?
- Are we overlooking opportunities?
- Who are our potential collaborators?
Then maybe SciVal Spotlight could be the answer!

SciVal Spotlight uses Scopus as an underlying data source. With over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature. Jönköping University Library have access to Scopus!

 If there is an extensive interest  for this product at Jönköping University, we can manage a demonstration through the University Library. Send us an e-mail to show interest.

Meanwhile take a look at this video and the website.

With Google Public Data Explorer you can take data from many different datasets (with even more subsets, for example World Bank - WDI) and make a presentation just like Hans Rosling. Could be very interesting for students to see and then have as an assignment to search for theories, research and empirical facts to explain how, when and why or for students themselves to use in their presentations.

This is an example I have made for my subject guide The Business and Economics Librarian about GDP.

In the Spring issue (volume 5, issue 1) of the LibraryZone, Springer’s quarterly newsletter for librarians and information professionals, you can read “an article on the innovative approach taken at Jönköping University Library (Sweden) with their Subject Guides”.

Springer Account Development Manager Timon Oefelein talks with Daniel Gunnarsson about his new and growing role as a Content Manager and the impact of creating a guide like The Business and Economics Librarian.

We are pleased to inform you that from today you have acces to 18 new titles (se below) in SAGE Handbook Series. In total Jönköping University Library now have access to approximately 100 titles as e-publications.

The SAGE Handbook of International Marketing
The SAGE Handbook of Power
The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management
The SAGE Handbook of Management Learning, Education and Development
The SAGE Handbook of European Studies
The SAGE Handbook of Remote Sensing
The SAGE Handbook of Educational Action Research
The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development
The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies
The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography
The SAGE Handbook of Social Work Research
The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies
The SAGE Handbook of Spatial Analysis
The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution
The SAGE Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Psychology
Handbook of Feminist Family Studies
The Handbook of Communication Science

Note 1: You can also find SAGE Handbooks, both e-publications and printed editions in the library catalogue JULIA (but not yet the new ones).
Note 2: The new titles aren´t so far visible through the subject categories.
Note 3: Within the subject guides for Management and Marketing, you can also find links to handbooks in the box Reference works (alphabetical) under the tab Books.

We have just updated JULIA, the library catalogue, with April up-load of Palgrave e-books. In total there is 495 e-books available within the two collections, “Business and Management” and “Economics and Finance”. See them all here.

You can also search within the fulltext of the e-books from the Palgrave Connect platform (green padlock = access and red padlock  no access).

Since 1984, Harvard Business School Press has been dedicated to publishing the most contemporary management thinking, written by authors and practitioners who are leading the way. Whether readers are seeking big-picture strategic thinking or tactical problem solving, advice in managing global corporations or for developing personal careers, HBS Press helps fuel the fire of innovative thought. HBS Press has earned a reputation as the springboard of thought for both established and emerging business leaders.

The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today’s managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.

Now you have access to over 80 titles within different topics such as strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership, pricing, marketing…

See all titles in JULIA here.

Probably you are familiar with Amazon’s recommender service: “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought”.

bX does kind of the same thing, but with library resources. Here is an example.

Let’s say you want articles on social websites. In Google Scholar you find this.

Click on the e-JULIA link and you will get the e-JULIA window.

At the bottom you see bX, the recommender service. It will show up only if there are recommendations available. You get three recommended articles for a start. If you click on the e-JULIA icon next to any of the articles, you can have a look at recommendations also for this article. In this way, you can browse and find articles that others have found useful.

Here is more information about bX.

The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database. These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.

This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator, developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator shows the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996.

This is really a great and userfriendly site. Please contac us at the University Library for a demonstration.

Read interview with Prof. Félix de Moya about SCImago Journal Rank (SJR).

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.

The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), and they participate in advocacy to influence future European e-theses developments.

Search DART.