Google has added imagery for 13 new metropolitan areas and a national park in Street View mode of Google Maps! So, why not take a look at the famous El Capitan in Yosemite National Park during the weekend?

Take a tour and check out to have the Street View in active mode!

Read more about El Capitan in a selection of our encyclopedias!

Networking or on-line communities is not all about Facebook, MySpace or even Lunarstorm. There are several other communities linking people of different interest together. Here is a brief selection of online social networks that might interest students or faculty at Jönköping University

• Academici – where people who know meet people who know.
• Classroom 2.0 – the social network for educators using collaborative technologies.
• Eduspaces - the world’s largest social networking site dedicated to education and educational technology.
• OpenAcademic – supporting learners, teachers and institutions.
• 2collab – a new type of research tool – a collaboration platform designed specifically for researchers in the science, technology and medical communities.
• Nature Network – connecting scientists.
• Pronetos – professor’s network, home for Faculty, Students, and Researchers of every academic discipline who want to be recognized as leaders in their field.

For two half-day sessions there has been a workshop for doctoral students and staff at JIBS. Together we have solved some of the mysteries of scholarly publishing, search strategies, database searching, evaluation of different types of literature and reference management with EndNote. For us involved from the library it has been very interesting and stimulating.

For you who missed it we are planning to offer this workshop at least on an annual basis so keep your eyes open for the next occasion!

And for you from JIBS who participated, a big thank you! The discussions with you have given us a lot of input for developing our library service in alignment with your needs and requirements.

Thanks!

As of July 1, 2008, all Blackwell journal content and all Wiley online content will be hosted on Wiley InterScience. All Blackwell online journal subscriptions will be migrated to enable continuous access to our licensed content, and existing Synergy URLs will redirect to the content on Wiley InterScience. Blackwell Synergy will cease to be available as of July 1, 2008.

The initial integration of Blackwell content into Wiley InterScience will enable users to search across 2 million journal articles in over 1400 journals on a single site.

In the meantime, use the following links to access the content from Blackwell and Wiley:

• Blackwell Synergy
• Wiley Interscience

Help us to better understand how you use e-books by completing ebrary’s brief Student E-book Survey!

You’ll be entered into a drawing for a free iPod in your choice of model, size, and color!

On top of that, every 25th participant will receive a free T-shirt!

The questionnaire, which was developed by approximately 150 librarians from around the world, is now available and it will remain open through April 11, 2008.

The survey takes less than 20 minutes and almost all questions are optional!

Haven’t searched our e-books yet? Try to search in a selection of databases with e-books in fulltext! Tick the boxes and go ahead!

Have you ever wondered about which research articles have the most influence in your specific subject area?

Have a look at Scopus TopCited (you will find it in Scopus as well), a new website that provides you with an at-a-glance overview of the 20 top cited articles across 26 subject area over the past five years and shows where they were published.

Not only does the site present you with the list of top cited articles published per subject area but also disclose their affiliations, authors, cited-by counts and integrates this information on Google Maps. Additionally, you can set up an RSS Feed alert to stay up to date with the latest rankings!

Read more about information searching using citations!

Information technology has radically changed the library world. Nowadays, information is not only supplied by books and journals on the shelves of the local library but, increasingly, by the local organization of global information resources, such as e-journals, e-books and databases. In addition to the traditional library, with its printed collections, there is a digital library with a great variety of web based services.

The possibilities to develop library services and offer new ones to researchers and students are greater than ever before, at the same time as the need for more effective information supply is much more demanding. Also, increased competition for users attention demands a valuable and interesting variety of services and an effective marketing.

Our web site is crucial to the marketing of the library’s information services. Now, to this web site, we would like to add a blog that we regard as a tool for the mediation of information about resources and search services.

We hope that you will find great value in reading the library blog.