Digging deeply into Google and the other Search Engines
GREG NOTESS
Description: Google and the other major search engines each have
certain advantages and disadvantages. Learn advanced techniques and hidden
commands. Compare their underlying databases and explore advanced strategies.
This workshops will cover the primary Web search engines along with the
important details about Boolean, proximity, field searching, limits, and
other special features.
Current awareness delivery options
Genie Tyburski
Description: Electronic current awareness services are critical
for users of all types of libraries and information services. This practical
half-day workshop provides an overview of the many options for delivering
specialized current information. Nationally known experts Price and Tyburski
examine current awareness needs and choices from start to finish, look
at strategies, tools, and resources for gathering new information, and
investigate delivery technologies. Learn about the pros and cons of initiating
such services via e-mail and Web-based newsletters, Weblogs, k-logs, and
RSS/XML newsfeeds. Get up-to-speed on the latest techniques and thinking
on this crucial topic.
SWETS
Title: Electronic Subscription Management Services
Presenter: Roné Robbetze
The increasing complexity of hybrid subscriptions from various sources
necessitates tools and structures to not only simplify their management
and administration, but also access to them. Learn how Swets has approached
this situation and the resources available to you as the subscriber.
Title: Making the most of DataSwetsConnect
Presenter: Philip de Kock
This session will focus on managing your active subscriptions more effectively
with Swets through utilizing this product's claiming function, subscription
information function and title information function (For your Info).
An added bonus for consolidation customers is the consolidation function
which will be demonstrated and explained.
NISC
Title: NISC journals and databases online
Presenter: Margaret Crampton
Join NISC for an online demonstration of the new upgraded databases
on Africa-Wide: NiPAD (NISC information, Publications and African Databases).
This database collection of over two million records will be used to
showcase NISC search engine and full text linking potential. Attendance
of this workshop will show you how to get the most value and functionality
out of your NISC subscriptions.
NISC full text journals will also be demonstrated on INGENTA, again
showcasing the linking potential.
Title: African Journals Online (AJOL) Join NISC for a look at what
AJOL can do for you
AJOL is a non-commercial database of over 200 African-published journals
from 21 countries and growing. NISC is now spearheading this exciting
African-based programme. There are currently more than 13 000 article
abstracts available with full-text on the way. The April 2005 hand-over
promises to boost African information and research as NISC takes over
the reins from the International Network for the Availability of Scientific
Publications (INASP).
Bowker & C. S. A.
Title: Bowker bibliographic databases - an in-depth look.
Presenter: Darren Roberts
Libraries offer a wealth of knowledge, sources for every type of information,
and therefore require tools to accurately identify exactly what their
users need. Bowker is proud to offer library professionals the authoritative
and unbiased information, and time-saving workflow features, that are
only available using Bowker’s robust interfaces. Our services include
Ulrich's Resource Linker (OpenURL link resolver), Ulrichsweb, Ulrich's
Serials Analysis System and Books in Print.
Presenter: Brad Rosairo, CSA
MultiSearch, the federated searching solution from CSA, offers you
the ability to provide a single search interface compatible with most
database platforms. Users thus have a single point of access to information
from any number or type of content sources. The service then delivers
organized, contextually relevant results to the searcher. Moreover,
the MultiSearch interface also provides flexibility for users to access
search features specific to an individual database platform.
EBSCO
Title: The Reasons you need a Subscription Agent
Presenter: Rehette Spaanderman
An overview, benefits and values, will be highlighted.
Title: Implementing and Understanding Effective Electronic Resources
Presenter: Colleen Mills
This workshop will cover the different aspects and trends of Electronic
Resources and the solution that EBSCOhost can provide libraries with.
SPRINGER
Title: SPRINGER AND SASLI: Accelerating Online Access in Southern
Africa
Presenter: Alan Harris
Springer (incorporating the former publishing programmes of Springer
Verlag and Kluwer Academic Publishers) cooperates with SASLI via Swets
SA with a “Walk In Consortium” offering access to 1250 Springer
e-journals. Each individual SASLI member also has the option to take
“reduced-fee” access to any of Springer’s other electronic
products, including Springer Online Journal Archives, Springer e-book
Series, Springer online e-books, Springer online e-reference works and
Zentralblatt Math. This presentation gives a ‘bird’s eye view’
of each Springer electronic product and the commercial models (available
to SASLI members) for each. Springer’s ‘Corporate’ division
will also be represented.
SABINET
Title: Introducing Sabinet Law and other full-text products
Presenters: Susan de Swardt en Tania Benade
Introducing SabinetLaw and other full-text products
Join Sabinet Online for a very interesting session about a new services
called SabinetLaw.
SabinetLaw serves as a free resource for business people, creating
awareness about new and forthcoming legislation and implications thereof
for business in South Africa.
More information will also be shared regarding developments in our
electronic full-text journals product: SA ePublications and further
discussions about Sabinet Online's other full-text services will take
place.
OVID
Title: OVID TECHNOLOGIES' - SEARCHSOLVER: MAXIMISING YOUR LIBRARIES'
RESOURCES WITH THE SINGLE SEARCH SOLUTION
Presenter: Bianca Saporiti
Does information in your library reside in silos? Do you have to remember
multiple database search protocols and passwords? Do you send students
to the OPAC terminal to find books in the library collection but to
another computer to look for periodical articles? Perhaps there's a
third for Internet access? Are end users in your library confused about
the difference between one information source and another? Do results
from a Web search and a fee-based premium information source look totally
different? When researching a subject, can you imagine being able to
do a single search, including subscription databases, Internet search
engines, and electronic publications, instead of doing multiple searches
across different sources and deleting duplicates?
According to Donna Fryer (The March/April 2004 issue of Online), "Federated
searching aggregates multiple channels of information into a single
searchable point. This blends e-journals, subscription databases, electronic
print collections, other digital repositories, and the Internet."
Ovid in partnership with MuseGlobal now can provide all academic libraries
with SearchSolver, the service software with an easy to use front-end
federated search engine that allows users to search across databases
from different vendors, online full text journals from different publishers
and agents, and university's OPAC. The user doesn't need to know which
database offers a particular journal title or learn a search syntax
for each service. The federated search product searches the services
subscribed to by the researcher's library and returns a combined search
results list. With the scope and amount of information sources of most
academic libraries, this "one stop shopping" concept is a
very exciting development.
PROQUEST
Title: Factiva.com – The ultimate business information resource.
Presenter: Peter Shelley
Discover the ultimate business information resource that is Factiva.com.
A joint venture between two of the world’s leading providers of
news, Dow Jones and Reuters, Factiva.com combines over 9,000 news sources
giving students, lecturers and librarians access to premium business
content from 122 countries and in 22 languages, thereby offering both
local insight and global perspective on every business issue. The range
of content available from Factiva.com is truly unmatched by any other
business database, making it essential for the library and the classroom.
Title: African Writers Series – Offering new possibilities
for scholarship and teaching in the fields of African and literary studies.
Presenter: Peter Shelley
ProQuest is excited to announce the publication of the online version
of Heinemann’s African Writers Series. This collection of contemporary
African writing was founded in 1962, and for over 40 years has published
the key texts of modern African literature, and has a unique importance
in the history of postcolonial writing. The publication of this historic
collection in online form restores access to a substantial body of literature,
much of which is out of print and only accessible in specialist research
libraries, opening up new possibilities for scholarship and teaching in
the fields of African and literary studies. Release One contains 66 volumes
of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, incorporating works
by Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Mongo Beti and Olaudah Equiano.
Oxford University Press
Oxford Scholarship Online (www.oxfordscholarship.com)
Presenter: Anne Kail
A pioneering, cross-searchable database which brings together the
complete text of over 900 scholarly books in the humanities and social
sciences, with at least 200 new books added each year. Unlimited access
to $60,000 worth of books for subscriptions from US$525 per annum. 200
new books added each year! “The Holy Grail of online resources”
(Kate Sloss, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Oxford Reference Online (www.oxfordreference.com).
Presenter: Anne Kail
Multi-award-winning reference library online. Brings together the
complete text of 130 Oxford dictionaries, bilinguals and reference books,
including key Oxford Companions and big name authors. Over 12,000 illustrations,
6,000 of them full colour and fully searchable, plus maps and flags.
Fabulous new timelines. This invaluable and cost-effective online reference
library covers everything from Art to Zoology.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (www.oxforddnb.com)
Presenter: Anne Kail
“… a national treasure, indeed an international treasure,”
says Financial Times Magazine. Explore the African impact on Britain,
Brits in Africa, Africans in Africa, Opponents of British rule…
50,000 biographies including Cetshwayo, Sara Baartman, Alfred Beit,
Emily Hobhouse, Sol Plaatje, Sir Herbert Baker as well as Darwin, Princess
Diana, Robert Maxwell! How good is it? According to the Library Journal
“A perfect 10”. Come and see why!
Discover how Oxford Journals can help you develop your collection
Presenter: Kamran Kardan
The Oxford journals collection includes many of the world’s most
highly-cited and prestigious titles across various academic disciplines.
By successfully combining traditional values of quality and service
together with innovative use of the latest technologies, Oxford journals
is becoming an essential part of any library collection. Discover more
about the journals, technology, and services we can offer
