UNLV Library News Blog

July 14, 2008

Try Encore- A New Way to Search the Library Catalog

Looking to find books, e-books, media and more?

Try Encore and experience library search like never before--powerful and information-rich, yet highly intuitive, simple to use and loaded with useful features:

  • Starting with one simple search box, you can find what the library has to offer.
  • Simple, easy-to-use design makes finding information a snap.
  • Cool Web 2.0 features--like tag clouds-- help you focus your search by format, collection, subject headings and lots of other ways.
  • Google-like relevance ranking ensures that the best answer rises to the top of your search.
  • Great, detailed information is now just a click away.
  • "Did You Mean?" feature eliminates confusion and corrects common spelling mistakes.
  • And more!
What will you find in the library today? The power is at your fingertips.

Let us know what you think.

Encore provides highly sophisticated search results presented in a very simple way. We think everyone will find it extremely useful, whether you're an undergraduate searching for information for a paper or a graduate student looking for in-depth research materials.

July 1, 2008

Blackwell Synergy and Wiley Interscience Merging

Blackwell Synergy content was incorporated into Wiley InterScience and the Blackwell product will be discontinued. As the transfer is finalized there may be intermittent periods without access.


Access to Blackwell links on the A-Z journal title list and via the SFX "Get Text" button will go to the Wiley InterScience home page, not directly to the journal title. Wiley is working on getting links to go directly to each journal.

They estimate it will take a few days. In the meantime, the articles are there but you have to navigate to the journal to get them.

To find a journal from the Wiley InterScience home page:

Use the Search Box with "Publication Titles" selected

OR

Click journals under "Browse by product type"
Use the Title or Subject option to find the journal

 

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