Feedback on the New Look SUNCAT

As we posted a few weeks ago a preview of the new look SUNCAT service is available at http://test.suncat.ac.uk and a huge thank you to all who have sent us comments so far.

We've now put up a short survey and would be very grateful for your input which will help to guide the ongoing development of the service. If you prefer you can also let us have your comments via the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

We would also encourage you to circulate details of the preview service and the survey as widely as possible.

Both the survey and the preview will only be available until Monday 13th May, but development work will still be continuing and so we will have more posts to keep you up to date with progress.

Please take a few minutes to let us know what you think!

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• CONSER (20 Apr 13) 
• Cranfield University (20 Apr 13)
• Edinburgh University (21 March 13)
• Glasgow University (04 Apr 13)
• Imperial College, London (01 Mar 13)
• Manchester Metropolitan University (09 Apr 13)
• Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (16 Apr 13)
• Royal College of Music (11 Apr 13)
• Trinity College Dublin (26 Mar 13)
• University College London (09 Apr 13) 

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT at UKSG 2013

The SUNCAT team were very happy to attend this year's excellent UKSG Annual Conference in Bournemouth. We hope that those of you who attended were able to visit the SUNCAT stand and try out our new interface!

Team members Paula Cuccurullo and Celia Jenkins have summarised some of the plenaries and breakouts they attended for the official UKSG conference blog.

• Breakout A: ALMA@UEL and Intota@Huddersfield: implementing a next-generation library management system.
• Butterflies, Publishers and Librarians - final UKSG plenary session.
• Breakout C: PIRUS: a new COUNTER standard for article level and institutional repository usage statistics.
• "Great Expectations": how libraries are changing to meet student needs.
• Towards an 'open' approach for discovery.
• PDA checklist for academic libraries.
• Electronic resources and ILL - a self-contradiction?

You can still take a look at the new-look SUNCAT. Let us have your feedback via edina@ed.ac.uk. The new service is still in development so please continue to use the current SUNCAT as your primary service.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• British Library (22 Mar 13)
• Exeter University (05 Apr 13)
• ISSN (12 Apr 13)
• Kingston University (14 Mar 13) 
• Manchester University (21 Mar 13)
• Nottingham University (03 Apr 13)
• Society of Antiquaries of London (11 Apr 13)
• Southampton University (14 Apr 13)
• Warwick University (02 Apr 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Weird and wonderful poetry titles - second instalment

April is National Poetry Month. To mark this occasion we have searched SUNCAT for weird and wonderful poetry titles. Hope you enjoyed the first instalment. Here is this second!

• My favorite bullet.
• The paper nautilus.
• PigeonBike.
• Ploplop.
• The poetry of surrender : by SubVerse writers.       
• Poor old tired horse.
• The Records of love: or, Weekly amusements for the fair sex.
• Runnin’ on empty.
• School : from two sides of the desk.
• Slow dancer.
• Snow monkey.
• Spectacular diseases.
• Unmuzzled ox.
• Veer off.
• A wigman to wind the sun up.
• Brown sweater free poems.
• The female preceptor : containing essays, chiefly on the duties of the female sex; with a variety of useful and polite literature, poems, &c. :embellished with several beautiful engravings / conducted by a lady.
• The good child’s reward: : containing a series of poems and essays, on natural, moral, and religious subjects. To which is prefixed, An affectionate address on the duties and obligations they owe to God and their parents. / By Henry Sharpe Horsley. Illustrated by upwards of one hundred engravings.
• Kamikaze sheep : an anthology of poems and short stories.
• Litter : more poems from The Pig Press.
• Out from beneath the boot : poems.
• Brittle star.
• Crazy horse.
• Deliberately thirsty.
• Fine madness.
• Hot gun!
• A love gift for ...
• Moodswing. ("A pocket broadsheet from the ’Grim’ North delivering the goods whatever the emotional weather.”)

For more poetry titles and  other weird and wonderful serials take a look in SUNCAT.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Cardiff University (28 Mar 13)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (10 Apr 13)
• Dundee University (01 Apr 13)
• Liverpool University (04 Apr 13)
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (05 Apr 13)
• National Library of Scotland (02 Apr 13)
• Oxford University (07 Mar 13)
• Queen Mary, University of London (15 Mar 13)
• Robert Gordon University (01 Apr 13)
• Royal College of Nursing (04 Apr 13)
• Royal Society of Medicine (08 Apr 13)
• Southampton University (07 Apr 13)
• Stirling University (28 Feb 13)
• Sussex University (03 Apr 13)
• Swansea University (15 Mar 13)
• York University (04 Apr 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Preview the New Look SUNCAT

Good morning from UKSG 2013! As promised last month the new look SUNCAT is now available for you to preview at http://test.suncat.ac.uk

The current service will continue as the primary service for the moment, but we would encourage you to take a look, experiment and let us have your feedback on the new service as soon as you get a chance.

The new service is still in development, so there are still issues to be resolved with keeping it up-to-date, searching and relevancy ranking, but to give you a flavour, the new service:

• Integrates information from the website and the actual service more closely, with the search box, a map of our Contributing Libraries and a feed of our latest news all on the homepage

• Enables searching limited to a specific library or selection of libraries: you will only see the serials’ holdings of libraries you have specified in your search

• Enables searching limited to a specific location or selection of locations, all the way from Inverness to Exeter: again you will only see the serials’ holdings in locations you have specified in your search.

• Plus you can combine library and location limits to suit your individual search requirements

• Enables searching limited to electronic or print serials only: helpful if you only want to see what might be immediately available online or conversely if want to see only material likely to be available via Inter-Library Loan.

• Enables filtering of search results by library, location, subject, organisation, publisher, date etc.

• Enables more sophisticated searching via the Advanced Search option

• Allows you to choose how many records you want to display on your search results screen

• Provides an alphabetical list of all the libraries holding a particular serial title

• Allows you to quickly see if holdings are print or electronic

• Opens up further information about each library, including directions, contact details, British Library code and when it was last updated in SUNCAT

If you are attending UKSG, please come along to the EDINA stand 26 and we will be happy to demo the service for you and answer your questions in person. However, you can also let us know what you think or if you have any questions or suggestions via the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

We hope you like what you see!

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Birmingham University (22 Mar 13)
• CONSER (03 Apr 13)
• Durham University (22 Mar 13)
• Hull University (27 Feb 13)
• Kent University (01 Apr 13)
• Leicester University (26 Mar 13)
• Liverpool University (28 Mar 13)
• Natural History Museum (25 Mar 13)
• Newcastle University (28 Mar 13)
• Southampton University (31 Mar 13)
• Tate Library (Tate Britain) (25 Mar 13)
• University of the West of England (UWE) (23 Mar 13)
• Wellcome Library (27 Mar 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT at UKSG 2013

The SUNCAT team will be attending the 36th Annual UKSG Conference to be held in Bournemouth next week, from Monday 8th April until Wednesday 10th April.

UKSG “exists to connect the knowledge community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors”.

We shall be attending a variety of sessions, including ‘Discoverability in the digital age’, ‘How libraries are changing to meet student needs’, ‘Making metrics meaningful’ and ‘Simplifying the search experience’.

Two members of the SUNCAT team, Paula Cuccurullo and Celia Jenkins, will be contributing to the UKSG blog at http://uksglive.blogspot.co.uk/. You can also follow SUNCAT at the conference on Twitter @suncatteam, as well as follow the event in general @uksg, with the conference hashtag being #uksglive.

In addition, Fred Guy, SUNCAT Service Manager, along with Adam Rusbridge of EDINA will be giving a breakout session on ‘E-journals and long term availability: an overview and panel discussion on the archiving infrastructure to meet the needs of users.’ It looks to be an exciting conference, as always!

SUNCAT will be on the EDINA stand (number 26) at the conference exhibition, covering all breaks. Please come along and see us if you're attending. We will be previewing the new-look SUNCAT, answering any questions you may have about SUNCAT, as well as telling you about other EDINA services.

Weird and wonderful poetry titles - first instalment

April is National Poetry Month. To mark this occasion we have searched SUNCAT for weird and wonderful poetry titles. There are so many that we thought that we would have two instalments!

• The Amaranth. A Semi - Monthly Publication, Devoted to Polite Literature, Science, Poetry and Amusement.
• Amethyst arsenic : poetry and art.
• Bad poetry quarterly.
• The comic almanack : an ephemeris in jest and ernest containing merry tales, humourous poetry, quips, and oddities / by Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert à Beckett, the Brothers Mayhew ... ; illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists.
• Full of Crow poetry.
• Half drunk muse.
• The illustrated ape : fiction, pictures, poetry, pop!.
• The long grass waving : poetry and prose from members of the after school clubs at Ironville & Codnor Park Primary school.
• Meat plough : the journal of trangressive poetry and art.
• Miscellanies over claret, or, the friends to the tavern, the best friends to poetry being a collection of poems, translations, etc. to be continued monthly from the Rose-Tavern without Temple-Bar.
• A narrow fellow : journal of poetry.
• Oddrot : the journal of funny bizarre and subversive poetry.
• Parody: poetry for the world as it really is.
• Poetry of my shoulders.
• Wheels : a vehicle for modern poetry.
• xStream.
• Averse to poetry.
• Beyond bones.
• Dark lady poetry.
• Literal latté.
• Hearse : a vehicle used to convey the dead.
• Mastodon dentist : a poetry magazine.
• Message from nowhere = Message de nulle part : collection of poetry, drawings & criticism / edited by E.L.T. Mesens.
• Risk behaviour : poems from the Poetry business competition.
• Affection’s keepsake.
• The bitter oleander.
• Bo heem e um.
• Bright pink mosquito.
• Penny dreadful : tales and poems of fantastic terror.
• Random acts of writing.

Look out for our next instalment of weird and wonderful poetry titles later this month.