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.

• Aberdeen University (10 Oct 11)
• Aberystwyth University (17 Oct 11)
• Birmingham University (22 Oct 11)
• CONSER (26 Oct 11)
• Dundee University (05 Oct 11)
• Durham University (24 Oct 11)
• Edinburgh University (21 Oct 11)
• Exeter University (07 Oct 11)
• Hull University (19 Oct 11)
• Liverpool University (24 Oct 11)
• Newcastle University (20 Oct 11)
• Reading University (24 Oct 11)
• Southampton University (23 Oct 11)
• University College London (10 Oct 11)
• University of the West of England (UWE) (23 Oct 11)
• Wiener Library (20 Oct 11)

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

New SUNCAT User Satisfaction Survey

Last year we asked you about your use of SUNCAT. We thank all of you who responded to this survey, with the results having fed back into the service. This year we are asking some slightly different questions and value any responses we receive so that we can continue to evaluate and develop SUNCAT to meet our users' needs and expectations. The survey has 10 questions and should take less than 10 minutes to complete.
We would not only appreciate your comments but would also encourage you to circulate the survey details as widely as possible, to library staff and particularly to end-users. Thank you in anticipation.

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.

• Directory of Open Access Journals (12 Oct 11)
• Edinburgh Napier University (13 Oct 11)
• Glasgow University (11 Oct 11)
• ISSN (12 Oct 11)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (10 Oct 11)
• Queen Mary, University of London (17 Oct 11)
• Royal College of Music (17 Oct 11)
• St Andrews University (06 Oct 11)
• Senate House Libraries, University of London (14 Oct 11)
• Sheffield University (14 Oct 11)
• Southampton University (16 Oct 11)
• Stirling University (13 Oct 11)
• Sussex University (03 Oct 11)
• Swansea University (15 Oct 11)
• Warwick University (12 Oct 11)
• Wellcome Library (17 Oct 11)

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

Feeback wanted on guide to integration of SUNCAT

Back in July of this year a guide was produced highlighting how to integrate SUNCAT into your library website and services. SUNCAT would be very interested to hear back from anyone who has implemented any of the suggestions to find out:

- What you did?
- How it's working?
- Have you experienced any problems?
- Is anything further we could do to help?
- Any feedback you have in general.

If you have any feedback please contact Zena Mulligan at zena.mulligan@ed.ac.uk or via the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk.

BGS – now part of NERC

Records in SUNCAT listed under the British Geological Survey are now being loaded as part of NERC: Natural Environment Research Council. NERC incorporates British Geological Survey, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and British Antarctic Survey. There are two non-UK locations for British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – Bird Island in South Georgia and Rothera in Antarctica!

"Nacreous Clouds above Rothera Base" by Jade Berman (divedivajade).

One title held at Rothera is 'Annals of Glaciology'; two titles held in South Georgia are 'CCAMLR statistical bulletin', and 'CCAMLR science'. Luckily, you don't have to travel to either library to get hold of them, as there is another copy held in the BAS main library in Cambridge!

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.

• Bristol University (07 Oct 11)
• Cambridge University (04 Oct 11)
• CONSER (12 Oct 11)
• Kent University (01 Oct 11)
• London Business School (01 Oct 11)
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (03 Oct 11)
• Manchester Metropolitan University (05 Oct 11)
• National Library of Scotland (04 Oct 11)
• Nottingham University (03 Oct 11)
• Queen's University Belfast (01 Oct 11)
• Royal Society of Medicine (04 Oct 11)
• School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
• Southampton University (09 Oct 11)
• York University (05 Oct 11)
• Zoological Society of London (03 Oct 11)

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

NEW - SUNCAT video

A short video is now available, in which Natasha Aburrow-Jones, SUNCAT Project Officer, describes SUNCAT. The video briefly covers what the service is, its coverage, functionality and features. Feel free to take a look and also point others to it who may not know about SUNCAT and the benefits of using the service. The video is also available on EDINA’s YouTube channel.

Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh Merge

Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) has combined with the University of Edinburgh's School of Arts, Culture and Environment to form a new and enlarged ECA as part of the University. The ECA Library at Evolution House has now become a site library of Edinburgh University Library and so all the ECA’s serial records in SUNCAT now appear as Edinburgh University records, although they will have ECA locations.

University of Bath - now contributing to SUNCAT

Just under 38,000 serials records from the University of Bath have now been loaded into SUNCAT. University of Bath library holds both print and electronic journals to support learning, teaching and research across science, engineering, management, social sciences, and the humanities. This is our third new Contributing Library of 2011 and takes the number of Libraries to 80, excluding CONSER, ISSN and DOAJ.

Take a look at SUNCAT for the full range of Contributing Libraries and their extensive journal holdings.

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.

• Bristol University (28 Sep 11)
• British Library (01 Oct 11)
• Cardiff University (28 Sep 11)
• CONSER (05 oCT 11)
• Glasgow University (30 Sep 11)
• King's College London (01 Oct 11)
• Leicester University (30 Sep 11)
• Liverpool University (28 Sep 11)
• Manchester University (26 Sep 11)
• Southampton University (02 Oct 11)
• Trinity College Dublin (09 Sep 11)
• University of the West of England (UWE) (23 Sep 11)
• Zoological Society of London (16 Sep 11)

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