While I was away, the APA blog (which is a useful one to follow in general, especially for calls for proposals for conferences in the US) posted a valuable update on L’Annee online, including both content and technological upgrades.
Content:
- Volume 80 (2009) was added in August.
- 2200 records from Volume 81 (2010) were added in June, and all of Volume 81 (2010) will be available at the end of 2011. Nice to see them getting so prompt!
New Features:
- Set alerts for searches that you’ve done and saved in your history. The online user guide gives directions for doing this. I haven’t tried it, but the blog post says this searches new updates to the database and sends you an email. Since L’Annee does not update very frequently, this is less useful than search alerts in other article databases which update weekly or even daily, but still worth a try if you tend to forget to check L’Annee.
- L’Annee offers an RSS feed of all new entries. Again, nice feature, but given the way L’Annee currently updates, a dump 2-3 times a year of thousands of new entries via RSS might be overwhelming! If you use an RSS reader that allows you to filter or search entries, this might work for you.
- L’Annee online is now Z39.50-compliant (Z39.50 is a library tech standard for interoperability). The practical result of this for users is that EndNote users can now download a filter that will allow them to search L’Annee online from within EndNote. Download the .enz file posted on the APA web site to do this.
Becoming a Classics Librarian 