Comments for Max Planck vLib News

Comment on Mobile-optimized website for Safari Tech Books by inga

inga — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:04:16 +0000

You may notice that the book collection available via the mobile-optimized entry point contains less publications. ProQuest explains this as follows: "The difference in available ebooks between the interfaces is due to multiple reasons. Some ebooks are just not mobile-compatible. Some are not allowed to be available to mobile devices due to licensing restrictions. There will likely be a discrepancy between the books available through each method for quite some time unfortunately."

Comment on Mobile-optimized website for Safari Tech Books by Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:35:56 +0000

Hi everyone,

I’m the VP of Engineering here at Safari Books Online. I’d love to work with some interested library partners on some significant new work on this product, especially with regards to mobile access. If you’re interested, please drop me an email at liza at safaribooksonline.com.

Comment on Mobile-optimized website for Safari Tech Books by inga

inga — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:22:06 +0000

A short update regarding the auto-detection + redirection of users with mobile devices. ProQuest states that the functionality has been identified and documented as a possible future enhancement. However, they cannot provide an estimate for when that sort of functionality will become available.

Comment on Mobile-optimized website for Safari Tech Books by Safari Tech Books Mobile | FHI Library

Safari Tech Books Mobile | FHI Library — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:35:58 +0000

[...] Max Planck vLib blog reports about the new mobile-optimized website of Safari Tech Books that is available for the [...]

Comment on Mobile-optimized website for Safari Tech Books by inga

inga — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:26:19 +0000

@Jonathan: From my point of view it is the responsibility of the website to provide a seamless transition from the default user interface to the mobile-optimized version and vice versa. Some publisher platforms are already auto-detecting and redirecting users with mobile devices, e.g. Highwire: http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/3/487 will redirect to http://m.bjps.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/3/487 if the user agent can be detected.

SafariBooks isn’t doing so yet, even it would be possible: A deep link like http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/9781849512626 has it’s mobile equivalent: http://m.proquest.safaribooksonline.com/9781849512626. We have this issue on our feedback list for ProQuest.

Comment on Mobile-optimized website for Safari Tech Books by Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:02:38 +0000

Librarian/engineer at another institution here.

Have you figured out any way to get \deep links\ to individual titles (on Safari, or to individual articles on other platforms with journal articles and seperate mobile interfaces) to link to the ‘mobile’ version for mobile?

Where I am, even for Safari, most of our users go into it from direct links to specific titles, not from Safari home page.

Comment on vLib WoK search mangled by Erik

Erik — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:44:53 +0000

WoS search restored.

INSPEC search should be working, too.

Comment on vLib WoK search mangled by inga

inga — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:53:29 +0000

Update: Thomson announced the release of a new connector for the entire WoS for end of January 2013.

Unfortunately, no solution is foreseeable for the INSPEC issue.

Comment on vLib WoK search mangled by Erik

Erik — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:45:42 +0000

Unseres Wissens soll WoS auch über Webservices bald wieder übergreifend durchsuchbar sein. Auch an der Behebung der Probleme mit INSPEC (u.a.) ist TR offenbar schon intensiv dran.

Wir haben uns über die Art und Weise der Umstellung beklagt, darum werden unsere ausführlichen Fehlerdokumentation offenbar jetzt auch ernst genommen.

Comment on vLib WoK search mangled by Katrin

Katrin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:07:51 +0000

Wir würden auf jeden Fall die VLib-Suche für INSPEC begrüßen, auch wenn wir diese nur selten nutzen. Ist schon abzusehen, wann die WoS-Suchbox wieder zur Verfügung steht?