Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers!I’ve just received word that Blackwell’s Synergy database will no longer be available after 30 June 2008:

As part of the merger of Blackwell Publishing with John Wiley and Sons, we will combine all Wiley-Blackwell’s online products onto a single online platform.  From the Wiley-Blackwell site:

As a first step, we will be moving all Blackwell Synergy journal content and access rights onto Wiley InterScience as of June 30, 2008, at which point Synergy will cease to be available. As a second step, we will be launching a next-generation online service in 2009 that will include the best features of both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience and which will introduce innovative new functionality and capabilities.

From the e-mail I received this morning:

As of Monday, June 30th 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience.

We plan to close Blackwell Synergy at the end of business (Pacific Standard Time) on Friday June 27th and we anticipate that the migration will be completed by Monday June 30th. Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable while we transition and re-index data.

We will still have access to all of the journals — the only change is that they will be on a different platform with a different interface.  Once the move has been made, I will review the new platform and write a post about it.

In the interim, please let me know if you have any questions.