I'm pleased to announce that we have trial access to The Economist Historical Archive (1843-2003) from today until 8th February.

The contents includes editorial, advertising and tabular matter all fully searchable.

To access The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 please click here. You will be asked to enter your name, institution and email address to gain access to the trial.

Features and benefits of The Economist Historical Archive includes:

• Authoritative ˜leaders" (editorials), news coverage, commentaries and letters on British, American and world politics and business


• Special surveys and supplements on Countries and Industries


• Renowned sections including 'Science and Technology'


• Classified and display advertising profiling major companies, job opportunities, etc


• Detailed topic search, facsimile pages, hit-term highlighting


• Searchable 'covers gallery'


• Searchable financial data. Key economic indicators post-1983 available in exportable format

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Faulty URL linkages from your Alerts

We are currently experiencing some problems with faulty links to articles from the database alerts that are emailed to you (if you've registered for them)

While we are waiting for the databases to fix the faulty links to articles, there is a way of manually fixing the URL to retrieve the article.

This can be useful for if you want to include links on web pages or Library Live or Edulink

You need to insert the UJ code into the article URL.

The code is in 2 parts: one part (0-) comes directly after the http:// and the other (ujlink.uj.ac.za) comes directly before the first stroke /


So you need to change this:
https://apkmail.uj.ac.za/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://web.ebscohost.com./ehost/detail?vid=2%26hid=12%26sid=38613024-f154-4a9c-8d09-4abfd1bdfd1c%2540sessionmgr7

To this:
http://0-web.ebscohost.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/ehost/detail?vid=2&hid=12&sid=38613024-f154-4a9c-8d09-4abfd1bdfd1c%40sessionmgr7

Do not change anything else in the URL, only insert the coding.