Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
ATTEMPTS TO LOG in to both Westlaw and Practical Law continue to resolve to an error page for some users indicating the absence of a ‘valid registration key’.
If you experience this error please report it to the library at libinfodirect@ntu.ac.uk so steps can be taken to enable access.
The library continues to work with Thomson Reuters to resolve this technical issue.
ATTEMPTS TO LOG in to the Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw service may currently resolve to an error page indicating the absence of a ‘valid registration key‘.
The issue prevents staff and students with an existing Thomson Reuters’ OnePass account from entering their registered details, and for those without a OnePass account from creating one.
The library is working with Thomson Reuters to resolve this technical issue as soon as possible.
The Practical Law platform is also affected by the same authentication issue. Notifications alerting staff and students to the problem have been added to the Find Databases entries of both services.
FOLLOWING THE ADDITION of the O’Reilly for Higher Education collection to the Find Databases services, individual discovery records for materials from the platform are now available in Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro.
More than 64,000 new records are now discoverable, including the following examples.
Alternative scriptwriting / Ken Dancyger
Cisco voice gateways and gatekeepers / Denise Donohue
Character mentor / Tom Bancroft
Authenticated access to all O’Reilly for Higher Education titles is by university username and password.
FOLLOWING THE ADDITION of the Adam Matthew Explorer platform to the Find Databases service, individual discovery records for materials in all the Explorer collections have now been added to Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro.
More than 200,000 new records (207,715 to be exact) from across a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines are now available. The full set of Explorer collections is as follows:
| African American Communities |
| Age of Exploration |
| American History 1493-1859 |
| American History 1860-1945 |
| American Indian Histories and Cultures |
| American Indian Newspapers |
| American West |
| Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1966 |
| Apartheid South Africa, 1967-1975 |
| Apartheid South Africa, 1976-1980 |
| China, America and the Pacific |
| China: Culture and Society |
| China: Trade, Politics and Culture |
| Church |
| Colonial America |
| Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 |
| Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969 |
| Confidential Print: |
| Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961 |
| Defining Gender |
| East India Company |
| Eighteenth Century Drama |
| Eighteenth Century Journals |
| Empire Online |
| Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920 |
| Food and Drink in History, |
| Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1929 |
| Foreign Office Files for China, 1930-1937 |
| Foreign Office Files for China, 1938-1948 |
| Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1956 |
| Foreign Office Files for China, 1957-1966 |
| Foreign Office Files for China, 1967-1980 |
| Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1964 |
| Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1965-1971 |
| Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1972-1980 |
| Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1931-1945 |
| Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1946-1952 |
| Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1930 |
| Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1966 |
| Foreign Office Files for the Middle East |
| Frontier Life |
| Gender: Identity and Social Change |
| Global Commodities |
| India Raj and Empire |
| J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America |
| Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954 |
| Leisure, Travel and |
| Literary Manuscripts Berg |
| Literary Manuscripts Leeds |
| Literary Studies |
| London Low Life |
| Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963 |
| Market Research And American Business |
| Mass Observation I |
| Mass Observation II |
| Mass Observation III |
| Mass Observation IV |
| Mass Observation Online |
| Mass Observation Project 1980s |
| Medical Services and Warfare |
| Medieval Family Life |
| Medieval Travel Writing |
| Meiji Japan |
| Migration to New Worlds |
| Migration to New Worlds |
| Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700 |
| Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 |
| Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900 |
| Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions |
| Race Relations in America |
| Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape |
| Service Newspapers of WWII |
| Sex and Sexuality |
| Shakespeare in Performance |
| Shakespeare’s Globe Archive |
| Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice |
| Socialism on Film |
| The First World War A Global Conflict |
| The First World War Personal Experiences |
| The First World War Propaganda and Recruitment |
| The First World War Visual Perspectives and Narratives |
| The Grand Tour |
| The Nixon Years, 1969-1974 |
| Trade Catalogues and the American Home |
| Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History |
| Victorian Popular Culture Spiritualism |
| Victorian Popular Culture Circuses |
| Victorian Popular Culture Music Hall |
| Victorian Popular Culture Moving pictures |
| Virginia Company Archives |
| Women in The National Archives |
| World’s Fairs |
The following are a few randomly selected examples from within those collections:
Interview with Arthur Kirmss, 4 April 2011
Atlanta Police Department – annual reports, 1938-1941
Indian education at Hampton and Carlisle
Clowns & pantomimes / by M. Willson Disher
Authenticated access to all Adam Matthew Explorer titles is by university username and password.
The American Chemical Society’s CAS SciFinder resource has now been upgraded to SciFinder-n.
Access to the new platform remains unchanged. Registered users can sign in with their existing username and password. New users should follow the ‘registration information’ link from the library’s Find Databases page to set up an individual SciFinder-n account.
The upgraded resource is described as follows:
In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder, CAS SciFinder-n includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.
Attempts to access the old CAS SciFinder interface will be automatically redirected to CAS SciFinder-n, so browser bookmarks should be updated as required.
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