Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) platform will begin Friday 27 January 2023 at 07:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.
A NEW LISTING for the Archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science has been added to the Find Databases service.
Materials in the collection cover the period 1830s to the 1970s, and the archive is described as follows:
The archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and connected collections from UK universities. The archive covers the subject areas of astronomy, biology, technology, industrial design, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, agriculture, meteorology, physics, history of science and STEM, and government grants for scientific research. It brings together administrative records, correspondence, illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, prototypes, clippings, personal papers and grey literature.
Access to the resource is by university username and password.
The collections is licenced for use by UK HEIs through an agreement with JISC which currently concludes on 31 December 2031.
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) platform will begin Thursday 26 January 2023 at 07:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.
ACCESS TO THE Subculture Archives is now available through a new listing in the library’s Find Databases service.
The resource is described as follows:
A multimedia archive of primary sources exploring 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, sounds and signifiers of different youth movements. The Subculture Archives contains images and photographs; recorded and transcribed oral histories, podcasts and playlists; flyers and ephemera; and many examples of fashion, graphic design and printed publications. Drawing on the work of The Subcultures Network of academic researchers, the archive also includes lectures, articles, videos and other research materials.
Authenticated access to the resource is by university username and password.
The resource appears as a ‘Recommended Database’ in Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro when running searches for terms such as ‘counterculture’, ‘subculture’, ‘youth culture’, ‘punk’, ‘hippy’, ‘acid house’ and other related terms.
A subscription to the Subcultures Archives has been paid for by the Nottingham School of Art & Design. The first subscription year runs until 17 January 2024.
DUE TO THE winding-up of the free-to-access web directory, the entry for the Galaxy: Business and Commerce web site has been withdrawn from the Find Databases service.
A legacy snapshot of the site remains available through the auspices of the Wayback Machine.
The login issues to LS:N Global have now been fixed by the LSN:Global technical team.
The NTU membership is being recognised again and access restored.
Access is direct from on-campus and by University username and password off-campus.
LS:N apologise for the disruption this has caused.
A NEW LISTING for The Literary Encyclopedia has been added to the Find Databases service.
The resource was previous only discoverable as an ejournal. In its new database listing, the encyclopedia is described as follows:
The Literary Encyclopedia is a wide-ranging reference work focused on literary and cultural history. The encyclopedia includes biographies of major and minor writers; scholarly descriptions of these authors’ texts; and reflective and analytical essays on literary, cultural and historical matters. It aims to cover the full breath of world literature including English, American, German, Russian, Italian, French, and Classical literatures, and a growing body of material covering Hispanic, Japanese, Canadian, East European and various postcolonial literatures.
Access to the resource is by university username and password, on-campus and off-campus.
The recent off-campus log in issues to WGSN have now been resolved.
Both on and off-campus access options are available again when using the Find Databases page links.
https://llr.ntu.ac.uk/dbaz/dbDetail.php?dbID=254
WGSN apologise for any disruption this outage may have caused.
The LS:N global platform, which is paid for by the School of Art & Design, and available through the library’s Find Databases platform, is currently unavailable both on and off campus.
Attempts to access content will prompt for a membership login.
The School of Art and Design contact is working with LS:N to try and resolve this issuehe recent access issues for LS:N global platform have now been resolved and NTU’s membership is being recognised again.
We are currently investigating reports of off-campus log in issues to WGSN when using the ‘Off-campus access’ option on the Find Databases WGSN page:
https://llr.ntu.ac.uk/dbaz/dbDetail.php?dbID=254
Off-campus login attempts currently result in the following error message.
The ‘On-campus access’ option is still available for users physically at the University campus.
A ROUTINE MAINTENANCE period on the ProQuest platform is scheduled for Sunday 8 January 2023, between 3:00 and 8:00 (UK time).
This means that the following ProQuest databases, eBook platforms and services, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout the five-hour period, 3:00 to 8:00 (UK time):
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