Month: October 2024

Internet Archive Update

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team
Screenshot of the Internet Archive home page.

Following the recent cyberincident for the The Internet Archive site more services have been brought back online, including:

Wayback Machine
-Save Page Now coming soon
openlibrary.org
archive-it.org
Vault
scholar.archive.org
archive.org services available:
-publicly available texts
-tv news search and borrow
-audio
-moving images
-institutional uploads
-institutional web archiving
-access via API

The Internet Archive team report that more services and features will be brought back online soon and that some services may still be interrupted due to ongoing maintenance.

For the latest updates please see their blog.

Internet Archive Outage

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team
Screenshot of the Internet archive homepage showing details of the outage and links out to a provisional, read-only version of the Wayback Machine and social media accounts.

The Internet Archive site which includes the Wayback Machine and other services is temporarily offline due to a cyberincident.

Access to the Wayback Machine has been restored in a read-only capacity from this website: https://web.archive.org/

And the Internet Archive team are working to bring the rest of the other services online safely as soon as they can.

New resource: Sage Knowledge Video Collections

Jonathan Gallacher

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to over 4,800 videos from the Sage Video Knowledge Collections.

The resource showcases:

Educational videos across key social, behavioral, and health science disciplines. Each collection includes a breadth of video types to support diverse learning and research needs. All videos are fully citeable with searchable transcripts and custom clip creation.

Selected titles include:

Access to this resource is by university username and password.

New resource: IEEE Xplore computer science ebook collections

Laura Ward - Metadata and Discovery team

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to three ebook collections hosted by IEEE Xplore covering computer science topics such as cybersecurity, computer programming, and artificial intelligence –

  • Manning eBooks Library
  • Wiley Data and Cybersecurity eBooks Collection
  • Packt eBooks Collection

Titles from these collections are available in Library OneSearch and include:

Access to this resource is by university username and password.

New resource: Wiley Psychology Books

Melissa Cornwell

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to 100 titles from the Wiley Psychology Books collection on Library OneSearch. Students can explore eTextbooks curated specifically for the psychology curriculum that are accessible on any device.

Selected new titles include:

New resource: Sage Research Methods Videos

Melissa Cornwell

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to over 400 videos on Library OneSearch, including tutorials, case study videos, and expert interviews that cover the entire research methods curriculum.

This resource can also be found through the Find Databases page for further details and access links to follow from on and off campus.

Selected new titles include: