Author: Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the LinkedIn Learning platform now active

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

FOLLOWING THE MIGRATION from the Lynda.com to the LinkedIn Learning platform earlier this week, students and staff can access all content they previously viewed on Lynda.com through LinkedIn Learning.

Access to the service is by university username and password from on-campus and off-campus.

A new entry for LinkedIn Learning has been enabled in the library’s Find Databases service. While staff and students become familiar with the transition, the previous Find Databases listing for Lynda.com has been retained, and updated to indicate that the service is now known as LinkedIn Learning.

In due course, the listing for Lynda.com will be removed from the Find Databases service, but at present the access route provided by both listings is identical.

Library OneSearch contains several thousand records for individual Lynda.com courses. At present, links in these records redirect to the LinkedIn Learning platform. In the event of encountering any access issues when connecting to Linked In Learning from these records, the library recommends first logging in to Linked In Learning (through the Find Databases service). The library will be working with LinkedIn Learning to update these records with persistent new direct LinkedIn Learning links.

LinkedIn Learning

In Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro, a new ‘Recommended resource’ match has been added for LinkedIn Learning. It will appear at the top of a set of search results in response to a search for ‘LinkedIn’, ‘LinkedIn Learning’, ‘Linked In’, ‘Linked In Learning’, ‘Lynda’ and ‘Lynda.com’.

Recommended resource - LinkedIn Learning

Lynda.com migrating to LinkedIn Learning

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

THE LYNDA.COM ONLINE learning platform is becoming LinkedIn Learning.

As part of the transition to the new platform, Lynda.com will be unavailable today (19 February 2019) for several hours from around 12noon UK time.

A further update will follow once the process has completed, and staff and students are able to access all content they previously access through Lynda.com on the new LinkedIn Learning platform.

LinkedIn Learning

New resource: DETAIL Inspiration

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

ACCESS TO THE DETAIL Inspiration database has been enabled in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch.

Access to the resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus, and is described as follows:

DETAIL Inpiration is the online database for one of the world’s most influential architectural periodicals: DETAIL Magazine. DETAIL showcases the best of international architectural design and technology with excellent photography, architectural drawings and technical details in each issue. There are regular targeted publications on specific topics including materials, building types, structure and technology. Like its printed version in both German and English, the database provides access to over 30 years of DETAIL and includes over 3,000 buildings with photographs and their detailed design drawings, updated regularly following each issue of the print version. The database is fully searchable by location, building type, materials etc. and entries are all downloadable in .pdf form.

The subscription to DETAIL Inspiration is paid for by the School of Architecture, Design & Built Environment.

Detail Inspiration

New resource: XpertHR

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

ACCESS TO THE XpertHR database has been enabled in the Find Databases service.

The resource is described as follows:

XpertHR is a comprehensive source of HR compliance, good practice and benchmarking information provided by the RELX group. A team of lawyers and HR subject specialists work with more than 100 expert external contributors to produce up to date resources for any HR professional. The database is searchable by task, topic or tool. The different tools available include: employment law, templates, pay surveys and benchmarking and good practice.

Access to the resource is by university username and password from on-campus and off-campus.

The university’s subscription to XpertHR is being paid for by Nottingham Business School, and the current subscription period ends on 15 September 2019.

The XPertHR platform

New EBA collection: Springer eBooks

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Springer EBA eBook title

A TOTAL OF 14,500 individual titles from the Springer eBook EBA (Evidence Based Acquisitions) plan are now discoverable in Library OneSearch.

Like other EBA plans, this method of acquisition enables the library to identify the most popular, widely-used and appropriate titles within a larger collection and purchase those outright at the end of the EBA period, which in this case will run until December 2019.

Access to Springer EBA eBook titles is direct on-campus (although you may occasionally encounter a Single Sign On challenge) and by university username and password from off-campus. Records in Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro have been configured to provide deep-linked title-level authenticated access.

eBooks in the Springer EBA package include the following collections and subject areas:

  • Biomedical and life sciences
  • Business and management
  • Chemistry and materials science
  • Computer Science without Lecture Notes
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • Earth and Environmental Science
  • Engineering
  • Medicine

Example titles include:

Box of Broadcasts: radio clip functionality restored

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Box of Broadcasts - screenshots of a radio clip view

THE ABILITY TO create, save, play back and share audio clips on the Box of Broadcasts platform has been restored following a recent maintenance upgrade.

Problems affecting the ‘radio clip’ feature were first reported last year, but have now been confirmed by the Learning on Screen service as fully resolved.

New database resource – LS:N Global

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

LS:N Global

ACCESS TO THE LS:N Global platform has been enabled in the library’s Find Databases platform.

The new resource is described as follows:

LS:N Global is a subscription-based insights platform that documents new consumer behaviour and key industry trends to give business professionals the confidence to make informed decisions about the future.

It is updated daily by a global team of researchers, analysts, forecasters, visualisers and correspondents to help businesses to become future-proof by inspiring new products, services and brand innovations.

Access to LS:N Global is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Those accessing the resource from off-campus will need to use the Find Databases access route in order to pick up the correct authentication path.

The subscription to LS:N Global is being paid for by the School of Art and Design.

FAME – migration to new interface

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

FAME - new interface

ACCESS TO THE new FAME interface has been enabled in the Find Databases service, completing the migration to the new platform.

For some time, customers have been routed to the ‘legacy’ FAME interface by default, and have been given the option to switch their session to the new FAME environment.

Now, all access requests are routed to the new FAME interface by default.

Access to the new FAME platform is available on-campus and off-campus by university username and password. The links available in the Find Databases service ensure that customer requests are routed directly to the university’s single sign-on service.

Resolved: log-in issues affecting multiple resources

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

TECHNICAL ISSUES WHICH were preventing authenticated access to a number of online resources requiring university username and password for access have all now been resolved.

The problems arose on 31 October and prevented or limited authenticated access to a number of services, including the following:

  • Box of Broadcasts
  • HeinOnline
  • Lexis Library
  • Nexis UK
  • Westlaw

The library was able to establish alternate authenticated access routes to several of these resources, but unfortunately not in all cases.

With the technical issues resolved late in the evening of 8 November, authenticated access to all the affected resources is once again operating normally.

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Box of Broadcasts – access reinstated

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

ACCESS TO THE Box of Broadcasts service, which was lost at the end of last month due to a technical problem that was causing authentication requests to fail, has now been reinstated.

Access to BoB is available once more on-campus and off-campus by university username and password.

BoB - new platform

HeinOnline – off-campus access reinstated

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS to the HeinOnline service, which had been affected by the same reported authenticated problems currently affecting other resources, has been reinstated.

Off-campus access to HeinOnline remains by university username and password. On-campus access to the service remains direct.

HeinOnline - proxied IP

Westlaw – off-campus access reinstated

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

ACCESS TO WESTLAW from off-campus has been re-enabled in the library’s Find Databases service.

Off-campus access is available once again by university username and password (with access on-campus remaining direct).

The reported problems with the university’s preferred authenticated access route to Westlaw are continuing, but the library has been able to establish an alternative authentication method pending the resolution of these problems.

Westlaw - IP authenticated access