Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
THE ACCESS PROBLEMS affecting the Lexis Library service, reported on 31 October, are ongoing.
It has been possible this morning to reinstate on-campus access to LexisLibrary (which is now direct from any device connected to the university network); off-campus access is not yet available, but will be reinstated as soon as possible.
THE ACCESS PROBLEMS affecting the Westlaw platform, reported on 31 October, are ongoing.
It has been possible this afternoon to reinstate on-campus access to Westlaw (which is now direct from any device connected to the university network); off-campus access is not yet available, but will be reinstated as soon as possible.
THE LIBRARY IS working with colleagues in Information Systems and external providers to reinstate access to the Box of Broadcasts service, access to which is currently unavailable on-campus and off-campus.
Attempts to log in to the service using a university username and password resolve to an error page.
A further update will follow once access to Box of Broadcasts is confirmed as working normally once more.
THE LIBRARY IS working with colleagues in Information Systems and external providers to reinstate access to the Lexis Library and the Nexis UK platforms, access to which are currently unavailable on-campus and off-campus.
Attempts to log in to either service using a university username and password resolve to an error page.
A further update will follow once access to both Nexis UK and Lexis Library is confirmed as working normally once more.
THE LIBRARY IS working with the technical team at Westlaw to resolve a problem that is currently preventing login to the Westlaw platform.
Access requests from both on-campus and off-campus are currently resolving to an error page. A further update will follow once the issue is confirmed as resolved.
THE SCHEDULED OUTAGE of the Shibboleth service completed this morning within the first hour of the two-hour ‘at risk’ period.
Shibboleth-based authentication (which provided authenticated access to subscription-based online resources using a university username and password) has been confirmed to be running normally once again.
TO ENABLE SOME essential maintenance, the Shibboleth service (which enables single sign-on for staff and students, using a university username and password) will be ‘at risk’ for this morning, between 07:00 and 09:00.
It is anticipated that the service may be unavailable for a fifteen-minute period at some point during that two-hour window.
A further update will follow once testing has confirmed that the Shibboleth service is fully operational once again.
TITLES IN THE Bloomsbury Fashion Central collection are now discoverable through Library OneSearch, and the platform itself is accessible through the Find Databases service.
Access to all subscribed content on the platform is direct on-campus and by university username and password off-campus.
For its database entry, the resource is described as follows:
Bloomsbury Fashion Central is a digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. It includes major reference works, articles, eBooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images from museums around the world. There are three resources to explore:
The Berg Fashion Library contains over 100 eBooks, more than 13,000 colour images and other reference works.
This is complemented by the Fairchild Books Library, which includes another 150 eBooks on all aspects of fashion.
Finally, the Fashion Photography Archive covers forty years of contemporary fashion history and contains over 750,000 images.
Sample eBook titles in the collection include the following:
THE LEGACY AND new versions of the RefWorks referencing service will be unavailable for a twelve-hour period from 14:00 on Saturday 22 September.
During that time Legacy RefWorks accounts will be unavailable, as will the connectivity of the Write-N-Cite plug-in. User accounts in the new RefWorks environment may be unavailable for periods, and the RefWorks Citation Manager and RefWorks Google Docs plug-in will also be unavailable.
Maintenance start time: Saturday 22 September 14:00 (UK time)
Maintenance end time: Sunday 23 September 02:00 (UK time)
The Box of Broadcasts (BoB) streaming off-air recording service has announced another maintenance period for 7 August 2018. The service should be considered ‘at risk’ between 14:00 and 17:30 on that date.
A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest platform is scheduled for Saturday 18 August 2018, between 15:00 and 23:00 (UK time). This means that the following ProQuest databases, eBook platforms and services, to which the library subscribes, may be unavailable throughout this eight hour period:
A routine maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform is scheduled for Monday 6 August 2018 between 08:00 and 12:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during that time.
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