Access to the Human Rights Studies Online services has been withdrawn from Library OneSearch following the conclusion of LLR’s subscription to the resource.
Author: Head of Discovery and Digital Futures
New resource: JSTOR – 24k DDA eBooks now discoverable in Library OneSearch
A total of 24,296 eBook titles accessible through the JSTOR platform, and made available as part of a DDA (Demand Driven Acquisition) package, are now discoverable in Library OneSearch. Access to the titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
Sample titles including the following:
- The Incas / Nigel Davies
- Remaking Dixie : the impact of World War II on the American South /edited by Neil R. McMillen
- The Chinese reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992 / Yan Sun
- Masking and power : carnival and popular culture in the Caribbean / Gerard Aching
- Russia and Germany reborn : unification, the Soviet collapse, and the New Europe / Angela. Stent
New resource: Building Services Research and Information Association
A new entry for BSRIA (the Building Services Research and Information Association) has been added to the Find Databases service in Library OneSearch. Access is by individual account creation on the BSRIA web site (using an NTU email address). The resource is described as follows:
BSRIA (Building Services Research and Information Association) provides full text access to technical publications for building services and construction, as well as webinars, information on legislation Regulations, news and their monthly members journal Delta t.
Withdrawn resource: IBSEDEX
The listing for IBSEDEX has been withdrawn from the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch following the winding-up of the service by BSRIA (the Building Services Research and Information Association). As Nottingham Trent University continues to benefit from access to subscription-only content on the BSRIA site, a new entry for BSRIA has been added to the LOS Find Databases service.
New resource: Elsevier Major Reference Works
Twelve new eBook titles from the Elsevier Major Reference Works collection are now available in Library OneSearch. Access to the titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The titles are as follows:
- International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
- Encyclopedia of biodiversity
- Brenner’s encyclopedia of genetics
- International encyclopedia of housing and home
- Encyclopedia of forensic sciences
- Encyclopedia of the neurological sciences
- Encyclopedia of human behavior
- International encyclopedia of human geography
- Encyclopedia of agriculture and food systems
- The encyclopedia of applied ethics
- International encyclopedia of education
- Encyclopedia of toxicology
Withdrawn resource: JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
The listing for JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) has been withdrawn from Library OneSearch, following the conclusion of the library’s subscription to this resource.
Withdrawn resource: OSIRIS
Access to the OSIRIS database has been withdrawn from Library OneSearch following the conclusion of the library’s subscription to the resource.
New resource: IoP Concise Physics and Expanding Physics eBook collections
A total of nearly fifty eBook titles from the Institute of Physics’ (IoP) Concise Physics and Expanding Physics collections are now available in Library OneSearch. Access is by university username and password. Some 35 titles from ‘Release 1’ of these collections have been added; alongside an initial 11 titles from ‘Release 2’. More ‘Release 2’ titles will be added as they are published and made available. Example titles include:
- Renewables : a review of sustainable energy supply options
- Symmetry and collective fluctuations in evolutionary games
- SMath for physics : a primer
- Transport in semiconductor mesoscopic devices
- Python and Matplotlib essentials for scientists and engineers
The library is able to provide authentication-aware, title-level deep-links to each eBook in the collection. Be aware that the IoP platform briefly displays two update screens to the requester as the login process proceeds. The first (see illustration below) displays while IoP directs the requester to the NTU Single Sign-On page.
The second (see illustration below) displays while the IoP platform redirects the authenticated requester to the eBook title. No additional login steps are required while these screens display. Once you have an active NTU Single Sign-on session running, you may still see these update screens whilst requesting subsequent IoP eBook titles (although no repeat login will be required).
Box of Broadcasts (BoB): service ‘at risk’ 29 September-6 October 2015
The streaming off-air recording service Box of Broadcasts (BoB) will be undergroing a major technical upgrade at the end of September. The service needs to be considered ‘at risk’ between 29 September 2015 and 6 October 2015, while infrastructure changes are implemented. This means that there will be periods when the service is unavailable, or when functionality is temporarily reduced, and other periods of time when the service continues to run normally.
A further update will follow once the upgrade works have been confirmed as completed.
The new BoB platform will offer a number of new features, including the following:
- An improved, responsive web site design that is faster to load; with increased support for iOs devices
- Enhanced customisation and personalisation features
- The option to share BoB playlists with others
- The introduction of ‘related records’ links – which tie together episodes from a series
Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) migration to the ProQuest platform
Access to the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) has been migrated from the legacy Chadwyck-Healey platform to the current main ProQuest platform in Library OneSearch. All links in LOS have been updated, and access is now direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
The database can now be searched separately or alongside other databases on the search.proquest.com platform. The DNSA collection can also be selected for remote searching (metasearching) in Library OneSearch (when logged in) and individual catalogue records for materials in the DNSA will be made available in the ‘All’ index of Library OneSearch shortly.
The library’s subscription to DNSA now includes a larger number of sub-collections, namely:
- Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970–1990
- CIA Family Jewels Indexed
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update
- Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980–1994
- U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action
- U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945–1991
Scopus and Science Direct – remote search configuration updated
The remote search (metasearch) configurations in Library OneSearch for both the Scopus and Science Direct services (from Elsevier) have been upgraded to take advantage of the new Elsevier API. The updates are all ‘behind the scenes’ technical changes, so no action is required from customers taking advantage of remote searching of these services.
Catalogue records from both Scopus and Science Direct are already available in ‘All’ searches of Library OneSearch (through the Primo Central Index metaindex), but customers can choose to query either or both platforms remotely, and in real-time, using the metasearch functionality available through the Find Databases service.
New Emerald eBook collections activated
A total of 105 new eBooks from the Emerald Business, Management & Economics collection (the current front-list for 2015) and 529 titles from the Emerald Social Sciences collection (the archive for 1999-2014 and the front-list for 2015) have been added to Library OneSearch.
As with other Emerald eBook titles, access (at the individual title level) is by university username and password – which ensures that the library can provide authentication-aware deep-links in Library OneSearch which work from both on-campus and off-campus locations.
New titles in the BM&E collection include:
- Research in economic history / edited by Susan Wolcott and Christopher Hanes
- Corporate social responsibility in the digital age / edited by Ana Adi, Georgiana Grigore, David Crowther
New titles from the SS collection include:
- Beyond the UN global compact: institutions and regulations / edited by Liam Leonard, Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez
- Comparative sciences: interdisciplinary approaches / edited by Alexander W. Wiseman, Nikolay Popov
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