Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
A problem which was causing intermittent errors on requests from SFX to article content on the Elsevier Science Direct platform has now been resolved.
In some cases, requests were being resolved from SFX to an error page, even though the full-text was discoverable by direct searches on the Science Direct platform.
Requests from Library OneSearch, through SFX, to Science Direct full-text content should all now be resolving normally.
Several new collections of eBooks have been added to Library OneSearch in the last weeks; and a number of other new collections of eBook titles will be joining them shortly, as part of a significant extension to our current eBook offer. Amongst the recent additions are the following:
Cambridge University Press (EBA Collection) (27,800+ titles) Example titles include:
Oxford Scholarship Online (EBA Collection) (10,700+ titles) Example titles include:
Sustainable Organization Library and Greenleaf Online Library (260+ new titles) New titles added include:
A maintenance upgrade to the main ProQuest infrastructure is scheduled for Sunday 1 March 2015 – starting at 03:00 UK time and lasting until 08:00. During this time, the following services will be unavailable:
Access to the new ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland service has been enabled in Library OneSearch. The new service replaces the now-withdrawn Index to Theses service. Access to the new resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland is described as follows:
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: UK & Ireland provides details of doctoral theses awarded by institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland dating back to 1716. Along with detailed descriptive records, including a large proportion of abstracts, the service provides PDF previews of selected theses, where these are available. The collection covers PhD theses in the following subject areas: business, health and medicine, history, literature and language, science and technology, social sciences, and the arts.
As part of the search.proquest.com platfrom, the new service can be search independently or alongside one or more of the 23 other databases provided through the ProQuest site. The new resource has been has given the same category assignments as the previous Index to Theses service, namely:
Access to the Index to Theses service has been withdrawn from the ‘Find Databases’ service of Library OneSearch following the winding up of the resource. Index to Theses is superceded by the new ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland service.
To enable an urgent storage capacity upgrade, the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) service will be ‘at risk’ during Sunday 1 February 2015. The work is planned to take place in the morning, and is anticipated to last no more than two hours; but as timings are not yet finalised the service should be considered ‘at risk’ that day.
Real-time updates, over the course of the weekend, should be provided through BoB’s Twitter feed, and a full update on the works should be available on the morning of 2 February 2015.
A problem affecting the global DOI (Digital Object Identifier) resolution system, provided by the dx.doi.org service has now been resolved.
An issue arose yesterday (20 January 2015) which meant that requests to the DOI HTTP resolver at dx.doi.org (for example for a clickable version of a DOI such as http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2015.01.013) were not been routed through to the current destination URL for that DOI. Instead, users were directed to a generic error page for the dx.doi.org. domain.
The issue has now been resolved, and requests to the dx.doi.org service are now being resolved normally. A detailed explanation for the outage has been published on the CrossTech blog.
The Westlaw UK service will be unavailable for several hours from 03:30 on Saturday 24 January 2015 for a scheduled maintenance period.
The work is scheduled to begin at 3:30am (GMT) Saturday, 24 January 2015 in an effort to keep any possible disruption to a minimum. The maintenance will take several hours to complete, during which the Westlaw UK service will be unavailable. The full service will be restored as soon as possible
To enable a roll-out of an upgrade to the platform’s registration system, Digimap services will be interrupted on 26-27 January 2015. Digimap explains:
New users will not be able to register for Digimap from 4pm on 26th Jan and all Digimap services will be unavailable all day on 27th Jan. Normal service will resume by 9am on 28th Jan.
More information about the outage and upgrade can be found on the Digimap blog.
Following the recent trial of the Human Rights Studies Online database, subscription-based access to the resource is now available through Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. All listings and records in LOS have been updated accordingly.
UPDATE, 14 January 2015: Off-campus access to Human Rights Studies Online is now via a WAYFLess Shibboleth URL, meaning that staff and students accessing the service from off-site through Library OneSearch will be automatically directed to the NTU Single Sign On page, bypassing the WAYF (Where Are You From?) page used during the trial.
The problems preventing successful off-campus access to the OSIRIS service have now been resolved. Off-campus access is available again via university username and password. Direct on-campus access has remained unaffected throughout.
The OSH-UPDATE service has been withdrawn from the Library OneSearch ‘Find Databases’ service following the conclusion of the library’s subscription to the resource. OSH-UPDATE will be removed from ‘All’ searches in LOS shortly.
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