Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
Off-campus access to the OSIRIS database is currently unavailable, due to technical problems affecting the authentication connection with the service. A notification has been added to the OSIRIS listing in Library OneSearch, alerting customers to this issue:
Off-campus access to the OSIRIS service is currently unavailable due to technical issues. The library will restore off-campus access to the service as soon as possible.
Trial access to the Human Rights Studies Online collection has been enabled in Library OneSearch (through the Find Databases service) to enable and encourage evaluation of the resource by academics and students. Access is direct on-campus, and by university username and password from off-campus. Trial access will be available until 11 January 2015. The resource is described as follows:
Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects. The collection include around 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of audio-visual content.
During the trial period off-campus requests to access the resource will resolve to a login page displaying the message ‘We’re sorry, but we don’t recognise you!’ (see illustration below).
Scroll down that page to the ‘Select by institution name’ box, and search for ‘Nottingham Trent University’. When the ‘Login via institution’ box appears below that, click on the ‘Go’ button to resolve the the NTU Single Sign-On page. Enter your university username and password and click on ‘Login’ to be authorised to access the resource.
Access to the Women’s Wear Daily Archive (1910-) has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Delivered through the ProQuest platform, access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:
A comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution images. Every page, article, advertisement and cover has been included, with searchable text and indexing. The Women’s Wear Daily Archive preserves key moments in the history of the industry, as well as the story of major designers, brands, retailers and advertisers.
Access to the Art and Architecture Archive (1896-2000) has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Provided through the ProQuest platform, access to the resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:
A full-text archive of magazines covering the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography. The magazines are scanned from cover-to-cover and presented as full-colour, full-page images. All text elements are fully searchable.
Access to the Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War collection (1914-1919) has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Provided through the ProQuest platform, access to the resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:
An archive containing an extensive collection of rare magazines by and for servicemen and women of all nations during the First World War. Over 1500 periodicals written and illustrated by serving members of the armed forces and associated welfare organisations (sourced from leading archives around the world including those of the Imperial War Museums and The British Library) published between 1914 and the end of 1919 are included. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover, in full colour or greyscale. The full-text of these publications is fully searchable.
The registration details for new Estates Gazette Interactive (EGi) accounts have been updated on the secure ‘Other Passwords’ page of the library web site. Existing registrations will continue to work normally; but new staff and student accounts can now be created by using these updated links and instructions. The previous registration credentials had been expired by EGi and new registrations were no longer being accepted.
The range of subscription collections accessible through the JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) platform has been extended. In addition to the collections originally enabled in early November, access is now available for the JoVE Biology, JoVE Neuroscience, JoVE Clinical and Translation Medicine collections, and, within the JoVE Science Education collection, to the General Laboratory Techniques and Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology sub-collections.
The listing for JoVE in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch has been updated to reflect this extension of access, and the new journal titles have been activated in SFX.
Access to JoVE remains direct on-campus, and by university username and password from off-campus. The complete list of collections available through the library’s JoVE subscription is as follows:
* JoVE Applied Physics
* JoVE Bioengineering
* JoVE Biology
* JoVE Clinical and Translation Medicine
* JoVE Environment
* JoVE Immunology and Infection
* JoVE Neuroscience
* JoVE Science Education (General Laboratory Techniques; Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology)
The access URL for the free-to-use WildPro service has been updated in Library OneSearch. The new URL is immediately available in the Find Databases service and will be reflected in the main search record for WildPro shortly. Access to the service remains unrestricted on-campus and off-campus.
The resource is described as follows:
Information on captive and free-ranging wild animals from the Wildlife Information Network. Modules contain data on individual species, chemicals & physical factors which cause environmental and/or health issues, diseases, best practice guidelines and habitat information. Includes a number of full-text books.
Off-campus access to the GMID (Global Market Information Database) service is currently unavailable, due to technical problems affecting the GMID platform. On-campus access is unaffected. A number of university library services (relying on university username and password access to GMID for off-campus access) are reporting similar problems. A note alerting customers to the issue has been added to the GMID record in the ‘Find Databases’ section of Library OneSearch. A further update will follow once the GMID technical team has confirmed that Shibboleth-enabled access is working normally once more.
Access to JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments) has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:
JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is the world’s first peer reviewed scientific video journal devoted to publishing scientific research in a visual format. All JoVE articles are indexed in subject-relevant indexing sites, including PubMed/MEDLINE, SciFinder and Scopus.
Publishing in JoVE allows authors to dynamically present their methods, data analyses and results clearly, accurately, and professionally with the guidance of JoVE’s professional videographers and editors.
Libraries and Learning Resources has a subscription to the following journal sections:
* JoVE Immunology and Infection
* JoVE Bioengineering
* JoVE Applied Physics
* JoVE Environment
Access to the four subscribed video journal titles has also been enabled in SFX.
Video content on the JoVE platform is delivered in both HTML5 and Adobe Flash compatible formats (and the site auto-recognises and delivers the correct format for the requesting browser). All version of Flash greater than v10 are currently (November 2014) supported.
Video content that is *outside* the LLR subscription range comes with a 20-second ‘taster’ preview. Each video screen clearly indicates whether the requested video is inside or outside of LLR’s subscription range.
Technical problems which were preventing off-campus authenticated access to the UK Press Online service have now been resolved. Off-campus access to the service is available once again via university username and password.
Further to the platform changes affecting the PsycARTICLES and PsycINFO services announced at the end of last month access to the PsycTESTS service is now available through the ProQuest platform, and is no longer provided through EBSCOhost. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Access information in the Library OneSearch ‘Find Databases’ service has been updated accordingly.
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