Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
The library is working with the support team at Lawtel to resolve problems which are currently preventing off-campus access to the Lawtel service.
A note has been added to the Find Databases listing for Lawtel indicating that off-campus access is temporarily unavailable.
A further update will follow once off-campus access is confirmed as restored.
Access to 113,000 new eBook titles from the eBrary Academic Complete collection has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Titles in this vast collection range across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines, and the activation of this new collection signals a significant expansion of the library’s fast-growing eBook provision. Access to the titles in the collection is by university username and password. Deep-links to some example titles from the collection are provided below:
Access to five collections of Oxford Handbooks Online has been enabled in SFX. Individual eBook records for each of the titles in these collections will be discoverable in Library OneSearch shortly. Access to all of the subscribed titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The Oxford Handbooks Online collections that the library has subscribed to are:
Titles in these collections include:
See an illustration below of the display in the SFX menu of a title from the Criminology & Criminal Justice collection:
The Oxford Handbooks Online interface has been branded with the NTU university logo (see illustration below):
Outbound SFX links have also been enabled in the references section of all chapters (see illustration below):
Content from the handbooks can be read online, and individual chapters can be downloaded in PDF format. Each PDF indicates the permissible download limit per title: namely one chapter from any one book (see illustration below):
In the search interface of Oxford Handbooks Online, it is possible to limit a search to one or more of the collections in the library’s subscription (see illustration below):
Access to an additional 300 current, full-text ejournal titles from Cambridge University Press has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access to these titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
These titles will be discoverable through the SFX ejournal A-Z and through Library OneSearch searches shortly.
Access to the number of full-text journals available to library customers through the Sage ejournal platform has risen to almost 700 with the activation of the Sage (Premier 2014) collection. Access to all titles in this collection is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. These titles are already discoverable through the SFX ejournal A-Z and will be findable through Library OneSearch searches shortly.
Full-text availability for a proportion of titles in this extended collection map to the library’s existing Sage ‘backfile’ holdings (see illustrated example below).
Access to the new Wiley Online Library (Social Sciences and Humanities Collection) has been enabled in SFX. Access to almost 600 full-text titles in the collection is available direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. All of these titles will be discoverable through Library OneSearch searches and in the SFX A-Z list shortly.
Following the signing of a national license agreement between AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Jisc, access to the Science Classic collection has been enabled in Library OneSearch and SFX.
Access is direct on-campus, and it is hoped to be able to activate off-campus access shortly.
The Science Classic collection provides access to the full-text archive of Science [0036-8075] (1880 to 1996) on the sciencemag.org platform, which is presented as a series of high-resolution PDFs. A new listing for the access to this title on sciencemag.org has been created in SFX.
A new database entry for Science Classic has also been created in Library OneSearch, which is described as follows:
Access to the full-text (and PDF reproduction) of the archive of Science [0036-8075] from 1880 to 1996; plus abstract, summary and back-issue material for a range of publications of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Science Online supporting material, including pod casts, videos, and interactive content; the ScienceCareers.org service; and ScienceNOW stories published within the previous four weeks.
Following an extensive audit of the SFX Knowledge Base by the Serials team, the different publisher entries for the many hundreds of Elsevier full-text journal titles (such as those under Elsevier Science Direct (Academic Press) and Elsevier Science Direct (Excerpta Medica)) have been re-profiled and regrouped under the heading ‘Elsevier Science Direct (Freedom Collection)’ – see example below.
Automated routing through an authentication check has been enabled for all titles in this collection (which means that off-campus users will be passed through ‘university username and password’ authentication before being resolved to the full-text journal listing).
SFX listings for journals in the Elsevier backfiles collections and for the Elsevier Economics Handbooks are unaffected by these changes.
Access to the ICEA (International Civil Engineering Abstracts) service, previously made available through the Emerald platform, has been withdrawn from the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch following its removal from the Emerald platform.
The dawsonera eBook service was brought back online later on the evening of Friday 20 June. The latest update from the company outlines the remaining service features which have still to be fully restored:
dawsonera – Service Now Restored: 23 June 2014
We’re very pleased to finally confirm that late on Friday 20 June the dawsonera service was restored.
In summary:
- For PDA Customers, auto-purchases will work and be provisioned (available for immediate use).
- All PDFs are now available.
Please note, however, that whilst the majority of the functionality has been restored, the following are not currently available:
- ePUBs are currently unavailable for download and reading online.
- For Admin Users (Librarians) reporting will not be available
- EDI and manual orders (batches) will be processed but not provisioned (not available on ERA).
For those items not currently working, it’s our immediate priority now to focus on these issues and resolve in order to provide full functionality as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience as we have worked towards resuming this service. Further updates will follow as we have them.
If you have any queries, please contact your digital team by email enquiries@dawsonera.com.
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Technical issues which have taken the dawsonera eBook platform offline since 18 June are ongoing. At present, no eBook content is available on dawsonera but work to receover the full functionality of the platform is ongoing. THe latest update from the company reports the following:
dawsonera – Latest Update: 11:40, 20th June 2014
We’re sorry to inform you that we anticipate the full dawsonera service to continue to be unavailable throughout the weekend.
However, we are working to restore access to the most frequently used titles in the first instance and then will progressively load additional titles based on accesses and year-to-date usage over the weekend. We’ll confirm further updates on our progress in the next few hours.
Once again, we can only apologise for the unacceptable loss to access to our systems and the inconvenience this has caused you and your users over the last few days. At this stage we are not able to provide you with a timescale for the full & complete service to be restored of all the 350,000+ titles, but will update you regularly as we progress with this activity.
If you have any queries, please contact your digital team by email enquiries@dawsonera.co.uk.
To keep updated with all the latest dawsonera news, follow us on Twitter @dawsonera.
Sixty-five full-text eBook titles from the Elgaronline Business Collection are now accessible through Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password (using eZproxy) from off-campus.
Titles in the collection include The psychology of the recession on the workplace; Finance in an age of austerity : the power of customer-owned banks; Business models for sustainability and Entrepreneurship and multinationals : global business and the making of the modern world.
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