Author: Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Palgrave Political & International Studies eBook collection 2012

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

A total of 183 eBook titles from the ‘Palgrave Political & International Studies collection 2012’ are now available in Library OneSearch.

LLR has been working extensively with Palgrave to generate title-level deep-links for the eBook records in the collection which will work for both on-campus and off-campus requests; and a working solution is now in place. (The format of these links may change in future, but the records themselves will persist with their current LMS identifiers). Access to all titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

Example entries the new collection include American military intervention in unconventional war; Understanding collective political violence; The future of entrepreneurship in Latin America; and Authoritarian party structures and democratic political setting in Turkey.

As well as providing online and downloadable .pdf formats for all titles, selected eBooks from Palgrave Connect are available for download/upload to a range of eBook readers in the EPUB format. Palgrave Connect employs “permissive DRM, enabling users in subscribing institutions to download ebook content without any physical restrictions”. For more information, see the Palgrave Connect FAQs on DRM and the EPUB format.

eBrary Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) titles – request option inactive

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

LLR is working with eBrary to reinstate full-text access to not-yet-purchased titles in the current eBrary PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) collection in Library OneSearch.

At present, titles which have not yet been purchased are only available in ‘Preview’ mode (see illustration below of the prompt which currently appears in the user interface for affected titles)

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A further update will follow once PDA activation on the eBrary platform has been reactivated.

BUFVC and Mintel – login problems resolved

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Problems affecting the off-campus login to the Mintel service, and on-campus and off-campus login to the British Universities Film & Video Council’s (BUFVC) online service yesterday have been resolved.

Customers logging in with their university username and password were being resolved to an error page. Login requests to both services are again being processed normally.

ProQuest platform – off-campus access problems resolved

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The technical issues preventing off-campus access (via university username and password) to databases on the ProQuest platform reported yesterday have now been resolved.

Off-campus access to all of the databases on the platform has been confirmed as fully functional once again.

ProQuest platform – off-campus access currently unavailable

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

LLR is working with the ProQuest Support team to resolve an issue which is preventing off-campus access (via university username and password) to databases on the ProQuest platform. (On-campus access is working normally.) At present, off-campus login requests complete, but loop back to the login page without authenticating the requester.

The affected databases are:

  • Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)‎ (1987 – current)
  • ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)‎ (1974 – current)
  • Australian Education Index (AEI)
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals‎ (1934 – current)
  • Australian Education Index (AEI)
  • British Humanities Index (BHI)‎ (1962 – current)
  • British Periodicals‎ (1681 – 1937)
  • Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)‎ (1973 – current)
  • ERIC‎ (1966 – current)
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)‎ (1951 – current)
  • PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress‎ (1871 – current)
  • Social Services Abstracts‎ (1979 – current)
  • Sociological Abstracts‎ (1952 – current)
  • The Vogue Archive‎

A further update will follow once the issue has been successfully resolved.

JSTOR – problems affecting some SFX full-text requests

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The JSTOR technical team are working to resolve issues that are affecting incoming full-text requests from link resolvers (such as SFX [Find it @ NTU]) for some (but not all) JSTOR content. Some requests from SFX to articles in JSTOR journals may currently result in errors. JSTOR reports the service is:

currently experiencing some technical issues with inbound OpenURL linking. While these issues do not affect all articles, we do acknowledge the inconvenience here and are working hard to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. […] Unfortunately at this time we do not have an estimate of when this issue will be completely solved, but we appreciate your patience.

RefWorks – direct export issue resolved (Science Direct and Wiley Online Library)

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The RefWorks technical team have resolved an issue which was causing the direct-to-RefWorks export facility in both Science Direct and Wiley Online Library to fail.

Direct export to RefWorks from both of those platforms is now confirmed as working normally once again.

EBSCOhost – move from Shibboleth to secure proxy access from off-campus

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Problems affecting off-campus access to databases on the EBSCOhost platform have been resulting in error messages for staff and students logging in using their university username and password in the native EBSCOhost interface.

While investigations into the cause of the problem continue, all off-campus login requests to EBSCOhost databases have been moved from Shibboleth to secure proxy authentication. LLR customers will continue to login to EBSCOhost using their university username and password, so the switchover will be all-but invisible to those accessing EBSCOhost resources through SFX and Library OneSearch. However, because proxy linking is a special form of authentication, login requests from off-campus customers accessing EBSCOhost outside the library’s resource discovery environment (for example, through a Google search) will continue to experience login problems. The advice to such customers is to access EBSCOhost content through LOS and SFX, where their login requests can be routed correctly.

Once the technical issues have been satisfactorily resolved, off-campus authentication for EBSCOhost resources will be returned to the Shibboleth framework.

Verdict Research (Datamonitor 360) – access on-campus currently by university username and password

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Datamonitor are experiencing some network issues, which mean that IP-authenticated access to Verdict Research (Datamonitor 360) on-campus is no longer working.

Pending the resolution of the problems by Datamonitor, on-campus login to Verdict Research (Datamonitor 360) has been switched to university username and password (using Shibboleth).

Access URLs and prompts in Library OneSearch have been updated accordingly, with the additional login advice:

Select Datamonitor360 and then Nottingham Trent University from the drop-down list

Construction and Building Abstracts – accessible once again

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to Construction and Building Abstracts has been restored following a temporary interruption in service. Access is once again direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

BCIS (Building Cost Information Service) – new platform

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

BCIS (the Building Cost Information Service) has launched a new and improved platform, and links from Library OneSearch have been updated to connect to the new interface. Access remains direct on-campus; off-campus access is not available.

The new platform is based on a web interface (rather than a client, launched via a web request). This means that the interim page, through which customers were previously directed, is no longer required – and access to the service is direct.

Estates Gazette Interactive – access restored

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the Estates Gazette Interactive, which had been temporarily interrupted, has now been restored. Access to EGi should now be working normally again.