Author: Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Synergy Blackwell migration to Wiley InterScience

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The Synergy Blackwell platform was withdrawn from service as scheduled at the end of last week, and all content migrated to the Wiley InterScience platform. All links to Synergy ejournal content (including SFX links) will automatically redirect to the new platform – but these will only resolve to the Wiley InterScience homepage, rather than direct to the individual ejournal title. From the homepage, it will be necessary to a ‘Publications title’ search for the required journal. (SFX links will be updated to link directly to Wiley InterScience shortly).

British Standards Online – access restored

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the British Standards Online (BSOL) service has been restored (following the loss of search functionality earlier this week). If you experience any further problems with BSOL, please contact eServices.

British Standards Online – standards search unavailable

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

eServices is working with IHS and BSOL to re-establish access to the standards search services within the British Standards Online platform, which is currently unavailable. It is hoped that a resolution for this problem will be available shortly. In the meantime, a prompt has been added to the information icon in eSearch for British Standards indicating that access to the search facility is not available at present.

New resource: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online has been enabled in eSearch. Access is direct on-campus; off-campus access should be available shortly. The resource is described as follows:

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world’s leading economists.

As with all new electronic subscriptions, this resource can be added to any eSearch Sub-Category at the ALT’s request.

MSN Windows Live Academic – service withdrawn

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Microsoft has withdrawn the Windows Live Academic search engine, which LLR had configured to work with SFX (allowing customers to connect from Windows Live Academic search results to SFX services). LLR’s SFX support material for this service will be withdrawn shortly.

eBrary – extra prompts to download the reader for off-campus customers

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Following recent feedback, additional prompts for off-campus customers using the eBrary service have been added to the eBrary interface, indicating the need for them to download the eBrary Reader software (see illustration below). Clicking on that link will launch a new window from which the software can be downloaded.

Screencapture of the eBrary platform indicating the new prompt

Additional links and texts prompts have also been added to the information icon for eBrary in eSearch (see below).

Screen capture from eSearch indicating the new prompt

Only customers coming from off-campus will need to install the eBrary reader, which should automatically be installed on any on-campus PC. If you discover any instances on-campus where the software appears to be missing, please report the location and machine name to the eServices team.

New resource: Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700 has been activated in eSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by NTU domain, username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

Perdita Manuscripts includes full digital facsimiles and catalogue descriptions for over 230 manuscripts by British women authors from the 16th and 17th centuries. The manuscripts include many different types of material, including account books, travel writing, biography, drama and historical writing, making this a resource of interest when studying both history and literature. Perdita Manuscripts is fully searchable.

Perdita manuscripts has been added to the English Literature, Heritage and History sub-categories of eSearch.

IRep – remote and metasearching enabled in eSearch

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Remote and metasearching of the IRep (the NTU Institutional Repository) has now been enabled in eSearch. As with the NTU Library Catalogue, there is no need to login to eSearch to carry out remote searches of the IRep. The Full View of IRep record in eSearch provides links both to the record within the IRep and direct to the object (such as the image, pdf, PowerPoint file) where such objects are available. Where IRep records include ‘thumbnail’ images, these are returned and displayed within eSearch.