Author: Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Emerald – remote and metasearching suspended in eSearch

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Ex Libris are working on a new search configuration for remote and metasearching of the Emerald full-text service in eSearch, following changes in the platform introduced this week. As with JSTOR, LLR will activate the new configuration as soon as it is made available. In the meantime, remote and metasearching of Emerald FullText has been temporarily suspended in eSearch.

JSTOR – remote and metasearching suspended in eSearch

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Unanticipated changes in the JSTOR XML gateway in recent days have caused problems with remote and metasearching configurations in eSearch. Ex Libris expect to be able to release an updated search configuration shortly, which LLR will apply as soon as it is released. In the meantime, both individual remote and metasearching of JSTOR has been temporarily suspended in eSearch.

JSTOR have also reported late yesterday that the platform is experiencing intermittent problems with Athens authentication, which JSTOR expect to resolve ‘within the next 24 hours’.

New resource trial: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Trial access to this resource has been set up in eSearch > eResource trials > Current trials. Access is direct on-campus; no off-campus access is currently available. 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.

The trial is available until 11 April 2008; all feedback should be sent to Adele Miller.

Resources updated: Networked CD-ROMs

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The following networked CD-ROMs have now been updated:

  • APID, now issue 4 2007
  • Croner Road Transport, now January 2008
  • Croner Reference Book for Self Employed and Smaller Business, now February 2008
  • Croner Reference Book for Employers, now January 2008
  • Croner Premises Management, now January 2008
  • Croner Practical Food Hygiene, now November 2007
  • Croner Health & Safety at Work, now January 2008
  • Croner Environmental Management Policies & Procedures, now September 2007
  • Croner Practical Food Hygiene, now November 2007
  • Croner Catering, now August 2007

OvidSP platform

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Links to the following Ovid databases have been updated in eSearch to point to the new OvidSP platform. Access continues to be by Athens username and password:

  • BIOSIS Previews
  • CAB Abstracts
  • IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
  • Book@Ovid (the Jisc eBook Observatory titles housed on the Ovid platform)

Westlaw – SFX updated

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Shortly after the last eServices update, all links in SFX for UK legal journals in the Westlaw database were updated to direct customers to the new Westlaw platform. Rather than resolving to the individual title level, these links direct customers to the homepage of the Westlaw interface. It is hoped to be able to reinstate title level access once Westlaw confirm the details of the persistent linking syntax required by SFX.

eBrary: issues with the deployment of the eBrary plug-in on the university network

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

eServices is urgently pursuing with IS the issue of PCs on the university network on which the eBrary plug-in (which is required to access the 30k titles in NTU’s eBrary collection) is absent. It is currently believed that, in the affected cases, the plug-in may have been inadvertently removed as the consequence of unrelated network updates. IS intend to update us on the issue and the timetable for its resolution early next week.

To assist eServices in documenting the extent of the problem, please report to us any and all instances of PCs on which the eBrary plug-in appears to be absent – providing details of the PCs location and (where possible) machine names.

Please be aware that this problem does not affect eBooks on other platforms – including titles on Knovel, Credo Reference, Taylor and Francis or the JISC eBook Observatory project.

Wiley Interscience – licence clarification

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

To clarify the licensing constraint on simultaneous use of journals on the Wiley Interscience platform, the following prompt has been added to all WI hosted titles in SFX:

Please note: Access to Wiley Interscience journals is limited to one person viewing any one volume of a journal at time