Author: Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Additional electronic and online resources: EBSCO eBook collections

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

EBSCOhost logo

TWO MORE eBOOK collections have been added to the current list of temporary additional electronic and online resources in the Find Databases service.

eBook Harvard Business Publishing Collection

A collection of academic eBooks covering a wide variety of fields in business and economics from the imprint of Harvard Business Publishing

eBook Academic Collection

A collection of academic eBooks covering a wide variety of subjects and disciplines, including economics, social sciences, history, computing, cultural studies and study skills

Off-campus access to both resources is by university username and password.

ProQuest platform – temporary off-campus access changes in Find Databases service

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Proquest One Literature

DUE TO ONGOING technical problems affecting the Shibboleth environment on the main ProQuest platform, the off-campus authentication method for more than twenty separate resources in the Find Databases service has temporarily been changed to the library’s secure eZproxy server.

Off-site access to databases, such as ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts), IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) and ProQuest One Literature, continues to be via university username and password.

The ProQuest technical team are working to resolve the problems with their Shibboleth service provider, which have led to failed logins to the main ProQuest platform from off-site.

UPDATE, 21 April: The ProQuest technical team have confirmed that the issue affecting their Shibboleth environment has now been resolved.

Additional electronic and online resource: Screen Studies

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Screen Studies

THE SCREEN STUDIES platform, published by Bloomsbury, has been added to the current list of temporary additional electronic and online resources in the Find Databases service.

The listing for resource indicates that access is by university username and password. The resource is described as follows:

Screen Studies offers a broad range of content from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber and the British Film Institute to support the full breadth of moving-image studies. It is designed to support the work of academics and students engaged in research and learning in film history, theory and practice.

It includes screenplays from screenwriters including Christopher Nolan, Wes Anderson, Joel and Ethan Coen and many others. Alongside award-winning screenplays, it comprises an interactive timeline of film history, an expanding collection of film stills, and more than 240 eBooks from both Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber. Available eBook content includes film biographies, scholarly monographs, filmmaking and screenwriting guides.

Screen Studies explores films, directors and genres from across the world, covering the US, Europe, Asia and beyond, with contents indexed by regions, and well as by genres and approaches.

Screen Studies is available to university staff and students until at least the end of May 2020.

Additional electronic and online resource: Law Trove – Oxford University Press

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Law Trove

THE LAW TROVE platform, from Oxford University Press, has been added to the current list of temporary additional electronic and online resources in the Find Databases services.

The listing for resource indicates that access to the resource is by university username and password. The resource is described as follows:

The Law Trove platform from Oxford University Press contains around 200 law textbooks covering a wide range of legal subject areas. All the titles in the collection are fully searchable. Materials can also be filtered by specific subject or by level of study.

Law Trove is available to university staff and students until at least the end of May 2020.

Ulrich’s periodicals directory – off-campus access issue resolved

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Ulrich's Web

THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM preventing off-campus access to the Ulrich’s periodicals directory from off-campus has now been fully resolved.

Access to the Ulrich’s service is again available through the Find Databases listing for the resource using a university username and password.

As a reminder, the resource is described as follows:

A searchable reference source for information on periodicals, magazines and publishers. Updated weekly.

Additional electronic and online resources

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

New Find Databases - browse by letter

DURING THE CURRENT closure of the campus libraries, LLR is making additional electronic resources available for off-campus access by staff and students.

This material is a mixture of content that publishers are making openly available to Higher Education institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic, and materials that the library has been able to licence paid-access to for a time-limited period.

The current full list of additional resources is available from the dedicated Find Databases link https://llr.ntu.ac.uk/dbaz/index.php?extra=y.

More resources are being added to list as new access arrangements are finalised.

Each of these resources has been added to the relevant subject sub-categories in the Find Databases service, and can be identified by the New temporary resource icon show below.

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‘New’ RefWorks maintenance downtime, 21 March 2020

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

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THE ‘NEW’ REFWORKS (v3) service will be unavailable from 09:00 (UK time) on Saturday 21 March 2020 for around four hours, due to essential upgrade work.

The following components of RefWorks will be affected:

  • RefWorks v3
  • RefWorks Citation Manager
  • Write-N-Cite (connection to v3 RefWorks)
  • Refworks for Google Docs

Users of RefWorks v3 will be alerted to the upcoming outage period through the in-app notification feature.

Box of Broadcasts – service issues resolved

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

BoB - new platform

THE TECHNICAL ISSUES affecting access to the Box of Broadcasts streaming audio-visual service reported earlier today are now confirmed as resolved.

All of Box of Broadcasts’ services should now be available and running normally.

Box of Broadcasts – service outage this morning

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

THE BOX OF Broadcasts audio-visual streaming service is currently unavailable, as a result of technical problems with the platform’s authentication system.

BoB’s engineering team are aware of, and are working to fix, the problem. A further update will follow once normal operations have been restored.

EBSCOhost – issues affecting off-campus article-level access resolved

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

EBSCOhost logo

THE PROBLEMS AFFECTING off-campus access to article-level content on the EBSCOhost platform reported earlier this week have now been resolved.

Off-campus request from Library OneSearch, or from any other discovery location, now resolve through a two-step process to the NTU Single Sign-on page. Once authentication is complete, off-campus access to article-level material completes successfully.

LinkedIn Learning – new courses added to Library OneSearch

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

LinkedIn Learning

FOLLOWING A COMPREHENSIVE review of the LinkedIn Learning content in Library OneSearch, more than 8,200 individual current course records are now discoverable in both LOS and LOS Pro.

All legacy Lynda.com records have been migrated to the LinkedIn Learning equivalents, and updated with all current metadata and linking syntax; withdrawn (and superseded) courses have been removed; and thousands of new LinkedIn Learning courses added.

All Lynda.com content on Resource Lists in the RLMS has also been updated with the current LinkedIn Learning content equivalent.

While the previous Lynda.com web links automatically redirected to the LinkedIn Learning platform (ensuring that access has remain uninterrupted), new arrangements now in place will ensure that course content discoverable in Library OneSearch will align with evolving LinkedIn Learning provision in the future.

Course content discoverable in LOS includes the following examples:

EBSCOhost – issues with article-level off-campus access from Library OneSearch and SFX

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

EBSCOhost logo

THE LIBRARY IS working with the technical team at EBSCOhost to resolve an issue with article-level access to EBSCOhost content from off-campus locations.

At present, content requests are, in some cases, resolving to an error page displaying an ‘Authentication Error 103’ (see below) following an the attempt to login through the NTU Single Sign-on service.

EBSCOhost 103 error

Database level access to all EBSCOhost content is unaffected. For the time being, the recommended workaround when access article-level EBSCOhost content from off-campus is to access the the required database from the Find Databases service and then locate the required content.

A further update will follow once the issue is confirmed as resolved.

UPDATE: This issue was confirmed as resolved on 27 February 2020.