Author: Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Operations Manager

New resource: Bibliography of British and Irish History Online

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Operations Manager

A NEW LISTING for the Bibliography of British and Irish History Online has been added to the Find Databases service.

This resource provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth and is described as follows:

As well as providing details of publications, the bibliography offers links to online catalogues to help you find the items that it lists in research libraries in Britain and Ireland. It also provides links to online text where available. The bibliography is a guide to the work of historians – it does not contain original sources, unless they have been edited and republished by historians (except for a selection of key sources published before 1901). The bibliography lists books, articles in books and articles in journals. Some 800 journals and series are regularly checked.

Access to the resource is by university username and password.

Updated resources: Lexis+ UK and Nexis

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Operations Manager

LEXIS+ UK AND NEXIS are new platforms that have replaced Lexis Library and Nexis UK.

Updated listings for Lexis+ UK and Nexis are available from the Find Databases service.

Authenticated access to the resources is by university username and password from both on and off campus.

Over 4,700 individual titles from both resources are now discoverable on Library OneSearch including a wide range of books and journals, legal commentary and a selection of UK newspapers.

A guide is available explaining how to migrate saved data including alerts, saved searches and bookshelf sources from Lexis Library to the new Lexis+ UK platform. This guide will be available until the end of November 2022.

Kanopy video streaming access issues

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Operations Manager

The library is currently investigating reports of access issues, both on and off campus, for the Kanopy video streaming service.

Log in to Kanopy via the ‘NTUUK’ option is currently leading to an ‘Identity Provider – Unsupported Request’ error message. The problem has been escalated to the supplier.

Updated resource: Bloomsbury Fashion Central

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Operations Manager

The Bloomsbury Fashion Central resource has re-launched today on a brand new platform.

On and off campus access to the new platform remains unchanged, and links are available from the Find Databases page. All previously saved or bookmarked links to items will automatically redirect, and there is the option to create a new personal account and add them there.

The upgraded resource is described as follows:

Bloomsbury Fashion Central is a digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. It includes major reference works, articles, eBooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images from museums around the world. There are three resources to explore:

The Berg Fashion Library contains over 100 eBooks, more than 13,000 colour images and other reference works.

This is complemented by the Fairchild Books Library, which includes another 150 eBooks on all aspects of fashion.

Finally, the Fashion Photography Archive covers forty years of contemporary fashion history and contains over 750,000 images.

Update: Westlaw and Practical Law access issues

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Operations Manager

ATTEMPTS TO LOG in to both Westlaw and Practical Law continue to resolve to an error page for some users indicating the absence of a ‘valid registration key’.

If you experience this error please report it to the library at libinfodirect@ntu.ac.uk so steps can be taken to enable access.

The library continues to work with Thomson Reuters to resolve this technical issue.

Updated resource: SciFinder-n

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Operations Manager

The American Chemical Society’s CAS SciFinder resource has now been upgraded to SciFinder-n.

Access to the new platform remains unchanged. Registered users can sign in with their existing username and password. New users should follow the ‘registration information’ link from the library’s Find Databases page to set up an individual SciFinder-n account.

The upgraded resource is described as follows:

In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder, CAS SciFinder-n includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.

Attempts to access the old CAS SciFinder interface will be automatically redirected to CAS SciFinder-n, so browser bookmarks should be updated as required.

Log in issues affecting RefWorks reference management software

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Operations Manager

We are currently investigating an issue affecting log in to RefWorks.

Selecting the ‘Use login from my institution’ option and then searching for and selecting ‘Nottingham Trent University’ leads to an error page.

We are working with RefWorks technical support staff to resolve this problem as soon as possible.

British Standards Online: how to access PDFs using the FileOpen plug-in

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Operations Manager

British Standards Online has from today introduced an extra layer of security to its platform.

The FileOpen plug-in now needs to be installed on any device that wants to download and print British standards documents.

For more information and instructions on what steps to take consult the ‘How to guide’ available from the Find Databases listing.