Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Thursday 12th August 2021 at 09:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Tuesday 27th July 2021 at 12:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.
ProQuest’s Ebook Central platform will be unavailable from 15:00 till 23:00 on Saturday 26 June due to planned essential maintenance.
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Monday 31st May 2021 at 07:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.
The issues reported earlier today affecting access to multiple library systems and services have now been resolved.
Services remain at risk while DT colleagues continue to carry out remedial work, so if you experience any further access problems please report them to libinfodirect@ntu.ac.uk for library staff to investigate.
The library is aware of log in issues currently affecting multiple systems and services. You may see an error message and be denied access if you try to log in to any of the following:
Colleagues in DT are working to fix the problem as soon as possible.
To protect against excessive usage that risks breaching our e-resource licensing agreements and also the illegal harvesting of content from compromised accounts, the library imposes a 200MB limit on downloads in a single day.
Setting the daily download allowance at 200MB is an attempt to strike a reasonable balance between the different material file-sizes that staff and students may want to access across different subject areas. It’s a capacity that would allow the download of large numbers of journal article PDFs, but a far smaller number of high-resolution images or multimedia files.
If someone hits this limit, they will be blocked from accessing any more e-resources for 18 hours. If no further action is taken this block expires automatically.
To contact the library to expedite the lifting of a block, email libinfodirect@ntu.ac.uk with the subject line ‘eZproxy services suspended’.
The library will endeavour to unblock accounts in a timely manner before the standard 18 hour expiry but can’t guarantee it during particularly busy periods, or when the block stretches across the weekend or Bank Holidays.
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