Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
Off-campus access to eBook titles in the Bloomsbury Collections set is currently unavailable due to a problem affecting Bloomsbury’s Shibboleth Service Provider.
Off-campus login requests (via NTU username and password) are currently resolving to an error page. A further update will follow once off-campus access to Bloomsbury Collections’ content has been reinstated. On-campus access (via IP authentication) is unaffected.
Access to eBooks on the Dawsonera platform has been restored, following the resolution of the issues affecting the Dawsonera Shibboleth service provider.
The sixteen free-to-access eBook titles in the Dawn of the Unread series (part of the award-winning Nottingham-based Dawn of the Unread project) can now be accessed through Library OneSearch. The Dawn of the Unread series imagines:
what would happen if the great literary figures from Nottingham’s past went unread. If their ideas are not preserved and made accessible will they effectively disappear from our minds? Sillitoe, Lawrence, Byron et al would never put up with such an insult and so return from the grave, in a twist on the zombie genre, in search of the one thing that will ensure their survival: ‘boooks’.
Catalogue records for each of the sixteen entries in the series (including links to the PDF versions of each instalment) are now available in Library OneSearch:
The Dawn of the Unread series is also available through a mobile app on the Windows, Android and iOs platforms.
Access to eBook titles on the Dawsonera is currently unavailable to library customers due to technical problems affecting the Dawsonera Shibboleth service provider. A further update will follow once access has been restored.
A further 560 new eBook titles have been added to the Cambridge University Press EBA package available through Library OneSearch. New titles include:
For a small number of titles, clicking on the View Online link in Library OneSearch will result in a CrossRef DOI disambiguation page: listing more than one possible discovery destination for the requested eBook title (see illustration example below). In order to access the full-text of the title, select the University Publishing Online link; as this is the platform through which the library’s full-text access is available.
A technical issue affecting the MyiLibrary eBook platform, which arose at the end last week, has now been resolved. WAYFLess URLs in eBook records in Library OneSearch were resolving to the MyiLibrary homepage rather than to the indivIdual requested eBook. Resolution to title level has been reinstated and requests are now resolving as intended.
Around 2000 eBook titles from Bloomsbury Collections are now available in Library OneSearch, and form part of the continuing ‘Your Books, More Books’ campaign. Example titles include:
Access to Bloomsbury eBook titles in the 40 collections which the library has subscribed to is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. At present, support for the Shibboleth protocol on the Bloomsbury Collections platform is limited, so we are unable to incorporate authentication-aware direct title-level deep-links in the Library OneSearch records for customers accessing Bloomsbury Collections titles from off-campus.
As a consequence, the current off-campus experience when logging in to the first Bloomsbury Collections book involves several steps (which are documented below). The library is continuing to impress on Bloomsbury the need to improve this far from seamless off-campus experience, and Bloomsbury’s technical team are reviewing LLR’s specification for improved off-campus deep-linking. Further updates will be provided as and when this element of the service offer improves. The current walkthrough for off-campus access is as follows:
Follow the View Online link from Library OneSearch, and on the Summary page for the requested title select the login option (see below).
Select the Log In option in the top-right of the display on the Bloomsbury Collections site (see below).
On the main Log in page, select the link for the Shibboleth login page (see below).
On the Shibboleth WAYF (‘Where Are You From?’) page, select ‘Nottingham Trent University’ (if this option displays at the top of the list), and click on that link to be resolved to the NTU Single Sign-on page. If this option does not display, click on the Show Organizations link (see below).
This will reveal a full list of organizations and a filter search box (see below). In the search box, type ‘Nottingham Trent University’ and click on that entry in the results list. This will resolve the browser to the NTU Single Sign-on page.
After successfully signing in with a university username and password, the browser will resolve to the Bloomsbury Collections home page. Confirmation of your logged-in status is provided by the display of the phrase: ‘Bloomsbury Collections – Access provided by Nottingham Trent University‘ (see below).
To access the requested eBook, click on the Recently Viewed link to reveal a list of recently requested titles, and click on the required title (see below).
When the browser resolves to the requested eBook page, the unlockled padlock icon next to the the phrase ‘Subscription-based Access’ is further confirmation that access to the full-text of the title is now available.
Subsequent requests from Library OneSearch to Bloomsbury Collection titles (in the same off-campus session) will resolve to the authenticated full-text at the title level.
Several new collections of eBooks have been added to Library OneSearch in the last weeks; and a number of other new collections of eBook titles will be joining them shortly, as part of a significant extension to our current eBook offer. Amongst the recent additions are the following:
Cambridge University Press (EBA Collection) (27,800+ titles) Example titles include:
Oxford Scholarship Online (EBA Collection) (10,700+ titles) Example titles include:
Sustainable Organization Library and Greenleaf Online Library (260+ new titles) New titles added include:
Access to five collections of Oxford Handbooks Online has been enabled in SFX. Individual eBook records for each of the titles in these collections will be discoverable in Library OneSearch shortly. Access to all of the subscribed titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The Oxford Handbooks Online collections that the library has subscribed to are:
Titles in these collections include:
See an illustration below of the display in the SFX menu of a title from the Criminology & Criminal Justice collection:
The Oxford Handbooks Online interface has been branded with the NTU university logo (see illustration below):
Outbound SFX links have also been enabled in the references section of all chapters (see illustration below):
Content from the handbooks can be read online, and individual chapters can be downloaded in PDF format. Each PDF indicates the permissible download limit per title: namely one chapter from any one book (see illustration below):
In the search interface of Oxford Handbooks Online, it is possible to limit a search to one or more of the collections in the library’s subscription (see illustration below):
The dawsonera eBook service was brought back online later on the evening of Friday 20 June. The latest update from the company outlines the remaining service features which have still to be fully restored:
dawsonera – Service Now Restored: 23 June 2014
We’re very pleased to finally confirm that late on Friday 20 June the dawsonera service was restored.
In summary:
- For PDA Customers, auto-purchases will work and be provisioned (available for immediate use).
- All PDFs are now available.
Please note, however, that whilst the majority of the functionality has been restored, the following are not currently available:
- ePUBs are currently unavailable for download and reading online.
- For Admin Users (Librarians) reporting will not be available
- EDI and manual orders (batches) will be processed but not provisioned (not available on ERA).
For those items not currently working, it’s our immediate priority now to focus on these issues and resolve in order to provide full functionality as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience as we have worked towards resuming this service. Further updates will follow as we have them.
If you have any queries, please contact your digital team by email enquiries@dawsonera.com.
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Technical issues which have taken the dawsonera eBook platform offline since 18 June are ongoing. At present, no eBook content is available on dawsonera but work to receover the full functionality of the platform is ongoing. THe latest update from the company reports the following:
dawsonera – Latest Update: 11:40, 20th June 2014
We’re sorry to inform you that we anticipate the full dawsonera service to continue to be unavailable throughout the weekend.
However, we are working to restore access to the most frequently used titles in the first instance and then will progressively load additional titles based on accesses and year-to-date usage over the weekend. We’ll confirm further updates on our progress in the next few hours.
Once again, we can only apologise for the unacceptable loss to access to our systems and the inconvenience this has caused you and your users over the last few days. At this stage we are not able to provide you with a timescale for the full & complete service to be restored of all the 350,000+ titles, but will update you regularly as we progress with this activity.
If you have any queries, please contact your digital team by email enquiries@dawsonera.co.uk.
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Sixty-five full-text eBook titles from the Elgaronline Business Collection are now accessible through Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password (using eZproxy) from off-campus.
Titles in the collection include The psychology of the recession on the workplace; Finance in an age of austerity : the power of customer-owned banks; Business models for sustainability and Entrepreneurship and multinationals : global business and the making of the modern world.
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