ProQuest have confirmed that access to their e-book platforms has been restored.
ProQuest apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
ProQuest have confirmed that access to their e-book platforms has been restored.
ProQuest apologize for any inconvenience caused.
ProQuest technicians are currently working to resolve access issues with some of their ebook platforms.
An update will follow once everything is resolved.
Following a detailed review by the Research Support and Learning and Teaching teams, a number of changes have been made to the list of resources made available through the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch (which will also be reflected, later today, in searches in the ‘All’ search tab of LOS). The changes are detailed below:
New entries have been created for the following resources:
The following resources have been withdrawn from the Find Databases service:
The entries for the following resources have been updated. Updates include: amended access URLs, changed help and guidance information, updated subject category assignments and revised descriptions:
If you’d like any further information about the specific changes that have been made to any of the resources listed above, please get in touch.
Access to 113,000 new eBook titles from the eBrary Academic Complete collection has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Titles in this vast collection range across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines, and the activation of this new collection signals a significant expansion of the library’s fast-growing eBook provision. Access to the titles in the collection is by university username and password. Deep-links to some example titles from the collection are provided below:
The eBrary Patron Driven Acquisition period (which began in June 2012) has now concluded. The metadata records of all titles which were purchased during the PDA period have been updated in Library OneSearch (and in the Aleph client) with the indicator: “This eBook has been purchased from the eBrary PDA collection”.
All non-purchased eBrary PDA titles have been removed from Library OneSearch and marked as ‘suppressed’ in Aleph. These non-acquired titles will be removed from Aleph completely, once this list has been cross-checked against current Resource Lists (and any eBrary PDA titles added to resource lists which did not reach the trigger threshold for acquisition during the PDA period have been reviewed).
The issue preventing the purchase of eBrary PDA titles, reported on 12 December 2012, has now been resolved.
Purchase requests for PDA titles on the eBrary platform are now being accepted normally in line with the configuration of the PDA plan and profile.
LLR is working with eBrary to reinstate full-text access to not-yet-purchased titles in the current eBrary PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) collection in Library OneSearch.
At present, titles which have not yet been purchased are only available in ‘Preview’ mode (see illustration below of the prompt which currently appears in the user interface for affected titles)
A further update will follow once PDA activation on the eBrary platform has been reactivated.
A total of 3855 eBrary PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) eBook titles are now active and available in Library OneSearch.
The titles are identifiable by the ‘Electronic local note’ indicator text: “This eBook is part of the eBrary PDA collection – but not yet purchased” (the thumbnail below is a link to a full size illustration).
As eBrary informs LLR of purchases made through PDA, this text will be updated at the individual title level to indicate that this eBook has been purchased outright.
While we have yet to receive final confirmation from eBrary’s technical team that the service issue has been completely resolved, access to eBrary eBook titles through both eSearch and the Library Catalogue is currently available once again.
Access to eBook content on the eBrary platform is currently unavailable, due to a technical problem preventing successful login to the service. Requests to access eBrary from either eSearch or from the Library Catalogue resolve to the following error (after an attempted login).
Your identity provider didn’t return the attributes required to log into eBrary.
We are working with colleagues in IS and in the eBrary technical support team to identify the cause of the problem, and the remedial action required to correct it.
A further update will follow once access has been restored.
Following the previously announced changes to LLR’s subscription to eBook content on the eBrary platform, all of the individual eBook records for all titles in the eBrary Academic Complete collection have now been withdrawn from the Library Catalogue. The remaining eBrary eBook records in the OPAC are for the titles within the new eBrary Custom Collection (which LLR is building in preference to the Academic Complete collection).
eBrary’s technical team report that the issue affecting access to eBook content on the platform (25 January) has now been resolved, and all relevant content should now be accessible once again. Please contact eServices it you encounter any further problems with access.
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