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Find Databases: resource review
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
New entries have been created for the following resources:
- Galaxy: Business and Commerce
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
- IDS Employment Law Brief
- Nottingham City Council Planning and Building Control web pages
Withdrawn
The following resources have been withdrawn from the Find Databases service:
- Academic Info
- AHDS Visual Arts
- biz/ed
- BUBL Link
- Census Dissemination Unit
- Census Interaction Data Services
- CURIA
- EpistemeLinks
- ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service)
- eiNET: Business and Commerce
- EuroInternet
- Global Legal Information Network
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) – 18th Century
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) – 19th Century
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) – 20th Century
- IDS Online
- Interior Internet
- International Criminal Law: a selective resource guide
- Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, US Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980–1994
- Law on the web
- Literary Resources on the Net
- MCEER (Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering)
- OECD Main Economic Indicators
- Oxford University Library Catalogue
- plan4nottingham.com
- Samples of Anonymised Records from the Census Microdata Unit
- Stationery Office, The
- Trade Association Forum
- Trading Standards Specialist
- Trend Report 2007
- Textile Technology Index (EBSCO)
- US Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945–1991
- Women’s Studies Database
- WWW Virtual Library: Archnet
Updated
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:
- 10 Downing Street
- a-n (The Artists Information Company)
- ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)
- Academic Search Complete
- Acts of the UK Parliament
- Alexander Street Press (audio-visual collection)
- American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press)
- American National Election Studies
- arlis.net
- Art and Architecture Archive (ProQuest)
- Art Full Text (EBSCO)
- ASCE Civil Engineering Database
- BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
- Biosciences Image Bank
- BoB (Box of Broadcasts)
- BRAD Insight
- British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries 1500-1950 (Alexander Street Press)
- British Education Index (EBSCO)
- British Film Institute (BFI) InView
- British Library Catalogue
- British Library Sounds
- British Newspapers 1600-1900
- British Periodicals 1680s-1930s
- British Progressive Links – the left and more
- British Standards
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
- Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
- Casetrack
- Census Support: Flow data
- ChemSpider
- Child Development and Adolescent Studies
- Church Measures
- Cochrane Library
- CogPrints (Cognitive sciences eprint archive)
- Constitution Finder
- Construction and Building Abstracts
- COPAC
- The Court of Justice of the European Communities and the Court of First Instance (CURIA)
- CPAG (Child Poverty Action Group)
- Creative Club
- Criminal Justice Abstracts
- Defining Gender, 1450-1910
- Digimap Ordnance Survey Data Collection
- Digital National Security Archive
- Early English Books Online – EEBO
- eBrary
- ECCO – Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- ECOLEX
- EconLit
- EconPapers
- Educational Administration Abstracts (EBSCO)
- Emerald
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (ProQuest)
- ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) (EBSCO)
- Estates Gazette Interactive
- EUR-Lex
- Europa
- European Court of Human Rights Judgments
- European Research Papers Archive
- FAME
- Family Law Online
- Fedstats
- Foreign Relations of the United States
- Gartner
- GovSpot
- Halifax House Price Index
- History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL)
- House Price Index
- Hague Conference on Private International Law, The
- HeinOnline
- House of Lords Judgments
- IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
- ILOSTAT
- IOP Journals (IOP)
- InfoLaw
- Information Asset Register
- Institute of Civil Engineers Virtual Library
- Intellectual Property Office
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The
- JISC Historic Books
- JISC MediaHub
- John Johnson Collection
- JSTOR
- Keele Guides to Government & Politics on the internet, The
- Key Note
- Key Skill: Animal Anatomy and Physiology Collection
- Land of Lost Content
- Landmap
- LawLinks
- Legal resources in the UK and Ireland
- LexisLibrary
- LexisPSL (Professional Support Lawyer)
- Linguist List, The
- LION (Literature Online)
- Live court listings
- MINTEL
- MyiLibrary
- NATLEX
- NBS Educator
- NBS TV
- Nexis UK
- NOMIS
- Nottingham Insight
- OAPEN Library
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Parliamentlive.tv
- Passport GMID
- Picture Post Historical Archive
- PILOTS Databases
- Planning Portal
- Political resources on the Net
- PoliticsHome
- Practical Law
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey
- ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses – UK and Ireland (ProQuest)
- PsycARTICLES
- PsycINFO
- Public Bill Committee Debates
- The Public Whip
- PubMed
- Regional Business News (EBSCO)
- RIBA Product Selector
- Royal Town Planning Institute
- RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) journals
- SAE Technical Papers
- Science Classic (AAAS)
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Social Services Abstracts
- Social Care Online
- Society for Computers and Law: The IT Law Community
- Sociological Abstracts
- Sociological Tour through Cyberspace, A
- SocioWeb
- SourceOECD
- Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
- Supreme Court Applications
- Supreme Court – Decided Cases
- The Times Digital Archive
- Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
- Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War
- TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching)
- UK Government Web Archive
- UK Parliament
- uktradeinfo
- UNESCO Data Centre
- United Nations Documentation
- Utilitarianism Resources
- Vision of Britain through Time
- Vogue Archive, The
- Web of Science
- Westlaw
- WGSN (Worth Global Style Network)
- WGSSLINKS: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
- WHOSIS
- World Bank Data and Statistics
- World Economic Outlook Databases
- World Population Prospects
- Zetoc
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.
New resource: eBrary Academic Complete, 113k eBooks
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:
- Post Keynesian price theory – Frederic S. Lee
- If you don’t go, don’t hinder me: the African American sacred song tradition – Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Getting acquainted in conversation: a study of initial interactions – Jan Svennevig
- Perspectives on negation and polarity items – Jacob Hoeksema
- Whose vote counts? – Robert Richie, et al
eBrary PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) period concludes
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).
eBrary Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) titles – request option reactivated
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.
eBrary Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) titles – request option inactive
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.
eBrary PDA titles now accessible in Library OneSearch
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.
eBrary eBook access problem – resolved
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.
eBrary eBook access problem
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.
eBrary – Academic Complete records withdrawn from the Library Catalogue
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 – access problems resolved
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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