Category: eResources

VLeBooks – migration to new reader com.

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

VLeBooks home page banner

During August one of our ebook providers, Askews and Holt, will be launching a new enhanced reader to replace the existing VLEeBooks reader.

Once migrated to the new reader any browser bookmarks for particular titles will no longer work and these will need to be re-accessed via Library OneSearch.

In preparation for the migration any user who wishes to save any notes stored on the current reader will be required to export these by Friday 12th July, otherwise they will be lost.

VLeBooks Notes options

VLeBooks Export Notes pop-up

Any titles stored within ‘My Bookshelves’ also need to be noted for future addition to the new reader as these will not transfer over when migration happens.

The new reader will include many new features such as highlighting, sophisticated note options, improved accessibility and mobile responsiveness.

BoB (Box of Broadcasts) scheduled maintenance

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The streaming video service Box of Broadcasts (BoB) has just announced that they will be carrying out some scheduled maintenance work tomorrow Thursday 6th June between 07.00 and 09.00 Hrs. They advise users to consider the service ‘at risk’ during this period.

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LexisLibrary – access to News and International Content restored

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

LexisLibrary have now partially resolved access to the ‘News’ and ‘International Content’ section of the platform both on and off campus.

LexisLibarry News section landing page

However, direct access to title level content from within Library OneSearch is still not available when choosing ‘online access’ and results in an ‘unavailable’ page.

Library OneSearch entry for LexisLibrary direct access content

'You are not entitled to source' Title level error page from Library OneSearch.

We are continuing to work with the Lexis technical team to try and resolve this issue.

Passport – access restored

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

Following the recent outage across the Euromonitor International network we’ve now received confirmation from their technical team that all the issues have been resolved and access is again restored.

Access to Passport is direct on campus and by university username and password (using Shibboleth) off campus.

Euromonitor have apologised for the length of the disruption and any inconvenience this may have caused.

passport database home page

Passport database currently unavailable

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

Due to a system outage across the entire Euromonitor International network the Passport system is currently unavailable.

Technical staff at Euromonitor are working to resolve these issues and a further update will follow once access is restored.

Euromonitor apologise for any disruption this may be causing.

Passport outage notice page

WGSN – changes to registration process

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

As of Wednesday 24 April any new users creating educational WGSN accounts will have to register using their NTU email address ending in either @ntu.ac.uk or @my.ntu.ac.uk.

Any other attempts to register with a non-NTU email domain such as gmail or hotmail will result in a failed registration attempt.

Students and staff that have previously registered with personal email accounts will still be able to access their existing accounts.

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Proquest Refworks – scheduled maintenance – 20 April 2019

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

PROQUEST REFWORKS WILL be conducting scheduled maintenance for approximately 1 hour on 20 April 2019 between 15:00 and 16:00.

They have advised that during this time new Refworks will be offline.

Write-n-Cite will be available offline, but users will not be able to sync their references with Refworks.

All existing references will be maintained and available at the end of the maintenance window.

Refworks homepage

 

ProQuest eBook platforms – scheduled maintenance – 20 April 2019

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

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A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest eBook platforms is scheduled for Saturday 20 April 2019, between 17:00 and 19:00 (UK time). This means that the following ProQuest eBook platform and service, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout this two hour period:

  • EBook Central

LexisLibrary – access to some content is unavailable

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

We are currently working with the technical team at LexisLibrary to try and restore access to the News and International Content sections of the platform, which have become unavailable since a recent upgrade.

Attempts to access these sections, either on or off campus, results in an error page.

A further update will follow once the issue is confirmed as resolved.

LexisLibrary news section error page - unrecognized network location

 

Proquest Refworks – scheduled maintenance – 22 Feb 2019

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

PROQUEST REFWORKS WILL be conducting scheduled maintenance for approximately 4 hours on 22 Feb 2019 between 23:00 and 03:00 23 Feb 2019.

They have advised that during this time new Refworks will be offline.  Write-n-Cite will be available offline, but users will not be able to sync their references with Refworks.

All existing references will be maintained and available at the end of the maintenance window.

Refworks homepage

 

ProQuest platform – scheduled maintenance – 20 January 2019

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

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A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest platform is scheduled for Sunday 20 January 2019, between 3:00 and 11:00 (UK time). This means that the following ProQuest databases, eBook platforms and services, to which the library subscribes, may be unavailable throughout this eight hour period:

  • Alexander Street Press
  • EBook Central
  • RefWorks
  • Syndetics solutions
  • All databases on the search.proquest.com platform, namely:
    • Academic Video Online‎
    • Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)‎ (1987 – current)
    • Art, Design & Architecture Collection‎ (1973 – current)
    • Art and Architecture Archive‎ (1895 – 2005)
    • Australian Education Index‎ (1977 – current)
    • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals‎ (1934 – current)
    • British Periodicals‎ (1681 – 1939)
    • Country Life Archive‎ (1897 – 2005)
    • Digital National Security Archive‎
    • Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive‎ (1880 – 2000)
    • ERIC‎ (1966 – current)
    • Humanities Index‎ (1962 – current)
    • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)‎ (1951 – current)
    • MLA International Bibliography‎ (1926 – current)
    • Periodicals Archive Online‎
    • PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress‎ (1871 – current)
    • ProQuest Central‎ (1970 – current)
      • ABI/INFORM Collection (1971 – current)
      • Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection (1971 – current)
      • Arts & Humanities Database information
      • Asian & European Business Collection (1971 – current)
      • Australia & New Zealand Database information
      • Biology Database (1998 – current)
      • Business Market Research Collection (1986 – current)
      • Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database information
      • Canadian Newsstream information
      • Career & Technical Education Database information
      • Computing Database (1998 – current)
      • Continental Europe Database information
      • Criminal Justice Database (1981 – current)
      • East & South Asia Database information
      • East Europe, Central Europe Database information
      • Education Database (1988 – current)
      • Family Health Database information
      • Global Breaking Newswires information
      • Health & Medical Collection information
      • Health Management Database information
      • India Database (1998 – current)
      • International Newsstream information
      • Latin America & Iberia Database information
      • Library Science Database (1970 – current)
      • Linguistics Database information
      • Middle East & Africa Database information
      • Military Database information
      • Nursing & Allied Health Database information
      • Political Science Database (1985 – current)
      • Psychology Database information
      • Public Health Database information
      • Publicly Available Content Database information
      • Religion Database (1986 – current)
      • Research Library information
      • Science Database information
      • Social Science Database information
      • Sociology Database (1985 – current)
      • Telecommunications Database (1995 – current)
      • Turkey Database information
      • UK & Ireland Database information
      • US Newsstream (1980 – current)
    • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global‎
    • PsycARTICLES‎ (1894 – current)
    • PsycINFO‎ (1806 – current)
    • PsycTESTS‎
    • Sociological Abstracts‎ (1952 – current)
      • Social Services Abstracts (1979 – current)
      • Sociological Abstracts (1952 – current)
    • Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War‎ (1914 – 1919)
    • The Vogue Archive‎
    • The Women’s Wear Daily Archive‎

IDS Employment Law Brief migrated to Westlaw UK

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

Following the migration of IDS Employment Law Brief to Westlaw UK it has been withdrawn from Find Databases as a separate resource.

Access to IDS Employment Law is now available as an additional menu item within the Westlaw UK site, which can be accessed both on and off campus using a university username and password.

IDS Employment Law option in Westlaw