Category: eResources

New EBA collection: Springer eBooks

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Springer EBA eBook title

A TOTAL OF 14,500 individual titles from the Springer eBook EBA (Evidence Based Acquisitions) plan are now discoverable in Library OneSearch.

Like other EBA plans, this method of acquisition enables the library to identify the most popular, widely-used and appropriate titles within a larger collection and purchase those outright at the end of the EBA period, which in this case will run until December 2019.

Access to Springer EBA eBook titles is direct on-campus (although you may occasionally encounter a Single Sign On challenge) and by university username and password from off-campus. Records in Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro have been configured to provide deep-linked title-level authenticated access.

eBooks in the Springer EBA package include the following collections and subject areas:

  • Biomedical and life sciences
  • Business and management
  • Chemistry and materials science
  • Computer Science without Lecture Notes
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • Earth and Environmental Science
  • Engineering
  • Medicine

Example titles include:

Elsevier Science Direct – off campus sign in issues now resolved

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

OFF-CAMPUS SIGN-IN issues for Elsevier Science Direct, reported earlier this year, have now been fully resolved by their technical team.

Access can be obtained using either the ‘Sign in’ option or the pdf ‘Get Access’ link and will provide full text access once single sign on has been completed.

Elsevier have apologised for the long time it took to fix the problem and any inconvenience caused as a result.

Science Direct sign in options

Off campus access to New Left Review restored.

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

The off campus access issues for New Left Review reported back in August have now been resolved.   Content for off campus users has been restored within our subscription range.

New Left Review homepage

ProQuest eBook platforms – scheduled maintenance – 27 October 2018

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

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A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest eBook platforms is scheduled for Saturday 27 October 2018, between 17:00 and 18:30 (UK time). This means that the following ProQuest eBook platform and service, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout this ninety minute period:

  • EBook Central

Access to Estates Gazette Interactive restored

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

The broken links to Estates Gazette Interactive on the Other passwords page, under Resources & collections on the library website, have now been updated.

Access to the site is now available again.

First time users will still need to complete a registration process after arriving at the site, and revised advice on completing this are also included on the Other passwords page.

Estates Gazette homepage

Currently no access to Estates Gazette Interactive

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

There is currently no access to Estates Gazette Interactive. The links on the Other passwords page, under Resources & collections on the library website, are broken.  We are in contact with the publisher about this and hope to have them fixed soon.

Estates Gazette homepage

Off campus access to New Left Review currently unavailable.

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

We are currently investigating an issue affecting off campus access to New Left Review.  Only some of the content is available from off site.  On campus access remains unaffected.

New Left Review homepage

Issues affecting the Kanopy streaming video service now resolved

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The library in cooperation with technical services team at Kanopy have now resolved the service issue affecting logging into the resource.

Access is now available from on and off campus using your NTU credentials.

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Issues affecting the Kanopy streaming video service

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The library is working with the technical team at the Kanopy streaming video platform to reinstate access to the service, which is currently unavailable on and off campus.

A further update will follow once the issue has been resolved.

Kanopy - streaming video

ProQuest platform – scheduled maintenance – 18 August 2018

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

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A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest platform is scheduled for Saturday 18 August 2018, between 15:00 and 23:00 (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:

  • EBook Central
  • RefWorks
  • Sydnetics 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

Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 19 July 2018

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

A scheduled maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform is due on Thursday 19 May 2018 between 07:00 and 09:00.  The provider advises that the service may be at risk during these times.

BoB - new platform

Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 11 June – 13 June 2018

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

A scheduled maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform is due from Monday 11 June 2018 – 05:00 to Wednesday 13 June –  22:00.  The provider advises that the service may be unavailable during these times.

BoB - new platform