Please be advised that temporary maintenance to VLeBooks (www.vlebooks.com) will be carried out on Monday 4 June at 17:00. It is expected to last less than 30 minutes, during which time you will be unable to access the site.
Category: eResources
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 24 May 2018
A scheduled maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform is due on Thursday 24 May 2018 between 07:00 and 09:00. The provider advises that the service may be at risk during these times.
Maintenance work planned for American Society Of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Please be aware that maintenance work is planned for American Society Of Civil Engineers (ASCE) from 10:00 to 22:00 hours GMT on 22/05/2018
There might be disruption to the service between the time advised.
Dawsonera ebooks: maintenance work 14.00 – 16:00 Sunday 13th May
Dawsonera have advised there may be an outage or interruption to their services on Sunday 13th May between the hours of 14:00 and 16:00 whilst they undertake routine maintenance.
VleBooks Temporary Maintenance – Thursday 10th May 2018
Please be advised that temporary maintenance to VLeBooks (www.vlebooks.com) will be carried out on Thursday 10th May at 17:00. It is expected to last less than 30 minutes, during which time you will be unable to access the site.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) – operating fully again
BoB’s electronic programme guide (EPG) was restored yesterday evening. All functions are now operational again.
Oxford University Press ejournals – off campus access restored.
The earlier technical issue preventing off campus institutional sign in has now been fixed by the provider.
Off campus access using University username and password is now working again.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) – some functions are unavailable
The streaming video service Box of Broadcasts (BoB) has just announced an issue with the Electronic Programming Guide (EPG).
They will update when the issue is resolved.
UPDATE, 15:20: BoB has announced there will be a brief downtime as they try to resolve this issue.
Access to VLeBooks.com restored again.
Yesterdays’ access issues with the VLeBook platform has now been resolved by the supplier.
The out of date security certificate at the root of the problem has been renewed by the company.
Access to our e-books titles has been restored, with direct on-campus access and off-campus access available by university username and password.
Loss of access to some of our e-books on Library OneSearch
There is currently an issue when trying to access some of our e-book content via Library OneSearch. Ebooks supplied by VLebooks.com currently redirect to a privacy warning screen when you try to view online.
This has been reported and is currently under investigation.
Problems accessing Lexis Nexis Professinonal
Currently we are experiencing problems with accessing content from Lexis Nexis Professional from both on and off campus.
The issue is currently under investigation
Elsevier Science Direct – some sign in issues for off campus users
Elsevier are currently investigating an issue with sign in for off campus access.
After arriving at an article page if you choose the purchase pdf option and then sign in via your institution, after selecting Nottingham Trent University login and completing NTU single sign in, you are presented with a 404 error page.
Until this is resolved off campus users should select the sign in option to the top right of the screen, as this ‘sign in via your institution’ route works ok.
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