Category: eResources

New resource: Business of Fashion

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the Business of Fashion site has been activated in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch. Registration for a free student membership (also available to academic and support staff) is required, after which access is by @ntu.ac.uk email address and registered password. The resource is described as follows:

The Business of Fashion is an international news and features services aimed at “fashion creatives, executives and entrepreneurs” that provides fashion business intelligence, news, analysis and opinion on emerging designers, disruptive technologies and global brands.

The Business of Fashion - logo

New resource: DCP (Development Control Practice) Online

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Access to the online version of the DCP (Development Control Practice) service has been enabled in the Find Databases section of Library OneSearch. Authentication is direct on-campus, and by university username and password from off-campus. As off-campus authentication relies on secure eZproxy routing, off-campus access is only possible through the link provided in LOS. The resource is described as follows:

Development Control Practice (DCP) provides a detailed guide to all aspects of the planning process, exploring the different factors involved in seeking and making decision on planning applications. It is consulted by lawyers, developers and planning consultants who need to understand how councils make planning application decisions, and in turn provides local authorities with a guide to legislation and precedent.

The homepage search box of DCP Online

Find Databases: resource review (September 2016)

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Find Databases - Library OneSearch
 
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:

Updated

  • AEI (Australian Education Index)
  • arlis.net
  • Bankscope
  • British Library Sounds
  • Child Development and Adolescent Studies
  • Construction Information Service
  • CPAG (Child Poverty Action Group) Online Publications
  • FAME
  • Family Law Online
  • Information Asset Register
  • Interior Internet
  • LACORS
  • Mintel
  • MyiLibrary
  • NBS Educator
  • NBS TV
  • Passport (formerly Passport GMID)
  • Planning portal
  • PoliticsHome
  • Westlaw

Withdrawn

  • Biosciences Image Bank
  • biz/ed
  • Epistemelinks
  • LexisPSL
  • Women’s Studies
  • WWW Virtual Library: Archnet

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.

Updated resource: Teaching Times

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Teaching Times

Journal listings for the full-text professional journals on the Teaching Times web site have been updated in SFX, with both holdings information and deep-links reviewed and revised. Access remains direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The available items are:

A new entry for Teaching Times has also been created in the Find Databases section of Library OneSearch. The resource is described as follows:

Offers advice, guidance and professional updates for teaching staff in primary and secondary education. A series of ‘Knowledge Banks’ focus on the themes of vulnerable children, e-learning, the ‘creative curriculum’, professional development, school leadership and a range of project-based learning resources. The site also provides access to a number of professional journals, including Every Child Journal, Creative Teaching & Learning, Learning Spaces and School Leadership Today

New resource: eBooks from the Knowledge Unlatched initiative

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Access to a total of sixty-five eBook titles made available through the Knowledge Unlatched initiative are now available through Library OneSearch. With funding jointly provided by libraries signing up to the initiative, the titles included in the collection are made available as open access full-text. This first set of titles are from the ‘pilot’ and ’round 2′ phases of the projects. A further forty-one titles will be released during the ’round 2′ phase, and these will be added to LOS as they are made accessible.

As Open Access publications, full-text access is unrestricted. Titles already accessible through Library OneSearch include:

New resource: EDITED

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Access to the EDITED platform has been enabled in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch. Access is by university username and password from on-campus, and is only available through the library mediated links provided in Library OneSearch. Off-campus access is not permitted under the terms of EDITED’s educational licence. The resource is described as follows:

EDITED is a retail analytics software for apparel brands and retailers, containing real-time data and analysis. It allows industry professionals to track consumer trends in real time by monitoring over ten million products showing sales, price changes, and discounting. This information can then be used to adjust their merchandising and marketing to reflect current market conditions.

EDITED

Members of NTU attempting to access EDITED from outside of the university’s IP range will see the following message after logging in:

EDITED.com IP restriction error message

New resource: IoP Concise Physics and Expanding Physics eBook collections

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A total of nearly fifty eBook titles from the Institute of Physics’ (IoP) Concise Physics and Expanding Physics collections are now available in Library OneSearch. Access is by university username and password. Some 35 titles from ‘Release 1’ of these collections have been added; alongside an initial 11 titles from ‘Release 2’. More ‘Release 2’ titles will be added as they are published and made available. Example titles include:

The library is able to provide authentication-aware, title-level deep-links to each eBook in the collection. Be aware that the IoP platform briefly displays two update screens to the requester as the login process proceeds. The first (see illustration below) displays while IoP directs the requester to the NTU Single Sign-On page.

OP Science - eBooks - Shibboleth login - first notification

The second (see illustration below) displays while the IoP platform redirects the authenticated requester to the eBook title. No additional login steps are required while these screens display. Once you have an active NTU Single Sign-on session running, you may still see these update screens whilst requesting subsequent IoP eBook titles (although no repeat login will be required).

OP Science - eBooks - Shibboleth login - second notification

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) migration to the ProQuest platform

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DNSA - ProQuest - 2015

Access to the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) has been migrated from the legacy Chadwyck-Healey platform to the current main ProQuest platform in Library OneSearch. All links in LOS have been updated, and access is now direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

The database can now be searched separately or alongside other databases on the search.proquest.com platform. The DNSA collection can also be selected for remote searching (metasearching) in Library OneSearch (when logged in) and individual catalogue records for materials in the DNSA will be made available in the ‘All’ index of Library OneSearch shortly.

The library’s subscription to DNSA now includes a larger number of sub-collections, namely:

  • Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970–1990
  • CIA Family Jewels Indexed
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update
  • Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980–1994
  • U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action
  • U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945–1991

New resource: American Film Scripts online

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American Film Scripts Online

Access to American Film Scripts online (from Alexander Street Press) has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access to the collection is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. (Please note that only those links provided through Library OneSearch will authenticate successfully for customers accessing the collection or titles within it from off-campus.) The collection is described as follows:

American Film Scripts Online contains more than 1000 film scripts from the US film industry, together with detailed, information on the scenes, characters and people associated the scripts. The database includes facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Individual scripts can be studied in detail, or particular script components (such as character type, dramatic theme or setting) can be compared across different scripts in the collection. The primary focus of the database is the written work, rather than the film itself, enabling the scrutiny of the structure of films, character development, beginnings and endings, plot points and scenes.

As well as a collection level entry in the Find Databases service, individual catalogue records for titles in the collection have also been added to the Library OneSearch ‘Books and Audio-Visual’ index. Example titles include:

New resource: Dawn of the Unread eBook series

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Dawn of the Unread - titles

The sixteen free-to-access eBook titles in the Dawn of the Unread series (part of the award-winning Nottingham-based Dawn of the Unread project) can now be accessed through Library OneSearch. The Dawn of the Unread series imagines:

what would happen if the great literary figures from Nottingham’s past went unread. If their ideas are not preserved and made accessible will they effectively disappear from our minds? Sillitoe, Lawrence, Byron et al would never put up with such an insult and so return from the grave, in a twist on the zombie genre, in search of the one thing that will ensure their survival: ‘boooks’.

Catalogue records for each of the sixteen entries in the series (including links to the PDF versions of each instalment) are now available in Library OneSearch:

The Dawn of the Unread series is also available through a mobile app on the Windows, Android and iOs platforms.

Dawn of the Unread

New ejournal package: SpringerLink Journals (NESLi2)

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A new collection of more than 1300 ejournals titles, provided through the SpringerLink Journals (NESLi2) package, is now available in Library OneSearch and through SFX. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. For most titles in the collection, full-text access is available from 1997 onwards. Titles include:

Update: Service problems affecting Science Direct and Scopus

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The reported service problems (8 June 2015) affecting the Elsevier Science Direct and Scopus platforms appear to have been successfully resolved.