Access to the Index to Theses service has been withdrawn from the ‘Find Databases’ service of Library OneSearch following the winding up of the resource. Index to Theses is superceded by the new ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland service.
Category: eResources
OSIRIS – off-campus access currently unavailable
Off-campus access to the OSIRIS database is currently unavailable, due to technical problems affecting the authentication connection with the service. A notification has been added to the OSIRIS listing in Library OneSearch, alerting customers to this issue:
Off-campus access to the OSIRIS service is currently unavailable due to technical issues. The library will restore off-campus access to the service as soon as possible.
Resource trial: Human Rights Studies Online
Trial access to the Human Rights Studies Online collection has been enabled in Library OneSearch (through the Find Databases service) to enable and encourage evaluation of the resource by academics and students. Access is direct on-campus, and by university username and password from off-campus. Trial access will be available until 11 January 2015. The resource is described as follows:
Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects. The collection include around 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of audio-visual content.
Off-campus access during the trial
During the trial period off-campus requests to access the resource will resolve to a login page displaying the message ‘We’re sorry, but we don’t recognise you!’ (see illustration below).
Scroll down that page to the ‘Select by institution name’ box, and search for ‘Nottingham Trent University’. When the ‘Login via institution’ box appears below that, click on the ‘Go’ button to resolve the the NTU Single Sign-On page. Enter your university username and password and click on ‘Login’ to be authorised to access the resource.
WildPro – access details updated
The access URL for the free-to-use WildPro service has been updated in Library OneSearch. The new URL is immediately available in the Find Databases service and will be reflected in the main search record for WildPro shortly. Access to the service remains unrestricted on-campus and off-campus.
The resource is described as follows:
Information on captive and free-ranging wild animals from the Wildlife Information Network. Modules contain data on individual species, chemicals & physical factors which cause environmental and/or health issues, diseases, best practice guidelines and habitat information. Includes a number of full-text books.
New resource: British Film Institute (BFI) InView
Access to the new streaming audio-visual service BFI InView has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access to the service is by university username and password. The resource is described as follows:
The British Film Institute’s (BFI) InView service offers one thousand hours of non-fiction audiovisual material which documents Britain’s changing political, economic and social landscape in the age of film and television. As well as being full-searchable, the contents of BFI InView can also be browsed by Theme (such as Education or Law and Order) or Collection (such as Early Film or Government Film). Eight thousand pages of related documents are also viewable. Video material can be viewed online or downloaded for educational use.
New resource: ProQuest Central
Access to the new ProQuest Central ‘meta-collection’ has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access to the resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
The resource is described as follows:
ProQuest Central is a multidisciplinary database providing abstract information from more than 11,000 titles (8,000 of which are available in full-text). Amongst the 160 subject areas covered by the collection are business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology and social sciences. ProQuest Central can be searched in its entirety, as a single collection, or searches can be restricted to one or more of its specialist component collections.
Remote searching (metasearching) across the ProQuest Central collection has been enabled through Library OneSearch. Titles available in full-text within the ProQuest Central service have been enabled in SFX.
The full-list of collections held within ProQuest Central is as follows:
- ABI/INFORM Complete (1971 – current)
- Accounting & Tax (1971 – current)
- Banking Information Source (1971 – current)
- Canadian Newsstand Complete
- CBCA Complete
- Hoover’s Company Profiles
- OxResearch (1986 – current)
- Pharmaceutical News Index
- ProQuest Asian Business & Reference (1971 – current)
- ProQuest Biology Journals (1998 – current)
- ProQuest Career and Technical Education
- ProQuest Computing (1998 – current)
- ProQuest Criminal Justice (1981 – current)
- ProQuest Education Journals (1988 – current)
- ProQuest European Business (1971 – current)
- ProQuest Family Health
- ProQuest Health & Medical Complete
- ProQuest Health Management
- ProQuest Military Collection
- ProQuest Newsstand (1984 – current)
- ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
- ProQuest Political Science (1985 – current)
- ProQuest Psychology Journals
- ProQuest Religion (1986 – current)
- ProQuest Research Library
- ProQuest Science Journals
- ProQuest Social Science Journals
- ProQuest Sociology (1985 – current)
- ProQuest Telecommunications (1995 – current)
- Snapshots
PsycINFO now available through the ProQuest platform
The PsycINFO database previously accessed through the EBSCOhost platform is now available through the ProQuest interface. Links and all related metadata have been updated in Library OneSearch, including the transfer of the previous category/subjects assignments. Access remains direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Remote searching (metasearching) of the PsycINFO service has also been enabled in LOS.
British Education Index now accessible through the EBSCOhost platform
The British Education Index (BEI) which was previously accessed through the ProQuest platform is now available through the EBSCOhost service. All links and metadata, including category/subject assignments, have been updated in Library OneSearch to reflect this change. Access to BEI is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
PsycARTICLES now accessible through the ProQuest platform
The PsycARTICLES full-text database previously accessed through the EBSCOhost platform is now available through the ProQuest interface. Links and all related metadata have been updated in Library OneSearch, including the transfer of the previous category/subjects assignments. Access remains direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Remote searching (metasearching) of the PsycARTICLES service has also been enabled in LOS.
Listings in SFX for all full-text PsycARTICLES’ journals have been migrated to integrate with the new ProQuest platform.
New resource: Oxford Handbooks Online
Access to five collections of Oxford Handbooks Online has been enabled in SFX. Individual eBook records for each of the titles in these collections will be discoverable in Library OneSearch shortly. Access to all of the subscribed titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The Oxford Handbooks Online collections that the library has subscribed to are:
- Economics & Finance
- Business & Management
- Criminology & Criminal Justice
- Political Science
- Psychology
Titles in these collections include:
- The Oxford Handbook of Impulse Control Disorders
- The Oxford Handbook of British Politics
- The Oxford handbook of the Russian economy
- The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice
See an illustration below of the display in the SFX menu of a title from the Criminology & Criminal Justice collection:
The Oxford Handbooks Online interface has been branded with the NTU university logo (see illustration below):
Outbound SFX links have also been enabled in the references section of all chapters (see illustration below):
Content from the handbooks can be read online, and individual chapters can be downloaded in PDF format. Each PDF indicates the permissible download limit per title: namely one chapter from any one book (see illustration below):
In the search interface of Oxford Handbooks Online, it is possible to limit a search to one or more of the collections in the library’s subscription (see illustration below):
New resource: Science Classic from the AAAS
Following the signing of a national license agreement between AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Jisc, access to the Science Classic collection has been enabled in Library OneSearch and SFX.
Access is direct on-campus, and it is hoped to be able to activate off-campus access shortly.
The Science Classic collection provides access to the full-text archive of Science [0036-8075] (1880 to 1996) on the sciencemag.org platform, which is presented as a series of high-resolution PDFs. A new listing for the access to this title on sciencemag.org has been created in SFX.
A new database entry for Science Classic has also been created in Library OneSearch, which is described as follows:
Access to the full-text (and PDF reproduction) of the archive of Science [0036-8075] from 1880 to 1996; plus abstract, summary and back-issue material for a range of publications of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Science Online supporting material, including pod casts, videos, and interactive content; the ScienceCareers.org service; and ScienceNOW stories published within the previous four weeks.
Box of Broadcasts upgrade – no access 13-23 December 2013
Access to the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) streaming off-air TV recording service will be unavailable from 17:00 on 13 December until 23 December 2013, as the service is upgraded to a new version (which will launch on 6 January 2014).
A message on the BoB homepage alerts visitors to the scheduled downtime as follows:
IMPORTANT BoB is having an upgrade. To get ready for the new BoB v3 launch on 6 January BoB will be closed from 5pm 13 December until 23 December. Please consider this when planning your work schedule.
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