Category: eResources

Resource trial: EBSCO Art and Architecture Complete

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Trial access to the EBSCO Art and Architecture Complete database has been enabled in eSearch. The trial continues until 30 October 2009. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. This new EBSCO resource remains in ‘beta’ – meaning that all of the content and possible functionality of the resource may not yet be available. The resource is described as follows:

Art & Architecture Complete – BETA is a bibliographic database that provides indexing and abstracts for more than 630 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 240 periodicals and 140 books, as well as selective coverage for over 50 publications. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes art scholars, artists, designers, college students, and general viewers.

Please share feedback on this resource trial with ALT member Rachel Campbell.

Science Direct Off-Campus Access

John Harral

We are continuing to work on resolving the Science Direct off-campus eSearch access problem. In the meantime we have deployed a temporary work around.

  • Access Science Direct via eSearch as normal and select the link
  • The link will take you to the Science Direct home page
  • From there select Athens/Institution Login

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  • Next select UK Access Management Federation from the drop down box

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  • A list of institutes will be diosplayed below, Select Nottingham Trent University
  • Sign in using your University Username and Password

Science Direct Off-Campus Shibboleth Identity Provider Failure

John Harral

Off-campus Shibboleth access to Science Direct via eSearch is currently unavailable.
When trying to access Science Direct via eSearch off-campus, you receive the following message:

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This problem has been logged with our ITS Service Desk and we hope to have restore off-campus access online soon.
On-campus access in not effective.

New resource: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Library Catalogue has been added as a new resource in eSearch. Access to the catalogue is unrestricted on-campus and off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Library covers all aspects of electrical engineering, electronics, manufacturing, computing and communications, control and related subjects such as physics, management and historical aspects.

The Archives reflect the IET’s many activities since its foundation in 1871. It also holds collections that have been purchased by or deposited with the IET due to their importance in the history and development of SET from the 14th century to the present day.

New resource: esp@cenet

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The esp@cenet patents database service has been added to eSearch as a new resource. Access is unrestricted on-campus and off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

The esp@cenet service offers the general public free access to worldwide patent information via the internet. It has the following main aims: to offer basic patent information to individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises, students etc; to increase awareness and use of patent information at the national and European levels; to support innovation, reduce wastage in the innovation cycle; and to supplement existing channels for the dissemination of patent information.

‘Find a database’ searches in eSearch for either ‘espacenet’ or ‘esp@cenet’ will retrieve this resource.

New resource: Biosciences Image Bank

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The Biosciences Image Bank has been added as new eSearch resource. Access is unrestricted on-campus and off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

Bioscience ImageBank consists of freely available images contributed by academics, researchers, learned societies, industry and individuals with rights cleared for educational purposes.

Vistors are able to search for images based on keywords or browse within a wide range of bioscience subject areas. Images are then ‘downloadable’ along with informative descriptive text provided by the contributor. All images undergo a validation process. ImageBank also offers reviews of, and links to, existing bioscience image databases.

Delegated Centres Access to Emerald Restored

John Harral

Emerald have now confirmed, that the access problems we have been experiencing form the Delegated Centres page has been resolved.
Access from our Delegated Centres page for Internet Explorer users has been tested and works fine, Firefox is still gives a security prompt. However, it is ok to accept this and click continue and log on as normal.

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CSA databases now available

Fay Harrison

The problem affecting the CSA databases yesterday (Wednesday 8th July) has now been fixed. Our suppliers had experienced network problems which prevented users from connecting to their website. So, access to all of the titles in our subscription suite has been restored. This means users can now access:

  • ANTE (Abstracts in New Technology and Engineering)
  • ARTbibliographies Modern
  • ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  • BHI (British Humanities Index)
  • Criminal Justice Abstracts
  • DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index)
  • ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
  • PILOTS Database
  • Polymer Library
  • Social Services Abstracts
  • Sociological Abstracts

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    CSA databases unavailable

    Fay Harrison

    The CSA range of databases are currently unavailable due to a server failure in the States where the databases are hosted. Engineers are investigating the problem, and we’ll give a further update once we have more news.

    These are the databases which are affected:
    ANTE (Abstracts in New Technology and Engineering)
    ARTbibliographies Modern
    ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
    Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
    BHI (British Humanities Index)
    Criminal Justice Abstracts
    DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index)
    ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
    PILOTS Database
    Polymer Library
    Social Services Abstracts
    Sociological Abstracts

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    Delegated Centres Access to Emerald

    John Harral

    It’s been reported that we have still having access issues to Emerald via the Delegated Centres home page, even after our temporary fix had been put into place last week.

    We regret that you can only log in to Emerald via Athens, by copying and pasting the following URL into an Internet Explorer address box (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/athenslogin.jsp), or by clicking the Athens/Institution login link on the Emerald website.

    Please feel free to use the above URL to access Emerald.

    Further updates will follow, Emerald hope to have this problem corrected in the next 7 to 10 days.

    Delegated Centres Access to Emerald

    John Harral

    The link from the our Delegated Centres web page to Emerald has now been updated, and access restored.

    Emerald have reported that they are implementing a fix for this problem which will be launched early next week .

    eServices will continue to monitor the situation