ACCESS TO THE Nineteenth Century Index platform has been enabled today in the Find Databases service.
The resource is described as follows:
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (C19 Index) is a vast resource that forms the bibliographic spine of 19th century research. It comprises tens of millions of records and provides integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers, archives, and reference material.
Access to this resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
Bloomsbury Collections will be migrating to a new improved platform in late July.
As the library has access to e-books through some of these collections, including:
Early Modern History Archive 1971-2013
Film & Media Studies 2014
Family and Social Law
They have advised the following for people who’ve created personal accounts and bookmarked existing content:
“If you are an instructor, librarian, or student with an existing personal account, please note that you will need to set up a personal account on the new Bloomsbury Collections site after the migration at the end of July. This is a simple process that can be done quickly and easily.
To set up a new personal account, click on ‘Sign into your personal account’ in the upper right-hand corner. You will then be prompted to set up a new account or use an existing one. If you already have an account set up with one of Bloomsbury’s other digital products, you can use that log in. If not, you’ll be able to set up a new one at that time.
Bookmarks saved to personal accounts on the current Bloomsbury Collections site will not be retained, so prior to migration please save the links to your favorite pages within your own browser, so you do not lose them.”
ACCESS TO A growing collection of eBook, audiobook and magazine content is now available to Nottingham Trent University students and staff through the OverDrive platform.
Rather than traditional academic disciplines, materials made available via OverDrive instead focus on well-being, self-help and resilience, and leisure and recreational reading. The Magazine Collection, to which LLR has subscribed, additionally provides access to full electronic versions of thousands of newsstand titles, grouped into themes such as: Celebrity; Entertainment; Cooking & Food; Home & Garden and Politics and Current Affairs.
Accessing OverDrive content
Access to OverDrive materials is through the OverDrive web site and also through the Libby app (available for Android and iOS devices).
Authentication to OverDrive content is by university username and password. NTU staff and students need to register an OverDrive ‘library card’ which then entitles them to ‘borrow’ eBooks and audiobooks from the platform (up to 30 at any one time, for an initial seven day loan period). Once registered, the loaning of magazine issues is unlimited.
Because the way that OverDrive provisions electronic material is different to the normal academic publisher model, LLR is providing an illustrated walkthrough guide to: how to register an OverDrive ‘library card’; how to loan, renew and return items; and how to place holds, through both the OverDrive web site and Libby app.
A NEW LISTING for the Bibliography of British and Irish History Online has been added to the Find Databases service.
This resource provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth and is described as follows:
As well as providing details of publications, the bibliography offers links to online catalogues to help you find the items that it lists in research libraries in Britain and Ireland. It also provides links to online text where available. The bibliography is a guide to the work of historians – it does not contain original sources, unless they have been edited and republished by historians (except for a selection of key sources published before 1901). The bibliography lists books, articles in books and articles in journals. Some 800 journals and series are regularly checked.
Access to the resource is by university username and password.
A NEW LISTING for The Literary Encyclopedia has been added to the Find Databases service.
The resource was previous only discoverable as an ejournal. In its new database listing, the encyclopedia is described as follows:
The Literary Encyclopedia is a wide-ranging reference work focused on literary and cultural history. The encyclopedia includes biographies of major and minor writers; scholarly descriptions of these authors’ texts; and reflective and analytical essays on literary, cultural and historical matters. It aims to cover the full breath of world literature including English, American, German, Russian, Italian, French, and Classical literatures, and a growing body of material covering Hispanic, Japanese, Canadian, East European and various postcolonial literatures.
Access to the resource is by university username and password, on-campus and off-campus.
The LS:N global platform, which is paid for by the School of Art & Design, and available through the library’s Find Databases platform, is currently unavailable both on and off campus.
Attempts to access content will prompt for a membership login.
The School of Art and Design contact is working with LS:N to try and resolve this issuehe recent access issues for LS:N global platform have now been resolved and NTU’s membership is being recognised again.
A ROUTINE MAINTENANCE period on the ProQuest platform is scheduled for Sunday 8 January 2023, between 3:00 and 8:00 (UK time).
This means that the following ProQuest databases, eBook platforms and services, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout the five-hour period, 3:00 to 8:00 (UK time):
Alexander Street Press
EBook Central
Syndetics solutions
All databases on the proquest.com platform, namely:
Academic Video Online
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) (1987 – current)
A ROUTINE MAINTENANCE period on the ProQuest platform is scheduled for Sunday 7 January 2024, between 3:00 and 8:00 (UK time).
This means that the following ProQuest databases, eBook platforms and services, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout the five-hour period, 3:00 to 8:00 (UK time):
Alexander Street Press
EBook Central
Syndetics solutions
All databases on the proquest.com platform, namely:
Academic Video Online
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) (1987 – current)
ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS FOR the twelve titles that the library subscribes to on the i-law platform have been updated in Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro.
Now individual account registration is required on the i-law platform, based on an NTU staff or student email address.
A new library guide (linked to from all twelve subscribed i-law titles available through Library OneSearch) provides an illustrated walkthrough of the account registration process.
eResource updates 
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