Category: eResources

New resource: John Wiley eBook collection

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

MORE THAN 22 THOUSAND titles from the John Wiley eBook collection are now discoverable in Library OneSearch.

The titles are made available through a Usage Based Collection Management (UBCM) model, are will be accessible until the end of the UCBM cycle in June 2021. At that point, the library will be select titles to be purchased outright, following an analysis of the usage data across the whole period of access.

Access to the titles is by university username and password.

Titles in the collection, which is accessed through the Wiley Online platform, include:

Wiley Online eBook platform

New resource: Royal College of Nursing ejournal collection

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

TWELVE FULL-TEXT JOURNAL titles published by the Royal College of Nursing are now available through the SFX (Find it @ NTU) service.

Full-text content from the journals is available from 2017 onwards.

Access to the titles is by university username and password. This provides access to the main journal article content. A personal registration is required to access “supplementary content”, including the latest news and “daily practice” information.

The available titles are:

  • Cancer Nursing Practice
  • Emergency Nurse
  • Learning Disability Practice
  • Mental Health Practice
  • Nurse Researcher
  • Nursing Children and Young People
  • Nursing Management
  • Nursing Older People
  • Nursing Standard
  • Primary Health Care

All these titles can be accessed via SFX requests and through the eJournal A-Z service, and will be discoverable through Library OneSearch shortly.

Front cover of Nursing Management journal Front cover of Mental Health Practice journal

New resource: Fashion Business Cases

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

MORE THAN 175 titles from the Fashion Business Cases collection are now accessible through Library OneSearch.

Access to all subscribed titles is by university username and password.

Titles in the collection, which are accessed through the Bloomsbury Fashion Central platform, include:

Bloomsbury Fashion Central

New resource: Palgrave Business and Management Archive

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

MORE THAN 900 eBooks from the Palgrave Business and Management Archive are now accessible through Library OneSearch.

Access to all subscribed titles in the collection is by university username and password.

Titles in the collection, which are accessed through the SpringerLink platform, include:

Palgrave title on the SpringerLink platform

Nexis UK – access restored

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

The Nexis UK technical team have now resolved the recent issue of authentication errors when attempting to access Nexis UK from both on and off campus.

Access should now be available for both staff and students.

Nexis UK have apologised for the length of the outage and any disruption this may have caused.

NexisUK authentication error message

Nexis UK – database unavailable

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

We have received reports of an authentication error message when attempting to access Nexis UK from both on and off campus.

NexisUK authentication error message

We are currently working with Nexis UK support to try and resolve this issue.

Refworks – scheduled maintenance – 10 May 2020

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

Refworks homepage

A scheduled system maintenance period for the Refworks platform will begin Sunday 10 May 2020, between 02:00 and 14:00(UK time).  During this twelve hour period the following services will unavailable:

  • Legacy Refworks
  • Proquest Refworks
  • Refworks Citation Manager
  • Write-n-Cite

New resource: Oxford University Press – Political Science Handbooks

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Oxford Handbooks Online header logo

A RANGE OF new titles from the Political Science Handbooks collection published by Oxford University Press are now discoverable through Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro.

Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

Titles in the bundle acquired by the library include the following:

Additional electronic and online resources: Manchester Hive eBook collections

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Manchester Hive logo

A NEW SET OF eBook collections from Manchester University Press has been added to the current list of temporary additional electronic and online resources in the Find Databases service.

The Manchester Hive platform is described as follows:

A collection of eBook content published by Manchester University Press covering a wide variety of subjects and disciplines. Content is organised into chapters and sections, is fully searchable and browseable, and can be downloaded for offline reading.

Twelve separate eBook collections are available, and the Find Databases listing for the resource provides a direct authenticated deep-link to each.

Access to the Manchester Hive platform is by university username and password.

Additional electronic and online resources: EBSCO eBook collections

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

EBSCOhost logo

TWO MORE eBOOK collections have been added to the current list of temporary additional electronic and online resources in the Find Databases service.

eBook Harvard Business Publishing Collection

A collection of academic eBooks covering a wide variety of fields in business and economics from the imprint of Harvard Business Publishing

eBook Academic Collection

A collection of academic eBooks covering a wide variety of subjects and disciplines, including economics, social sciences, history, computing, cultural studies and study skills

Off-campus access to both resources is by university username and password.

Additional electronic and online resource: Law Trove – Oxford University Press

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Law Trove

THE LAW TROVE platform, from Oxford University Press, has been added to the current list of temporary additional electronic and online resources in the Find Databases services.

The listing for resource indicates that access to the resource is by university username and password. The resource is described as follows:

The Law Trove platform from Oxford University Press contains around 200 law textbooks covering a wide range of legal subject areas. All the titles in the collection are fully searchable. Materials can also be filtered by specific subject or by level of study.

Law Trove is available to university staff and students until at least the end of May 2020.

Additional electronic and online resources

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

New Find Databases - browse by letter

DURING THE CURRENT closure of the campus libraries, LLR is making additional electronic resources available for off-campus access by staff and students.

This material is a mixture of content that publishers are making openly available to Higher Education institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic, and materials that the library has been able to licence paid-access to for a time-limited period.

The current full list of additional resources is available from the dedicated Find Databases link https://llr.ntu.ac.uk/dbaz/index.php?extra=y.

More resources are being added to list as new access arrangements are finalised.

Each of these resources has been added to the relevant subject sub-categories in the Find Databases service, and can be identified by the New temporary resource icon show below.

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