Remote searching and metasearching of the Emerald service in eSearch has been temporarily disabled pending the release of a new search configuration by Ex Libris. Direct access to content on the EmeraldInsight platform is available as normal.
Category: eSearch
WGSN (Worth Global Style Network) – off-campus access withdrawn
Off-campus access to the WGSN service has been withdrawn in eSearch following the implementation of new access restrictions by WGSN.com.
BIOSIS Previews – access configuration updated
An issue preventing some access requests to BIOSIS Previews in eSearch from resolving correctly has now been corrected. All requests to BIOSIS Previews now resolve appropriately to the Web of Knowledge portal. Remote and metasearching of BIOSIS Previews is also now working consistently in eSearch.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts – through InformaWorld
Links in eSearch to the Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts service have been updated to reflect the integration of the service in the InformaWorld platform. Access to the service is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
New resource: WikiVet
Access to the WikiVet database has been enabled in eSearch. Access is unrestricted on-campus and off-campus, but registration is required on the site. The resource is described as follows:
Access to the WikiVet is free but you will need to register with a valid email address. Registration is free and is available to veterinarians, veterinary students, veterinary nurses and academic staff at veterinary schools in any country
WikiVet is a collaborative initiative between the UK Vet Schools to develop a comprehensive online peer-reviewed knowledge database. It includes in-depth articles on the following subjects: anatomy and physiology; clinical diseases; haematology and immunology; pathology; pharmacology; parasitology. It also contains images and videos to support learning and teaching and revision aids such as quizzes and flashcards.
Gale-Cengage databases – Shibboleth errors resolved
The Cengage-Gale technical team have now resolved the problem preventing off-campus access to the InfoTrac databases.
Access to the previously affected InfoTrac databases has now been restored and information in eSearch has been updated to reflect this.
EBSCOhost databases – on campus resolution issue resolved
The previously reported problem preventing connections to EBSCOhost service resolving to the selected service was resolved a few days after being first reported. On-campus links to EBSCOhost databases now default directly to the individual selected database search screen.
New resource: British Periodicals 1680s-1930s
The British Periodicals collection, which provides access to full-text electronic facsimiles of more than 500 journals and periodicals publilshed between the 1680s and the 1930s has been activated in eSearch. Access is direct on-campus, and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:
British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
Among the periodicals in included in British Periodicals are titles founded, edited or regularly contributed to by a host of important figures – Walter Bagehot, Aubrey Beardsley, Annie Besant, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frances Power Cobbe, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Ford Madox Ford, Oliver Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, Jerome K. Jerome, Samuel Johnson, Sir Roger L’Estrange, G. H. Lewes, Harriet Martineau, Edward Moore, John Morley, John Henry Newman, Margaret Oliphant, W. M. Rossetti, Sir Richard Steele and Tobias Smollett to name but a few. In addition to providing access to the original periodical versions of landmark texts like De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, Cobbett’s Rural Rides, Bagehot’s The English Constitution, Gaskell’s North and South and Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, the collection offers new ways of exploring the inaccessible, neglected or forgotten writings that formed their original contexts. A wide array of different types of periodical are represented, from magisterial quarterlies and scholarly and professional organs through to coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.
The British Periodicals collection can be remote-searched and meta-searched in eSearch. Titles in the collection have been activated in SFX, and individual catalogue records for these items will be added to the Library Catalogue at the next update of ejournal records.
A guide to using Shibboleth authentication for the service from off-campus has been added to the eServices Support wiki.
Key Skill: Animal Anatomy and Physiology Collection – registration problem resolved
A problem which was preventing new students from registering to use the Key Skill: Animal Anatomy and Physiology Collection has now been resolved.
EBSCOhost database: on-campus links in eSearch not resolving to correct database option
The eServices team is working with EBSCOhost technical support to resolve a problem with is causing on-campus (IP authenticated) links from eSearch to EBSCOhost databases to default to the Academic Search Elite (ASE) search screen.
eSearch database level links to the following services, will all resolve to the same ASE interface.
* Academic Search Elite
* Business Source Premier
* EconLit
* International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
* Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
* PsycARTICLES
* PsycINFO
* Regional Business News
* SPORTDiscus
* Textile Technology Index
Pending a resolution of this problem, please select the ‘Choose Databases’ link in the main search screen (see illustration below) and use the tick boxes in the pop-up window to select the appropriate database/s.
This problem is not affecting off-campus access to EBSCOhost databases or deep-linking to individual journal titles and article content via SFX.
New resource: OSH-UPDATE
Access to the OSH-UPDATE service (which was previously provided through eSearch between November 2008 and November 2009) has been re-enabled in eSearch following the activation of a new subscription to the service. Access to the resource is direct on-campus; and by university username and password from off-campus.
OSH-UPDATE offers more than 500,000 records in the fields of occupational health, safety, hygiene, road safety, water safety and environment trends, drawn from a range of authoritative database sources including the UK legislation database; the UK Health and Safety Executive HSELINE; and the UK Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), and a number of other European and worldwide sources.
OSH-UPDATE provides full bibliographic citation and abstracts for all journal articles, conference reports and other materials in its index; and offers links to selected full-text services where these are available.
Additional information added to the Access Notes field in eSearch indicates that:
under the terms of LLR’s subscription to OSH-UPDATE only one person may access the resource at a time. To free up the service for the next visitor, always remember to Logoff at the end of your session. If you see the following error message, “You have reached your licences limit on the number of concurrent sessions”, please try again later.
Withdrawn resource: Taylor and Francis eBooks
LLR’s subscription to 150+ titles on the Taylor and Francis eBook platform concludes at the end of December. The entry for T&F eBooks in eSearch will be withdrawn and all the individual eBook records will be removed from the Library Catalogue and SFX.
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