Category: eSearch

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

Emerald – Shibboleth authentication

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Off-campus access to the Emerald platform is now by university username and password (using the Shibboleth framework). Links and prompts in eSearch and SFX have been updated accordingly.

A guide to Shibboleth authentication on the Emerald platform has been added to the eServices Support wiki.

Members of relevant Delegated Centres and NTU Alumni will continue to use an Athens username and password to access the Emerald service.

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Gale-InfoTrac – Shibboleth authentication

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Off-campus access to LLR’s subscription databases on the Gale-InfoTrac platform is now by university username and password (using the Shibboleth framework). The databases involved in the change from Athens to Shibboleth based authentication are:

  • 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection (* a new collection)
  • 19th Century British Library Newspapers
  • British Newspapers 1600-1900 (* a new collection)
  • ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
  • European Business ASAP
  • The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985

Links and prompts in eSearch and SFX have been updated accordingly. A guide to using Shibboleth authentication on the Gale-InfoTrace platform has been added to the eServices Support wiki

The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985 – enabled for remote and metasearching

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985 can now be remote and metasearched from within eSearch. Under the Advanced search option is it possible to select a particular Year (as a second search field) to focus on a particular 12-month period within the 200 year run. It is possible to deep-link to a particular digital facsimile of a page from The Times directly from the search result in eSearch.

New collection: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection has been activated in eSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus (using Shibboleth). The collection is described as follows:

Compiled by Rev. Charles Burney, this collection charts the development of English news media during the 17th and 18th centuries. It features more than 700 bound volumes and over 1,200 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period, including early issues of the London Evening Post, the Boston and Virginia Gazettes. Each page is indexed and users can conduct full-text searches.

New collection: British Newspapers 1600-1900

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the British Newspapers 1600-1900 collection has been enabled in eSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus (using Shibboleth). The collection is described as follows:

The British Newspapers 1600-1900 is a digital collection of British historic newspapers. In addition to digital versions of newspaper content, find specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars assist with perspective and analysis.

It brings together content from the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; and 19th Century British Library Newspapers.

Knovel: access restored

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to LLR’s subscription to Knovel has been re-enabled. Links in eSearch have been restored, and links from the Library Catalogue to eBook content in the Knovel platform are now resolving correctly. Please contact eServices if you continue to experience any further problems.

New resources: House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 18th and 20th century collections

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Two separate new collections have been added to eSearch – House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) – 18th Century and House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) – 20th Century. These join LLR’s existing subscription to House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) – 19th Century. All three collections are delivered through a single unified Proquest interface.

Each collection offers “page facsimiles, searchable full text and a detailed subject catalogue of House of Commons sessional papers and supplementary material” for the period in question.

Access to all three collections is direct on-campus, and by university username and password from off-campus (using the Shibboleth framework). A guide to using Shibboleth to access these collections has been added to the eServices support wiki.

New resource: BRAD Insight

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the BRAD Insight service has been enabled in eSearch. Access is by a resource-specific username on-campus and off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

A searchable database of marketing and media intelligence.

The data is collated in association with a wide range of respected industry research bodies, including: Audit Bureau of Circulations, Barb, Cinema Advertising Association, Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, National Readership Survey, Nielsen Media Research, Office for National Statistics, Outdoor Advertising Association, Postar, Rajar and WARC.

As LLR has a licence for eight simultaneous users of this resource an additional note has been added to eSearch as follows:

Up to eight members of Nottingham Trent University can access this resource at the same time. If you see a message indicating that all of NTU’s licences for BRAD are in use, please try again later.

Emerald – metasearch working again in eSearch

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

A technical problem which was affecting remote and metasearching of Emerald in eSearch earlier this week has now been fixed. Emerald searches are now returning results in eSearch normally.