Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
ProQuest research databases will be unavailable on Sunday, August 10, from 03:00 to 11:00 (GMT) due to planned maintenance. This includes the EBook Central platform, which provides access to several eBooks in our library collections.
For more information, please visit the ProQuest support page.
THE LIBRARY HAS renewed its subscription to the Early English Books Online database on a new platform hosted by ProQuest. Check the Find Databases service for further details and access links to follow from on and off campus.
The resource is described as follows:
EEBO (Early English Books Online) contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere between 1473 and 1700.
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.
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):
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):
ENHANCEMENTS HAVE BEEN rolled out to support the export of larger quantities of search results from databases on both the EBSCOhost and ProQuest database platforms.
Interest has been growing, amongst students and researchers, in the ability to export multiple thousands of records from two of the library’s most widely used database platforms.
When staff and students search on any of the databases on the EBSCOhost platform (such as Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete or SportDiscus – with Full Text) the Share feature now includes the option to generate a downloadable set of search results, up to a maximum of 25,000 records in any one set (see illustration below).
Choosing that option loads a screen on which the requester can add a preferred email address and the format in which the records should be generated (such as a .ris file).
The 25k record threshold is in effect whether the search is carried out on a single EBSCOhost database or when searching several EBSCOhost databases in combination.
Once the requested records have been compiled, the requester will receive an email including a direct download link.
In order to take avantage of the full export options on the ProQuest platform (which provides access to the ASSIA [Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts] and IBSS [International Bibliography of the Social Sciences] databases amongst many others) staff and students need to create and then log in to their PQ My Research account (see illustration below).
Once logged in to My Research, it’s possible to export a total of 10 thousand records in a single set.
The 10k record threshold is in effect whether the search is carried out on a single ProQuest database or when searching several ProQuest databases in combination.
When a results set contains fewer than 10k records, the Export Results feature is available (see illustration below). If a search returns more than 10k records, the Export Results option is disabled.
Licensing restrictions mean that records in some of the databases provided through the ProQuest platform are not available for export. This can be an issue when searching across multiple databases on the ProQuest site simultaneously.
When that occurs attempts to export the results will generate a pop-up message indicating that: “Your selection includes one or more articles that can’t be included in your request” (see illustration below).
There is no option which allows the automatic removal of the records in the set of search results preventing the export. However, clicking or tapping the ‘question mark’ icon in the top-right of the pop-up message (see illustration above) will display a list of the databases from which the export of records is restricted.
To remove the offending records from the export, first select the Database facet from the result set, and choose the More option (see illustration below).
In the Database pop-up, select the Exclude option for export-restricted databases and choose Apply (see illustration below).
Once any unexportable database records have been removed, the Export results option will open a new pop-up. Having read the ‘Terms and Conditions’, select the required export format, choose whether or not to include Abstracts, and click or tap Accept.
The requested records will not be immediately available for export, as the record set needs first to be processed on ProQuest’s servers.
To retrieve the records, access the My Research area, and select the Searches tab (see illustration below).
Newly requested exports will display and may indicate that ProQuest is still “Processing Results…” (see illustration below).
Once the processing has completed, the Exports Results option will be activated for that results set (see illustration below). Selecting the Export Results option will trigger the download of the matching saved search items in the selected format.
There is no need to remain logged into the ProQuest platform while a set of search results is processed. The next time that a student or researcher logs into their My Research area, previously saved searches will be listed in the Searches tab, along with the Export Results option.
ProQuest apply a limit of two such large exports per day. Additional search results sets can be saved in the Searches tab for future export.
A ROUTINE MAINTENANCE period on the ProQuest platform is scheduled for Sunday 25 July 2020, between 3:00 and 13:00 (UK time).
This means that the following ProQuest databases, eBook platforms and services, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout the ten-hour period, 3:00 to 13:00 (UK time):
A NUMBER OF ProQuest services will be unavailable during a planned maintenance period beginning at 03:00 and ending by 11:00 on Saturday 30 January.
Of the different ProQuest resources that may be affected for some or all of that period, key ones for customers of Libraries and Learning Resources are:
The RefWorks service is not affected by this planned maintenance period.
The real-time status of all ProQuest services can be checked on the ProQuest Status Page.
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Refworks platform will begin Sunday 20 December 2020, between 04:00 and 06:00(UK time). During this two hour period the following services will unavailable:
THE BLACK FREEDOM Struggle in the United States digital document archive has been made discoverable in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch.
Made freely available online by publishers ProQuest, access to the resource is not subject to any requirement to log in.
The resource is described as follows:
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States is an archival service containing a selection of approximately 1,600 documents, with others being added, focusing on African American efforts to secure civil and human rights – from slavery to the present, and is organised into six main collections:
This resource has been made freely available by ProQuest. As an independently managed resource, Black Freedom Struggle in the United States cannot be searched in parallel with other databases accessed through the main ProQuest search platform.
THE INTERNATIONAL INDEX to Black Periodicals, a full-text database from Chadwyck-Healey, is now accessible through a new entry in the library’s Find Databases service.
Access to the resource is by university username and password.
The resource is described as follows:
The International Index to Black Periodicals draws together content from more than 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies. Subjects and disciplines including art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology. Wherever possible, the full-text of all materials in the index is provided directly within the IIBP site, either in PDF or HTML format.
The subscription costs for the resource are being met from a university grant supporting a research project, with access also being made available to staff and students more widely for the duration of the subscription.
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:
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