Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
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:
DUE TO ONGOING technical problems affecting the Shibboleth environment on the main ProQuest platform, the off-campus authentication method for more than twenty separate resources in the Find Databases service has temporarily been changed to the library’s secure eZproxy server.
Off-site access to databases, such as ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts), IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) and ProQuest One Literature, continues to be via university username and password.
The ProQuest technical team are working to resolve the problems with their Shibboleth service provider, which have led to failed logins to the main ProQuest platform from off-site.
UPDATE, 21 April: The ProQuest technical team have confirmed that the issue affecting their Shibboleth environment has now been resolved.
ACCESS TO THE ProQuest One Literature platform has been enabled today in the Find Databases service.
The resource is described as:
The ProQuest One Literature database brings together contemporary scholarship across the breadth of the literary world. It contains more than 1200 full-text journals, 500,000 primary works, 20,000 historic literary criticism sources, 1300 videos, and 20,000 eBooks. It also provides access to rare and hard-to-find texts by writers from across the world, and guides to authors and to literary movements which explore similarities and differences across topical, societal, historical, philosophical and stylistic categories. Offering access to more than 14,000 dissertations and theses, the database also includes the contents of the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).
Access to more than 16,000 separate titles contained within ProQuest One Literature have also been enabled in the SFX (Find It @ NTU) service.
Access to the ProQuest One Literature platform 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 9 February 2020, between 3:00 and 15:00 (UK time).
This means that the following ProQuest databases, eBook platforms and services, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout the first six hour period, 3:00 to 9:00 (UK time).
And upon completion of the maintenance window, for an additional six hours from 9:00 to 15:00, automatic citation functionality and MyResearch account access will continue to be unavailable:
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Refworks platform will begin Saturday 21 December 2019, between 06:00 and 16:00(UK time). During this ten hour period the following services will unavailable:
A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest eBook platforms is scheduled for Saturday 21 December 2019, between 02:00 and 12:00 (UK time). This means that the following ProQuest eBook platform and service, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout this ten hour period:
ProQuest have confirmed that access to their e-book platforms has been restored.
ProQuest apologize for any inconvenience caused.
ProQuest technicians are currently working to resolve access issues with some of their ebook platforms.
An update will follow once everything is resolved.
A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest eBook platforms is scheduled for Saturday 19 October 2019, between 17:00 and 20:00 (UK time). This means that the following ProQuest eBook platform and service, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout this three hour period:
A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest eBook platforms is scheduled for Saturday 20 July 2019, between 17:00 and 20:00 (UK time). This means that the following ProQuest eBook platform and service, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout this three hour period:
PROQUEST REFWORKS WILL be conducting scheduled maintenance for approximately 1 hour on 20 April 2019 between 15:00 and 16:00.
They have advised that during this time new Refworks will be offline.
Write-n-Cite will be available offline, but users will not be able to sync their references with Refworks.
All existing references will be maintained and available at the end of the maintenance window.
A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest eBook platforms is scheduled for Saturday 20 April 2019, between 17:00 and 19:00 (UK time). This means that the following ProQuest eBook platform and service, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout this two hour period:
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