THE ISSUES AFFECTING authenticated access to some front-facing library services and platform (reported earlier today) have now been resolved.
Access to all publisher sites and resources reliant on eZproxy authentication for off-campus access has been reinstated. Authenticated access to the Worktribe research management application is also available once again.
THE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES team has this morning deployed some planned updates to the university’s authentication environment which have caused temporary interruptions in access to some services.
Resources which rely on eZproxy authentication for off-campus access are currently unavailable (with requests resulting in an error message). Access to the Worktribe research management system is similarly affected.
The impacted platforms and services are those that have a unique, customised integration with the university’s authentication environment – so library resources that rely on standard Shibboleth-based Single Sign-on are continuing to work normally.
The DT and library teams are working with third-party suppliers to reinstate access to the affected platforms and applications as soon as possible.
A further update will follow once these issues have been resolved.
ATTEMPTS TO LOG in to both Westlaw and Practical Law continue to resolve to an error page for some users indicating the absence of a ‘valid registration key’.
If you experience this error please report it to the library at libinfodirect@ntu.ac.uk so steps can be taken to enable access.
The library continues to work with Thomson Reuters to resolve this technical issue.
ATTEMPTS TO LOG in to the Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw service may currently resolve to an error page indicating the absence of a ‘valid registration key‘.
The issue prevents staff and students with an existing Thomson Reuters’ OnePass account from entering their registered details, and for those without a OnePass account from creating one.
The library is working with Thomson Reuters to resolve this technical issue as soon as possible.
The Practical Law platform is also affected by the same authentication issue. Notifications alerting staff and students to the problem have been added to the Find Databases entries of both services.
THE TECHNICAL ISSUES preventing login requests submitted through the NTU Single Sign-on service from resolving correctly reported earlier have now been resolved.
Although the service will not return to full capacity for several hours, it is already possible to log in to the full range of available library resources and services (which rely on SSO) using an NTU university username and password.
Technical issues affecting the NTU Single Sign-on service mean that many electronic library resources are currently inaccessible from off-campus. Many library resources and services that require university username and password authentication on-campus are also affected. Teams across the university are working to resolve the problem as soon as possible.
THE TECHNICAL PROBLEMS preventing authenticated access to the Mintel platform reported earlier this morning have now been resolved.
Authenticated access to the service is now available once more, from both on-campus and off-campus, through the Find Databases listing for the resource.
THE LIBRARY IS working with providers Talis to recover login functionality in the Resource List Management System (RLMS).
At present, while read-only access to resource list content is unaffected, attempts to log in to the RLMS resolve to a error page indicating that access is ‘unauthorised’.
A further update will follow once login services are working normally once more.
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.
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.
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