Category: Shibboleth

Palgrave Political & International Studies eBook collection 2012

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

A total of 183 eBook titles from the ‘Palgrave Political & International Studies collection 2012’ are now available in Library OneSearch.

LLR has been working extensively with Palgrave to generate title-level deep-links for the eBook records in the collection which will work for both on-campus and off-campus requests; and a working solution is now in place. (The format of these links may change in future, but the records themselves will persist with their current LMS identifiers). Access to all titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

Example entries the new collection include American military intervention in unconventional war; Understanding collective political violence; The future of entrepreneurship in Latin America; and Authoritarian party structures and democratic political setting in Turkey.

As well as providing online and downloadable .pdf formats for all titles, selected eBooks from Palgrave Connect are available for download/upload to a range of eBook readers in the EPUB format. Palgrave Connect employs “permissive DRM, enabling users in subscribing institutions to download ebook content without any physical restrictions”. For more information, see the Palgrave Connect FAQs on DRM and the EPUB format.

BUFVC and Mintel – login problems resolved

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Problems affecting the off-campus login to the Mintel service, and on-campus and off-campus login to the British Universities Film & Video Council’s (BUFVC) online service yesterday have been resolved.

Customers logging in with their university username and password were being resolved to an error page. Login requests to both services are again being processed normally.

ProQuest platform – off-campus access problems resolved

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The technical issues preventing off-campus access (via university username and password) to databases on the ProQuest platform reported yesterday have now been resolved.

Off-campus access to all of the databases on the platform has been confirmed as fully functional once again.

ProQuest platform – off-campus access currently unavailable

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

LLR is working with the ProQuest Support team to resolve an issue which is preventing off-campus access (via university username and password) to databases on the ProQuest platform. (On-campus access is working normally.) At present, off-campus login requests complete, but loop back to the login page without authenticating the requester.

The affected databases are:

  • Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)‎ (1987 – current)
  • ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)‎ (1974 – current)
  • Australian Education Index (AEI)
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals‎ (1934 – current)
  • Australian Education Index (AEI)
  • British Humanities Index (BHI)‎ (1962 – current)
  • British Periodicals‎ (1681 – 1937)
  • Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)‎ (1973 – current)
  • ERIC‎ (1966 – current)
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)‎ (1951 – current)
  • PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress‎ (1871 – current)
  • Social Services Abstracts‎ (1979 – current)
  • Sociological Abstracts‎ (1952 – current)
  • The Vogue Archive‎

A further update will follow once the issue has been successfully resolved.

EBSCOhost – move from Shibboleth to secure proxy access from off-campus

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Problems affecting off-campus access to databases on the EBSCOhost platform have been resulting in error messages for staff and students logging in using their university username and password in the native EBSCOhost interface.

While investigations into the cause of the problem continue, all off-campus login requests to EBSCOhost databases have been moved from Shibboleth to secure proxy authentication. LLR customers will continue to login to EBSCOhost using their university username and password, so the switchover will be all-but invisible to those accessing EBSCOhost resources through SFX and Library OneSearch. However, because proxy linking is a special form of authentication, login requests from off-campus customers accessing EBSCOhost outside the library’s resource discovery environment (for example, through a Google search) will continue to experience login problems. The advice to such customers is to access EBSCOhost content through LOS and SFX, where their login requests can be routed correctly.

Once the technical issues have been satisfactorily resolved, off-campus authentication for EBSCOhost resources will be returned to the Shibboleth framework.

Off-campus access to Verdict Research restored

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Off-campus access to the Verdict Research service (via university username and password) has now been restored.

Information in eSearch and Library OneSearch has been updated accordingly.

EmeraldInsight – access problems

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Technical problems are continuing to affect the EmeraldInsight platform.

Emerald’s technical team report that problems affecting one of the service’s main servers are causing sporadic loss of access to subscription content on the platform. This means that requests from both on-campus and off-campus NTU staff and students to content subscribed to by LLR can be intermittently refused.

Emerald hope to be able to reinstate stable access to full-text subscription content shortly.

Cambridge University Press journals – off-campus access enabled

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Off-campus access to subscribed journals on the Cambridge University Press journal platform is now available by university username and password. Prompts in SFX have been updated accordingly. On-campus access continues to be direct.

Problems affecting the Web of Knowledge service – update

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Performance issues are continuing to affect the Web of Knowledge service, but a new workaround off-campus access URL has been added to all WoK resources in eSearch – meaning that off-campus access to WoK databases is now available once again.

Wiley Online Library

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Off-campus access to the Wiley Online Library service (previously Wiley InterScience) is now available by university username and password. Access details have been updated in eSearch and SFX. A new and improved remote and metasearch configuration for Wiley Online Library has been enabled in eSearch.

Bridgeman Education – Shibboleth login

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the Bridgeman Education service from off-campus (which was previously provided through a secure proxy) has now been migrated to Shibboleth based authentication. Access details in eSearch have been updated accordingly, although the migration should be invisible to LLR customers.