O’Reilly for Higher Education discovery records

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

FOLLOWING THE ADDITION of the O’Reilly for Higher Education collection to the Find Databases services, individual discovery records for materials from the platform are now available in Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro.

More than 64,000 new records are now discoverable, including the following examples.

Alternative scriptwriting / Ken Dancyger

Chroma / Nick Fancher

Cisco voice gateways and gatekeepers / Denise Donohue

Character mentor / Tom Bancroft

Authenticated access to all O’Reilly for Higher Education titles is by university username and password.

Adam Matthew Explorer discovery records

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

FOLLOWING THE ADDITION of the Adam Matthew Explorer platform to the Find Databases service, individual discovery records for materials in all the Explorer collections have now been added to Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro.

More than 200,000 new records (207,715 to be exact) from across a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines are now available. The full set of Explorer collections is as follows:

African American Communities
Age of Exploration
American History 1493-1859
American History 1860-1945
American Indian Histories and Cultures
American Indian Newspapers
American West
Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1966
Apartheid South Africa, 1967-1975
Apartheid South Africa, 1976-1980
China, America and the Pacific
China: Culture and Society
China: Trade, Politics and Culture
Church
Colonial America
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
Confidential Print:
Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
Defining Gender
East India Company
Eighteenth Century Drama
Eighteenth Century Journals
Empire Online
Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920
Food and Drink in History,
Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1929
Foreign Office Files for China, 1930-1937
Foreign Office Files for China, 1938-1948
Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1956
Foreign Office Files for China, 1957-1966
Foreign Office Files for China, 1967-1980
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1964
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1965-1971
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1972-1980
Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1931-1945
Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1946-1952
Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1930
Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1966
Foreign Office Files for the Middle East
Frontier Life
Gender: Identity and Social Change
Global Commodities
India Raj and Empire
J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
Leisure, Travel and
Literary Manuscripts Berg
Literary Manuscripts Leeds
Literary Studies
London Low Life
Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
Market Research And American Business
Mass Observation I
Mass Observation II
Mass Observation III
Mass Observation IV
Mass Observation Online
Mass Observation Project 1980s
Medical Services and Warfare
Medieval Family Life
Medieval Travel Writing
Meiji Japan
Migration to New Worlds
Migration to New Worlds
Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions
Race Relations in America
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
Service Newspapers of WWII
Sex and Sexuality
Shakespeare in Performance
Shakespeare’s Globe Archive
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
Socialism on Film
The First World War A Global Conflict
The First World War Personal Experiences
The First World War Propaganda and Recruitment
The First World War Visual Perspectives and Narratives
The Grand Tour
The Nixon Years, 1969-1974
Trade Catalogues and the American Home
Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
Victorian Popular Culture Spiritualism
Victorian Popular Culture Circuses
Victorian Popular Culture Music Hall
Victorian Popular Culture Moving pictures
Virginia Company Archives
Women in The National Archives
World’s Fairs

The following are a few randomly selected examples from within those collections:

Interview with Arthur Kirmss, 4 April 2011

Atlanta Police Department – annual reports, 1938-1941

Indian education at Hampton and Carlisle

Clowns & pantomimes / by M. Willson Disher

Authenticated access to all Adam Matthew Explorer titles is by university username and password.

Updated resource: SciFinder-n

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

The American Chemical Society’s CAS SciFinder resource has now been upgraded to SciFinder-n.

Access to the new platform remains unchanged. Registered users can sign in with their existing username and password. New users should follow the ‘registration information’ link from the library’s Find Databases page to set up an individual SciFinder-n account.

The upgraded resource is described as follows:

In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder, CAS SciFinder-n includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.

Attempts to access the old CAS SciFinder interface will be automatically redirected to CAS SciFinder-n, so browser bookmarks should be updated as required.

New resource: O’Reilly for Higher Education

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

ACCESS TO THE O’Reilly for Higher Education collection is now available through a new listing for the resource in the Find Databases service.

Authenticated access to the materials on the platform is by university username and password.

The resource is described as follows:

With a focus on programming and development, the O’Reilly for Higher Education platform provides access to more than 44,000 full-text eBooks and more than 30,000 hours of instructional video. Topics range from programming in a wide variety of languages, to IT networking to project management to graphic design and business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, expert-curated learning paths and self-assessments exercises. Materials are drawn from more than 250 technology and business publishers.

Individual discovery records for the eBook and multimedia content on the O’Reilly platform will be made available in Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro shortly.

Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – Tuesday 19 October 2021

Charles Agar - Applications and Technical Services Support Officer

A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) platform will begin Tuesday 19 October 2021 at 06:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.

Withdrawn resource: Foreign Affairs Online

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS Online service has been withdrawn from the Find Databases service.

This freely-accessible, non-subscription directory was previously managed by a researcher at the University of Virginia, and hosted on the university’s web platform, but is no longer available.

Archived snapshots of the site will remain available through the index of the Wayback Machine.

Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – Thursday 14 October 2021

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) platform will begin Thursday 14 October 2021 at 07:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.

Resolved: Log in issues affecting RefWorks reference management software

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

We are pleased to report that the technical issue preventing log in to RefWorks via the ‘Use login from my institution’ option has now been resolved.

Log in issues affecting RefWorks reference management software

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

We are currently investigating an issue affecting log in to RefWorks.

Selecting the ‘Use login from my institution’ option and then searching for and selecting ‘Nottingham Trent University’ leads to an error page.

We are working with RefWorks technical support staff to resolve this problem as soon as possible.

Resolved: Log in issues affecting library resources and other services

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures
NTU Single sign-on

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.

Log in issues affecting library resources and other services

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team
NTU Single sign-on

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.

Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – Friday 24th September 2021

Charles Agar - Applications and Technical Services Support Officer

A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) platform will begin Friday 24th September 2021 at 21:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.