Withdrawal of temporarily available online resources

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

DURING THE FIRST months of the Covid-19 campus closure, the library was able to provide access to a large number of additional database resources to support learning, teaching and research activities. These resources were a combination of short-term subscriptions and materials made temporarily available under licence by publishers.

Over recent weeks, the majority of these temporary arrangements have concluded. As a result, the following resources have been removed from the Find Databases service.

  • Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy
  • Annual Reviews
  • Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination
  • Berghahn Journals
  • Bloomsbury Architecture Library
  • Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies
  • Bloomsbury Medieval Studies
  • Cambridge University Press – Cambridge Core
  • Drama Online
  • eBook Academic Collection
  • eBook Harvard Business Publishing Collection
  • LWW Health Library
  • Law Trove – Oxford University Press
  • Manchester Hive (MUP eBook collections)
  • Project Muse
  • SAGE Knowledge
  • SAGE Research Methods Video
  • SAGE Video
  • Screen Studies
  • University of California Press Journals

The library is in the process of subscribing to a wide range of additional online resources, and details of these new collections will be made available through this blog.

Bloomsbury Digital Resources logo

Law Trove

Manchester Hive logo

Dawsonera content migrates to the VLeBooks platform

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

FOLLOWING THE CLOSURE of the Dawsonera eBook platform, access to the library’s full-text eBook content previously accessed through Dawsonera has been moved to the VLeBooks platform.

This migration has required the update of multiple thousands of authentication-aware access links in different library discovery systems.

The majority of that work has now been completed, and eBook records in Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro, and eBook and Chapter records in the Resource List Management System, all now automatically direct the request for ex-Dawsonera content to the VLeBooks platform.

These new links resolve directly to the requested book (rather than to the home page of VLeBooks), and are all authentication-aware, routing the requester through the sign-in process (via university username and password) as required.

The remaining remedial work on links to Dawsonera content in the online library environment will be completed later this month.

Example VleBooks page

Nexis UK – access restored

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

The Nexis UK technical team have now resolved the recent issue of authentication errors when attempting to access Nexis UK from both on and off campus.

Access should now be available for both staff and students.

Nexis UK have apologised for the length of the outage and any disruption this may have caused.

NexisUK authentication error message

Nexis UK – database unavailable

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

We have received reports of an authentication error message when attempting to access Nexis UK from both on and off campus.

NexisUK authentication error message

We are currently working with Nexis UK support to try and resolve this issue.

Additional Bloomsbury resources: access period extended

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

TEMPORARY ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS for a range of different electronic resources provided through the Bloomsbury platform have been extended to 31 July 2020.

Details in the Find Databases listings for each of these resources have been updated to reflect this. The resources are:

All these resources remain discoverable through the list of additional electronic resources being provided during the current closure of the site libraries.

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Withdrawn resource: JoVE Science Education

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

THE PERIOD OF temporary access to JoVE’s Science Education, Core, and Lab Manual content provided by the publisher has concluded.

As a result, the listing for JoVE Science Education has been withdrawn from the list of additional electronic resources being provided during the current closure of the site libraries.

Jove logo

Resolved: secure proxy access problems

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

THE ISSUES PREVENTING access to resources relying on ‘secure proxy’ authentication, reported earlier this morning, have now been resolved.

All access requests are now resolving correctly, with authentication by university username and password.

New Find Databases - external links

Secure proxy access problems

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

THE LIBRARY IS working with colleagues in Digital Technologies to resolve a problem that is preventing access requests to electronic resources that use the ‘secure proxy service’ from resolving correctly.

The issue is affecting database, eBook and ejournal access requests which rely on this method of authentication.

For those resources impacted by the issue, requests resolve to a generic login screen displaying the OCLC logo (see below).

A further update will follow once normal access has been restored.

OCLC log in screen

Withdrawn resource: Construction & Building Abstracts

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

THE CONSTRUCTION & Building Abstracts (CBA) service has been withdrawn from the Find Database service as this online resource is no longer available.

Learning on Screen – scheduled maintenance – 22 May 2020

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

A scheduled system maintenance period for the Learning on Screen platform will begin Friday 22 May 2020 between 14:00 and 20:00. The provider advises that the following services may be unavailable during these times:

  • TRILT
  • Off-Air Request Service
  • Channel 4 Press Packs
  • Radio Collections

TRILT homepage screenshot

Refworks – scheduled maintenance – 10 May 2020

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

Refworks homepage

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:

  • Legacy Refworks
  • Proquest Refworks
  • Refworks Citation Manager
  • Write-n-Cite

Additional electronic and online resources: LWW Health Library

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

LWW Health Library logo

THE LWW HEALTH Library has been added to the current list of temporary additional electronic and online resources available through the Find Databases service.

The LWW Health Library is described as follows:

LWW Health Library brings together a range of clinical and health science content. A wide range and variety of electronic text-based material is supplemented by multimedia content, online quizzed and real-world case studies. All the materials are grouped into discete collections, including: pharmacy; occupational therapy; speech, language and hearing; pathology; physical therapy and many others.

Access to LWW Health Library is by university username and password.