Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
LexisLibrary have now partially resolved access to the ‘News’ and ‘International Content’ section of the platform both on and off campus.
However, direct access to title level content from within Library OneSearch is still not available when choosing ‘online access’ and results in an ‘unavailable’ page.
We are continuing to work with the Lexis technical team to try and resolve this issue.
Following the recent outage across the Euromonitor International network we’ve now received confirmation from their technical team that all the issues have been resolved and access is again restored.
Access to Passport is direct on campus and by university username and password (using Shibboleth) off campus.
Euromonitor have apologised for the length of the disruption and any inconvenience this may have caused.
Due to a system outage across the entire Euromonitor International network the Passport system is currently unavailable.
Technical staff at Euromonitor are working to resolve these issues and a further update will follow once access is restored.
Euromonitor apologise for any disruption this may be causing.
As of Wednesday 24 April any new users creating educational WGSN accounts will have to register using their NTU email address ending in either @ntu.ac.uk or @my.ntu.ac.uk.
Any other attempts to register with a non-NTU email domain such as gmail or hotmail will result in a failed registration attempt.
Students and staff that have previously registered with personal email accounts will still be able to access their existing accounts.
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.
THE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED issue preventing off-campus access to the Construction Information Service – off-campus access has now been resolved.
Off-campus access to the service is once again available via university username and password.
Off-campus access links in the Find Databases service to the LACORS and OHSIS databases have also been updated to ensure continuity of access.
THE LIBRARY IS working with the suppliers of the Construction Information Service platform to restore off-campus access to the service. At present off-campus access is unavailable; although on-campus access has not been affected.
A further update will follow once off-campus access to the CIS platform is confirmed to be restored and working normally.
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:
We are currently working with the technical team at LexisLibrary to try and restore access to the News and International Content sections of the platform, which have become unavailable since a recent upgrade.
Attempts to access these sections, either on or off campus, results in an error page.
A further update will follow once the issue is confirmed as resolved.
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Thursday 4 April 2019 between 07:00 and 09:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during these times.
ACCESS TO THE Free collection of archival multimedia content on the new BFI Player platform has been enabled in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch.
Access to the Free collection is unrestricted from on-campus and off-campus. The resource is described as follows:
BFI Player is a video on-demand streaming service – from the British Film Institute (BFI) – showing critically acclaimed, landmark and archive films. The Free archive films collection highlights the best shorts and features of the BFI National Archive as well as UK national, regional and partner archives. BFI Player films can be played on: PCs, Macs, iOS devices (iPhone and iPad), Android mobile and tablet devices and selected smart TVs. At present, only content in the Free collection is available to Nottingham Trent University students and staff.
THE BRITISH FILM Institute (BFI) InView multimedia streaming platform has been withdrawn from the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch following the suspension of the service at the end of the current licensing period.
While future options in relation to subscription content on the new BFI Player service are reviewed, access to the Free collection on the BFI Player platform has been enabled in the Find Databases service.
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