MIT Press Journals – Shibboleth authentication activated

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS to subscribed journals on the MIT Press Journals platform is now available by university username and password. On-campus access continues to be direct.

If accessing from off-campus, select the Sign In/Register option from the top navigation menu (see below).

MIT Press Journals - sign in

On the Login to your account page, select the Institutional Login option (see below).

MIT Press Journals - institutional login

On the Select Your Institution page, enter ‘Nottingham Trent University’ in the search box and click on the entry for ‘Nottingham Trent University’ under the heading UK Higher Education (see below).

MIT Press Journals - choose institution

After you have logged in on the NTU Single Sign on page, you will be returned as a logged in user to the MIT Press Journals platform. Confirmation that your login has been successful, is provided by the presence of the NTU logo and the phrase ‘Access provided by Nottingham Trent University’ in the MIT Press Journals page header (see below).

MIT Press Journals - access provided by Nottingham Trent University

Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 7 March 2019

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Thursday 7 March 2019 between 09:30 and 11:30. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during these times.

BoB - new platform

Journal Citation Reports access URL updated

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Journal Citation Reports

THE DIRECT ACCESS URL for the Journal Citation Reports service has been updated in the Find Databases service to reflect changes introduced to the Clarivate platform.

Access to JCR continues to be by university username and password from both on-campus and off-campus.

PILOTS database now PTSDpubs

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

PTSDpubs

THE PILOTS DATABASE has been renamed as PTSDpubs in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch to align with ProQuest’s updated name for the resource.

Access to the service is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

The PTSDpubs bibliographic database (previously PILOTS), covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PTSDpubs database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.

Proquest Refworks – scheduled maintenance – 22 Feb 2019

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

PROQUEST REFWORKS WILL be conducting scheduled maintenance for approximately 4 hours on 22 Feb 2019 between 23:00 and 03:00 23 Feb 2019.

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.

Refworks homepage

 

Access to the LinkedIn Learning platform now active

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

FOLLOWING THE MIGRATION from the Lynda.com to the LinkedIn Learning platform earlier this week, students and staff can access all content they previously viewed on Lynda.com through LinkedIn Learning.

Access to the service is by university username and password from on-campus and off-campus.

A new entry for LinkedIn Learning has been enabled in the library’s Find Databases service. While staff and students become familiar with the transition, the previous Find Databases listing for Lynda.com has been retained, and updated to indicate that the service is now known as LinkedIn Learning.

In due course, the listing for Lynda.com will be removed from the Find Databases service, but at present the access route provided by both listings is identical.

Library OneSearch contains several thousand records for individual Lynda.com courses. At present, links in these records redirect to the LinkedIn Learning platform. In the event of encountering any access issues when connecting to Linked In Learning from these records, the library recommends first logging in to Linked In Learning (through the Find Databases service). The library will be working with LinkedIn Learning to update these records with persistent new direct LinkedIn Learning links.

LinkedIn Learning

In Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro, a new ‘Recommended resource’ match has been added for LinkedIn Learning. It will appear at the top of a set of search results in response to a search for ‘LinkedIn’, ‘LinkedIn Learning’, ‘Linked In’, ‘Linked In Learning’, ‘Lynda’ and ‘Lynda.com’.

Recommended resource - LinkedIn Learning

Lynda.com migrating to LinkedIn Learning

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

THE LYNDA.COM ONLINE learning platform is becoming LinkedIn Learning.

As part of the transition to the new platform, Lynda.com will be unavailable today (19 February 2019) for several hours from around 12noon UK time.

A further update will follow once the process has completed, and staff and students are able to access all content they previously access through Lynda.com on the new LinkedIn Learning platform.

LinkedIn Learning

Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 21 February 2019

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

A scheduled authentication maintenance period for the Learning on Screen service including the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Thursday 21 February 2019 between 07:00 and 09:00. The provider advises that users may be unable to access their resources during these times.

BoB - new platform

New resource: DETAIL Inspiration

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

ACCESS TO THE DETAIL Inspiration database has been enabled in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch.

Access to the resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus, and is described as follows:

DETAIL Inpiration is the online database for one of the world’s most influential architectural periodicals: DETAIL Magazine. DETAIL showcases the best of international architectural design and technology with excellent photography, architectural drawings and technical details in each issue. There are regular targeted publications on specific topics including materials, building types, structure and technology. Like its printed version in both German and English, the database provides access to over 30 years of DETAIL and includes over 3,000 buildings with photographs and their detailed design drawings, updated regularly following each issue of the print version. The database is fully searchable by location, building type, materials etc. and entries are all downloadable in .pdf form.

The subscription to DETAIL Inspiration is paid for by the School of Architecture, Design & Built Environment.

Detail Inspiration

ProQuest platform – scheduled maintenance – 20 January 2019

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

Search ProQuest platform

A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest platform is scheduled for Sunday 20 January 2019, between 3:00 and 11:00 (UK time). This means that the following ProQuest databases, eBook platforms and services, to which the library subscribes, may be unavailable throughout this eight hour period:

  • Alexander Street Press
  • EBook Central
  • RefWorks
  • Syndetics solutions
  • All databases on the search.proquest.com platform, namely:
    • Academic Video Online‎
    • Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)‎ (1987 – current)
    • Art, Design & Architecture Collection‎ (1973 – current)
    • Art and Architecture Archive‎ (1895 – 2005)
    • Australian Education Index‎ (1977 – current)
    • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals‎ (1934 – current)
    • British Periodicals‎ (1681 – 1939)
    • Country Life Archive‎ (1897 – 2005)
    • Digital National Security Archive‎
    • Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive‎ (1880 – 2000)
    • ERIC‎ (1966 – current)
    • Humanities Index‎ (1962 – current)
    • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)‎ (1951 – current)
    • MLA International Bibliography‎ (1926 – current)
    • Periodicals Archive Online‎
    • PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress‎ (1871 – current)
    • ProQuest Central‎ (1970 – current)
      • ABI/INFORM Collection (1971 – current)
      • Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection (1971 – current)
      • Arts & Humanities Database information
      • Asian & European Business Collection (1971 – current)
      • Australia & New Zealand Database information
      • Biology Database (1998 – current)
      • Business Market Research Collection (1986 – current)
      • Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database information
      • Canadian Newsstream information
      • Career & Technical Education Database information
      • Computing Database (1998 – current)
      • Continental Europe Database information
      • Criminal Justice Database (1981 – current)
      • East & South Asia Database information
      • East Europe, Central Europe Database information
      • Education Database (1988 – current)
      • Family Health Database information
      • Global Breaking Newswires information
      • Health & Medical Collection information
      • Health Management Database information
      • India Database (1998 – current)
      • International Newsstream information
      • Latin America & Iberia Database information
      • Library Science Database (1970 – current)
      • Linguistics Database information
      • Middle East & Africa Database information
      • Military Database information
      • Nursing & Allied Health Database information
      • Political Science Database (1985 – current)
      • Psychology Database information
      • Public Health Database information
      • Publicly Available Content Database information
      • Religion Database (1986 – current)
      • Research Library information
      • Science Database information
      • Social Science Database information
      • Sociology Database (1985 – current)
      • Telecommunications Database (1995 – current)
      • Turkey Database information
      • UK & Ireland Database information
      • US Newsstream (1980 – current)
    • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global‎
    • PsycARTICLES‎ (1894 – current)
    • PsycINFO‎ (1806 – current)
    • PsycTESTS‎
    • Sociological Abstracts‎ (1952 – current)
      • Social Services Abstracts (1979 – current)
      • Sociological Abstracts (1952 – current)
    • Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War‎ (1914 – 1919)
    • The Vogue Archive‎
    • The Women’s Wear Daily Archive‎

IDS Employment Law Brief migrated to Westlaw UK

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

Following the migration of IDS Employment Law Brief to Westlaw UK it has been withdrawn from Find Databases as a separate resource.

Access to IDS Employment Law is now available as an additional menu item within the Westlaw UK site, which can be accessed both on and off campus using a university username and password.

IDS Employment Law option in Westlaw

 

New resource: XpertHR

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

ACCESS TO THE XpertHR database has been enabled in the Find Databases service.

The resource is described as follows:

XpertHR is a comprehensive source of HR compliance, good practice and benchmarking information provided by the RELX group. A team of lawyers and HR subject specialists work with more than 100 expert external contributors to produce up to date resources for any HR professional. The database is searchable by task, topic or tool. The different tools available include: employment law, templates, pay surveys and benchmarking and good practice.

Access to the resource is by university username and password from on-campus and off-campus.

The university’s subscription to XpertHR is being paid for by Nottingham Business School, and the current subscription period ends on 15 September 2019.

The XPertHR platform