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.
New resource: BFI Player, Free collection
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.
Withdrawn resource: British Film Institute (BFI) InView
THE BRITISH FILM Institute (BFI) InView multimedia streaming platform has been withdrawn from the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch following the suspension of the service at the end of the current licensing period.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.
MIT Press Journals – Shibboleth authentication activated
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).
On the Login to your account page, select the Institutional Login option (see below).
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).
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).
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 7 March 2019
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.
Journal Citation Reports access URL updated
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
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
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.
Access to the LinkedIn Learning platform now active
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.
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’.
Lynda.com migrating to LinkedIn Learning
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.
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 21 February 2019
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.
New resource: DETAIL Inspiration
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.
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