Off campus access issues for Oxford University Press ejournals.

There is currently no off campus access to Oxford University Press ejournals.  Signing in via your institution results in the following error page.

sign in error page

This is currently being investigated by the supplier.

On campus access remains unaffected.

Access to VLeBooks.com restored again.

Yesterdays’ access issues with the VLeBook platform has now been resolved by the supplier.

The out of date security certificate at the root of the problem has been renewed by the company.

Access to our e-books titles has been restored, with direct on-campus access and off-campus access available by university username and password.

VLebooks.com home page

Loss of access to some of our e-books on Library OneSearch

There is currently an issue when trying to access some of our e-book content via Library OneSearch.  Ebooks supplied by VLebooks.com currently redirect to a privacy warning screen when you try to view online.

vlebooks_privacy_warning

This has been reported and is currently under investigation.

Off-campus access to ISURV restored

AS PART OF the rollout of the new hosted eZproxy service, off-campus access to the ISURV platform has been re-enabled. Off-campus access is once again available by university username and password, with on-campus access continuing to be direct.

ISURV logo

Off-campus registration to WGSN re-enabled

AS PART OF the rollout of the new hosted eZproxy service, the ability to register a new (and re-activate an inactive) WGSN account from off-campus has been re-enabled – as long as the student authenticates via the Library OneSearch link. Library colleagues will no longer need to mediate the creation or reactivation of WGSN accounts for students who are off-campus.

An updated guide to creating a WGSN account, and guide to managing an existing WGSN account, have also been made available through the listing of the resource in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch.

WGSN user interface

Off-campus access to BCIS restored

AS PART OF the rollout of the new hosted eZproxy service, off-campus access to the BCIS (Buidling Cost Information Service) platform has been restored. On-campus access continues to be direct, with off-campus access available once again by university username and password.

BCIS user interface

Problems accessing Lexis Nexis Professinonal

Error

Currently we are experiencing problems with accessing content from Lexis Nexis Professional from both on and off campus.

The issue is currently under investigation

 

Elsevier Science Direct – some sign in issues for off campus users

Elsevier are currently investigating an issue with sign in for off campus access.

After arriving at an article page if you choose the purchase pdf option and then sign in via your institution, after selecting Nottingham Trent University login and completing NTU single sign in, you are presented with a 404 error page.

science direct 404 error

Until this is resolved off campus users should select the sign in option to the top right of the screen, as this ‘sign in via your institution’ route works ok.

Science direct sign in option

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) ‘at risk’ this morning

The streaming video service Box of Broadcasts (BoB) has just announced that they will be carrying out some unscheduled maintenance work this morning (Friday 2 March) and that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ until 12:30.

UPDATE, 13:30: The maintenance period has overrun, but BoB indicate that services should be fully restored shortly.

UPDATE, 16:00: The maintenance period has now concluded and BoB services are accessible once more.

BoB - new platform