Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
The Bankscope database has been renamed as Orbis Bank Focus in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch, to align with the product’s name change.
Access to the resource is by university username and password.
Searching for the resource’s previous name in the Find Databases search box will also return the listing for Orbis Bank Focus.
The ISIS (Insurance Companies Worldwide) database has been renamed as Orbis Insurance Focus in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch, to align with the product’s name change.
Access to the resource is by university username and password.
Searching for the resource’s previous name in the Find Databases search box will also return the listing for Orbis Insurance Focus.
Secure off-campus access to the ISURV platform has been enabled in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch. While on-campus access remains direct, off-campus access is now through university username and password (using the secure link provided in LOS). Access URLs and details have been updated in the records in Library OneSearch.
Secure off-campus access to the BCIS platform has been enabled in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch. While on-campus access remains direct, off-campus access is now through university username and password (using the secure link provided in LOS). Access URLs and details have been updated in the records in Library OneSearch.
The Box of Broadcasts streaming service has been experiencing ongoing and intermittent service issues over the last few days.
A rescheduled maintenance period for the BoB platform also means that the service will be ‘at risk’ between 08.00 and 10.00am on 22 December 2016.
The service advises as follows:
From around 22.30 on Monday 12 December, the service has been experiencing intermittent outages and issues with some content playback. Content broadcast from around 22.30 on Monday 12 December onwards is still experiencing playback problems, however, system access has now been fully restored. We’re working on fixing playback for these recently broadcast programmes, and will update you when this content is accessible again. The vast majority of archive content remains unaffected and is accessible.
The cause of the disruption has been due to our preparation of a system upgrade and login server maintenance, that was scheduled to take place on 15 December 2016 between 08.00am and 10.00am. This upgrade was due to fix an issue with signing-in and also deliver the new embed code functionality, which has experienced implementation problems.
Due to the problems experienced by users over the last few days, we have rescheduled the server maintenance to 22 December 2016, close to the holiday period, where we hope any disruption will be kept to an absolute minimum. As a result, please consider BoB at risk between 08.00 and 10.00am on 22 December 2016, and let your users know about the scheduled maintenance.
We’d like to apologise for any disruption to teaching over the last few days. Please be assured we are working on a number of resilience measures that will provide far greater system stability going forward.
Access to the Business of Fashion site has been activated in the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch. Registration for a free student membership (also available to academic and support staff) is required, after which access is by @ntu.ac.uk email address and registered password. The resource is described as follows:
The Business of Fashion is an international news and features services aimed at “fashion creatives, executives and entrepreneurs” that provides fashion business intelligence, news, analysis and opinion on emerging designers, disruptive technologies and global brands.
Access to the streaming video service Kanopy has been enabled in the Find Databases section of Library OneSearch. Access to Kanopy is by university username and password. The library’s subscription to Kanopy provides patron driven acquisition access to all of the content discoverable by NTU staff and students, so any film listed on the platform can be viewed. New content is regularly added to the site, which will also be available to library customers by default.
Individual catalogue records for Kanopy film titles will be uploaded to Aleph, and made discoverable in Library OneSearch, shortly.
The resource is described as follows:
Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides access to more than 28,000 film and documentary titles across the disciplines of: the arts, business, education, global studies and languages, health, media and communications, sciences and social sciences, as well as instructional films and lessons.
Film content can be streamed to a wide variety of desktop and mobile devices, and can be embedded in web pages and other online applications.
Register for a personal user account on the site to create clips, playlists, watchlists, get recommendations, post ratings and reviews and to keep a record of the films that you watched.
UPDATE, 1 November 2016: Individual catalogue records for single videos, and for video collections, are now discoverable through Library OneSearch. Examples include:
More than 450 new titles from the Sage Knowledge EBA collection have recently been added to Library OneSearch. Access to these new titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Titles include the following:
More than fifty new eBook titles from the Greenleaf SOL (Sustainable Organization Library) collection have recently been added to Library OneSearch. Access to the new titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Titles include:
World sustainable development outlook 2013. Sustainable development: new multi-disciplinary approaches and methodologies / Allam Ahmed
The ecology of law: toward a legal system in tune with nature and community / Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei
Piracy: leakages from modernity / Henry Mintzberg
More than 40 new titles from the Emerald eBook Business Management and Economics and Social Sciences collections are now discoverable through Library OneSearch. Access to the new titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Titles include:
A total of 730 new eBook titles from the library’s Elsevier eBook series and backfiles collections have been added to Library OneSearch in recent weeks. Access to the new titles is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. A few examples include:
Following the work by the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) team to recover access to the BoB platform following the recent outage, the technical issue preventing NTU staff and students from logging in to the service has also now been resolved.
Access to BoB is now available (on-campus, and off-campus [within the UK]) by university username and password.
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