Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
The previously reported problems preventing off-campus access to eBook titles on the Bloomsbury Collections platform have now been resolved.
Off-campus access is available once again by university username and password. An illustrated walkthrough of each step in the off-campus login process is available.
Off-campus access to eBook titles in the Bloomsbury Collections set is currently unavailable due to a problem affecting Bloomsbury’s Shibboleth Service Provider.
Off-campus login requests (via NTU username and password) are currently resolving to an error page. A further update will follow once off-campus access to Bloomsbury Collections’ content has been reinstated. On-campus access (via IP authentication) is unaffected.
Access to eBooks on the Dawsonera platform has been restored, following the resolution of the issues affecting the Dawsonera Shibboleth service provider.
The sixteen free-to-access eBook titles in the Dawn of the Unread series (part of the award-winning Nottingham-based Dawn of the Unread project) can now be accessed through Library OneSearch. The Dawn of the Unread series imagines:
what would happen if the great literary figures from Nottingham’s past went unread. If their ideas are not preserved and made accessible will they effectively disappear from our minds? Sillitoe, Lawrence, Byron et al would never put up with such an insult and so return from the grave, in a twist on the zombie genre, in search of the one thing that will ensure their survival: ‘boooks’.
Catalogue records for each of the sixteen entries in the series (including links to the PDF versions of each instalment) are now available in Library OneSearch:
The Dawn of the Unread series is also available through a mobile app on the Windows, Android and iOs platforms.
Access to eBook titles on the Dawsonera is currently unavailable to library customers due to technical problems affecting the Dawsonera Shibboleth service provider. A further update will follow once access has been restored.
Access to ICONDA (a bibliographic database covering building, construction and architecture, delivered through the OVID-SP platform) has been withdrawn from the Find Databases service in Library OneSearch following the conclusion of the library’s subscription to the resource.
The UK Press Online service have just launched an updated version of their discovery platform. (LLR has been involved in some pre-release technical testing of the new interface.) Access to the service remains direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
Library customers accessing UK Press Online from off-campus through Library OneSearch will be automatically directed to the university’s single sign-on page. Anyone navigating to the platform independently from off-campus, will need to select the UK Federation Access option from the UK Press Online login page (see illustration below), and then search for ‘Nottingham Trent University’ on the Where Are You From (WAYF) page.
A further 560 new eBook titles have been added to the Cambridge University Press EBA package available through Library OneSearch. New titles include:
For a small number of titles, clicking on the View Online link in Library OneSearch will result in a CrossRef DOI disambiguation page: listing more than one possible discovery destination for the requested eBook title (see illustration example below). In order to access the full-text of the title, select the University Publishing Online link; as this is the platform through which the library’s full-text access is available.
A new collection of more than 1300 ejournals titles, provided through the SpringerLink Journals (NESLi2) package, is now available in Library OneSearch and through SFX. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. For most titles in the collection, full-text access is available from 1997 onwards. Titles include:
A technical issue affecting the MyiLibrary eBook platform, which arose at the end last week, has now been resolved. WAYFLess URLs in eBook records in Library OneSearch were resolving to the MyiLibrary homepage rather than to the indivIdual requested eBook. Resolution to title level has been reinstated and requests are now resolving as intended.
The problems affecting the ElgarOnline eBook platform have now been resolved, and the service is working normally once again.
The ElgarOnline eBook platform (through which the library currently accesses the ElgarOnline eBook Business Collection) is currently offline. ElgarOnline’s engineers are working to return the service to normal operation as soon as possible.
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