ProQuest maintenance period – Sunday 1 March 2015

A maintenance upgrade to the main ProQuest infrastructure is scheduled for Sunday 1 March 2015 – starting at 03:00 UK time and lasting until 08:00. During this time, the following services will be unavailable:

  • Chadwyck-Healey databases (such as Literature Online)
  • LibraryThing for Libraries (which supports the IRep NTU authors showcase)
  • ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com) (all 24 databases, including the British Humanities Index, PsycArticles, The Vogue Archive, etc.,)
  • ProQuest Syndetic Solutions (which supports the book cover display and the ‘Learn more about this book’ feature in Library OneSearch)
  • RefWorks (all RefWorks services)

New resource: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland

Access to the new ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland service has been enabled in Library OneSearch. The new service replaces the now-withdrawn Index to Theses service. Access to the new resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland is described as follows:

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: UK & Ireland provides details of doctoral theses awarded by institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland dating back to 1716. Along with detailed descriptive records, including a large proportion of abstracts, the service provides PDF previews of selected theses, where these are available. The collection covers PhD theses in the following subject areas: business, health and medicine, history, literature and language, science and technology, social sciences, and the arts.

As part of the search.proquest.com platfrom, the new service can be search independently or alongside one or more of the 23 other databases provided through the ProQuest site. The new resource has been has given the same category assignments as the previous Index to Theses service, namely:

  • Architecture and Civil Engineering – Architecture;
  • Architecture and Civil Engineering – Civil and Structural Engineering;
  • Architecture and Civil Engineering – Furniture and Product Design;
  • Architecture and Civil Engineering – Interior Architecture and Design;
  • Art and Design – Furniture and Product Design;
  • Criminology and Youth Justice – Criminology;
  • Criminology and Youth Justice – Youth Justice;
  • Education, Teacher Training, Childhood + Youth Studies – Youth Studies
  • Law – Research Methods;
  • Politics and International Studies – Research Methods;
  • Property, Construction and Surveying – Building and Construction;
  • Property, Construction and Surveying – Property;
  • Property, Construction and Surveying – Surveying;
  • Psychology, Sociology and Counselling – Psychology and Counselling;
  • Psychology, Sociology and Counselling – Research Methods;
  • Public Health – Public Health;
  • Social Work, Health and Social Care – Social Work;
  • Social Work, Health and Social Care – Health and Social Care;

Withdrawn resource: Index to Theses

Access to the Index to Theses service has been withdrawn from the ‘Find Databases’ service of Library OneSearch following the winding up of the resource. Index to Theses is superceded by the new ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland service.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) service ‘at risk’ Sunday 1 February 2015

To enable an urgent storage capacity upgrade, the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) service will be ‘at risk’ during Sunday 1 February 2015. The work is planned to take place in the morning, and is anticipated to last no more than two hours; but as timings are not yet finalised the service should be considered ‘at risk’ that day.

Real-time updates, over the course of the weekend, should be provided through BoB’s Twitter feed, and a full update on the works should be available on the morning of 2 February 2015.

Issue affecting DOI (Digital Object Identifier) resolution resolved

A problem affecting the global DOI (Digital Object Identifier) resolution system, provided by the dx.doi.org service has now been resolved.

An issue arose yesterday (20 January 2015) which meant that requests to the DOI HTTP resolver at dx.doi.org (for example for a clickable version of a DOI such as http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2015.01.013) were not been routed through to the current destination URL for that DOI. Instead, users were directed to a generic error page for the dx.doi.org. domain.

The issue has now been resolved, and requests to the dx.doi.org service are now being resolved normally. A detailed explanation for the outage has been published on the CrossTech blog.

Westlaw – maintenance period – 24 January 2015

The Westlaw UK service will be unavailable for several hours from 03:30 on Saturday 24 January 2015 for a scheduled maintenance period.

The work is scheduled to begin at 3:30am (GMT) Saturday, 24 January 2015 in an effort to keep any possible disruption to a minimum. The maintenance will take several hours to complete, during which the Westlaw UK service will be unavailable. The full service will be restored as soon as possible

Digimap – service outage – 26-27 January 2015

To enable a roll-out of an upgrade to the platform’s registration system, Digimap services will be interrupted on 26-27 January 2015. Digimap explains:

New users will not be able to register for Digimap from 4pm on 26th Jan and all Digimap services will be unavailable all day on 27th Jan. Normal service will resume by 9am on 28th Jan.

More information about the outage and upgrade can be found on the Digimap blog.

New resource: Human Rights Studies Online

Following the recent trial of the Human Rights Studies Online database, subscription-based access to the resource is now available through Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. All listings and records in LOS have been updated accordingly.

Alexander Press - Human Rights Studies Online

UPDATE, 14 January 2015: Off-campus access to Human Rights Studies Online is now via a WAYFLess Shibboleth URL, meaning that staff and students accessing the service from off-site through Library OneSearch will be automatically directed to the NTU Single Sign On page, bypassing the WAYF (Where Are You From?) page used during the trial.

OSIRIS – off-campus access restored

The problems preventing successful off-campus access to the OSIRIS service have now been resolved. Off-campus access is available again via university username and password. Direct on-campus access has remained unaffected throughout.

Withdrawn resource: OSH-UPDATE

The OSH-UPDATE service has been withdrawn from the Library OneSearch ‘Find Databases’ service following the conclusion of the library’s subscription to the resource. OSH-UPDATE will be removed from ‘All’ searches in LOS shortly.

OSIRIS – off-campus access currently unavailable

Off-campus access to the OSIRIS database is currently unavailable, due to technical problems affecting the authentication connection with the service. A notification has been added to the OSIRIS listing in Library OneSearch, alerting customers to this issue:

Off-campus access to the OSIRIS service is currently unavailable due to technical issues. The library will restore off-campus access to the service as soon as possible.

Resource trial: Human Rights Studies Online

Alexander Press - Human Rights Studies Online

Trial access to the Human Rights Studies Online collection has been enabled in Library OneSearch (through the Find Databases service) to enable and encourage evaluation of the resource by academics and students. Access is direct on-campus, and by university username and password from off-campus. Trial access will be available until 11 January 2015. The resource is described as follows:

Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects. The collection include around 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of audio-visual content.

 

Off-campus access during the trial

During the trial period off-campus requests to access the resource will resolve to a login page displaying the message ‘We’re sorry, but we don’t recognise you!’ (see illustration below).

Alexander Press  - Human Rights Studies Online - login

Scroll down that page to the ‘Select by institution name’ box, and search for ‘Nottingham Trent University’. When the ‘Login via institution’ box appears below that, click on the ‘Go’ button to resolve the the NTU Single Sign-On page. Enter your university username and password and click on ‘Login’ to be authorised to access the resource.

Alexander Press - Human Rights Studies Online - login - second step