Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
Access to the new Wiley Online Library (Social Sciences and Humanities Collection) has been enabled in SFX. Access to almost 600 full-text titles in the collection is available direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. All of these titles will be discoverable through Library OneSearch searches and in the SFX A-Z list shortly.
Following the signing of a national license agreement between AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Jisc, access to the Science Classic collection has been enabled in Library OneSearch and SFX.
Access is direct on-campus, and it is hoped to be able to activate off-campus access shortly.
The Science Classic collection provides access to the full-text archive of Science [0036-8075] (1880 to 1996) on the sciencemag.org platform, which is presented as a series of high-resolution PDFs. A new listing for the access to this title on sciencemag.org has been created in SFX.
A new database entry for Science Classic has also been created in Library OneSearch, which is described as follows:
Access to the full-text (and PDF reproduction) of the archive of Science [0036-8075] from 1880 to 1996; plus abstract, summary and back-issue material for a range of publications of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Science Online supporting material, including pod casts, videos, and interactive content; the ScienceCareers.org service; and ScienceNOW stories published within the previous four weeks.
Following an extensive audit of the SFX Knowledge Base by the Serials team, the different publisher entries for the many hundreds of Elsevier full-text journal titles (such as those under Elsevier Science Direct (Academic Press) and Elsevier Science Direct (Excerpta Medica)) have been re-profiled and regrouped under the heading ‘Elsevier Science Direct (Freedom Collection)’ – see example below.
Automated routing through an authentication check has been enabled for all titles in this collection (which means that off-campus users will be passed through ‘university username and password’ authentication before being resolved to the full-text journal listing).
SFX listings for journals in the Elsevier backfiles collections and for the Elsevier Economics Handbooks are unaffected by these changes.
Access to the ICEA (International Civil Engineering Abstracts) service, previously made available through the Emerald platform, has been withdrawn from the Find Databases service of Library OneSearch following its removal from the Emerald platform.
The dawsonera eBook service was brought back online later on the evening of Friday 20 June. The latest update from the company outlines the remaining service features which have still to be fully restored:
dawsonera – Service Now Restored: 23 June 2014
We’re very pleased to finally confirm that late on Friday 20 June the dawsonera service was restored.
In summary:
- For PDA Customers, auto-purchases will work and be provisioned (available for immediate use).
- All PDFs are now available.
Please note, however, that whilst the majority of the functionality has been restored, the following are not currently available:
- ePUBs are currently unavailable for download and reading online.
- For Admin Users (Librarians) reporting will not be available
- EDI and manual orders (batches) will be processed but not provisioned (not available on ERA).
For those items not currently working, it’s our immediate priority now to focus on these issues and resolve in order to provide full functionality as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience as we have worked towards resuming this service. Further updates will follow as we have them.
If you have any queries, please contact your digital team by email enquiries@dawsonera.com.
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Technical issues which have taken the dawsonera eBook platform offline since 18 June are ongoing. At present, no eBook content is available on dawsonera but work to receover the full functionality of the platform is ongoing. THe latest update from the company reports the following:
dawsonera – Latest Update: 11:40, 20th June 2014
We’re sorry to inform you that we anticipate the full dawsonera service to continue to be unavailable throughout the weekend.
However, we are working to restore access to the most frequently used titles in the first instance and then will progressively load additional titles based on accesses and year-to-date usage over the weekend. We’ll confirm further updates on our progress in the next few hours.
Once again, we can only apologise for the unacceptable loss to access to our systems and the inconvenience this has caused you and your users over the last few days. At this stage we are not able to provide you with a timescale for the full & complete service to be restored of all the 350,000+ titles, but will update you regularly as we progress with this activity.
If you have any queries, please contact your digital team by email enquiries@dawsonera.co.uk.
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Sixty-five full-text eBook titles from the Elgaronline Business Collection are now accessible through Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password (using eZproxy) from off-campus.
Titles in the collection include The psychology of the recession on the workplace; Finance in an age of austerity : the power of customer-owned banks; Business models for sustainability and Entrepreneurship and multinationals : global business and the making of the modern world.
In order to correct a problem affecting the BBC Archive link in the off-air recording and streaming service Box of Broadcasts, the BoB team will be carrying out maintenance tasks throughout Thursday 27 March 2014.
Although the work may be completed in a relatively short period of time, the service should be considered ‘at risk’ for the entire day.
BoB will display a message on the BUFVC homepage, and send out updates on its Twitter feed (@bufvc_bob) as work progresses.
The Taylor & Francis Online platform is currently experiencing intermittent service problems. T&F report:
Currently, the journal and article page display is inconsistently showing an error message. Please be assured this is being dealt with as quickly as possible.
A further update will follow once this situation is confirmed as resolved.
The library’s subscription to the Digimap service has now been extended to include the Environment collection (which joins the existing subscription to the Ordnance Survey, Historic, Geology and Discover services of Digimap). Access to this additional collection is initially available until the end of July 2014.
Environment Digimap offers two facilities: mapping and data download. The data available is raster and provides a snapshot of land cover for each of the years 1990, 2000 and 2007. Each data set is available at 25m and 1km resolutions. The exception to this is a vector version of the 2000 data set. The data are available in a range of formats depending on the year. Find out more on the Digimap site:
Individual collections (and sets of collections) within Digimap require a separate registration process prior to access. As this registration process can take several working days, access to collections is not immediate on the first visit, but will become available as the registration is accepted.
Following the deployment of some additional configuration changes by the nature.com technical team, off-campus access to subscribed content on the nature.com platform is now available off-campus – by university username and password. (On-campus access remains direct). Information in SFX has been updated accordingly. To access full-text content off-campus:
LLR’s subscriptions currently cover full-text access to the following nature.com titles:
Nature (most recent four years)
Nature (backfiles 2007-2012)
There is currently an ‘entitlement overlap’ for three titles between the ‘most recent four years’ subscription and the ‘2007-2012’ backfile. In addition nature.com offers free access to a selected range of current and archival journal content. Where possible, this free-to-access journal content is listed separately in SFX.
Access to subscribed full-text journals on the Springer platform is now available off-campus – using a university username and password. (On-campus access remains direct). Information about off-campus access to Springer titles has been updated in SFX accordingly.
To access Springer journal content from off-campus:
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