Updated resource: ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS renewed its subscription to the Eighteenth Century Collections Online database on a new platform hosted by Gale. Check the Find Databases service for further details and access links to follow from on and off campus.

The resource is described as follows:

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It is a digitization of the eighteenth-century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States.

Updated resource: EEBO (Early English Books Online)

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY HAS renewed its subscription to the Early English Books Online database on a new platform hosted by ProQuest. Check the Find Databases service for further details and access links to follow from on and off campus.

The resource is described as follows:

EEBO (Early English Books Online) contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere between 1473 and 1700.

Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – Thursday 15 August 2024

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) platform will begin Thursday 15 August 2024 at 07:00.

The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.

New resource: Nottingham Central Library Catalogue

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

ACCESS TO THE Nottingham Central Library Catalogue search engine has been enabled in the Find Databases service.

The resource is described as follows:

The Nottingham Central Library online catalogue can be used to search for books, magazines, and newspapers and explore digital resources, such as eBooks, eMagazines, eNewspapers, eAudio, eReference and more.

Access to this resource is unrestricted.

New resource: Audio Engineering Society E-Library

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

ACCESS TO THE Audio Engineering Society E-Library platform has been enabled in the Find Databases service.

The resource is described as follows:

The Audio Engineering Society E-Library contains over 17,000 fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day. The E-library includes every AES paper published at a convention, conference or in the journal.

Access to this resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

New resource: Open Book Publishers

Lee Houghton - Resource Applications and Discovery Team Manager

THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to more than 470 titles from the Open Book Publishers platform on Library OneSearch. Open Book Publishers is an independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed monographs, edited collections, textbooks, critical translations and more.

Selected new titles include:

eZproxy authentication – scheduled maintenance – Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April 2024

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

A scheduled system maintenance period for eZproxy authentications services will begin Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April between 22:00 and 07:00 hours.

The provider advises that this authentication service will be unavailable for approximately two hours during this maintenance window so off-campus access to some of our electronic resources and journals may be unavailable during this time and you may see a connection timeout or connection refused page.

Screenshot of an example timeout page

The provider advises that in the event of access issues to try again later or outside of the scheduled maintenance period.

Time to update your old LexisLibrary links

Marie Kauffman - Applications and Technical Services team

AFTER UPGRADING TO a new platform several months ago, Lexis+ UK (formerly known as LexisLibrary) is now planning to stop redirecting any old LexisLibrary links to Lexis+ UK on Sunday 21 April.

Before this date, please consider using the redirect to update LexisLibrary links you may have bookmarked, as any of these links will return error messages such as “Service Unavailable” or “Unfortunately we can’t find the page you’re looking for” after the service is decommissioned. LexisLibrary links have ‘www.lexisnexis.com’ as part of their URL, while new Lexis+ links use ‘plus.lexis.com’.

Past April 21, accessing these resources from outdated bookmarks will require to manually search for them in the new platform, and create new bookmarks from permalinks in Lexus+ UK if you wish to save them again.

If you have bookmarked old LexisLibrary links and need assistance in updating them, please get in touch with the library.

ClinicalSkills.net – scheduled maintenance on 1 April 2024

Marie Kauffman - Applications and Technical Services team

Due to some website updates, the Clinicalskills.net platform will be temporarily unavailable for about one hour from 6.30 am on 1 April (Easter Monday).

VLeBooks unavailable – scheduled maintenance on 6-7 April 2024

Marie Kauffman - Applications and Technical Services team

Browns Books has advised that the VLeBooks website will be unavailable from Saturday 6 April, 10pm (GMT) to Sunday 7 April, 4am (GMT) due to planned maintenance. Please note this will affect the VLe Reader which provides access to several eBooks in our library collections.

VLeBooks – scheduled maintenance on 2-3 March 2024

Marie Kauffman - Applications and Technical Services team

Browns Books is advising that maintenance and upgrades of its VLeBooks platform will be taking place on the weekend of 2nd & 3rd March 2024, affecting the availability of the VLe Reader during these two days.