JSTOR – problems affecting some SFX full-text requests

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The JSTOR technical team are working to resolve issues that are affecting incoming full-text requests from link resolvers (such as SFX [Find it @ NTU]) for some (but not all) JSTOR content. Some requests from SFX to articles in JSTOR journals may currently result in errors. JSTOR reports the service is:

currently experiencing some technical issues with inbound OpenURL linking. While these issues do not affect all articles, we do acknowledge the inconvenience here and are working hard to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. […] Unfortunately at this time we do not have an estimate of when this issue will be completely solved, but we appreciate your patience.

RefWorks – direct export issue resolved (Science Direct and Wiley Online Library)

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The RefWorks technical team have resolved an issue which was causing the direct-to-RefWorks export facility in both Science Direct and Wiley Online Library to fail.

Direct export to RefWorks from both of those platforms is now confirmed as working normally once again.

EBSCOhost – move from Shibboleth to secure proxy access from off-campus

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Problems affecting off-campus access to databases on the EBSCOhost platform have been resulting in error messages for staff and students logging in using their university username and password in the native EBSCOhost interface.

While investigations into the cause of the problem continue, all off-campus login requests to EBSCOhost databases have been moved from Shibboleth to secure proxy authentication. LLR customers will continue to login to EBSCOhost using their university username and password, so the switchover will be all-but invisible to those accessing EBSCOhost resources through SFX and Library OneSearch. However, because proxy linking is a special form of authentication, login requests from off-campus customers accessing EBSCOhost outside the library’s resource discovery environment (for example, through a Google search) will continue to experience login problems. The advice to such customers is to access EBSCOhost content through LOS and SFX, where their login requests can be routed correctly.

Once the technical issues have been satisfactorily resolved, off-campus authentication for EBSCOhost resources will be returned to the Shibboleth framework.

Verdict Research (Datamonitor 360) – access on-campus currently by university username and password

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Datamonitor are experiencing some network issues, which mean that IP-authenticated access to Verdict Research (Datamonitor 360) on-campus is no longer working.

Pending the resolution of the problems by Datamonitor, on-campus login to Verdict Research (Datamonitor 360) has been switched to university username and password (using Shibboleth).

Access URLs and prompts in Library OneSearch have been updated accordingly, with the additional login advice:

Select Datamonitor360 and then Nottingham Trent University from the drop-down list

Construction and Building Abstracts – accessible once again

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to Construction and Building Abstracts has been restored following a temporary interruption in service. Access is once again direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.

BCIS (Building Cost Information Service) – new platform

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

BCIS (the Building Cost Information Service) has launched a new and improved platform, and links from Library OneSearch have been updated to connect to the new interface. Access remains direct on-campus; off-campus access is not available.

The new platform is based on a web interface (rather than a client, launched via a web request). This means that the interim page, through which customers were previously directed, is no longer required – and access to the service is direct.

Estates Gazette Interactive – access restored

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the Estates Gazette Interactive, which had been temporarily interrupted, has now been restored. Access to EGi should now be working normally again.

Estates Gazette Interactive – temporary loss of access

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the Estates Gazette Interactive (EGi) service is currently unavailable. LLR is working directly with the providers to reinstate access as soon as possible. A notice, indicating a temporary loss of access, has been added to the EGi record in Library OneSearch.

A further update will follow once access to the resource has been restored.

Withdrawn platforms: CSA Illumina, Chadwyck-Healey and (legacy) ProQuest

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

As previously advised access to the CSA Illumina, Chadwyck-Healey and (legacy) ProQuest platforms ends tomorrow (21 August 2012).

All of LLR’s subscription resources that could be moved to the new ProQuest platform were migrated at the start of the year, but from tomorrow any library customers who had bookmarked access to these withdrawn platforms will no longer be able to access them, and will be directed to the new ProQuest interface.

Three of LLR’s subscription resources will continue to be made available on one of the Chadwyck-Healey platforms not yet configured for migration:

  1. MLA International Bibliography
  2. LION (Literature Online)
  3. ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)

These resources will be migrated to the new platform as soon as ProQuest has finished the necessary configuration work.

New resource: UK Press Online

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The UK Press Online service is now available in Library OneSearch. LLR’s subscription to content on the UK Press Online platform comprises full-text access to the archives of the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Sunday Express. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

UK Press Online provides access to the full-text archives of the Daily Mirror (1903-present), Daily Express (1900-present) and Sunday Express (2000-present). Every page is available in thumbnail, small preview, full-size view and ready-to-print PDF with live text, and page-by-page browse of editions.

Access to each of the three titles in LLR’s subscription has also been enabled in SFX (the Find it @ NTU service). At present, the UK Press Online service does not support deep-linking to the article level, so SFX links resolve to the native interface of UK Press Online rather than to the individual article or the ‘homepage’ of the individual journal.

New resource: The Vogue Archive

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to The Vogue Archive is now available in Library OneSearch and eSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world’s greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.