Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) platform will begin Wednesday 25 October 2023 at 07:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.
THE TECHNICAL ISSUES affecting access to library online resources reported earlier have now been resolved.
THE LIBRARY IS currently experiencing authentication issues which is preventing access to multiple online resources, including books and journals in Library OneSearch, and resources listed in the Find Databases service.
Colleagues in Digital Technologies are urgently investigating.
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts (BoB) platform will begin Thursday 12 October 2023 at 20:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.
THE LIBRARY HAS access to a brand new resource via Library OneSearch: The encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle.
This resource is described as:
bringing together the latest research in chronicle studies from a variety of disciplines and scholarly traditions. Chronicles are the history books written and read in educated circles throughout Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages. For the modern reader, they are important as sources for the history they tell, but equally they open windows on the preoccupations and self-perceptions of those who tell it.
Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
THE LIBRARY HAS added more content to the Bloomsbury Visual Arts platform with the addition of titles from the new Applied Gaming and Photography collections.
Examples of titles discoverable on Library OneSearch include:
Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
CONTENT AVAILABLE ON the Bloomsbury Visual Arts platform has been expanded with the addition of titles from the new Design Studies collection.
The Design Studies collection provides:
High-quality coverage of a wide range of important subjects across design research, product design, interior design, furniture, sustainability, and marketing and advertising.
Examples of titles discoverable on Library OneSearch include:
Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to more than 400 titles from the Writers and Their Work collection on Library OneSearch.
Selected new titles include:
Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
THE LIBRARY HAS enabled archival access to Emerald’s Emerging Markets Case Studies, stretching from 2011 until 2022.
The resource is described as:
A growing collection of over 1,000 case studies and accompanying teaching notes with a unique focus on rising economies.
A link to the full list of case studies is available through Library OneSearch.
Library OneSearch Pro goes beyond this and makes individual case studies discoverable, each one of them available as an instantly downloadable PDF.
ACCESS TO ONLINE archives of journal and book content provided by JISC has been restored following a brief interruption in service.
All the affected resources are now accessible once again, using a university username and password.
Outage notifications have been removed from the Find Databases listings for these resources, and access URLs updated.
ACCESS TO SEVERAL subscription-based archives of journal and book content provided by JISC, will be reinstated shortly, after a brief interruption in service.
Attempts to log in to these services, using a university username and password, are currently returning errors and authenticated access is not available.
The affected services are:
Notifications alerting users to the temporary loss of access have been added to the Find Databases listing of each of these resources.
A further update will follow once access is confirmed as fully reinstated.
ACCESS TO THE Emerald Expert Briefings platform has been enabled in the Find Databases service.
The resource is described as follows:
Expert Briefings draw on insights into current events from a global network of more than 1500 academics, business leaders and former policymakers. These insights are reviewed by a team of regional and sectoral specialists, and distilled into accessible, impartial, actionable documents that help to guide strategy and decision-making.
Access to this resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
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