Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
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.
THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to almost 4,000 Emerald eBooks on Library OneSearch – significantly increasing the range of titles available on this platform.
Selected new titles include:
Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
THE LIBRARY HAS added titles from 3 new collections to Library OneSearch, all hosted on the Bloomsbury Visual Arts platform:
Bloomsbury Design Library gives comprehensive global coverage of the history, theory and practice of crafts and design, from prehistoric times to the present day.
Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts combines visual inspiration with practical advice on everything from idea generation and research techniques to portfolio development – making this the ultimate guide to a visual arts education.
The Animation Practice collection offers a comprehensive selection of 53 high-quality, practice-focused books from the CRC Press imprint and Routledge.
Examples of titles discoverable on Library OneSearch include:
THE LIBRARY NOW provides access to over 76,000 Springer eBooks on Library OneSearch – more than doubling the content available on this platform.
Selected new titles include:
Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
THE LIBRARY HAS added titles from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Digital Library to Library OneSearch.
The SMPTE Digital Library:
Focuses on innovative content for technologies within the communications, media, and entertainment industries. It provides unlimited, full-text access to all SMPTE standards, journal articles, and conference papers.
Included in this resource is the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, with an archive stretching back to 1916.
Access to all the titles in the SMPTE Digital Library is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
THE LIBRARY HAS extended archival access to the historic Nature journal back to the very first issue, published in November 1869.
Discoverable through Library OneSearch the Nature archive contains seminal papers such as:
Access to Nature is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
ACCESS TO THE Nineteenth Century Index platform has been enabled today in the Find Databases service.
The resource is described as follows:
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (C19 Index) is a vast resource that forms the bibliographic spine of 19th century research. It comprises tens of millions of records and provides integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers, archives, and reference material.
Access to this resource is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
ACCESS TO THE Oxford English Dictionary (OED) for NTU staff and students has today been migrated to a brand new platform.
Access remains direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus.
Access URLs have been updated in the Find Databases listing.
INDIVIDUAL FILMS FROM the British Film Institute’s BFI Player are now discoverable through Library OneSearch and Library OneSearch Pro, including:
Access the library’s illustrated guide on how to register for a BFI account. This guide is also available from the Find Databases listing for the resource.
Following the recent off-campus outage, caused by a platform change, access to BCIS (Building Cost Information service) has now been restored to single-sign on login for off-site users.
Off-campus access to this resource is once again via university username and password and can be accessed via the BCIS Find Database page.
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