A problem which was preventing records returned by a remote search of Criminal Justice Abstracts in eSearch from displaying properly has now been identified and resolved.
SportDiscus – display issue in eSearch corrected
A data-mapping problem in eSearch which had prevented the year field in search results from SportDiscus from displaying correctly has been resolved.
Zetoc: rejected remote search requests problem resolved
The MIMAS service has been able to identify and correct the cause of a technical problem which was resulting in remote searches of Zetoc being rejected. The remote search configuration had been temporarily disabled in eSearch while this problem was resolved, but has now been re-enabled.
Emerald: remote search delays
Remote searches of the Emerald platform from eSearch have been intermittently slow over the past week, resulting in some cases in search requests, and requests for full record display, timing out. Investigations are continuing with Emerald to identify the cause. In the meantime, remote searches of Emerald in eSearch may be temporarily disabled if the problem returns.
OUP Journals online – Athens issues resolved
An account configuration problem, which was preventing NTU Athens authentication requests from being processed by Oxford University Press Journals Online, has now been resolved, and off-campus requests for the full-text of subscribed OUP titles are now being accepted normally.
ENDS Report online – access suspended
Access to the endsreport.com service has been suspended in eSearch, following confirmation of a change in the nature of the electronic access to the service provided as part of LLR’s subscription. Future subscription options are under review, but no institutional electronic access to the service is currently available for NTU staff and students. Registration details have been withdrawn from the ‘Other Passwords’ page on the LLR web site.
RefWorks – OPAC searches now up to date
A configuration setting which was preventing searches of the Library Catalogue from RefWorks from returning the most recently indexed records has now been corrected. Searches of the OPAC from RefWorks now return records as soon as they are indexed by ALEPH.
eSearch – Thursday 15 November 2007: busiest day to date
Thursday 15 November 2007 was the busiest single day for eSearch since the application was launched in January 2005. More than 2,000 separate sessions were recorded during the course of the day. A session is launched each time a customer accesses eSearch and is kept alive until the customer logs out or until there is five minutes continuous inactivity. Since the withdrawal of the subject portal and the A-Z database and ejournal lists from the LLR web site (an important component of the implementation of the LLR Resource Discovery Strategy) numbers of weekday daily eSearch sessions are regularly in excess of 1300.
ALEPH – problem with remote searches resolved
eServices is investigating the cause of problem which shut down the z3950 server on ALEPH just after 4.30pm yesterday afternoon.
A consequence of the shutdown was that from that time SFX was unable to check the Library Catalogue for holdings information – so SFX menus were reporting that no ISSNs or ISBNs were being matched against print catalogue records. Another consequence of the closure was that searches of the library catalogue from RefWorks were unavailable. (eSearch searches of the catalogue were unaffected.)
The server has now been restarted and both SFX and RefWorks services have been confirmed as connecting to ALEPH successfully.
eServices is now in discussion with both IS and Ex Libris to isolate the cause of this issue.
Westlaw – scheduled downtime 10-12 November
The following prompt has been added to the information screen in eSearch for the Westlaw service, drawing customers’ attention to a scheduled downtime period:
Due to a systems upgrade, the Westlaw service will now be unavailable between 6pm Saturday 10 November and 6am Monday 12 November 2007.
Practical Law for Companies
The username and password required to access this resource have changed, and the updated details have been amended on the ‘Other Passwords’ page of the LLR web site. It is hoped that we will be able to offer Athens authenticated access to this resource in the near future.
New Resource: Land of Lost Content
Access to the image database Land of Lost Content has now been set up in eSearch. The resource has been added to all ‘Art and Design’ Sub-Categories.
The resource is described as follows:
The Land of Lost Content is the world’s largest online archive of 19th and 20th century popular culture. Intended as a source of inspiration for designers, when complete it will hold more than five million images, most of which are copyright free and can be downloaded or viewed online.
With more collections being added every week, Land of Lost Content aims to grow into an indispensable resource, documenting British cultural history.
Access to LOLC requires that NTU staff and student register for an individual account, which is linked to a ‘Group Registration Passphrase’ that must first be retrieved from the ‘Other Passwords’ page of the LLR web site. An LOLC Registration and Access Guide provides a detailed walkthrough of the procedure.
A new educational interface for Land of Lost Content will be made available shortly. All registrations for the existing interface will be transfered to the new interface once it has been launched.
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