Updates on electronic resources from the library of Nottingham Trent University
Access is currently unavailable to the Art Full Text database on the Wilson Web platform – with only the Art Retrospective database available for search selection. Liaison with technical support at Wilson is underway and it is hoped to be able to re-establish access shortly.
In an unrelated development, it should soon be possible to offer direct access to the Wilson Web databases for on-campus users.
Trial access has been set up for the International Law in Domestic Courts database. Access is direct on-campus; although no off-campus access is provided during the trial. Access is available through eSearch > eResource trials > Active trials. The resource is described as follows:
A regularly updated repository of domestic cases in international law from over 60 jurisdictions. The selected cases feature expert commentary, full texts of judgments in their original language and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English.
The trial lasts until 23 February 2007, and any feedback on the resource can be sent to Terry Hanstock.
We’ve encountered response time problems with Web OPAC this morning which seem to be linked to the enhanced catalogue content (Syndetics), i.e. the additional information pop-ups. As a temporary measure we’ve turned off this functionality to enable OPAC to work.
We’re investigating the cause and will report again when we have more news.
Following diagnostic work involving LLR, IS and Syndetics, the ‘enhanced’ catalogue record service has been re-enabled in the library catalogue – meaning that book covers will display in the ‘Full View of Record page’ (where these are available from Syndetics), providing links to an ‘Additional information’ pop-up screen.
The performance of the catalogue will be monitored closely today, but if you experience any problems with the slow response times, or any other OPAC difficulties, please let the eServices team know so that we can investigate the issue further.
A different problem affecting the Syndetics service has arisen this morning, which has been leading to very slow response times in building the ‘Full View of Record’ page in ALEPH (which was having a knock-on effect in the performance of the library catalogue as a whole).
Until we are certain of service stability from Syndetics, we have temporarily disabled the Syndetics service (so no book covers will display in the OPAC). Switching off the Syndetics service has had an immediate beneficial effect on the catalogue’s response times.
We will update again when we have more.
The problem affecting the Syndetics catalogue enhancement service within the Library OPAC was resolved later yesterday afternoon.
If you encounter any further instances of this issue, please send the eServices team some sample ISBNs for records for which problems are persisting and we’ll investigate further.
An intermittent problem is currenly affecting the Syndetics catalogue enhancement service within the Library OPAC.
This means that in the ‘Full View of Record’ screen, book covers (where these are available from Syndetics) are not displaying consistently, and links from a book cover to the ‘Additional Information’ pop-up window are not always connecting correctly.
eServices is investigating the problem and will update as soon as we have more information to report.
A technical solution has now been identified which should correct the intermittent problems of failed links from SFX to some ejournal titles hosted on the EBSCOhost platform reported before the Xmas break. This should be live later this week – I will update when the fix is in place.
Following the withdrawal of the full-text of Le Monde from Lexis Nexis Executive, LLR sourced an alternative provider for this title on the CEDROM SNi platform. Lexis Nexis have now made Le Monde available again in full-text on LNE. An additional SFX link to Le Monde on LNE should be available shortly
The offer of temporary free full-text access to the current issues of New Scientist (as they were published, between August and December of 2006) has now concluded on the Science Direct platform. This listing has therefore been withdrawn from SFX. Full-text access to all issues from 2002 onwards continues to be available via Academic Search Elite (but with a one-month publisher embargo).
The temporary free access offer to the ejournals titles published by Future Drugs and Future Medicine has now concluded, and full-text access is now only available by subscription. As a result, listings for all the titles in these collections have been withdrawn from SFX. The titles will disappear from the eSearch ejournals list at the next update.
This networked CD-ROM has been added to eSearch, the subject web portal (including the Statistics portal).
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