Newsbank special reports

NEWSBANK SPECIAL REPORTS

July 2016

NewsBank’s Special Reports are news articles, images, maps and other useful content grouped for convenience under specific topics and themes. Easily accessible within NewsBank resources, they enable you to quickly locate information on a specific subject while helping you gain better insight into current global issues and events. Each Report features current and retrospective coverage, and new articles are added daily. There are over 60 Reports to be sure the information you need is always available.

All Special Reports are accessed from the left side bar on your online resource menu page, on search screens and the Other NewsBank Products link in full-text newspaper products.

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Following is a listing of some Special Reports that may be of particular interest to you at this time. 

July Topics and Monthly Themes
World Economics - Brexit: U.K. and the European Union

U.S. Presidential Campaign - 2016
World Terrorism and Conflict
Issues in the News
The Olympic Games - Summer 2016
        

Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events

Natural Disasters

World Health
World Travel
World Environment
World Politics and Government

ProQuest downtime 10th July

The ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com) will be taking a two-hour maintenance window from 03:00 to 05:00 on Sunday 10th July to prepare for the upcoming migration to a cloud-based infrastructure.

During this time access to all ProQuest platform databases will not be available and users will be re-directed to a webpage explaining the scheduled maintenance.

 Databases affected:

Applied social sciences index and abstracts
British nursing database 
British periodicals
Film index international 
International bibliography of the social sciences 
Linguistics and language behavior abstracts
Performing arts database 
Periodicals archive online
Physical education index
ProQuest dissertations and theses
Vogue archive 

 
 
 

ICT System shutdown: Friday 22nd July 2016 at 19:00 to Sunday 24rd July 2016 22:00

What are we doing?

• ICT are carrying out essential central Storage upgrade which will require shutdown of all systems.

What will be affected? And when?

• Email system: Saturday 23rd  July 2016 at 06:00 to Sunday 24rd  July 2016 22:00

• Other ICT  Services, including; Finance Systems; Student Record Systems; Breo; S-Drive; U-Drive; Local-Drives, University Internet; Printing etc. : Friday  22nd July 2016 at 19:00 to Sunday 24rd  July 2016 22:00

Who will this affect?

• All Staff and all Students

Why are we doing this?

• As part of a rolling programme of maintenance and support, we are carrying out an essential upgrade to all storage systems. In order to carry out this work, downtime of one weekend is required.

Login problems update - ebooks, RefWorks, Reading lists and other UK Access Management Federation resources

We believe we have a fix for the login problems we have been having with ebooks, RefWorks, Reading lists and other UK Access Management Federation resources. 

If it still doesn't work for you, try clearing your cookies and cache (http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser's-Cache) and starting a fresh browser session. 

If it still doesn't work after that, please let us know and we will pass that information to the ICT team for further investigation.

Login problems - ebooks, RefWorks, Reading lists and other UK Access Management Federation resources

We're once again having an issue with login to ebooks, RefWorks, Reading lists and other UK Access Management Federation resources.

Example of the error message you might see

Please bear with us while we try to get this fixed. Our ICT team are investigating the
problem.

Newsbank - BREXIT- UK & The European Union Special Report

Last week's “Brexit” vote—in which Great Britain elected to leave the European Union—has captured the attention of people around the world because of its far-reaching local, national and global consequences.

To help keep you up-to-date on this momentous development, NewsBank is offering the BREXIT- UK & The European Union Special Report, a collection of related articles, opinion and analysis from the UK, Europe and around the world. This valuable service is available as part of your NewsBank subscription. The included articles provide coverage from a variety of interesting angles, and the local, national and global sources offer background, reactions, perspectives and ongoing coverage of the historic vote, the resignation of David Cameron, the plunge of the British pound, global market reaction, the growing independence movements and much more. Additional content will be added as the story develops.
 

Annual Reviews Website Maintenance 24th June

Annual Reviews have planned routine maintenance to their website starting 11pm on Friday 24th June until 3am on Saturday 25th June.


Website content may be unavailable during that time.


This affects journals with www.annualreviews.org in the URL.

Scheduled maintenance to the Taylor & Francis Online platform Friday 24th - Saturday 25th June

Taylor & Francis Online is expected to be unavailable during a period of four hours due to scheduled database maintenance. This will take place on Friday 24th June 11pm to Saturday 25th June 3am. This will affect all journals with www.tandfonline.com in the URL.

JISC Historical Texts upgrade

There was a major update to Historical Texts on 21 June 2016. This release includes additional data as well as a range of new features that have been requested by our user community.

EEBO enhancements

(Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains the scanned images, and full-text digital versions where available, of over 125,000 books published in English up to 1700.)

* New EEBO periodicals search

* EEBO periodicals display improved

* Additional XML, HTML, epub and plain text download options for EEBO texts with manually keyed text transcriptions (EEBO TCP)

* Additional EEBO images

* Additional 20,000 EEBO TCP full text transcriptions

* Search on EEBO TCP ID

ECCO enhancements

(Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digital collection of more than 180,000 titles published in Great Britain and its colonies during the eighteenth century.)

* 2000 ECCO manually keyed text transcriptions (ECCO TCP) available for the first time

* Additional XML, HTML, epub and plain text download options for ECCO texts with manually keyed text transcriptions (ECCO TCP)

* Links between volumes of multi-volume works

* Search on ESTC number with or without the leading zero

British Library 19th Century collection.enhancements

(Over 65,000 recently digitised editions from the British Library's 19th century collection, comprising over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible titles.)

* Links between volumes of multi-volume works

The full release notes, which include a description of each point listed above, can be found on the website:

http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/files/HT-releasenotes-21June2016.pdf

Just a reminder, if you can access Historical Texts but can’t see the new features, we suggest you clear your browser cache and cookies to ensure you are viewing the latest version of the application.

We welcome feedback on the new features so if you’d like to let us know your thoughts or would like any assistance with the new features please do contact our helpdesk at historicaltexts@jisc.ac.uk.