RefWorks login problems resolved

Yesterday's problem with login to RefWorks has now been fixed. Please let us know if you get any further problems.

RefWorks login problems

We are having issues with login to RefWorks this morning, we have reported it and will update when we have a fix. 

Bob (Box of Broadcasts)

After a successful trial last year, the library has subscribed to BoB (Box of Broadcasts) and it is now fully available. 

What is BoB?

BoB is an on-demand streaming platform for film, television and radio resources.  It gives access to an archive of over 3 million programmes, dating back to the 1950s and offers recordings of 75 free-to-air channels.

BoB automatically records and preserves broadcasts from all major UK free-to-air channels, including BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 and news content from BBC News, Sky News and Al Jazeera, making it the most comprehensive audiovisual resource available.

 

How to access?

You can access BoB via DISCOVER or directly at https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand

Click sign in, find the University of Bedfordshire from the drop down menu and click go.  When prompted, login with your usual university username and password.

It is fully accessible to staff and students in the UK.

 

How to use? 

BoB have created lots of guides on finding, viewing and sharing content: 

How To Use BoB · Learning on Screen. 

You can add a BoB programme to your BREO unit, create clips and playlists.

The FAQs page gives further support Help · BoB 

Ebook Central problems update (“Sorry, your institution does not allow access to ProQuest Ebook Central from your current IP address”)

ProQuest have not completely solved this problem, but they have come up with a fix.

If you see the error “Sorry, your institution does not allow access to ProQuest Ebook Central from your current IP address”, it is because of a specific cookie on your device. If you go to https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/clearcookie/clearcookie.html, you can clear this cookie and should be able to proceed normally.

Ebook Central - “Sorry, your institution does not allow access to ProQuest Ebook Central from your current IP address.”

We are getting reports of users seeing this error message when trying to access ebooks from Ebook Central

We are waiting for ProQuest to fix this, in the meantime they suggest 

1. Clear your web browser history, cache and cookies
2. Try an incognito web browser window
3. Try an alternative web browser

 

Most popular searches in December

These were the most popular search terms used in DISCOVER last month:

Brtiish Nursing Database/ProQuest problem

There is currently a problem with access to the the ProQuest databases platform, which for us mostly means British Nursing Database. There is an alternative link you can use for BND here.