Library Services at risk of interruption Sunday 29th July 2012

All Library Services will be at risk of interruption during Sunday 29th July 2012 while university hardware upgrades are taking place.

UK Access Management Federation resources

We are still having some issues with UK Access Management Federation resources, including Dawsonera ebooks and RefWorks.  We have a temporary login screen which looks different to the normal one but still works. You may however get a message "There is a problem with this website's security certificate", if so click "Continue to this website (not recommended)" and you will get through to the login screen.

Access via EBSCO to some journals at risk 21 July

EBSCO will be performing scheduled maintenance from 21 July 2012 1am to 1pm on their e-journal full-text access servers.

Direct access to articles from EBSCO’s linking services will be unavailable for the following list of publishers:

• National League for Nursing
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
• Intellect Ltd
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)
• College of Business and Public Affairs
• e-Med
• IUPAC
• NRC Research Press

This will affect links from our journal A-Z list, EJS and within EBSCOhost. Only journals from these publishers will be affected. 

More library catalogue downtime 4pm-10pm Mon 23 July

The Library Catalogue will be unavailable between 4 pm and 10 pm on Monday 23rd July 2012 to allow an upgrade to be completed.  There will be no access to library resources via the catalogue or to self service book issue and return during this period.

Access to a substantial proportion of our databases, e-journals and e-books will be available here.

Intermittent problems with UK Access Management Federation resources still ongoing (19th July)

We are still experiencing intermittent problems with accessing UK Access Management Federation resources, including Dawsonera ebooks and RefWorks.  The problem has been reported and we hope will be resolved soon.  If you are unable to log in, please try again later.

Intermittent problems with UK Access Management Federation resources still ongoing

We are still experiencing intermittent problems with accessing UK Access Management Federation resources, including Dawsonera ebooks and RefWorks.  The problem has been reported and we hope will be resolved later today.  If you are unable to log in, please try again later.

Intermittent access to UK Access Management Federation Resources including Dawsonera ebooks

We are currently experiencing intermittent problems with accessing UK Access Management Federation Resources, including Dawsonera ebooks.  The problem has been reported and we hope will be resolved soon.  If you are unable to log in, please try again later.

Goodbye WebBridge, hello LinkSource

You may be familiar with the WebBridge button, which helps you get from a citation or abstract to the full text of an article, if the library has it.  We are in the process of changing from WebBridge to a new service, LinkSource, which does the same thing (but we hope it will do it better).  Look out for the LinkSource icons:

and let us know if you have any problems.

Library catalogue downtime extended to 12 noon

Work is taking longer than expected - alternative access to many resources here. In the meantime, there is no access to the library catalogue.

EBSCO Resources via Mobile Devices

EBSCO have now released an Android App along with their existing iPhone App.

 

To register for the service you need to access an EBSCO service via a normal login route, either on or off campus.

 

At the bottom of the database / search screen is a link to the Android  / IPhone registration page.

 

Enter your email address

 

You will then receive an email which you must open on your mobile device.

 

The first step is to download and install the appropriate App from one of the two links given.

 

Then activate access via the link in the email and the App will open and show your preferred search interface.

 

If you want to switch to a different search interface eg from EBSCO Research Databases to Discover, then you will need to access that service from a normal browser on your PC or mobile device and reregister the link at the bottom of the page of that service. You do need to do this each time unless you are reusing the existing email authentication link within 24 hours.

 

Any queries please ask!

Warning - more library catalogue downtime on Thursday 8am-10am

The library catalogue will be down again on Thursday 5th July 8am-10am while work is completed on the server.  There will be no access to resources via the catalogue, and you will not be able to issue, return or renew books. Most of our digital resources will be available via this link.

Dawsonera ebooks and all "UK Access Management Federation" links working again

Login to Dawsonera ebooks and all "UK Access Management Federation" links is now working again correctly, if you have problems let us know.

Dawsonera ebooks and all "UK Access Management Federation" links unavailable

Login to Dawsonera ebooks and all "UK Access Management Federation" links is currently unavailable due to server maintenance.