Emerald platform maintenance Tuesday 5th February

We've been notified of maintenance on the Emerald ejournal and ebook platform Tuesday 5th February from 8am to 8pm. We are not expecting downtime, but some features will be unavailable, including Search and personalised accounts.

MyBedsLife - your new portal and mobile app

University of Bedfordshire is launching MyBedsLife, a student portal and mobile app bringing together the information you need including BREO, SID Online, student email and library resources.

Dawsonera ebooks downtime, 26th January 11pm-3am

We've been warned of planned downtime for our Dawsonera ebooks starting at 11pm on Saturday 26th January and finishing at 3am on Sunday 27th.

Library catalogue and digital resource problems in Edge

It looks like some people are having problems accessing the library catalogue and some other digital library resources in the Edge browser. We are investigating this but in the meantime, if you are affected please try another browser.

WARC (World Advertising Research Center) problem fixed

The problem logging into WARC (World Advertising Research Center)  has now been solved. Please let us know if you have any further questions.

Problem accessing WARC (World Advertising Research Center)

We're currently having trouble logging into WARC (World Adverising Research Center) - we have reported this to our supplier and hope to have it resolved soon.

ProQuest and RefWorks downtime Saturday 20th January 3am - 11am

We've been warned of downtime for ProQuest products including Ebook Central, ProQuest databases and Refworks (old and new) on 20th January 3am - 11am.

Top Discover searches December 2018

These were the top search terms in Discover last month:

NewsBank Special Reports- January 2019

NewsBank’s Special Reports are news articles, images, maps and other useful content grouped for convenience under specific topics and themes. They enable users to quickly locate information while helping them gain better insight into current global issues and events.

Following is a listing of ones that may be of particular interest at this time.

January Topics
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Film and TV Awards
World Economics - Financial Wellness Month
Year in Review - 2018
World Politics and Government
World Environment

Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events
Education Around the World
Mental Health
World Health
World Economics
Natural Disasters

Each Special Report features current and retrospective coverage with new articles added daily. There are over 60 Reports to be sure the information you need is always available.

Special Reports are easily accessible 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.

This video shows you how to find Special Reports, what they are and how they can be used.  http://newsbank.com/videos/how-find-use-special-reports

WebPrint Service Unavailable

The University web printing service - http://webprint.beds.ac.uk is  currently experiencing problems when submitting documents for printing via the WebPrint service.

The issue has been identified yesterday by the software developers and it is hoped to resolve this by a software update on Friday afternoon (4^th January)

More information will be provided, after Friday afternoon, of progress.