UK Press Online - access problem

 We are currently having a problem with access to UK Press Online. Please bear with us while we try to get it fixed.

ProQuest Product maintenance downtime: Sunday 31st January 2021

ProQuest will be taking up to an eight-hour maintenance window beginning Sunday 31st January 2021 from 3am for 8 hours to upgrade infrastructure, enhance security, and maintain reliability on many ProQuest products. During this maintenance window, the following products will be temporarily unavailable:

Ebooks from Ebook Central - this includes any ebooks with http://ebookcentral.proquest.com in the URL

Databases on the ProQuest Platform - including British Nursing Database

Problems with Access Full Text links from DISCOVER and Full Text Finder links from other databases

There is currently a problem with some links to full text from DISCOVER and other databases. 

If you click the Access Full Text button in DISCOVER , or the Full Text Finder button in some other databases, you may see this screen:

This shouldn't be happening, and we are trying to get it fixed. In the meantime you can still get to the article you wanted, by choosing the Institutional Login option. You may then have to choose UK Higher Education and then University of Bedfordshire from a list. 

Then you should get a results screen like this with links to the full text:

Top searches in DISCOVER December 2020

 These were the most popular searches in DISCOVER last month:

NewsBank special reports January 2021

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.
World Economics - Financial Wellness Month 
Film and TV Awards
Year in Review - 2020
World Health - Coronavirus
U.S. Presidential Election - 2020

Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events
World Politics and Government
World Environment
Mental Health
Issues in the News
Science and Health in the News

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.