NewsBank Special Reports November 2022

NewsBank’s Special Reports are news articles, images 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. 

November Topics
Native American Heritage Month
Military Family Appreciation Month
World Health - National Diabetes Month
Year in Review - 2022
World Cup - 2022 (Available Mid-November)
World Politics and Government

Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events
Issues in the News
Mental Health
World Economics
World Environment
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. 

                    

Downloading ebooks - software required

We understand some students have been struggling to read downloaded ebooks because they do not have the right software on their device.

You do in fact need specific software if you want to download a library ebook rather than read the book online. This is because publishers apply Digital Rights Management to their ebook files to protect against licence infringement (eg copying more than the licence allows) and to expire the book after the download period comes to an end. 

There are notes on our library catalogue records to that effect: 

for VLEbooks: 

System requirements: Adobe Digital Editions is required for viewing the full text of downloaded ebooks on PCs and laptops. This can be downloaded from VLeBooks after clicking on help, if not installed already. An Adobe ID is required to read VLeBooks on either an Android or Apple iOS phone or tablet. The VLeBooks eBook reader app can then be installed from the Apple App store and the Play Store app.

for Proquest ebooks: 

System requirements: Adobe Digital Editions or Bluefire is required for viewing the full text of downloaded ebooks on PCs / laptops, Apple IOS or Android devices. They can be downloaded from Ebook Central. An Adobe ID is required.

Those are are our two main ebook providers, we do have others which will have their own requirements but in general Adobe Digital Editions is likely to be required. This software is free to download here https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/download.html. 

If you have installed Adobe Digital Editions but still have problems opening an ebook file, please contact us.

Problems accessing Credo Reference

We are having some problems today with access to Credo Reference, getting this error message:

This is happening if you use the "via UK Access Management Federation" link. For the time being if you want to access Credo please use this alternative link (which is 2nd on the library catalogue record),

We have reported the problem to Credo and hope to have it fixed soon.

Top searches in DISCOVER

 These were the most popular searches in DISCOVER last month: