Top searches in DISCOVER last month

These were the most popular searches in DISCOVER in March:

Scopus problems

 

We have had a number of users reporting issues with access to Scopus recently and we have been liaising with their support staff to try to resolve them. We have not yet got to the bottom of the problem but we think we have a way to access  Scopus that is more reliable than following our usual links.

Go directly to https://www.scopus.com

If you are on campus you should get access automatically.

If you are off campus it will look like this:

Look for the icon that looks like a temple (this means Institution login). Ignore the Sign in button.

The click Check access.

This brings up a box where you can search for University of Bedfordshire:

It suggests you can put your email address in this box – don’t. Just put “Bedfordshire”.

Click Access through your organization and login with your usual UoB account, if it asks you to. If you have recently logged into another system, you may not need to.

Hopefully you will now be logged in and good to go!

 

Problems accessing content from DISCOVER - resolved

Yesterday's issues have now been fixed. If you experience any more issues getting content from DISCOVER, please report it to us at https://www.beds.ac.uk/sid/.

Problems accessing content from DISCOVER

We are having some issues this morning with access to content from DISCOVER, particularly from Publications finder (where you search for journal titles), and with linking to articles that don't sit within the EBSCOhost platform. We have logged this with EBSCO and hope it will be fixed soon. If you are really for the content right now, copy the article/journal title and search for it on the open web, then you may need to navigate through the publishers' login options to get access to it (look for Institutional login option, then search for University of Bedfordshire).

WARC login problems

We are currently seeing a problem trying to login to WARC (World Advertising Research Center). This has been reported and we are awaiting a solution.

DISCOVER top search terms in February

These were the most popular searches in DISCOVER last month:

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: