NewsBank Special Reports August 2018

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.

August Topics
World Environment - National Water Quality Month
History in the News - VJ Day
Education Around the World
Natural Disasters
World Travel and Tourism

Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events
Issues in the News
World Economics
World Health
World Politics and Government
School and Campus Security

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.
Following is a listing of ones that may be of particular interest at this time.
August Topics
World Environment - National Water Quality Month History in the News - VJ Day Education Around the World Natural Disasters World Travel and Tourism
Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events Issues in the News World Economics World Health World Politics and Government School and Campus Security
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. 

Single Sign-On (SSO) and possible disruption to services

ICT are implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) for a number of University Services at the end of the month.

What is SSO?

Single sign-on (SSO) allows a user to sign on with university password to gain access to multiple applications and services without the necessity to logon to each system or service individually.

When will this be?

27th July and 30th July - 3rd August

Why are we doing this?

This is in response to feedback received from Students and to improve student experience.

Who will this affect?

Staff and Students

What will be affected?

Whilst SSO is being implemented and authentication is being switched to SSO, access to these following services may be intermittent.

·         Novell (Local PC Logon)

·         Blackboard/BREO

·         GSuite/GoogleMail

·         PebblePad

·         SiD Online

·         Library Systems – (Discover, Catalogue, e-Books, e-journals, book renewals, Repository, reading lists)

·         Webprint

·         MyPC (Book a PC)

·         Refworks (old and new)

·         Office365

·         Staff Website (In.beds)

ProQuest downtime 3am - 11am Sunday 19th August

We've been warned of downtime for all ProQuest products from 3am to 11am, Sunday 19th August. This includes

• ProQuest ebooks
• ProQuest databases, including ASSIA and British Nursing Database
• RefWorks

Service Unavailable messages, and wrong formatting in Library Catalogue

We're having issues with this error message appearing when trying to access many of our resources, including DISCOVER.

If this happens to you, please try refreshing the page. The fault is intermittent and we are working on finding a solution.

We are also finding that the library catalogue page is not always displaying correctly, e.g. like this:

Again, if you see this, just refresh the page and it should go back to normal.

SID Online (Student Information Desk) downtime tomorrow, 18th July

SID Online (Student Information Desk) will be having some downtime on 18th July 2018. We expect the system to be unavailable during the morning.

Please use library email address for any library enquiries you may have at this time libraryideas@beds.ac.uk or the SiD email for any SiD enquiries sid@beds.ac.uk.