Fair VAT on e-publications for the academic community

The university currently pays VAT at 20% on all the digital resources we buy for you, but we don't have to on printed books and journals. This is holding us back from providing you with more digital resources.  So we are asking you to help us protest against VAT on e-publications for the academic community. Sign this e-petition for us to be able to buy more for you http://t.co/Z6DhU5YJ.

"UK Access Management Federation" link to EBSCOhost is fixed

The problem we were having with logging in to EBSCO databases using the "UK Access Management Federation" link is now fixed.

Do not use "via UK Access Management Federation" link to EBSCOhost

We are currently having problems with the "via UK Access Management Federation" links to EBSCOhost databases.  However, the links which do not state "via UK Access Management Federation"are working correctly.

Databases affected are:

• Academic Search Elite
• Art Full Text
• Business Source Premier
• CINAHL
• Education Research Complete
• PsycARTICLES
• PsycINFO
• Regional Business News
• Medline
• Hospitality and Tourism Index
• SocIndex with Full Text
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text
• Ejournals from EBSCO
• EBSCO ebook collection.

IEEE/IET electronic library - at risk Saturday 28th January

IEEE/IET electronic library is expected to be unavailable for scheduled maintenance for approximately 1 hour beginning at 4pm on Saturday 28th January.

Science Direct workaround

We're still having problems accessing some journal articles in Science Direct, but we do now have a workaround. 

Sometimes full text access is not happening when you click the PDF icon:




But if you click the article title instead (e.g. "Virucidal efficacy of hydrogen peroxide vapour disinfection"), you do get through to the full text.

We have reported this issue to the publisher.  If this workaround doesn't work for you, or you have any other problems opening articles, please report them to us at library.technical@beds.ac.uk.

Science Direct update

The problem with Science Direct ejournals seems to be fixed - however if you do have any trouble opening articles please contact us at library.technical@beds.ac.uk with details of the article you are trying to open.

ScienceDirect problems still ongoing

We are still experiencing various problems with ejournals on the ScienceDirect platform, which may cause some journal articles to be temporarily unavailable.  We are chasing this up with the publisher as a matter of urgency.