Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law

Dear all,

We have a subscription until August 2010 to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. IP access on campus, remote desktop off campus.

Sue White

Swetswise Unavailable 30/5/09

Hi Everyone,

Please note the following information about Swetswise downtime:

Due to the release of SwetsWise 5.3 this weekend SwetsWise will be temporarily unavailable between the hours of 6am and 4pm on Saturday 30th May.
We apologise for the short notice and hope that this does not cause your users too much inconvenience.


Thanks,

James.

Emerald Journal of the Week

Hi Everyone,

Please see the information below about a new Emerald initiative, which could cause some confusion. I've checked and it appears that journals outside our subscription will be included in this offer. This may well lead to students coming to the desk telling us they had access to a particular article last week, but they can't get it this week. In order to check this kind of query you might want to bookmark the link below.

Thanks,

James.

Dear Colleague,

FREE access to Journal of the Week!

Emerald’s Journal of the Week is back by popular demand! Each week we provide you with online access to the articles from two of our prestigious titles.

Visit the following page to find out which journals you can access this week:
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/jotw/index.htm

We hope you find Journal of the Week a useful service. All titles featured are available as part of Emerald Management Plus.

LexisNexis Butterworths name change

LexisNexis Butterworths changed its name to LexisLibrary at the weekend. However, LN are happy for us to refer to the database via eLibrary links and in guides as LexisNexis Butterworths until the summer. Having chatted with James we’ve decided to keep the old name ‘LexisNexis Butterworths’ until the summer and give the students prior warning of the name change by putting a news item on the Student Portal.

I’ll let you know when we change the name on the eLibrary to LexisLibrary in the summer.

Sue W

a-n Resources Downtime

Hi All,

We've received the following message about downtime for the a-n resources database:

On Thursday April 23 at 6pm BST the website will go down for a couple of hours whilst we move it and its database to a more powerful and faster server.

There will be a longer disruption for those gaining access through IP authentication whilst the DNS repointing to the new server filters through the internet. Please email info@a-n.co.uk if you need any more information.

Thanks,

James.

NetLibrary Problems

Hi Everyone,

We are currently experiencing problems when logging into NetLibrary e-books from off-campus using OpenAthens. Users are currently receiving the following error message:

"A problem has occurred while processing your request. The problem has been logged so that it can be corrected. We apologize for the inconvenience."

This appears to be a national problem, as other universities have reported the same thing. I have notified OCLC, as have a number of other universities. They are working on resolving the problem, but haven't indicated how long this might take to resolve.

Until OpenAthens access is restored users will either have to access these titles from on-campus or use the Remote Desktop.

Thanks,

James.

Informaworld Downtime in April

Hi Everyone,

Please see the following announcement about informaworld downtime during April.

Thanks,

James.


Dear Customer,

We are writing to notify you that informaworld will not be available during the following periods over the next few weeks due to essential maintenance work:

Friday 10th April 11.00pm - Saturday 11th April 07:00am GMT

Saturday 18th April from 3:00am - 11:00am GMT

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

In addition, I would like to apologise for some unscheduled downtime which occurred on March 26th. This was due to a failure on the side of our internet service provider, and we are taking steps to ensure this does not recur.

Please refer any queries to support@informaworld.com.

new statistics database

Hi all,

There is a new statistics database on the eLibrary. ESDS (Economics and Social Data Service) contains macro and micro economic data and social data from the IMF, OECD, Eurostat, ILO, UN as well as the UK’s Office for National Statistics. Although it is a free database – Shibboleth username and password, you must register and indicate how you will use the data prior to downloading it.

Sue

Law Library surgery

Hi all,

I am suspending my law library surgery until October so please direct any law students directly to the 2nd floor office.

Sue W

Swetswise unavailable Sat 28/2/09

Hi Everyone,

Sandy has just passed on the following information about Swetswise downtime:

This coming Saturday there will be some maintenance to our systems. As a result of this SwetsWise will be down for a short time between 8:30am to 10am. Could you please make your users aware.

Thanks,

James.

Emerald Journals & Emerald Engineering off-campus

Hi
Emerald databases are not accessible off-campus. Olivia has logged the problem with them.

Please get students to use Remote Desktop Connection.

How to use Remote Desktop:
Click Start/Programs/Accessories/Remote Desktop Connection (it may be located under Communications option)
At the prompt type in stuts.coventry.ac.uk and click connect
At next prompt type your username PLUS the @coventry.ac.uk, followed by your password.

Gill

Pamphlet collections from leading UK libraries to be released in JSTOR

Hi Everyone,

We have received the following notification from JSTOR:


"We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of more than 20,000 19th Century British pamphlets into the JSTOR archive. This collection of materials was created by RLUK (Research Libraries UK) with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme to provide researchers with online access to some of the most significant collections of pamphlets held in UK institutions. The pamphlets are from collections held by: University of Newcastle, Durham University, University of Manchester, University College London, University of Liverpool, London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of Bristol.

The first set of approximately 8,000 pamphlets will be available at the end of January 2009, followed by regular releases of additional material. They will be freely accessible to all JSTOR participating institutions through June 30, 2009 as we work to evaluate delivery, presentation, and use of the content, and develop an understanding of how best to address the needs of researchers and students working with it."


For more information please see the JSTOR website or read the PDF handout.

Thanks,

James.

New ebrary User Interface

Hi Everyone,

Further to my email last week about the new ebrary interface please see the message below which gives some more information about the changes.

Thanks,

James.

Dear Customers,

Further to the recent announcement from ebrary regarding the launch of their new user interface on Tuesday 20th January (2am GMT on Wednesday 21st ), we would like to clarify that this is a platform update only and will not involve any change to the ebrary reader you currently use.

From Wednesday, ebrary eBook content will be displayed in QuickView, a new interface that requires no installation of any software or plug-ins. From QuickView you can launch the current version of the reader you are using to take advantage of richer functionality such as printing, highlighting, adding titles to your bookshelves etc.

Should you have any users who would prefer to bypass the QuickView option and go straight to the ebrary reader, they can do so by changing their preference in the ‘My Settings’ area, as outlined below:

1) Click on My Settings
2) Choose the ebrary reader option
3) Click on ‘Set Reader Preference’
4) Now anytime they are logged into ebrary (or for Athens users) they will be directed straight to the reader and will bypass QuickView



Any user in your institution who has already created a personalised bookshelf will have all their information transferred over to the new user interface so there will be no loss of information for them.

You can find more information about this change at the new UI FAQ’s available here: http://www.ebrary.com/corp/techUIfaq.jsp

You should all have received information on how you can access a demo site of the new user interface to test it for yourselves – if you haven’t received this email, or you have any questions/concerns about this new release then please do contact me and I will be happy to help in any way I can.

Kind regards

Sara

Scopus & Science Direct Down Time - Sat 10th Jan

Hi Everyone,

Please note the following information sent to us by Elsevier about down time on Saturday.

Thanks,

James.


On Saturday, 10 January, Scopus, ScienceDirect, The Admin Tool and 2collab will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately eight hours starting at 7:30 p.m. UTC/GMT (2:30 p.m. EST).

We apologize for the inconvenience,

Regards,

The Elsevier Team.