JISC E-books Added to OPAC

Hi Everyone,

Sandy has now added records to the OPAC for the 36 e-books that JISC have made available to us as part of their 2 year project to monitor e-book usage.

There are 7 Media Studies titles, 5 Business/Management titles, 14 Engineering titles and 10 Medical titles. The medical titles are provided via the Ovid platform and all the others are via MyiLibrary. If you haven’t seen a full list of the titles and would like to, please have a look at the document ‘full-list-of-e-books’ which can be found on the w: drive (W:\Team Work Areas\Electronic Resources\E-Books\JISC E-books Observatory Project).

All the titles have an on-campus URL, which should take you through without needing to login and an off-campus URL, which takes you in via Athens.

If you have any questions about these titles or about the project, just ask.

Thanks,

James.

MyiLibrary e-books in OPAC

Hi Everyone,

Good News! Sandy has now managed to add all the MyiLibrary books to the OPAC, so you should now be able to find any of these titles by searching in the usual way.

When linking to an e-resource on the standalone OPACs you will get a ‘Page Cannot be Displayed’ message, as these machines are restricted to just Library Catalogue use. We’ve asked Paul to try get a message to display when a user clicks on a link to an e-resource, telling them that they need to use a networked PC. However, in the meantime please advise users about this if they ask you.

Sandy is hoping to add the ebrary titles at some point in the next month, when she has received the new records from ebrary.

Thanks,

James.

Ebrary Bookshelf Problem

Within ebrary we are experiencing a problem accessing books saved to the bookshelf when using the student PCs on-campus. Both ebrary and IT Services have been investigating the problem for some time and will continue to do so.

Until a proper solution has been found users can still acess their bookshelf titles by right-clicking on the title and selecting the option to 'Open in New Window.'