EBSCO & SFX Problem Fixed

Hi Everyone,

I've spoken to EBSCO and they have made a change to our account profile which seems to have fixed the problem with linking to articles from SFX. Previously we were sometimes being taken to a login screen, even when we were on-campus.

If anyone experiences this problem again, please do let me know.

Thanks,

James.

eLibrary Tutorial

Hi All,

Gill has completed the eLibrary Tutorial in INFORMS and Paul has added a button to link to this in the eLibrary banner. Please do pass any feedback about the tutorial to Gill or myself.

Gill is currently working on a guide to the My eLibrary section, which we are planning to publish as a gatefold, to accompany the general eLibrary guide. This should be available shortly.

Thanks,

James.

Problem linking to EBSCO from SFX

Hi Everyone,

Several people have reported a problem of being presented with a login screen when they link through to articles in EBSCO databases from SFX, even though they are on-campus. This only appears to happen when the Year, Vol, Issue & Page boxes are populated. It happens even if the correct information is in these boxes.

For now the only way that I have found around this is to take the information out of the boxes. You should then be able to link to the Journal Publication page within EBSCO and can then select the relevant year, volume/issue and article from the lists.

I've asked Sandy to investigate this further and if necessary we will report it to Ex Libris or to EBSCO. It's currently difficult to establish where the problem lies. This has been corroborated by an email sent to the SFX mailing list which appears to describe the same problem at another institution.

Thanks,

James.

Law Surgery cancelled for Tuesday 27th November

I won’t have my surgery in the department on Tuesday 27th November because I am attending a Westlaw usergroup meeting. I have put a note up on the door of the relevant room. Please ask students to email me if they wish to see me or take their details and I’ll get back to them. Law Surgery resumes as normal the week after.

Thanks
Sue

Academic Search Complete

ASC has now replaced Academic Search Premier. The new database contains all the material of ASP and includes additional journal titles.

Gill

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.

Third floor colour photocopier

The colour photocopier is out of action until Tuesday 13th November because a student put their own glossy paper in the bypass feeder which melted on the roller.
We're now awaiting a new roller. We've also asked for the bypass tray to be disabled and for a security cage to be put round the paper trays to stop access.

Gill