Electronic Resources Blog

The Wiley Online Library website will undergoing maintenance on Saturday April the 2nd beginning at 10:00 am London (UTC/GMT 09:00).

We’re currently experiencing problems logging into Lexis sites via Athens and you may receive the following error:

The problem has been reported to Lexis.

There is currently a problem accessing the RCN journal content. We are looking into it and hopefully access will be restored shortly.

Internet Explorer 9 (for Windows 7) is now out of beta testing and available to download. If you decide to upgrade, please be aware that Summon currently isn’t fully compatible with IE9 yet. In particular, the following interface features don’t work:

- the “refine your search” facets don’t do anything when clicked on
- the sort drop-down doesn’t resort results
- the search term(s) don’t re-appear in the search
- the preview overlay window for each result doesn’t open
- the “Feedback” link doesn’t open the feedback form

A temporary workaround to resolve the above is to switch IE9 to “Compatibility View” mode by clicking on the icon (circled in red) in the address bar:

Serials Solutions, the company who develop Summon, are aware of the problem and we expect the issues to be resolved a.s.a.p.

On Saturday 19th March, 01:00 -03:00 (GMT), Summon will be undergoing some system maintenance – this may result in a temporary interruption of service.

Since launching Summon last year, we’ve had occasional reports of users being unable to log in to access e-resources. In many of the instances, we’ve been able to track the problem down the cookie settings in the web browser.

In order to log into Summon, you should ensure that your web browser accepts both 1st party and 3rd party cookies from the library.hud.ac.uk domain.

If your browser is rejecting cookies from library.hud.ac.uk, you will see the following message:

If you need help configuring the cookie settings in your browser, please get in touch and we’ll do our best to help you out: library.support@hud.ac.uk

We’ve started putting together some guides for the major web browsers:

- Firefox 3
- Google Chrome
- Internet Explorer 8
- Internet Explorer 9
- Safari

The cookie that we send to your browser is a unique session ID string that contains no personal information. Unless you’ve selected the “remember me” option, the cookie will be deleted when you close your web browser down.

If your browser is configured to block 3rd party cookies, you may also experience problems accessing full-text on publisher web sites.

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on March 20, 2011. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 02:00 for twelve (12) hours.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest platform products (including the new platform), ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface)
• Chadwyck-Healey products – Early English Books Online
• CSA Illumina products such as CSA Technology Research Database, Illustrata: Natural Sciences, and CSA Sociological Abstracts

We have trial access to AJBL until 31st March 2011 - The AJ Buildings Library is the new fully searchable, online database of photographs, plans, technical details and data on the most important buildings in British architecture. Using the intuitive search, you can quickly locate the building you are looking for. Each project featured in this paid-for digital service has full project data (more than 20 items of information) and comprehensive architectural photographs and drawings (plans, elevation, section) – all provided at high resolution.

 The database is continuing to grow. The dedicated Buildings Library Editor is requesting and publishing dozens of new projects every month, as well as pulling classic schemes from the AJ archives.

For login details and queries, email: library.art&design@hud.ac.uk

We have trial access to ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) until 15th April 2011.

The Guardian(1821-2003) and its sister paper, The Observer (1791-2003),  both part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers, give readers online access to facts, firsthand accounts, and opinions of the day about the most significant and fascinating political, business, sports, literary, and entertainment events from the past two centuries. From Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo to the Russian Revolution to Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, these British historical newspapers bring history to life for researchers. For further information contact the Music & Humanities subject team: Library.mh@hud.ac.uk

We have trial access to Morgan & Claypool’s Colloquium life sciences ebook collection until 10th April 2011.

Colloquium is an innovative information service for the research, development and educational communities in life sciences – specifically within Biotechnology, Cell Biology of Medicine, The Developing Nervous System, Developmental Biology, Drug development and Integrated Systems Physiology.  The e-book collection combines authoritative content with advanced digital delivery to create a product that is substantially more useful than traditional print and digital publications.

Access is on campus only via IP. For further information or if you have any difficulties, email library.computing&engineering@hud.ac.uk