Electronic Resources Blog

We’re currently experiencing problems accessing journal articles on the Nature web site.

There is currently an intermittent problem accessing articles on ProQuest NewsStand via Summon.

We are experiencing problems with access to the PSL section of LexisLibrary. LexisNexis have been informed of the problem and are working to resolve it.

There is currently a problem when linking from an entry on Summon to the SwetsWise web site. This is being investigated.

The method for locating ebooks (which are books you can read online in your web browser) in Summon has just been tweaked to make it the same as you use for locating online journal articles…

Finding Books

To filter your search results so that they only contain books, tick the “Book / eBook” facet…

…your results will now include print books (which you can borrow from the library) and ebooks (which you can read online).

Print books have a link through to the library catalogue…

Electronic books have a yellow “online” badge on them…

If we have both print and electronic, you’ll see separate links to both…

Finding just ebooks

If you’re not bothered about prints books and you just want to see which books you can read online, tick the “Items with full text online” facet…

Finding just print books

If you’re not bothered about ebooks and you just want to see what print books we have in the library, tick the “Items in the Library” facet…

We’ve had a few complaints recently that Summon doesn’t allow you save PDF files. This isn’t actually anything to do with Summon, but seems to be a recent change Adobe has introduced in their Acrobat Reader software.

If you find that the “save” icon is greyed out in the Acrobat toolbar…

…select “File”, “Save As” and “PDF”…

Alternatively, if the PDF has opened within a web browser window, hover your mouse near the foot of the PDF window to display a toolbar and then select the “save a copy” icon…

According to Adobe Support, the “save” icon only becomes active once a user has made changes to the PDF document. However, as the vast majority of full-text journal articles don’t allow you to alter the PDF, the icon remains inactive.

We’re experiencing a couple of glitches with books and ebooks on Summon at the moment. Serials Solutions is aware of the problems and is working to resolve them.

Firstly, selecting the “eBook” content type returns both ebooks and some print books. A temporary fix is to also select the “Items with full text online” option.

Secondly, sorting books by “Date (newest)” or “Date (oldest)” isn’t working correctly.

Please be advised that Thomson Reuters will be performing maintenance to the Web of Knowledge, EndNote Web and Researcher ID this coming Saturday, 10 September 2011, commencing at 23:00 BST. Maintenance is expected to last approximately 2 hours.

During this time, there will be disruption of service and access to these products including WoK Personalisation. Apologies for any inconvenience this might cause.