Trial of LexisPSL until end of November

Please help us evaluate this new resource for legal practictoners – it would be great to get your comments if you are on the LPC course.

We have put login details for the trial here. (login with Athens to see these off-campus). Your comments won’t be published, but we will take them into account when considering whether or not to buy this resource.

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Ovid databases working again through Athens

Ovid have told us that the problem we first noticed in Maternity and Infant Care (logging in via Athens with Internet Explorer) has been resolved.

If you have any more problems logging into this resource please let us know at athens@bcu.ac.uk

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The miners strike : which side were you on?

Check out the Independent Local Radio (BUVFC) from 1973 to 1996 - which has over 29,500 radio recordings from 1973 to 1996.

Follow such events as the 1984 Miners Strike & listen to voices across the political divide: from a ‘vox pop’ interview on Arthur Scargill’s arrest at Orgeave, May 1984, to the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher (defending police action, and her son’s involvement in financial deals in Oman).

BUVFC have also produced a teaching and learning case study of how this archive could be used – they say “the archive is important both in terms of content (especially news and current affairs coverage of political, economic, social and cultural events and developments) and for also for production techniques employed (including interviews, vox pops, phone-ins, reportage and rolling news)”.

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Broken links on Dialog Education databases

 Since Dialog restored the Education database for us – the links to our content e.g. Swetswise journals – on British Education Index don’t appear to be working.

We have raised this with our Account Manager at Dialog . In the meantime, if you are doing a search on Dialog – if you make a note of your article references, you can use our AtoZ of Electronic Journals to check for a journal title and holdings to see if we have the fulltext available electronically.

If you want any help on literature searching these Education databases, please contact Christiana TitahMboh who is your Liason Librarian for Learning and Teaching.

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It will soon be easier to hunt stuff down on Nexis

 

It will soon be easier to search across sources on Nexis – our global news service – as they are bringing out a new “All Search Forms” button. Also included is an a new Excel download feature.

For more details look at these screenshots - enhancements due 7th November.  

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Athens is now working again

Athens is now working again as it has been down between 16:02 yesterday and 09:07 this morning, and between 12:08 and 15.30 today. Our CICT colleagues have resolved the problem for us, though we are still looking into why this happened.

If you still have problems logging in, please contact us on athens@bcu.ac.uk 

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ScienceDirect down Sunday morning

Elsevier tell us that their ScienceDirect  journal service will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours from 1:00AM GMT Sunday, 1 November to 10:00AM GMT .

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Dialog Education databases back up and running

We had a problem this morning with the Dialog Education databases:  BEI,ERIC and Australian Education Index just giving a username and password screen – we have talked to the folks at Dialog and they have resolved this for us so you should now be able to login via the normal routes.

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Temporary problem with accessing Ovid databases

We are having some temporary problems accessing Ovid databases – we have reported the problem to them and they are investigating for us. In the meantime please use this address (on-campus only) to access ICONDA,Maternity and Infant Care and Ovid Journals:

http://ovidsp.ovid.com/autologin.html

 We will let you know here when it is working again.

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New resource: Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974 – 1996

We have just set up access to Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974 – 1996 which is an amazing historical record of transcripts as used by the U.S. Government 1974 – 1996 - ’open source intelligence’  or what the spooks used to call OSINT. See what you can dig up.

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