BBC American Literature Resource

To link into its new series Capturing America: Mark Lawson’s History of Modern American Literature starting this Thursday at 11;30 on Radio 4, highlighting post-war American writers the BBC is promoting an archive of Front Line interviews with key American writers (Albee, Mailer, Morrison, DeLillo, Updike etc.) which may be of interest to staff and students, these are at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/front-row/american-authors/

These 30 minute audio files create a potentially useful free resource for students and general readers.

Trial of Naxos Video Library

 We have set up a months trial of Naxos Video Library – to help us evaluate this resource.

It features 250 full-length videos of concerts, operas, ballets.  Videos are available to stream at 700 kbps (standard quality) and 2 mbps (high quality).

Please have a look – login details here - and let us know what you think of this product using the comment box below – or to your Liason Librarian (Collection Development)  francis.firth@bcu.ac.uk.

Athens problems off-campus – intermittent?

We are getting reports of intermittent problems with logging into  Athens protected services off-campus – and are investigating with Athens to try and work out what the problem is.

If you get this message – which is before you login – please could you email us athens@bcu.ac.uk – and it would be really helpful if you could tell us what browser you are using, what version (if known) and which broadband provider you are using (if known).

We will let you know here when these problems are resolved.

Trial of Marketing Mentor

 We are currently running a trial of  Marketing Mentor- a practical marketing resource. 

To logon to the trial please click here to get the username and password..  Please leave your comments below as to what you thought of this resource.

Athens working again this afternoon

Athens was down this morning again between 06:50 and 12:43 .

This was due to problems with another application that shared our Athens server locally - our ICT colleagues have now resolved the problem and it should be working again.

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

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Athens working again

Athens was down Fri morning between 07:47 and 10:30 ; and again this Monday morning 05:50 to 10.30 - our ICT colleagues have now resolved the problem and it should be working again.

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

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ScienceDirect down for maintenance this weekend

Elsevier tell us that ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12 hours –  from 1:00PM  Saturday, 23 January to 1:00AM GMT Sunday, 24 January. This will affect all our full text journals via this route.

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ABI Inform down for maintenance Sunday, January 31

We have just had a message from folk at ProQuest – that they will be performing  maintenance on Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 03:00 am for twelve (12) hours to 15:00 GMT.

This means that ABI Inform will not be available during that time.

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SAGE Fulltext Criminology has now moved!

SAGE Fulltext Criminology Journals has moved – and this collection of full-text articles is now available via the publishers’ own site.

For any help searching SAGE Criminology please contact your Liason Librarian for Criminology, Phil Stant. You can also access these journals in the same way – please contact athens@bcu.ac.uk if you want any help in doing this.

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Library website and Athens now working again

Athens\Electronic Services and the library web pages at http://library.bcu.ac.uk – are working again thanks to colleagues in our CICT.

If you still have problems accessing our Athens-protected services please contact us on athens@bcu.ac.uk.