New electronic resource: DCP (Development Control Practice) Online

We now have access to Development Control Practice (DCP Online)  (on-campus only).

This online planning resource gives access to the latest information on best practice, legislation, policy statements, planning authority guidance and appeal decisions with expert analysis of how this is applied in practice.

DIGIMAP MasterMap Download unavailable 4th-7th February

EDINA tell us that DIGIMAP MasterMap Download will be unavailable from 4pm on Friday 4 February until 12 noon on Monday 7 February and will continue to be at risk for the remainder of Monday 7th.

 

 

For more information see http://edinadigimap.blogspot.com/2011/01/mastermap-download-4-7-february-2011.html.

Problems registering with DIGIMAP

There are difficulties with the Digimap registration process and as a result EDINA have withdrawn the ability to register. This applies to new users of DIGIMAP (including Historic DIGIMAP) who haven’t registered yet, not those who already have.

EDINA apologise ; they believe these problems began with those who registered on Thursday of last week.  In the meantime, they are asking those who registered with Digimap between Wednesday 8th December and Sunday 12th December 2010, and are not now able to access Digimap, to contact the EDINA Helpdesk on edina@ed.ac.uk, giving, if possible, the approximate date and time they registered and their institution’s name.

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Resolved: problem getting into DIGIMAP for new students

The issues concerning new students and their access has been resolved. The publishers EDINA tell us that they are now successfully  seeing registrations for DIGIMAP from new students.

If you still have issues getting into DIGIMAP, please email us at athens@bcu.ac.uk.

Resolved : Construction Information Service,IHS problem

The error message  like the one below when logging into Construction Imformation Service – seems to be resolved.

It was also affecting the other services from IHS such as Engineer-it, Occupational Health & Safety Information Service (OHSIS) and Specify-it Building.

We have contacted the publishers and also CICT who are looking into this for us to explain why it happened.

If you still have any difficulty logging into CIS, please can you contact us on athens@bcu.ac.uk.

Problem getting into to DIGIMAP – for new students?

We are investigating reports of problems accessing DIGIMAP (by newly registered students?) – though EDINA who run the service for us tell us that students are continuing to register normally.

If you are having problems accessing DIGIMAP, please let us know via athens@bcu.ac.uk.if you are a new student, and also at what point you were having problems. (Registration with DIGIMAP takes longer that with other Athens-protected services, there is a summary of how to do this here.)

Its a puzzle  – our CICT colleagues are helping to investigate us – and we hope to have some news soon.

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Access to Athens-protected resources working again for new students.

The problems accessing Athens -protected resources for new students has now been resolved, and our CICT colleagues have successfully implemented a fix.

If you are still having problems logging in please contact us via athens@bcu.ac.uk – it also would be helpful if you could say  whether you have newly registered or not.

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Digimap Roam replaces Digimap Classic 26th January

Just a reminder that the Digimap Classic mapping facility available  will be  removed on 26th January. Any maps present in your Classic Map Chest on 26th January will be lost, so please print or save any maps that you require before then. 

Digimap Roam (released in October 2009) replaces Classic as the standard mapping facility in Digimap OS Collection.

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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DIGIMAP soon with ‘slippy’ maps

DIGIMAP will soon have a great new feature called Roam that will allow you to click-and-drag with your mouse to position a map, as well as create a map from one of 12 different scales.

 

Your map can be viewed on screen, or a PDF file at A4 or A3 paper size can be generated for printing locally.

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