Engineering Village – Shibboleth access restored

Off-campus access to the Compendex and Inspec databases (on the Engineering Village platform) which was reported as unavailable on 5 Septermber is now available once again. On-campus access is direct and off-campus access is by university username and password (using the Shibboleth framework).

Engineering Village – Shibboleth access unavailable

Off-campus access to the Compendex and Inspec databases (on the Engineering Village platform) is currently unavailable. eServices is working with Elsevier’s technical team to resolve the configuration problem which is currently causing Shibboleth logins to be rejected: customers will currently see a Shibboleth error screen when logging in from off-campus. A further update will follow once off-campus access has been restored.

Engineering Village – SFX (‘Find it @ NTU’) links

On the Engineering Village platform (through which LLR provides access to the Inspec and Compendex services) a configuration problem had been leading to the display of two SFX (‘Find it @ NTU’) buttons in the Full Record and Abstract view of search results. This problem has now been resolved, and only the single, correctly-configured, SFX button displays (see illustration below).