Gale-Cengage databases – Shibboleth errors resolved

The Cengage-Gale technical team have now resolved the problem preventing off-campus access to the InfoTrac databases.

Access to the previously affected InfoTrac databases has now been restored and information in eSearch has been updated to reflect this.

Gale-Cengage databases – Shibboleth error

A problem affecting the Gale-Cengage Shibboleth service is currently preventing off-campus access to the following InfoTrac databases:

* 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
* 19th Century British Library Newspapers
* British Newspapers 1600-1900
* ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
* European Business ASAP
* The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985

Attempts to select the ‘Shibboleth users click here’ link generate an application error message. A video screengrab of the error can be reviewed here: http://screencast.com/t/ZTQ1YjM4NmM.

On-campus access is unaffected.

A further update will follow once off-campus access to the Gale-Cengage databases has been restored.

Gale-InfoTrac – Shibboleth authentication

Off-campus access to LLR’s subscription databases on the Gale-InfoTrac platform is now by university username and password (using the Shibboleth framework). The databases involved in the change from Athens to Shibboleth based authentication are:

• 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection (* a new collection)
• 19th Century British Library Newspapers
• British Newspapers 1600-1900 (* a new collection)
• ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
• European Business ASAP
• The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985

Links and prompts in eSearch and SFX have been updated accordingly. A guide to using Shibboleth authentication on the Gale-InfoTrace platform has been added to the eServices Support wiki

The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985 – enabled for remote and metasearching

The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985 can now be remote and metasearched from within eSearch. Under the Advanced search option is it possible to select a particular Year (as a second search field) to focus on a particular 12-month period within the 200 year run. It is possible to deep-link to a particular digital facsimile of a page from The Times directly from the search result in eSearch.

New collection: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection

Access to the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection has been activated in eSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus (using Shibboleth). The collection is described as follows:

Compiled by Rev. Charles Burney, this collection charts the development of English news media during the 17th and 18th centuries. It features more than 700 bound volumes and over 1,200 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period, including early issues of the London Evening Post, the Boston and Virginia Gazettes. Each page is indexed and users can conduct full-text searches.

New collection: British Newspapers 1600-1900

Access to the British Newspapers 1600-1900 collection has been enabled in eSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus (using Shibboleth). The collection is described as follows:

The British Newspapers 1600-1900 is a digital collection of British historic newspapers. In addition to digital versions of newspaper content, find specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars assist with perspective and analysis.

It brings together content from the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; and 19th Century British Library Newspapers.