Access to the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is now provided through the CSA Illumina platform (it was previously made available to LLR customers through the EBSCOhost interface; and, before that, through the OvidSP platform).
Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Metasearching and remote searching of IBSS is enabled in eSearch.
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Access to the Geography service has been withdrawn from eSearch, following the conclusion of LLR’s current subscription.
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Access to the CAB Abstracts service has been withdrawn from eSearch following the conclusion of LLR’s current subscription to the resource (on 31 July 2010).
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The Silverplatter platform (which provided access to several of LLR’s subscription databases) is being withdrawn at the end of June 2009, so all the databases on the platform are being migrated to OvidSP. (Previously some of the databases were available on both Silverplatter and OvidSP).
In parallel with the migration away from Silverplatter, Shibboleth authentication has been enabled for all databases on OvidSP:
All links in eSearch have been updated accordingly, and a guide to Shibboleth authentication on OvidSP has been added to the eServices Support wiki.
Remote searching for Geography and ICONDA is not currently enabled on OvidSP, but it is hoped that it will be possible to reinstate this shortly.
LLR also have access to a small number of eBooks in the Books@Ovid collection (as part of the JISC eBook Observatory Project). Links to those titles in the Library Catalogue will be updated to make use of Shibboleth authentication shortly (in the meantime it will still be possible to use an Athens username and password to access those titles).
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Access to the OSH-UPDATE service has been set-up in eSearch. Access is direct on-campus, and by university username and password from off-campus (using the Shibbolized eZproxy service). The resource is described as follows:
OSH-UPDATE offers more than 500,000 records in the fields of occupational health, safety, hygiene, road safety, water safety and environment trends, drawn from a range of authoritative database sources including the UK legislation database; the UK Health and Safety Executive HSELINE; and the UK Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), and a number of other European and worldwide sources.
OSH-UPDATE provides full bibliographic citation and abstracts for all journal articles, conference reports and other materials in its index; and offers links to selected full-text services where these are available.
As only a single simultaneous user is permitted under the terms of LLR’s licence, the following note has also been added:
Please note: under the terms of LLR’s subscription to OSH-UPDATE only one person may access the resource at a time. To free up the service for the next visitor, always remember to Logoff at the end of your session. If you see the following error message, “You have reached your licences limit on the number of concurrent sessions”, please try again later.
For LLR, OSH-UPDATE serves as a replacement for the OSH-ROM service which will shortly cease to be available from Silverplatter-OVID. A further update will confirm when OSH-ROM has been withdrawn from eSearch.
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Access to the ICONDA (International Construction Database) service, which had been temporarily lost on the Silverplatter interface, has now been restored. The resource is again accessible through eSearch.
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LLR’s access to IBSS is now provided through the EBSCOhost platform, and eSearch linkages have been updated accordingly. Access to the resource is direct on-campus and by Athens username and password off-campus. IBSS can be remote searched and metasearched in eSearch.
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Links to the following Ovid databases have been updated in eSearch to point to the new OvidSP platform. Access continues to be by Athens username and password:
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