Science Direct Off-Campus Access Restored

I’m pleased to announce that normal access to Science Direct off-campus via eSearch has now been restored.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Science Direct Off-Campus Access

We are continuing to work on resolving the Science Direct off-campus eSearch access problem. In the meantime we have deployed a temporary work around.

• Access Science Direct via eSearch as normal and select the link
• The link will take you to the Science Direct home page
• From there select Athens/Institution Login

• Next select UK Access Management Federation from the drop down box

• A list of institutes will be diosplayed below, Select Nottingham Trent University
• Sign in using your University Username and Password

Science Direct Off-Campus Shibboleth Identity Provider Failure

Off-campus Shibboleth access to Science Direct via eSearch is currently unavailable.
When trying to access Science Direct via eSearch off-campus, you receive the following message:

This problem has been logged with our ITS Service Desk and we hope to have restore off-campus access online soon.
On-campus access in not effective.

Science Direct – Shibboleth authenticated access enabled

Off-campus access to all of LLR’s subscribed materials on the Science Direct platform is now by university username and password (using Shibboleth). Links and prompts in eSearch and SFX have been updated accordingly. A guide to using Shibboleth authentication for Science Direct has been added to the eServices Support wiki. The remote and MetaSearch configuration for Science Direct in eSearch has also recently been updated.

New resource: Elsevier Science Direct: Economics eHandbooks

A set of 27 economics eHandbooks is now available on the Elsevier Science Direct platform. As with ejournal material on the same platform, access is direct on-campus and by Athens username and password off-campus. LLR would normally expect to receive catalogue records for eBook material direct from the provider. In this case, Elsevier indicate that MARC records for these (and other) titles are not expected to be ready before the end of the calendar year. As a result, the Cataloguing Team will add produce local catalogue records for each of these 27 titles before the start of the next term. There is also no direct ‘deep link’ to the eHandbooks, but the titles can be easily located through the Browse facility on the Science Direct platform when applying the settings indicated in the illustration below.