Kia ora koutou

As a consequence of switching most resources to
OpenAthens last week and not having updated our catalogue links yet (that will be done today but it will take Multisearch up to a week to catch up), some full text links from Multisearch (the ones using our catalogue record links) were failing to get through ezproxy when off-campus users used the “Off Campus? Log in to access full text and more content” top right banner to sign in first.
We were unable to fix this so have temporarily turned the off campus login option in Multisearch  and will leave it turned off at least until it has picked up the changes to library catalogue links.

The main consequence of disabling this option is off-campus users will not see the full range of search results in Multisearch.  Some abstract & indexing databases (e.g. ProQuest theses/dissertations), Scopus (citation counts that normally display for articles indexed by Scopus) and Informit, restrict access to citations/results to users on campus IP range or logged in to ezproxy or OpenAthens.
Off campus users may also have to navigate the sign in via institution options on platforms like ProQuest, Gale and EBSCOhost when they click on a full text link (in testing we only came across one example of this and it was quite straightforward to sign in to ProQuest).

If you are off campus and spot anything really annoying or not functioning (or have users report things on AskLIVE) please let Library Digital Services know and we’ll see if we can mitigate.

Ngā mihi,

Romy (on behalf of Library Digital Services)