Kia ora koutou
Today marks the last day of our official OpenAthens go live period. We have updated a lot of links to point to OpenAthens (over 200,000 catalogue records), Multisearch/360link linking logic has changed, and we have updated the LibGuides database assets. We are still working on around 30,000 older catalogue record links as the process to convert them hasn’t proved as seamless as we’d hoped, mainly due to the age of some of the records and the opportunity to do some tidy up as we go.
We are also working on getting database permalink formats updated where required – if you spot any that still add ezproxy to the link let us know.
Most current students and staff should now be set up to get through the Microsoft sign in for OpenAthens. We have identified a problem with visitors or staff that don’t have UC email addresses not being able to log in and are currently working on that with IT. Please continue to refer any issues with OpenAthens Microsoft sign in to Library Digital Services.
Link-maker
The new linkmaker – should be used from now on to create stable off-campus-available links to library e-resources. The LEARN ezproxy links page has been updated by FTL – it no longer contains the linkmaker itself, it now links out to it instead (we requested this to avoid us having to duplicate the code and information), so you may want to provide academics you are working with the direct link and ask them to bookmark it.
We will remove the content of the old intranet linkmaker page soon and replace it with directions to the new linkmaker, if you have this page bookmarked please replace with the new linkmaker.
Privacy/Data Release and Personal Account Creation Screens
Since OpenAthens provides the opportunity for some publishers to provide users with personal accounts (to make use of features like saved searches, alerts etc.), users will see some personal data use/release screens (usually only the first time they access a publisher’s site) about the place now. These are usually quite straightforward and readable. We are releasing only minimal personal data via OpenAthens – most vendors will only get an anonymized token allowing them to log users into their own account, some others (mostly for personal vendor accounts users create) require UC email address and first and last names.
Some examples of ones I’ve come across below.
We still have a number of small tasks to get through to complete the conversion to OpenAthens over the next couple of months e.g. updating the proxy information in Endnote find full text and EndnoteClick, more Libguides updates (links in rich text and url assets), and the biggie – updating existing links in LEARN.
Ngā mihi,
Romy (on behalf of Library Digital Services)
Kia ora
I had an Asklive query on Friday 29th. A postgrad student had an issue with logging-in and couldn’t access online journals. Luckily they had 2 email addresses, one was .pg account which was their main address. Instead they used the other email “username@uclive.ac.nz” for MFA and it worked. Was this a temporary issue last week?
Kia ora Saharu.
Since last year all post grads have had a username@uclive.ac.nz email variant merged with any existing @pg.canterbury.ac.nz accounts they may have had. This was mostly a behind the scenes IT thing so they could use Outlook online/office365 which needs either @canterbury.ac.nz or @uclive.ac.nz username/sign in to work. So all post grads need to use the username@uclive.ac.nz email format to sign in to M365 even if they have an @pg account.
Ngā mihi,
Romy
This may or may not be related but could be useful. I had this message the other day trying to access a journal error message when you click on link. I had a feeling this was because we no longer had electronic access to this particular journal (we did no longer have access) if anyone comes across this message in future. A student also had trouble on a Mac using Chrome so suggested clearing cache (as had previously accessed when was ezproxy) and use another browser. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/canterbury.ac.nz?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oldcitypublishing.com%2Fjournals%2Fwaj-home%2Fwaj-issue-contents%2F
Wendy D.
Kia ora Wendy
This is an error message that comes up when we have not added a vendor platform/site to our OpenAthens catalogue OR if it is one of very few resources that can’t be set up via the OA redirector (these should not have the open athens prefix). Can be a number of reasons why we haven’t added something – a) it is open access or we don’t have a subscription, b) it is new and we haven’t had it added yet or forgot to. Can you post where the link was found (e.g. Multisearch, catalogue, Google S, LEARN)? If we don’t subscribe we’ll have to get the record removed from whatever the source is.
Ngā mihi,
Romy
Kia ora Romy, most students use only multisearch as in this case. We actually haven’t had access to this particular title since 2018 from memory and Sue T. has kindly removed this now. Was this: Woman’s art journal [electronic resource]. Bib#: 1091746
Wendy