Category Archives: Electronic Resources

Electronic Resources, Library Wide

Web of Science cancellation – access webpage

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Kia ora koutou,

As we have set our plans in motion for the cancellation of Web of Science at the end of this year, we have now set up an intermediary webpage to advise our users of the forthcoming cancellation and of the alternative services available to them.  Access will now be directed through this page from the catalogue and from the database pages. The links to WOS in the libguides have also been re-directed, however please let eServices know if there are any we have missed.

Ngā mihi,

Bronwyn
(On behalf of eServices)

Central Library, Electronic Resources, Staff Development

I’m outta here

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Hi All!

For those of you that haven’t heard, I have been offered a position at van Asch Deaf Education Centre. I’ll be their e-Learning guy doing all sort of cool things but mostly working on professional development for primary and secondary teachers / hanging out at the beach.

Its all very exciting and was a hard decision to make but I think it will be the best for me, my family and career.

My last day will the the 5th of October, so make sure you get all your gifts, marriage proposals and tears to me before then.

CHUR

BRIAN (hainsworth)

Electronic Resources, Lessons Learned

E-book Error Message

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This week a number of distance students reported that every time they tried to access e-books from Taylor and Francis they received the following message:

After some trial and error, with  the distance students helping us out with testing, Romy figured out a solution – and access had likely been a problem since 4 August! So it’s likely a few students have been affected but they don’t always tell us when something isn’t working.

We’re adding a line to the error message reminding students to contact us if they should have access. As ever, if you get an students reporting problems with accessing e-books, please refer to E-Services.

Electronic Resources, Learning, Teaching & Research Support

Springer Protocols

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From Springer:

“On July 25th, the SpringerProtocols.com platform will be deactivated. You may have noticed that SpringerProtocols content is already searchable via our new research platform Springer Nature Experiments, our advanced research solution dedicated to protocols and methods, while the actual SpringerProtocols content is hosted on SpringerLink. Free-to-use, Springer Nature Experiments has been specifically designed to help researchers find and evaluate protocols and methods across the whole Springer Nature protocols and methods portfolio”

Electronic Resources, Learning, Teaching & Research Support, Library Wide, Staff Development

Have you updated your Echo360 links in LEARN?

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At the end of 2017, Echo360 was upgraded to a new cloud-based system. All historical course recordings were transferred, and 2018 lecture capture requests are scheduled into the new system.

The old Echo360 system will be decommissioned at the end of March. Before this happens, it is important that teaching staff:

  • Check that all requested historical course recordings have successfully transferred.
  • Update old Echolinks to individual recordings, with links to those recordings now in the new system.

Instructions on updating EchoLinks can be found at Echo360 Help: Managing Recordings

Echo360 can be accessed from the Course Recordings block on LEARN course pages.If any historical lecture recordings are missing or not working correctly, a working copy can usually be transferred from the old system. This needs to be done before the old system is decommissioned.

 

New Echo360 familiarisation

Before Semester 1, interactive sessions are now available in mid-February. For more information and registration, go to http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/tst/

Any questions, or training requests, can be sent to e-Learning Support via Assyst Self Service.