WARC, Westlaw and Moodle

One upon a time two of our electronic resources, Warc and Westlaw were available to students through Moodle. Then they weren't.  Now they are back on Moodle, hopefully to stay.  I offer sincere apologies for the length of time this has taken.

Justis and Warc

Access to Justis off-campus has been restored, but only in EBSCOHost Integrated Search. To access Justis off-campus, go to the e-library page and open the EBSCOHost Integrated Search link. Login with your username and password (student number/date of birth), go to the A to Z database list and scroll down for Justis. You can search Justis on this platform though retrieving a search result will take you to the native Justis interface.

Warc is also available through the EBSCOHost Integrated Search platform in the same manner as above. Stand alone access continues through Moodle, for the moment.

In the new year, we hope to vastly simplify how you access databases off-campus. Stay tuned!

Minor Changes

Changes are being made to a few electronic resources around here:

Justis will shortly be available on and off-campus via the search box and the adversearch page on the library website.

The interface, ans the URL for Marketline is changing. For a preview go here (on campus only). More content will be available too.

The Warc interface is changing too. There will be new content, including Topic Pages, which will provide a short cut to retrieving relevant content allin one place. Each Topic Page will include the likes of selected research papers, case studies, company profiles and news. In addition, Warc Briefings will provide historical overviews, detail likely future trends and suggest further readings on particular topics. More news as it becomes available.

Finally for now, the online library catalogue will shortly receive a makeover. If you want to see what the catalogue will look like, click here

A period of transition

We think the new library website is much better than the old one. There's various changes that we have made, including a search box on the main page and a new 'Search All Resources'. As a consequence of this, we've had to change how a few databases are accessed off-campus. For the moment, access to Warc, Justis, Mintel and Westlaw will be through Moodle (Westlaw can also be searched off-campus via the new search interface). If you are asked for a password for Justis or Westlaw, please contact library staff.

WARC Access

In the lead up to the new academic year, we are very busy. You will have seen the new website and the new search interface. One small issue is WARC access. We are in the process of making alternative arrangements for on and off-campus access. WARC is now available on-campus from this link. Please bear with us while we find a home for off-campus access.

WARC Access revisited

I'm glad I don't work for WARC. It would seem that they received a lot of feedback from academic institutions (I sent some feedback myself) concerning their switch to personalised logins earlier this week. In response to the feedback, the use of personalised logins for users at academic institutions that prefer other access methods, like us, has been discontinued. Access to WARC is now back to normal, hooray. You don't need to create a personalised login to access WARC, unless you really want to that is. Well done to WARC for being so flexible and responsive.

WARC access

You can ignore this post, unless you really want to create a personal login, full details above.

WARC have changed the way that users access their site. Personalised logins are now the way forward - there's an element of mea culpa here as we knew they were bringing them in, but what we didn't know, was that personalised logins are mandatory. The good people of WARC say there are a number of advantages to users:

• logins will will be easier to remember
• If you have cookies enabled, you can log in without entering any details (once you have registered)
• You can create profiles and folders accessible from any PC
• Personalised logins will enable users to customise delivery of content (when changes are made to WARC later in the year)

To register click the WARC link on 'Search All Resources' (which is a secret, so I can't put the link here), and follow the on-screen instructions. Check your profile and confirm your preferences (and your agreement with the terms and conditions of usage). You will be sent an email with a security PIN, which you will need to complete the registration process. Here's a registration guide. As of now, WARC can only be searched on a stand-alone basis, that is, it can't be searched by 'Search All Resources' or EBSCOHost Integrated Search, and we await further news about this.

WARC

The World Advertising Research Centre (WARC) is a good source of knowledge and insight into the global marketing and advertising market. It contains full-text articles from a number of journals (for example the International Journal of Advertising) and trade periodicals (for example Admap) as well as case studies, best practice, news, views and statistical information. Further to the long post on WebFeat below, WARC is now searchable in WebFeat. That's a whopping 16 DBS library-subscribed databases that can be searched simultaneously inWebFeat now.