MINTEL

In the immortal words of Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, good news everyone! Mintel is now available through EBSCOHost Integrated Search (EHIS). We're waiting on the IT department's web specialist adding Mintel (and a few other databases) to the search box on the library home page and indeed the list of databases on the advanced search page too. In the interim, to find Mintel on EHIS, go to the EHIS link on the e-library page

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!

More updates

To fill you in on what's happening in library land:

• Reminder emails will probably start next week and electronic overdue notices soon after
• The library website is being redesigned and hopefully improved (don't get us wrong, we love our website, but that doesn't mean to say that it couldn't be given a lick or two of paint). This will be starting in the next week. When the new website is ready, we will probably switch 'Search All Resources' from WebFeat to EHIS at the same time. If I say this will probably take two or three weeks, I'd end up being wrong, so I won't (but if I had to guess...)
• For EHIS, we are nearly ready to add Lexis Nexis (News) and Westlaw.ie
• Some changes have been made behind the scenes that should give us access to full-text of a few (well perhaps 20-30) more journals. More soon.
  

EBSCO Integrated Search (EHIS) update

For the benefit of amnesiacs and new readers, EBSCOHost Integrated Search (EHIS) is replacing WebFeat ('Search All Resources' on the library home page)as our federated search software and our off-campus access to electronic resources platform. WebFeat is still available as we wait for all our databases to be made available on EHIS.

We are making good progress however, with the number of databases available to be searched (and therefore available off-campus) on EHIS Now available are:
ft.com
WARC
Lexis Nexis Legal (Butterworths All England Law Reports)

If you're interested in using EHIS, you can click here and login with your student number and date of birth. Even if you can't login to WebFeat, you almost certainly should be able to login to EHIS and if your date of birth doesn't work, then login with your student number as both username and password. Currently databases available on EHIS are:

Academic Search Complete
All England Law Reports (Lexis-Nexis Legal)
Britannica Online
Business Source Complete
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Emerald
ERIC
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
Financial Times.
First Law (Ireland)
GreenFILE
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
JSTOR
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text (Trial)
MarketLine
PEP Archive
Regional Business News
PsycARTICLES
PsycINFO
PubMed
SocINDEX with Full Text (Trial)
WARC

We're still waiting for Mintel, Westlaw and Lexis Nexis (news), not to mention the libraty catalogue too

FirstLaw (Ireland)

I'm also pleased to say that FirstLaw (Ireland) is now available to be searched in EBSCOHost Integrated Search (EHIS). Don't forget EHIS is going to be our new 'Search All Resources' once we have a few more databases ready. You can find EHIS at the bottom of the 'Search All Resources' page after you login.

Coming soon: ft.com off-campus

One of the reasons we are switching from WebFeat ("Search All Resources") to EBSCOHost Integrated Search (EHIS), is that more databases can be searched through EHIS. A beneficial side effect of this is that it means more databases are accessible off-campus. Encyclopaedia Britannica is now available off-campus (via EHIS) and I'm very pleased to say that very soon you'll be able to read the Financial Times off-campus too, again via EHIS. We'll let you know when it's available. Still waiting on a few other databases though, which is why EHIS is buried deep in the bowels of WebFeat

Another (short) miscellany

A couple of things to pass on
1) Our JSTOR journals have been added to our A to Z Journal collection.
2) Last week, or sometime in the recent past anyway, I mentioned that we're replacing WebFeat with new federated search software from EBSCO (EHIS). Anyway, we're still waiting for all our databases to be connected up to it, which is why there's been no formal announcement and indeed why WebFeat is still working, but in the interim, you can look at EHIS off-campus through WebFeat - scroll down to the very bottom and you'll see it. I think the interface is a vast improvement on WebFeat (sorry WebFeat), though perhaps the only change EHIS makes at the moment is that you can now access Encyclopaedia Britannica off-campus if you so wish.

Coming soon

If you are a new student and have been using Ask-A-Librarian to ask about accessing 'Search All Resources', you may have had this reply:

Hi, for now you can use xxxxxx and xxxxxx to access search all resources. We're making some changes to this service and so we're not handing out individual logins at the moment

If you're not a new student and haven't used Ask-A-Librarian to ask about accessing 'Search All Resources', well let me tell you that we're making some changes to this facility.
The big change and the one from which other changes flow, is that we are changing suppliers. We have been using WebFeat, supplied by Serial Solutions. Shortly, we will be switching over to EBSCOHost Integrated Search (EHIS). We like WebFeat, and it has functionality that EHIS lacks, but we like EHIS even more, particularly since one can search more databases through EHIS. With the change in supplier comes a change in user interface: individual or multiple databases are searched using the EBSCOHost database interface that you should be familiar with using databases such as Business Source Complete or PEP Archive, and results are presented in the same EBSCO interface. The other change relates to the way resources are accessed off-campus: we have been using WebFeat as a gateway for off-campus access, in that even if the database couldn't be searched by WebFeat, the link was still there for you to access the database off-campus. This isn't the case with EHIS: access to all databases off-campus will be through EHIS and if a database isn't searchable through EHIS it won't appear on that list. Offhand I can think of only one database where this will be problematic, but we'll address that down the line.

If you're on campus, then here's a preview of what EHIS looks like. It's still missing (more than) a few databases, but it'll give you an idea of what to expect. We'll keep WebFeat going for a while yet.

Any and all feedback gratefully received

Edit: Also available through "Search All Resources" itself (scroll to bottom)

Edit: Firstlaw now searchable in EHIS