Information sources affected by US Federal shutdown

EDIT (17 Oct 2013): A deal has now been reached resulting in an end to the federal shutdown. For more on this, see: http://bbc.in/1bXDdO4

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The US federal shutdown has an impact on some information sources we use.  The sources currently affected are:

• the US National Library of Medicine who maintain PubMed and Medline
• the US Department of Education who maintain ERIC
• the Library of Congress

Medline is still accessible and searchable from Discover and our databases page (http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/information-learning-services/information-learning-services/faqs-for-staff--students/where-can-i-find-databases.aspx) however, this database may not be updated as usual.

ERIC is still accessible and searchable from our databases page but access to full text material via ERIC is NOT possible during the shutdown.  Our advice is to continue to use ERIC for searching but alternative access to full-text may be found on Google Scholar.

PubMed is accessible and searchable at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed but it not being updated or maintained as usual.

There is no access to the Library of Congress website.

For further information on the US federal shutdown see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24378831

For further help and assistance please contact Information Learning Services ils@yorksj.ac.uk 

Full text access on ERIC

ERIC, a full text education database, is restricting access to some articles. For information and help with access to items affected please see: http://t.co/Z8vPMDKV. Remember, you can talk to your Academic Liaison Librarian for further advice.

New search tool now live

Discover, our new resource search tool, is now live:

• Seamless linking to ebooks
• Finds more than books
• Easy linking to full text journals

Any questions, come along to one of our drop-in sessions:

• 6 November at 1.30pm
• 14 November at 9.45am
• 16 November at 2.30pm

Wiley Online Library down tomorrow

Wiley have informed us that access to their online resources (eBooks and eJournals) may be interrupted tomorrow (Saturday 14th Jan) for essential maintenance work.

The work will be starting at 10am, and will take up to 2 hours.

Dawson eBooks in IE9 workaround

If you are using Internet Explorer 9, you will need to select compatibility mode to use Dawson and some other sites.
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IE9 has a bug when viewing Dawson eBooks, where navigation from one page to another does not work properly. To fix it, click on the compatibility view icon. An alternative option is to use a different browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome.

RESOLVED: Workaround for Athens authentication

UPDATED: This issue is now resolved, access to Athens authenticated resources is now active again.

If unable to access resources using Athens authentication, the following may help:

Go to the MyAthens website at http://auth.athensams.net/my/ and use the alternative login.

Go to York St John University in the list of Universities.

You then will have access to a resource list and Dawson books.

Update 13.40 Friday:

This link takes you more directly to the Athens alternative logon, and then should redirect to the list of resources. Could you add a comment to let us know if this works for you, please?

We have also updated the "YSJ students and staff: continue your search" link from the off-campus view of the library home page, to use the alternative login. This does work, though occasionally you will see a blank page, and need to refresh the page in the browser in order to get your search results.

Issue with Athens authentication

Currently electronic resources that use Athens authentication are inaccessible. You will receive a message about the authentication timing out. We have contacted Eduserv regarding this and hope for a speedy resolution. Please continue trying the service as any resources that use EZproxy authentication will work.