New Database: Xtreme Information

Xtreme Information now available

Launched in 1983 as The TV Register, Xtreme Information captures and archives over 25,000 new TV and press advertisements every month from over 60 countries, as well as cinema, radio, outdoor and internet banner ads. Xtreme Information holds over 3 million ads and material going back as far as the 1950s.

Xtreme Information is now available via the Aston e-Library: Find Resource, Business Category, Market Research. Your Aston university username and password will be required.

http://libra.aston.ac.uk:8331/V/IBJHUQSNIS2T84754JUKNBAJ4L9HFUQX9J1U5PHU5N48QIMLCD-28122?func=native-link&resource=AST02938

In case of any queries please contact:

Lydia Matheson
Business Information Specialist
l.a.matheson@aston.ac.uk
ext. 4507

Changes to loans policy over vacation period

Loan periods will no longer be extended to cover vacation periods. Please renew your books regularly. Reminders to do so will continue to be sent. If you find that a book in your possession has been reserved by another reader, you should mail it back to the Library, ideally by recorded delivery.
Checking your University email regularly is part of your responsibility as a borrower.
We have made this change in order to ensure maximum circulation of material, and in response to widespread abuse of the previous system.
The new arrangement is common in other university libraries.

Name the Library Competition - Win £100

http://www1.aston.ac.uk/staff/aspects/people/library-competition/

Emerald off-campus

The intermittent problems with searching Emerald off-campus should have been resolved now. If you continue to have problems, please either add a comment to this blog post or contact lis-enquiries@aston.ac.uk.

JSTOR Login Problems

JSTOR have now fixed their login problems so off-campus access is properly restored. 2nd March 2010

JSTOR are currently carrying out emergency maintenance on their Shibboleth server and hope to have it fixed by the end of the day.
This means that logging in to JSTOR databases won't be possible for today. Please go via the proxy server for the moment. This blog post will be updated when the problem has been fixed.

Quicksearch in Aston e-Library

The Quicksearch function in Aston e-Library is behaving very strangely at the moment. The suppliers are looking into this as a matter of urgency. While this is being fixed, please go to Find Resource and run your searches in the databases themselves rather than via Quicksearch. We'll update this blog post as soon as the problem has been resolved.

Find it @ Aston E-journals not opening correctly

There’s currently a problem when using the Find it @ Aston e-journals service in Internet Explorer version 8. You might find that when you click on GO from the Find it @ Aston pop-up box, the full-text of the journal never opens. In order to get round this, please use Mozilla Firefox for the time being, or close any other windows that you have open in Internet Explorer before accessing the full-text journal. The suppliers are aware of this issue and are working on a fix. We hope to have this resolved soon.
If you have any queries, please comment on this post.