During week 6 (week beginning 2 November 2020) we will be making some changes you may notice in Summon. We are working towards a more consistent approach for logging into e-resources, and this is a step towards that. These changes should mean that there will be fewer resources for which you will need to find the institutional login on the platform.  

These changes may take up to a week to come into effect, but you should still be able to access all our content as normal. The only change you should experience is the order in which you log in to online resources.  During this period, you may still need to log in via the institutional login on the platform as you have been doing if you are accessing off-campus. However, as the updates take effect you may find that for some of our resources in Summon, you will now be prompted to log in via our Single Sign On page before you reach the online resource. Once you have logged in, you will be directed to the content and will be authenticated so you can access everything we subscribe to on the platform.  

These changes do not affect what you use to log in to e-resources, you will still just need your IT username, e.g. ab123456 (not your full email address), and password.  

We do not anticipate any problems with access to resources in Summon. However, should you experience any access issues, we do have alternative routes that you can use to navigate to e-resources. You can use Enterprise (first search box on the library homepage) to search for e-books and online journal titles, and our databases a-z list, which contains database level links to our subscribed platforms.  

As always, if you are having any issues accessing e-resources, you can contact us via eresourceshelp@reading.ac.uk or by submitting an e-resources problem report form. We are always happy to help.  

Lindsay Warwick, E-resources Team