Our newest e-resource is Box of Broadcasts (BoB) – BoB is a resource that allows you to record and view TV and radio programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels.

Also available is an archive of over 2 million programmes from the 1990s to the present day – ready to watch. Includes content from; BBC TV and radio, ITV, Channel 4, Film4, some foreign language channels, the BBC Shakespeare Archive and lots more! Check the full list of available channels.

Use BoB’s integrated tools to;

• Create clips & playlists and share
• Link to BoB content in BlackBoard or play in lectures
• Find programmes and create clips on your topic by searching across programme transcripts and subtitles

Programmes available in BoB are made available to members of the University under the ERA licence and are for educational and non-commercial purposes only. BoB is only available to users in the UK for copyright reasons.

For more information on how you may use the content available, please check the access page or have a look at Box of Broadcast’s FAQs

If you plan to use BoB to enhance your teaching we’d love to hear about it! Contact Natalie Guest with your ideas.

Natalie Guest, Document Delivery Co-ordinator

Access to MyiLibrary ebooks is now working again as normal.

Natalie Guest
Document Delivery Coordinator

Cambridge University Press have now launched their new platform, Cambridge Core, the new, single location for users to access all CUP content – it replaces their previous books and journals platforms, including:

• Cambridge Journals Online
• Cambridge Books Online
• Cambridge Companions Online
• Cambridge Histories Online
• Shakespeare Survey Online
• University Publishing Online

Our database a-z list should also be updated to reflect the change from next week.

Use institutional login off-campus

Re-directs to the new site are working fine for on-campus users, but currently causing some problems for off-campus users, who will need to authenticate via the institutional login. We will let you know when we have further news.

• After clicking a link to the title, enter your University login and password for the single sign on and you will be directed to the article/eBook record on Cambridge Core.
• ‘Get access’ will be displayed to the right of the cover image – this indicates you are not yet recognised by the site as a University of Reading user.
• Click ‘institutional login’ in top right-hand corner.

• Select ‘University of Reading’ from the list of institutions – using the keyword search at the bottom should help.
• You should then be presented with your article/eBook webpage once more – this time showing a green tick and the word ‘access’ to the right of the cover image, and a pop-up box should confirm ‘you are successfully logged in via your institutional account’.

• As long as you do not close your browser and end your user session, you should be able to browse the site and access any content subscribed to by the Library, or make a new Enterprise/Summon search and access the site without needing to authenticate again.

Any problems, please contact us via our E-resources Problem Report Form or email eresourceshelp@reading.ac.uk.

Rachel Redrup, Marketing Co-ordinator

Recent problems logging into the Digimap service have now been fixed. However, changes made to the way your Digimap account is managed mean that unfortunately any saved maps or annotations you created between the 26th July and the 23rd August 2016 will have been removed from your account.  Any maps or saved annotations from before the 26th of July will have been reinstated to your account.

If you require access to any saved maps or annotations that you made in the last month that are not now in your account and that you cannot easily recreate, please get in touch with Digimap support at Edina as soon as possible.

Judith Fox, Map Librarian

Our Summon Discovery Service has been upgraded, resulting in an improved interface and some new features. Summon allows you to search across the Library’s online collections of journal articles, book chapters, and other publication types. Search it via the Summon search box on the Library homepage.

Results display

• To see a summary of each item click on the ‘Preview’ link. This will display the abstract, subject keywords and other details of the item in the body of your results, instead of in the right-hand panel.
• You can cite, email or export details of individual items. This is in addition to being able to add items to your ‘Saved items’ folder to cite, email or export details for multiple references.
• Definitions from reliable sources, such as Encyclopaedia Britannica, will appear in the right-hand pane. Along with suggested searches you might wish to try.
• Displays of citation counts from the Web of Science/Scopus and social media interaction indicators from Altmetric have been improved. Use these to help you judge the impact of an item.

Refine options improved

• It is now possible to exclude items using the refine options on the left of the screen. Just hover over one of the refine options and click on the red cross that appears. This will exclude items in that category from your results. This is in addition to being able to click on an option, to just look at items in that category.
• Publication date limits have also been improved. Some pre-set options are available, enabling you to easily limit your results to items published in the last 12 months, 3 years, or 5 years. Alernatively, you can use the date slider to select your own custom date range.

Feedback

We hope you find these new features useful. If you have any comments about Summon, please contact Jackie Skinner.

Jackie Skinner, Library Web Manager

We are currently experiencing problems logging into the Digimap service. We are investigating the cause and will post an update as soon as possible.

Apologies for the inconvenience this will cause.

Judith Fox, Map Librarian

There has been a change to the configuration of Web of Science, which means the default setting is to search the ‘Web of Science Core Collection’ and not the full range of databases available on the site. This change has been made to avoid users missing out on enhancements that are specific to the Core Collection, such as citation searching and email alerts from saved searches. However, you may miss useful content from other databases such as BIOSIS (biological sciences), FSTA (food and nutrition) and MEDLINE (biomedical sciences).

If you access Web of Science directly from a search engine, and you want to revert to searching all content, just select ‘All Databases’ from the drop-down list to the right of ‘Web of Science™ Core Collection’:

It is possible to configure your own options for using Web of Science, including the default database coverage. See this brief video for guidance.

If you follow a link to Web of Science from the Library website you won’t need to do a thing, as we’ve configured the link to search across all databases. There is a separate link to the Core Collection if you wish to explore some of the more advanced features (such as integration with JCR, funding filters, OA filters).

If you have any questions about searching Web of Science, or any of the databases available within it, please contact your subject liaison librarian.

Jackie Skinner, Library Web Manager

At the start of the summer vacation on Monday 13 June we will be making a number of changes to our website and systems.

We’re turning red!

The most obvious change will be in colour, our website and some of our systems will be going red to match the rest of the University.

New, improved online guides

You will also notice a significant change in the colour and style of our guides hosted on the LibGuides service, as we move to a new version of the software.

At the same time all our subject guides have been revised to make them more attractive, easy to use, and focused on the information you need. Our popular citing references guide has been given a new layout to make it easier for you to find the guidance you require, whether it’s how to cite a specific type of publication, or general advice on avoiding plagiarism.

Over the course of the summer we’ll also be adding new guides, such as a general one on bibliographic management systems, and a suite of guides from our Study Advice Team.

The switch to the new software may mean that our guides will be unavailable for a few hours from late on the afternoon of Monday 13 June.

Study Advice and Maths Support integration

Later on this summer the Study Advice and Maths Support websites will become part of the Library website. This move will give them an up-to-date look, making it easier for you to find the skills guidance you need, and integrating them further with Library services.

Jackie Skinner, Library Web Manager