Internet Disruption Saturday 12th December

Essential maintenance will be carried out on the Site Access Router Saturday 12th December between 8am and 12pm. During this period all internet services will be affected, you may be unable to do the following:

• Send email to outside the University
• Receive email from outside the University (Note that mail would be queued)
• Access e-resources on and off-campus
• Access the University website

Metalib

Since yesterday there has been a problem with Metalib. This was thought to have been resolved yesterday afternoon, but unfortunately the problem persists. Please access e-resources via the Information Resources tab within the MWE for the time being. Apologies for the inconvenience.

We want your comments!

We are producing some publicity to advertise our ebooks and ejournals and we’re looking for some positive comments from students. If you have any good feedback for us please could you post a comment here or email dls@cf.ac.uk.

Many Thanks, Lucy.

Access to CU e-resources

For the next couple of weeks access to CU e-resources is at risk while some upgrades are undertaken.

If you experience problems accessing a resource please contact insrvConnect (insrvConnect@cardiff.ac.uk) 029 2087 4487

Requesting Articles

I hope that most of you know that you can request articles from us, which you have been unable to source via our electronic journals subscriptions.

To do this, you need to go to this requesting website.

The main thing to remember, if you have requested items in this way, is that- we still need a copyright declaration for each item you request.

When you make a request using the website above, each submission will produce a page for you to print out so you can physically sign it and send it in.

You can read more about how to request articles from us on the page at the top of the blog ‘requesting articles and books’

So please please don’t forget to send them in. Or you can fax them or scan and send by email to:
duthieill@cf.ac.uk
+29 20 74 3651

Remember, we can not supply your requests without them, so pop em in the post or fax them through or scan and email them to us.

In the not too distant future we will be moving to electronic  signatures and of course I will keep you posted when those changes take place.

Best wishes

Mari Ann

Off campus access video

Find here a video demonstrating how you can login to Cardiff University Journals online.

We hope you find it helpful.

Best wishes

Mari Ann

E-journals

Hi Everyone,

I’ve just had an update from the ejournals team and I wanted to update everyone on the best way of accessing ejournals from off campus at the moment.

It is by using the ejournals list at http://ejournals.cf.ac.uk/ 

It completely bypasses any need to hunt around for an Athens or Shibboleth login box on the journal site, so it is the easiest method for users to successfully get to full-text.

Going by Voyager (or direct to the publisher’s website) or library holdings in medline does not do this. We are working on getting the links loaded into Voyager and other sites, but that will take at least a couple of months. Until this is done, clicking on an ejournal link from Voyager will still work, but you will have to hunt around for the Athens or Shibboleth login boxes on the publishers sites, which are often hard to locate and lead to users failing to get access to full-text. 

So, I recommend you should go to ejournals via the list at http://ejournals.cf.ac.uk/ for best results right now for off campus access. 

HAPPY EJOURNALLING!

Mari Ann