Find it at Lincoln has now been set up to behave in the following way:
1. From the search box and link on the Library website (library.lincoln.ac.uk):
- On a University PC on campus – Find it at Lincoln will recognise the University IP address, and provide the user with a complete, “logged-in” version.
- From off campus, the user will be presented with a guest version of Find it at Lincoln. 99% of the functionality of Find it at Lincoln is provided to guest users – at the moment, only access to the full text is excluded. This means that members of the public, prospective students, peripatetic researchers, etc., can examine our collections. From this point, University of Lincoln students and staff can log in, either:
- By clicking on the “Login for full access” message;
- Or by clicking on one of the “Full Text” options* underneath a search result.
- In both cases, the user will see a University of Lincoln secure sign-in screen where they can log in using their accountID and password. This is using EZproxy to mimic on-campus access, and is a redesigned version of the old Blackboard-style EZproxy login screen.
- (*The options “HTML Full Text” and “PDF Full Text” will take the user to an article held by EBSCO within Find it at Lincoln. “Find Full Text” will invoke the link resolver and display links to external full text – or, if possible, take the user directly to the full-text article, bypassing the link resolver menu.)
- By clicking on the “Login for full access” message;
2. From the Library tab on Blackboard
The search box which is now available on the Blackboard Library tab will inherit the Blackboard login and pass it on to Find it at Lincoln (via EZproxy), so that the user has the complete, ‘logged’ in version of the application. They should not need to log in again to access most full text articles.
