Posts Tagged ‘Internet Explorer’

New content on the e-journals A-to-Z

Posted on October 10th, 2012 by Paul Stainthorp

A few things that have been added/updated recently on the Electronic Journals A-to-Z. New and updated full-text holdings should shortly be reflected in Find it at Lincoln.

Brand-new e-journal packages and titles:

Holdings updated:

Authentication changes:

Notes:

[1] I’ve not been able to find (by searching through Cambridge’s “Account Administrator” pages) a holdings file for our Cambridge University Press subscriptions—at least, not in a format that we are able to use in the A-to-Z—so the 40-odd titles in this package have been checked individually against the Cambridge Journals website. For that reason, I can’t guarantee that they are 100% accurate.

[2] The ScienceDirect Freedom Collection package in the A-to-Z knowledgebase does not have any holdings defined – libraries have to add their own custom holdings dates. I added ours this by ordering an “Electronic Holdings Report” from Elsevier’s admin tool, then downloading the A-to-Z holdings and using an Excel =LOOKUP() formula to match against ISSNs common to both spreadsheets. This is very fiddly and unfortunately will have to be re-done at intervals.
Screenshot from Elsevier

[3] Created using SwetsWise’s “Download Publication List” feature, re-formatted for the A-to-Z. Again, this has to be re-done at intervals as our Swets subscriptions change.
Screenshot from SwetsWise

[4] Links to HeinOnline journals/articles will now automatically log the user in via OpenAthens (federated access). However there are a couple of residual problems with these links: some of the OpenURL data for an individual article is not being passed through correctly (leading to the occasional error), and also the authentication does not work properly in non-Microsoft browsers – e.g. Chrome, Firefox. For the time being (while HeinOnline technical support address the issue) there is a note on the A-to-Z advising people to use Internet Explorer if they can. This is obviously not ideal.
Screenshot from the A-to-Z

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E-resources and the Portal: choosing the correct account prefix on Windows 7 computers

Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Paul Stainthorp

I’m getting an increasing number of queries from students with PCs and laptops running Microsoft Windows 7, who are having problems logging in to electronic resources via the University Portal.

When the user first tries to log in to a page under https://portal.lincoln.ac.uk/, the username field, by default, already has a user account prefix filled in (for example “USER-PC\“). This is incompatible with the Portal login which requires a username prefix of network\

(I’m calling it a “user account prefix”, but that’s almost certainly not the official Microsoft terminology for it.)

To get around this problem, the user has to click on the link to ‘Use another account‘, then enter the complete Portal username in the format: network\accountID, plus their normal University password. This will allow them to log in to the Portal and access any e-resources.

Screenshot of a Windows 7 login box

If their computer insists on automatically trying to log them in using their ‘local’ user account, they may first have to tell Internet Explorer to delete both cookies and saved passwords (under Tools > Internet Options), then try the Portal / Athens login page again.

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Library staff training: web browsers available in the GCW

Posted on August 5th, 2011 by Paul Stainthorp

I’m doing a short staff training session for library colleagues this morning, about the various web browsers available to users in the GCW at the University of Lincoln, and some of the pros & cons of each. With slides. See also this blog post.

Web browser options in the Library

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Alternative web browsers at the University of Lincoln

Posted on April 21st, 2011 by Paul Stainthorp

Did you know that Google Chrome is available to install on the corporate Windows desktop at the University of Lincoln, as an alternative to Microsoft/Windows Internet Explorer 7? I didn’t, until yesterday, but now I’ve just found out how to install it:

  1. Go to the Start menu and select the Control Panel;
  2. Double-click on Add or Remove Programs;
  3. When the ‘Add or Remove Programs’ window appears, select Add New Programs;
  4. Scroll down the alphabetical list until you see Google Chrome 10.0. Select it, and click on Add.

Screenshot of 'Add New Programs'

Once it’s been installed (which will take a minute), you should be able to find it in the Start menu, under All Programs > Google Chrome. You can create a shortcut by draging the icon to your desktop if you want.

Screenshot of the Start menu with Google Chrome

N.B. unfortunately the way Chrome has been deployed means that it “doesn’t support Roaming Profiles properly and instead stores all user data in the Local Settings on the PC. This means bookmarks and other preferences will not follow users if they move between different PCs”.

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A version of Mozilla Firefox is also available on the corporate desktop: supplied “as an experimental trial” by ICT services, it uses a VMware ‘thin’/virtual application, so that you don’t have to physically install it on your computer: instead the application is delivered over the network every time you use it.

You can find it at P:\Firefox. The version available here is version 3 of Firefox; I don’t know if there are any plans to upgrade this to the current version. You can create a shortcut by draging the icon from the P: drive to your desktop.

Screenshot of the location of Firefox

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LibX browser toolbar for libraries

Posted on April 14th, 2011 by Paul Stainthorp

Following a tipoff from fellow URL-botherer Chris Keene of the University of Sussex, I’ve started to take a look at LibX.

LibX (http://libx.org/) is a browser plugin for Firefox (and IE) that provides direct access to a library’s resources. A library creates an ‘edition‘ of LibX, registers the details of the library’s catalogues, OpenURL resolver, proxies etc., configures text and images, and ends up with a personalised browser plug-in which (once the user has installed it) provides a toolbar search box and all sorts of page enhancements including “embedded cues” for book titles and ISBNs within a web page.

See their screenshots and screencasts at: http://libx.org/screenshots.html

I’ve registered a draft University of Lincoln edition (“Revision #1″) of LibX. You can install the plugin, for Firefox and IE, from this draft edition page.

Screenshot of the University of Lincoln draft LibX toolbar in Firefox

If you’re interested in helping me to build and test it, let me know.

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