We’re getting another spate of queries across the desk, and sent to RefWorks@lincoln.ac.uk, from students who are confused (understandably) about the procedure for logging in to RefWorks or Write-N-Cite when presented with an unhelpful and baffling ‘RefWorks login center‘ screen asking for a ‘Group Code’. That ‘Group Code’ is a red herring. We don’t use [...]
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If it’s DreamSpark, it must be October…
October is the month when n-hundred first-year students on journalism, media, and computing programmes seem all at once to discover Microsoft’s DreamSpark software offer. DreamSpark provides access to a range of professional Microsoft tools (including MS Visual Studio, MS SQL server, and XNA Game Studio), all free to students in the UK. Unfortunately it’s not [...]
Transatlantic Authentication Culture Gap (TACG)
I’m beginning to see that there’s quite a large difference between the approach used by the vast majority of UK HE libraries (us included), and the standard model used across the pond to authenticate users to third-party subscription databases. In a nutshell, Athens and Shibboleth don’t seem to have made much of an impression over [...]
