L&LR staff blog

My prediction was that our quarterly Athens usage would hit 90,000 for Oct-Nov-Dec 2008. I wasn’t far off. Actual figure = 89,183. Overall usage is up by 32% on the same quarter last year. Three databases/services in particular have shown massive jumps: IHS Technical Indexes (presumably because we now have access to the Construction Information Service); [...]

He’s looking very festive…

These are my specific objectives for the year ahead – this is where I’m going to take my priorities next. • Complete, and document, the launch of Find it @ Lincoln • Write a draft collection development policy to inform the shift from print to ‘e’ • Pilot digital-to-digital copying under the CLA extended licence [...]

EBSCO advise that the problem of the A-to-Z and Fi@L running very slowly should now be fixed. If you continue to get very slow response from either of these 2 systems, as we were last week, could you please email me with date and time? Many thanks, Paul

Hi all, On top of the Athens system crash we experienced today, we’re having a couple of (alright, a few) ongoing issues with Athens at the minute, those being: A number of databases still aren’t allowing direct access via Athens because of an out-of-date system file which forms part of UoL’s AthensDA mechanism (those databases [...]

A few people have asked me if it’s possible to create reliable, persistent links to journal articles on Blackboard, via the link resolver, but without having to use the LibraryLink OpenURL tool. Yes, it is (Word doc.) When you add the resulting link to Blackboard, you must make sure that it’s set to open in [...]

I’ve just completed version 1.2.1 of the LibraryLink help guide for staff, and put it online. It now includes instructions on how to link to an e-journal article using Find it @ Lincoln (our new OpenURL link resolver, for anyone who’s missed it!). Paul