Friday, November 8, 2024

Current Lit Locations

 If someone is looking for a Current Lit book, it could be in one of 3 places:


1. The regular Current Lit shelves

2. ROI shelves (no longer marked CL, has pink dot)

3. Book truck in Stacks Office in transition

Monday, October 28, 2024

New Shelving Location: "Jackson Library Lobby"

 From Cathy Griffith:

So that newly purchased books do not go to the stacks to be packed up and removed from the building in January, they will start being shelved on the currently empty shelves in the middle of the Reference Reading Room. In the catalog they will have the location of Jackson Library Lobby as shown in the example below (that uses and old book).

      Available
      UNCG University Libraries, Jackson Library Lobby
            D811.5 .P88 1944
Please direct patrons on the hunt for books in this location to Reference. The books will still need to be brought to the Checkout Desk or a Self Check to borrow.
As we move through November and December, more books (additional new, returned, etc.) will join them in ROI, so stay tuned for updates.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Monday, October 7, 2024

ScienceDirect - abstract has "order pdf" instead of full text

Hi all,

Sometimes you might follow library links to article full text and end up on an article abstract page that says Order PDF instead of actually having a pdf:



If you're seeing this when you followed a path from the UNCG libraries website, then it's an example of a pay per view service.  The libraries don't subscribe to this journal.  When a student or employee needs an article, they enter their name and UNCG email address and the pdf will be purchased and sent to them.  The student/employee asking for the article isn't charged.

For example, if a student asks for this article - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.01.001 - they should follow this process:

1. Use a University Libraries system to navigate full text.  For instance, paste the article title into WorldCat Discovery, the red search box.  

2. When you see the article record - https://uncg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/5902248064 - click the View full text button

3. In the Science Direct database, click the article title to see the abstract which will have an "order pdf" button instead of a pdf

4. Enter name and UNCG email

5. When the article full text is ready, typically within 24 hours on a weekday, the student will get it through email

There's a little information on Science Direct PPV and Article Galaxy PPV on the library guide to WorldCat Discovery.

Thanks,

Lea

CINAHL is giving a certificate error

 Hi all,

Library links are giving a certificate error when you try to log into CINAHL.  Brown has been working on this and Marcie should be able to fix the links later.


For now, here are various options for getting people into CINAHL:

a. If there's an Advanced button or a way to bypass the warning, be brave and just click through the unsafe warning to get into CINAHL

b. Get into CINAHL from a different Ebsco database, such as Academic Search Complete. Above the search boxes there's a Choose databases link that you can use to select CINAHL:



c. Use this URL: https://login.libproxy.uncg.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&custid=s9268655&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ccm&groupid=main


Why am I posting this on a blog, when the problem will likely already be resolved before you read the post?  Brown, one of our intrepid IT people, says we're likely to see more errors like this as library links are transitioned from on-campus proxy to the NC LIVE proxy.  I think it could be helpful to see an example of how to work through a situation like this.

Cheers,

Lea