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Proxy Server Changes Complete

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The changes announced to the proxy server for this morning, Thu, 16 Dec, have been successfully completed.

Please note that your firewall should now allow access for *.proxy.bnl.lu to ports 80 and 443 (see 101216 Proxy v6).

The problem below has been resolved.

For certain products, a certificate error is received (ex: Dalloz).  This problem will be resolved in the coming weeks but in the meantime, in order to access sites which use secure connections (Https) you must accept the certificate exception.  In order to do this, please follow the instructions below depending on your browser.

Internet Explorer

In Internet Explorer, you will receive a message stating that Internet Explorer has blocked a security certificate error.  Simply click on the error message and then click on “Display Blocked Content”.

Firefox

In Firefox, you will receive a screen entitled “This Connection is Untrusted”.

Click on the arrow next to “I Understand the Risks”.

Click on “Add Exception”.

If you select “Permanently store this exception” then you only need to perform this procedure once. Click on “Confirm Security Exception”.

Google Chrome

Please use another browser as Google Chrome does not provide an option to accept the certificate security exception.
 

L’offre du Consortium Luxembourg disponible via Google Scholar

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Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que les produits offert par le portail du Consortium Luxembourg peuvent être retrouvés au sein de Google Scholar.

Quand vous êtes à la BnL, sur un des campus de l’Université au CRP Henri Tudor ou bien au CRP Gabriel Lippmann, vous recevez automatiquement des liens vers les articles dans Google Scholar. Dans les résultats de votre recherche vous trouverez le lien « find it ! @ bnu ».

Pour accéder aux ressources du portail à l’extérieur de ces réseaux, n’hésitez pas à faire votre configuration manuelle :

1. Rendez vous sur le site de Google Scholar : http://scholar.google.com

2. Cliquez sur « Préférences Scholar ».

3. Dans le champ « Liens vers des bibliothèques », saisissez « Luxembourg » et cliquez sur « Trouver la bibliothèque ».  Google Scholar affichera une liste correspondant à votre recherche.


4. Choisissez « Consortium Luxembourg  – find it ! @ bnu » et cliquez sur le bouton « Enregistrer les préférences ».

Après cette configuration, des liens vers les articles auxquels vous avez accès seront affichés directement par Google Scholar.

En cas de questions, n’hésitez pas à contacter votre bibliothèque !
 

World Bank’s Annual World Development Report Online

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Access to the World Bank’s open access collection, World Development Report Online, is now available directly from the Consortium Luxembourg Portal.

First published in 1978, the “World Development Report,” or WDR, is the World Bank’s annual flagship publication on development. Each report provides in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of development—from agriculture, the role of the state, transition economies, and labour to infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty.

A free optional individual user account allows users to take advantage of tools such as bookmarking and saving selected chapters or reports, saving searches, and taking notes.

It can be found in the Find Database tab under the letter “W” or by clicking here.

What is Credo Reference?

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Did you know that Credo Reference provides full text access to more than 500 general reference titles? These titles cover a wide variety of subjects including :

This is just a small selection of what Credo Reference has to offer.

How can you access Credo Reference?  It can be found in the Consortium Luxembourg Portal under the letter ‘C’ in the “Find Database” page.  Or, simply click here.

Wiley-Blackwell offline. Saturday 28 June till Monday morning

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Blackwell journal content will migrate to the Wiley InterScience platform as a result of the Wiley-Blackwell ongoing reorganiation.
Services are offline from Saturday 28th June, 15h, till Monday 30st June, 03h. Details: see table below.
Note: Last time these vendors decided to touch the computers, it was a travesty, for months! So: Go, Wiley-Blackwell, go! 🙂

<snip>
The plan as announced first in January is still on track and the transition will take place this weekend.

The scheduled downtime is as follows:
Saturday – June 28
Blackwell Synergy closes down
21:00 New York (June 27)
03:00 Luxembourg
09:00 Singapore

Sunday – June 29
Wiley InterScience goes offline temporarily
05:00 New York (June 28)
11:00 Luxembourg
05:00 Singapore

Monday – June 30
Wiley InterScience comes back online, with Blackwell journals incorporated
21:00 New York (June 29)
03:00 Luxembourg
09:00 Singapore
</snip>

Tuesday – June 31
further notice with update on the status. On peut s’attendre au pire, peut-être on ne sera pas deçu!

Mendeley beta for managing research papers

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Although it’s just 4 montsh old, Mendeley manages already over a million research papers (in pdf format). Their goal is to support the social component of research. Check out this video from a recent presentation in Hamburg. (Make sure to skip the video to 10:00, when the Mendeley presentation starts)

It really is a great example of the disruptive and innovative power of social technology combined with open data for reshaping the pretty broken Impact factor system and, well, advancing science. Venture capital provided by founders of Skype and Last-fm.

(Also of interest is the open reference manager Zotero)

The new consortium blog

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This blog will become the information and news site for Consortium Luxembourg. It is run by the national library of Luxembourg. Planned launch date is mid-april.

The content that the consortium offers is accessible here: www.portail.bnl.lu

Please note that most subscription content requires a personal password which must be obtained in person, for example at the national library of Luxembourg (Restrictions apply).

Thanks and please do check back.