Consortium Luxembourg’s electronic documentation portal experienced problems when attempting to connect and access resources this morning. This problem has now been resolved.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of a new database to the Consortium Luxembourg Electronic Documentation Portal.
European Views of the Americas contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846, is a foremost repository of rare books and materials and is a center for advanced research in history and the humanities.
The database can be found under the letter “E” in the “Find Database” tab or by clicking here.
Lamyline – Nouveau Guide d’Utilisation
Lamyline vient de sortir un nouveau guide d’utilisation de leur site. Ce guide répond aux questions suivantes:
- Comment trouver l’information dont vous avez besoin sur Lamyline ?
- Comment trouver les meilleurs documents dans la liste de résultats ?
- Que puis-je faire lorsque je consulte un document ?
- Comment consulter vos publications en ligne ?
Ce guide est téléchargeable en format PDF ici : Lamyline: Guide d’Utilisation
Nouvelles Icônes pour le portail bnu / New Icons for the portail bnu
La liste des bases de données du portail bnu a des nouvelles icônes qui indiquent le type d’accès d’une ressource:
- Sans icônes – accessible par tous lecteurs partout après avoir se connecter – à la bibliothèque, à la maison, au travail, etc. ;
- “Accès local limité à” – accessible uniquement à partir du réseau indiqué par l’icône :
– à l’intérieur du réseau de la Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg ;
– à l’intérieur du réseau de l’Université du Luxembourg ;
– à l’intérieur du réseau du Centre de Recherche Public – Gabriel Lippmann ;
– à l’intérieur du réseau du Centre de Recherche Public – Santé ; et
– à l’intérieur du réseau du Centre de Recherche Public – Henri Tudor.
The database list available on the portail bnu now contains new icons which show the type of access for a particular resource:
- No icon – accessible by all patrons everywhere after login – in the library, at home, at work, etc. ;
- “Access only in” – accessible only from with the network indicated by the icon :
- – from within the network of the National Library of Luxembourg ;
- – from within the network of the University of Luxembourg ;
- – from with the network of the Centre de Recherche Public – Gabriel Lippmann ;
- – from within the network of the Centre de Recherche Public – Santé ; et
- – from with the network of the Centre de Recherche Public – Henri Tudor.
Springer e-Books
Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of Springer e-books to the Consortium Luxembourg Electronic Documentation Portal.
Access is provided to all English and German language Springer e-books from 2005 to 2010 inclusive. The books cover a variety of subjects including:
- Behavioral Science;
- Biomedical and Life Science;
- Business and Economics;
- Chemistry and Materials Science;
- Computer Science;
- Earth and Environmental Science;
- Engineering;
- Humanities, Social Science and Law,
- Mathematics and Statistics;
- Medicine;
- Physics and Astronomy; and
- Professional and Applied Computing.
Topics covered in the German collection include:
- Medizin;
- Technik & Informatik;
- Natur- und Basiswissenschaften incl. Mathematik;
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften; und
- Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.
The e-books are accessible in one of two ways:
1. If the print edition of the book is in bibnet.lu catalogue, then access to the electronic version is automatically provided from book’s details screen.
2. Connect directly to SpringerLink e-books using the link that can be found under “S” in the “Find Database” section of the portal or by clicking here.
Turning on Full Text links in Scirus
Scirus is sci-tech search engine from Elsevier. Scirus returns results from the whole Web, including access-controlled sites that other search engines don’t index.
- Go to Scirus: http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/preferences.
- Click on Preferences and enable the Library Partner Link for Consortium Luxembourg, like this (be sure to select the Enable button):
- Then click “Save preferences”.
When you do this, a cookie is saved on your computer that tells Scirus to display the “SFX” or “Full Text” button for journal article citations. If you clear your cookies, or access Scirus from a different computer, you will need to set your preferences again.
New Emerald Journals Added to the Portal
Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of two sets of Emerald journals to the Consortium Luxembourg Portal:
- Emerald Accounting and Finance Journals – A collection covering quantitative and qualitative research across the field, including in sustainability, financial regulation, accounting education and Islamic finance. For details on the journals included in this collection, click here.
- Emerald Information and Knowledge Management Journals – A collection representing important perspectives within today’s knowledge economy, with over a quarter of its titles indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI). Foro details on the journals included in this collection, click here.
These journals are available via the “Find e-journal” (or “Périodiques”) option in the Consortium Luxembourg Portal.
Oxford Art Online / Grove Art Online
Consortium Luxembourg is pleased to announce the addition of Oxford Art Online to the Consortium Luxembourg Portal.
Oxford Art Online is an innovative gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location.
With the 2008 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.
Oxford Art Online can be found under the letter “G” (for Grove) in the “Find Database” tab or by clicking here.
Proxy Server Changes Complete
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.
Maintenance – Changes to Proxy – Thursday 16 December
After this upgrade, if you have any direct links to products in the portal saved in your bookmarks, you must re-create them via the portal.
On the 16th December the site http://portail.bnu.lu will not be accessible from 7h30 to 9h00.
The Proxy server will be reconfigured and change from the current system of « high-ports » (http://proxy.bnl.lu:2067/…) to a system of « sub-domains » (http://springerlink.proxy.bnl.lu/…).
For continued access to the full functionalities of the portal after the 16th December, you must have access to port 80 on the server « proxy.bnl.lu ».
If no further notice is given, you may block ports :2048 and :2050 to :3550 from 20th December.
Please check www.consortium.lu for updates and subscribe to its feed for further information: https://www.consortium.lu/?feed=atom. In case of problems, contact: consortium@bnl.etat.lu.
Current
• proxy.bnl.lu ports :2048 et :2050 à :3550
• portail.bnu.lu port :80
• sfx.etat.lu port :9003
Before 16th December
• proxy.bnl.lu ports :80 et :2048 et :2050 à :3550
• portail.bnu.lu port :80
• sfx.etat.lu port :9003
After 20th December
• proxy.bnl.lu port :80
• portail.bnu.lu port :80
• sfx.etat.lu port :9003
You can download this information as PDF in english and french (“About” section of consortium.lu site).