Wall Street Journal/SFX issue

Rosemary has been planning a class that will likely require students to access some articles from the Wall Street Journal. She discovered that there's a "metadata mismatch" happening between SFX and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Proquest. This means that whenever someone finds a WSJ article in Academic Search Premier, clicks the Get Article button, and then clicks on Go to get to the article from the SFX menu, the search will fail every single time. The ProQuest Newspapers database will open, but it will tell you that no documents were found. If you remove the phrase "- Eastern Edition" from the ProQuest search box and click on Search, you will actually be able to read the article you were looking for.

This problem has been reported to both CARLI (our SFX tech support) and ProQuest (which Paige at CARLI suggested might be able to move a bit faster than the folks at Ex Libris). In the meantime, this workaround will get students to the info they need.

First Aid Class

We have been getting an odd question at the desk: do we have a defibrillator in this building? No we do not. And we will be getting a list of where there are ones on campus but we do not have that information at this point.

Thanks!

Professor Gems' SOA/HPE-360 class

Professor Gems will be having his students come in for some articles that are only available through the archives. Kim will be gone Friday and Monday, so these particular articles will not be available until Tuesday. There are other articles in the list that he has give his students, one is accessible through our databases and the other is available through our archive site of the chronicle, have them use those articles.

Thanks!
Heidi

Accessing E-Resources

It's come up several times lately that people are having a hard time getting into some of our e-resources from VuFind. I believe that the problem is the way VuFind displays URLs. When you view a record that includes ANY link to online access, it can be very confusing.

When you look at the results list, you'll see a link that says "Get it online." This link may or may not work. If you look at the individual item's record, you'll see "Online Access" in two places. The "Online Access" link near the top of the results screen (with the info about the book in general) may or may not work. This is because VuFind pulls that information from a place in the catalog record that, historically, was not individualized for each library.

If you click on the "Online Access" link under the Location & Availability tab of the screen (where it also says "Access for North Central College"), you'll be able to access the needed resource.

I'm not sure why this has come up so often lately, but it's becoming clear that it's a big problem. I'll be working on finding a report that will show us all of our catalog records with non-NCC URLs and attempting to prioritize a clean-up project.

Emily