Off-campus access to EBSCO databases restored

EBSCO have reported that the problems with off-campus access to Business Source Complete and all of its other databases have been resolved.

Please let us know if you experience any problems with off-campus access.

Off-campus access problems to Business Source Complete and all other EBSCO databases

EBSCO are currently experiencing technical difficulties with off-campus access to all of their databases via Edugate.

As a temporary measure, please do the following when accessing any EBSCO database (e.g. Business Source Complete, Communications and Mass Media Complete, Academic Search Complete) from off-campus:

1.  Go to http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib
2.  
   
   From the Select your region or group dropdown box, choose Irish Edugate federation.

3.

Choose Dublin Institute of Technology from the Irish Edugate Federation list.












4. Log in as usual at the Logon to DIT Services screen.

5.

This will bring you in to the search page for Academic Search Complete. Next, click on the Choose Databases link above the search box.



6.

Business students should tick Business Source Complete in the list of databases.

Media and Journalism students should tick Communication and Mass Media Complete in the list.









EBSCO is continuing to work on a permanent (and better!) solution to this problem

On-campus access is working fine.

Changes to Harvard Business Review access via Business Source Complete

We have electronic access to Harvard Business Review all the way back to the first issue in 1922 (about 13,000 articles and counting) via Business Source Complete, an EBSCO database. This access has always allowed users to print and/or save all of the articles, as well as to read them on screen.

Since August, the Harvard Business Review is now restricting access via EBSCO’s Business Source databases for 500 of its articles to read-only access. This means Business Source Complete users can still access and read those 500 articles on-screen, but they will no longer be able to either print or save them.

The remaining 12,500 (approx.) Harvard Business Review articles can still be saved and printed from Business Source Complete.

The key things to note are:

1. The vast majority of Harvard Business Review articles can still be saved and printed out from Business Source Complete. 
2.  The 500 articles that can no longer be saved or printed out can still be accessed and read on-screen.
3. Aungier St library also has a print subscription to the Harvard Business Review, so students and staff can still photocopy an article that cannot be printed out (subject to the terms of DIT’s Irish Copyright Licence Agreement).