From Monday 12th May 2014 there will be minor changes to how items are displayed in the library catalogue.  The impact will be very slight but you may notice that fewer e-books and e-journals will have ‘[Electronic Resource]’ after the title.

The practice of including this term is being discontinued as part of new cataloguing rules which will also see the gradual phasing out of standard abbreviations in catalogue records.

Internurse is in the process of moving to a new platform, a move which will be fully completed by 8th June 2014.  The change has already been applied to the honni catalogue so you will see the new interface if you connect to Internurse via the catalogue.

For a period of time individual titles will still be accessible via the old platform if you connect from the honni E-journals A-Z list.  By 8th June, if not before, these too will direct to the new platform.

Trial access to two biomedical journals is now available up until 3 April 2015:

Science Translational Medicine publishes research articles from the international, medical, scientific and engineering communities. Despite our understanding of the molecular basis of thousands of human diseases, we only have treatments for a few hundred. Science Translational Medicine seeks to close this knowledge gap and accelerate the development of new therapies.

Science Signaling publishes key findings in the multidisciplinary field of cellular signalling and regulatory biology in physiology and disease. Research results are relevant to understanding how cells adapt to changing environments and respond to stimuli within living organisms.

This problem has now been resolved (12.30 pm, 23rd April 2014).

There is currently a problem with access to IP authenticated resources via honni. The only resources which are accessible are Clinical Key and Zetoc. We are investigating this problem as a matter of urgency and it will be resolved as quickly as possible.

We will update this news item as soon as more information is available.

This survey is now closed.  The results will be posted here as soon as they are available.

honni (Health on the Net Northern Ireland) brings together print and online resources, to help all HSC staff in Northern Ireland with their evidence-based practice.

As one of the many benefits, we offer FREE training.  Our qualified subject librarians are here to help you get the most out of honni.  We can also train you in how to make the best use of specialised databases and online resources for your professional area – like Cinahl, Medline, eBooks and others.  We want to make sure that we are providing the training that you need, and would appreciate your help in completing our survey.  It should take only around 5 minutes to complete and is open until 31 May 2014.

A new online Password Self-Service facility is now available.

For information about the system see the Password Self-Service Guide.

The service can be accessed from http://www.honni.qub.ac.uk/ChangeorForgottenPassword/ or, if you already understand how it works, directly from https://pss.qub.ac.uk/.

The problem below has been resolved. 24th March 2014.

There is a problem with our subscribed content from BMJ. Some content is free and this is still available from the BMJ website or by using the ‘Free in PMC’ button in Pubmed. We are in contact with our suppliers about this problem and it will be resolved as quickly as possible. In the meantime we apologise for any inconvenience.

Elsevier has announced that it is ceasing support for Internet Explorer 7.   The latest version of IE is version 11, but IE7 is still used in HSC Trusts to some extent.  The ending of support does not necessarily mean that there will be problems accessing Elsevier resources.  It merely introduces the possibility that, should problems arise in the future, the publisher will not assist with resolving them.  Resources published by Elsevier which are available via honni are ‘Science Direct’ and ‘Clinical Key’ so these are the resources which could potentially be affected.

In the unlikely event that you do experience problems with either of these resources you may need to request that IE be updated to a newer version.  If you are still using IE7 on a home computer used to access resources, we recommend that you update your browser now.

If you use the mobile version of honni Encore you will need to be aware of the following issue when  checking for availability of full text.  Clicking on the honniConnect button should lead to a web page which informs you what full text is available and, if none is available, provides links for requesting the item and/or checking the catalogue for print copies.  This is not working as expected.  Instead you will be directed to the article abstract in EBSCO where you will again have to click the honniConnect button before obtaining information about full text availability.

The supplier has informed us that this is due to a software bug which they are currently investigating.  Note that you can still get information about full text availability, it’s just that more steps are required to do so.

Since September, when we moved to the current charges for the supply of books and articles, 93% of requests have been met from within our own substantial collections. Happily this means we have been able to supply these free of charge. When we are not able to provide books or articles free of charge, we will always contact you to check that you wish to proceed before we request material externally.