News and problems

Join local artist and researcher November Tan to contribute to a collective artwork celebrating local stories and literary heritage to decorate a lion sculpture and a zine comprising favourite places and quotes, photos and sketches related to writers and places that brought you the joy of stories in Portsmouth.  While the Library can only admit current library members, staff, students, and external library members are all welcome.

Where:  Library Café, University of Portsmouth Library📍
When: 2-5 pm on Wednesday 22 April ⏰

The Library will remain open 24/7 until the end of the academic year but Library staff will not be working on the two Bank Holiday Mondays, 4 and 25 May.

IT Helpers will be working on those days and our Security Team will be here continuously to keep everyone safe and secure.

You can always find our current and upcoming opening and staffed hours on the Library Opening Hours webpage.

The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing at the University of Reading in partnership with Outside in World, are delighted to announce the latest event in their seminar series on translation for children - Arabic Young Adult Literature in Translation, streaming live from 5.00 - 6.30 pm on Thursday 23 April (and available afterwards as a recording). 

Find out more and sign up to receive the joining link on the Library blog.

Read authoritative, peer-reviewed entries covering all aspects of psychology written by experts from across the world up until mid-May with our free trial to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology.  All entries are fully referenced and designed to be read in 30 minutes or less.  We already have Oxford Research Encyclopedias covering African History, Communication, Criminology, Education, International Studies and Politics, so it's great to have trial access to this one too. 

Accessing the encyclopedia

Click here to explore the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology.

• If you are on campus or connected via the VPN, you should be taken straight into the resource. 
• If you are working off campus without using the VPN, choose the 'institutional login' link and log in using your University username and password.

We are delighted to present trial access to two new Oxford Research Encyclopedias for the next 60 days (until late May 2026), covering Climate Science and Environmental Science.  As with all the other encyclopedias in this series, each entry is intended to be authoritative, peer-reviewed, regularly updated, fully referenced, and designed to be read in under 30 minutes.

Like what you see?  

Please let your Faculty Librarian know if you enjoy what you see and would like these considered for your ongoing subscriptions.

Laptops you borrow from the lockers in the Library may block third party cookies by default.  This appears to interfere with authentication for many electronic library resources.

Solution

Click on the crossed-through eye icon in the web address bar at the top to allow third-party cookies (the icon should become an un-crossed eye), then reload/refresh the page (click the circular arrow in the toolbar or press F5).

Technical issues have been reported accessing Ebook Central ebooks.  Some clients are receiving the error message: "Sorry, your institution does not allow access to ProQuest Ebook Central from your current IP address. Please contact your librarian."

Solution

ProQuest, the provider of Ebook Central, has identified that the issue is caused by expired Ebook Central cookies and has created a tool to remove them and enable a fresh browser session.

To run this tool, click on this link https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/clearcookie/clearcookie.html

In the unlikely event that this does not resolve the problem, please clear all your browser data and then reload the webpage.

If you need any further help, please get in touch. 

Links to CINAHL are defaulting to the EBSCO all databases search.  This means if you follow a link to CINAHL at present and then begin searching straight away, you will end up searching across 33 different databases, including CINAHL, instead of CINAHL alone.  We are working to fix this issue as quickly as we can.

Workaround

You can limit your search to just CINAHL by clicking on the 'All databases' link above the search bar and selecting only "CINAHL Ultimate" from the list of available eresources. 

Warning - If you are trying to replicate a search you carried out before, you will find different numbers of articles.  This is partly because of the change in search method and also because all eresources frequently change their coverage.