How to log in on Taylor & Francis Online

After showing you how to log in to Wiley Online Library, this time I'm showing you how to access full-text articles with Taylor & Francis Online.
Click on the image below to access the tutorial.

If you encounter any problem while trying to access one of our online resources, do send us an email!

How to log in on Wiley Online Library?

The Tavistock and Portman library subscribes to 30,000 journals, and most of them are online.
But they are hosted by many different providers and all of them have a slightly different way to log in...
The good news are:

• For all of those providers, you only need to remember one password: your Shibboleth password.

• I'm going to run a series of tutorials showing you exactly how to log in on those different platforms.

So let's begin with Wiley Online Library in this first tutorial.

And remember, if you have any problem accessing an online journal, just ask the library: we will do our best to help you!

Questions from students: What does "Shibboleth" means?

During one of my latest training sessions, one of the students stumped me by asking "Where does the name "Shibboleth” comes from?". Well, here is the answer...

According to Wikipedia, the word Shibboleth comes from the Hebrew word shibbólet, which literally means the part of a plant containing grains, such as an ear of corn or a stalk of grain or, in different contexts, "stream, torrent".

Today, the word shibboleth applies to a word or a custom whose variations in pronunciation or style can be used to differentiate members of ingroups from those of outgroups. Within the mindset of the ingroup, a connotation or value judgment of correct / incorrect or superior / inferior can be ascribed to the two variants.

In the context of IT, Shibboleth is a 'single-sign in', or logging-in system for computer networks and the Internet. It allows people to sign in, using just one 'identity', to various systems run by different organisations or institutions (often universities or public organisations).

This is why, using only your Shibboleth password, you can access to the 13.000 online journals the library subscribe to, all our bibliographic databases, your reading lists and Moodle!

Accessing eBooks

The library subscribes to a number of ebooks, especially some titles very in demand whose paper versions are often checked out.

You can access all of them through our catalogue and using your Shibboleth password.

But how exactly can you read them? Can you print and download them? And how to find them?

To answer your questions, here are two presentations for the two types of ebooks you might encounter amongst our collections.

EBSCOhost eBooks:

How to Access and Read EBSCOhost eBooks from iSkillsTav

Taylor & Francis eBooks:

How to Access and Read Taylor and Francis eBooks from iSkillsTav

What is your Shibboleth account for?

Here is a new infographic I made to explain what your Shibboleth account is for and how to use it.



Click on the image to enlarge.

Tavistock & Portman's library subscribes to many online resources like journals, bibliographic databases, etc. To allow you to access them as simply as possible, we use a "single sign-in" system: Shibboleth.
Using only the login and password of your Shibboleth account, you can access most of the online resources we propose.
Still, the login process of some resources might be convoluted. If you need help logging in, you can check out this page.