{"id":1879,"date":"2014-11-27T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2014-11-27T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T10:32:15","slug":"the-brussels-patron-driven-acquisition-is-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/2014\/11\/27\/the-brussels-patron-driven-acquisition-is-now-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brussels Patron Driven Acquisition is now live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Brussels students,<\/p>\n<p>Great news! The patron driven acquisitions (PDA) platform is now live for you to start exploring using the links below in this email or via the Brussels library web pages (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/students\/brussels.html\">http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/students\/brussels.html<\/a>). This will allow you to gain access to over 100,000 electronic books for your research from the EBL book platform.<br \/>\nThe process is as follows:<br \/>\nIf you can&#8217;t find the e-book you need on the University of Kent Library catalogue:<br \/>\n1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Log into the EBL platform (<a href=\"https:\/\/catalogue.kent.ac.uk\/Search\/Advanced\">https:\/\/catalogue.kent.ac.uk\/Search\/Advanced<\/a>) with your University of Kent username and password.<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Browse or search for the electronic book you would like to access either by author, title or keyword.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Click on the book to access it and start reading: if you access an e-book not already owned by the University of Kent this will initially trigger a 1 day electronic loan of the title.<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0If you or another Brussels student later access the same e-book it will be automatically purchased and permanently added to the University of Kent catalogue to the benefit of everyone at the University.<br \/>\nThis is a process only available to BSIS students and there is no cost to you as a student so please make the most of this opportunity to develop the electronic library collection.<br \/>\nIf you have any problems accessing the service, please see the Help\/Feedback section (upper right hand side of the EBL platform page) or contact us: BSISlibraryhelp@kent.ac.uk<br \/>\nBest regards,<br \/>\nBen<br \/>\nBen Watson<\/p>\n<p>Academic Liaison Librarian (Law)<br \/>\nSocial Sciences Liaison Office,<br \/>\nLevel 1 East,<br \/>\nTempleman Library<br \/>\nUniversity of Kent at Canterbury<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 01227 823111<br \/>\ne-mail: b.watson@kent.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Brussels students, Great news! The patron driven acquisitions (PDA) platform is now live for you to start exploring using the links below in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/2014\/11\/27\/the-brussels-patron-driven-acquisition-is-now-live\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}