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Mike Lyle - 29 Apr 2009 22:52 GMT

Not quite OT here. OED lets me in perfectly normally, but when I whistle
up the sign-in screen to get into DNB using my Coventry library card, it
gives me a "Page not found" error when I enter the card number and click
"Go". This message appears on a DNB screen, not the Library one, but an
email from Oxford Reference says it's the library's problem, not theirs:
can this be true? Does it work all right for other readers?

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HVS - 29 Apr 2009 23:03 GMT

On 29 Apr 2009, Mike Lyle wrote

> Not quite OT here. OED lets me in perfectly normally, but when I
> whistle up the sign-in screen to get into DNB using my Coventry
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> says it's the library's problem, not theirs: can this be true?
> Does it work all right for other readers?

Works OK for me (Hampshire library number). The DNB logon is case-
sensitive -- it chokes if I use "b123456789" instead of
"B123456789" -- but that's the only problem I've ever had with it.

I logon via the Hants library website link rather than directly from
the OED website; don't know if that affects things.

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Leslie Danks - 29 Apr 2009 23:14 GMT

> Not quite OT here. OED lets me in perfectly normally, but when I whistle
> up the sign-in screen to get into DNB using my Coventry library card, it
> gives me a "Page not found" error when I enter the card number and click
> "Go". This message appears on a DNB screen, not the Library one, but an
> email from Oxford Reference says it's the library's problem, not theirs:
> can this be true? Does it work all right for other readers?

Until you sort it out, this might be a useful alternative access:

http://corpus.byu.edu/>

(Posted by Martin Ambuhl a week or so ago)

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Mike Lyle - 30 Apr 2009 20:20 GMT

>> Not quite OT here. OED lets me in perfectly normally, but when I
>> whistle up the sign-in screen to get into DNB using my Coventry
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>
> (Posted by Martin Ambuhl a week or so ago)

Thanks Les, but (if I'm seeing straight) that seems to be corpora only,
and it's the DNB I'm having trouble with. Thanks to the others, too:
it'll come out in the wash, I daresay.

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John Dean - 30 Apr 2009 00:21 GMT

> Not quite OT here. OED lets me in perfectly normally, but when I
> whistle up the sign-in screen to get into DNB using my Coventry
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> library's problem, not theirs: can this be true? Does it work all
> right for other readers?

Works fine via Oxfordshire libraries. I need to preface my card number with
an 'L'.

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DNB library card access