Librarian FAQs
Overview
NCTE provides institutional administrators and librarians with powerful tools to manage their institutional profile and branding, manage IP addresses and ranges, shared institutional username/password, Shibboleth profile, get information about access rights and usage, and download COUNTER 4 and COUNTER 5 compliant usage statistics.
The screenshot below shows the library administrator dashboard. You can access it by logging in with your institutional administrator credentials and hovering over the administration cog icon in the top navigation.
How can I log in?
The NCTE credentials have been transferred, so if you have accessed NCTE’s content via NCTE.org before, please use the same username and password to log in to NCTE Publications. Should you not be able to log in, please email [email protected].
Do I need to update my IP manually on the new platform?
Your IP addresses have been transferred from NCTE.
Activate your account
You will receive an email with an activation link when your institutional account is set up in publicationsncte.org. Please click on the link in the email and set up your institutional administration username/password. You can administer your institution's account on the site by logging in with these credentials.
Users within your institution will gain access to your institution's subscription only after you activate your account and your institution's authentication information has been set up (e.g., IP addresses, Open Athens, Shibboleth).
Update your institution's details
Click on the "Profile" link within the "Profile" section in your administrator dashboard. The screenshot below shows the form where you can view and update your institutional profile.
Change my administrator password
Click on the "Update password" link within the "Profile" section in your administrator dashboard. It will take you to a form where you can update your administrator password.
Add or remove IP addresses for your institution
Click on the "IP addresses" link within the "Authentication" section in your administrator dashboard. It will take you to a page that lists the IP addresses currently set up for your institution. You can update this list and click on the Submit button to save your updates.
Set up EZProxy for your institution
Click on the "IP addresses" link within the "Authentication" section in your administrator dashboard. It will take you to a page that lists the IP addresses currently set up for your institution. You can add the IP address(es) of your proxy server to the list. You will need to set up the following stanza in your EZProxy configuration file:
T NCTE Publications
U https://publicationsncte.org
H publicationsncte.org
NeverProxy instance.metastore.ingenta.com
NeverProxy pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com
Set up a shared username/password for your institution
Click on the "Usernames" link within the "Authentication" section in your administrator dashboard. It will take you to a page where you can set up a shared username/password for your institution or update the shared password if you have already set up a shared username/password.
Enable Shibboleth for your institution
Click on the Shibboleth link within the "Authentication" section in your administrator dashboard. It will take you to a form for setting up your Shibboleth profile. You can select your institution through the institutions drop-down below and click on the "Change institution" button at the bottom of the form to save your profile.
View your institution's subscriptions
Click on the "View Subscriptions" link within the "Content" section in your administrator dashboard. It will take you to a page listing your current active subscriptions, as well as expired subscriptions granting perpetual access.
Set up outbound OpenURL for your institution
Click on the "Link Resolvers" link in the administration dashboard. It will take you to a form where you can set up your institution's link resolver. After setting up the link resolver, you will need to log out and log back in to see outbound OpenURL links for references within the References tab for content.
Access KBART-compliant holdings files
You can download KBART-compliant files for books and journals by accessing https://publicationsncte.org/openurl/kbart/books and https://publicationsncte.org/openurl/kbart/journals.
Access COUNTER compliant usage statistics?
Click on the "COUNTER 5 reports" link within the "Reports" section in your administrator dashboard. It will take you to a page where you can first select the report type you want to download: Platform Report, Title Report, or Item Report. You can then download one of the Standard Reports for that report type or create a Master Report.
Please access https://publicationsncte.org/help/sushi for information on SUSHI setup and requests.
View Patron Driven Acquisition usage for your institution
Click on the "View PDA account" link within the "Content" section in your administrator dashboard. You can view the status of your existing PDA access including duration of access, included content, and the initial as well as remaining balance.