General FAQs

Overview

Bentham Direct provides institutional administrators and librarians with powerful tools to manage their institutional profile, manage IP addresses and ranges, shared institutional username/password, Shibboleth profile, get information about access rights and usage and download COUNTER 4 (to be retired April 2024) and COUNTER 5 compliant usage statistics.

Downloadable Resources:

Migration Checklist
KBART file for journals (books to follow)

Preparing for the journal migration

How can I log in?

The Ingenta Connect credentials have been transferred, so if you have accessed Bentham Science’s content via Ingenta Connect before, please use the same username and password to log in to Bentham Direct. Should you not be able to log in, please email [email protected].

Does the content redirect to Bentham Science?

Yes, there are article-level redirects from Ingenta Connect to our Bentham Direct site in perpetuity, as the new platform is also provided by Ingenta - a clear advantage for our journal content!

You don’t need to do anything.

Do I need to update my IP manually on the new platform?

Your IP addresses have been transferred from Ingenta Connect.

Please see the relevant section below on how to change or add IP addresses.

Is there be any impact on usage reports?

The statistics for October are now available on Bentham Direct, please access through your administrator dashboard. The November reports will be available in December on Bentham Direct.

Are there any changes to DOIs? Is the DOI registry updated to reflect new URLs?

There are no changes to the DOIs.

Does my institution have access to both platforms simultaneously?

Redirects from Ingenta Connect to Bentham Direct are in place, however, the content has now been removed from Ingenta Connect and access is solely through Bentham Direct.

What do I do if my library has lost access during the transition?

Please email [email protected]. Our support team will resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

Manage your account

Activate your account

If you have not accessed Bentham Science’s content through IngentaConnect previously, please email [email protected] with the following details: Name of administrator, email address of administrator, institution. The administrator will then receive an email from with an activation link when your institutional account is set up in Bentham Direct. Please click on the link in the email and set up your institutional administration username/password. You can administer your institution's account in the site by logging in with these credentials. Users within your institution will automatically get access to your institution's subscriptions once your institution's authentication information has been set up e.g. IP addresses, Open Athens, Shibboleth.

Access the administrator dashboard

To access the administrator dashboard, log in and click on thecog icon in the top navigation.

Update your institution's details

Click on the 'Profile' link within the 'Profile' section in your administrator dashboard (cog icon). The screenshot below shows the form where you can view and update your institutional profile.

Set up your institution's logo for display to users of your institution

Click on the 'Institutional logo' link within the 'Profile' section in your administrator dashboard (cog icon). The screenshot below shows the form for managing institutional branding on the site. The configured branding will be displayed on the site to all users authenticated as your institution.

Change my administrator password

Click on the 'Update password' link within the 'Profile' section in your administrator dashboard (cog icon). It will take you to a form where you can update your administrator password.

Manage your access

Set up EZProxy for your institution

Click on the 'IP addresses' link within the 'Authentication' section in your administrator dashboard (cog icon). It will take you to a page which 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 Bentham Direct 
NeverProxy instance.metastore.ingenta.com 
NeverProxy pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com 
U https://www.benthamdirect.com 
HJ https://www.benthamdirect.com 
HJ http://www.benthamdirect.com 
HJ www.benthamdirect.com 
DJ www.benthamdirect.com

Once the configuration file is in place, please add the IP address of your proxy server to the list of whitelisted IP addresses (see next point below).

Add or remove IP addresses for your institution

Click on the 'IP addresses' link within the 'Authentication' section in your administrator dashboard (cog icon). It will take you to a page which 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 a shared username/password for your institution

Click on the 'Usernames' link within the 'Authentication' section in your administrator dashboard (cog icon). 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 (cog icon). 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.

Enable Open Athens for your institution

Please email [email protected] to set up Open Athens for your institution. Please provide your Open Athens identifier or scope in the email.

Set up outbound OpenURL for your institution

Click on the 'Link Resolvers' link in the administration dashboard (cog icon). 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.

URLs for journal/book homepages or individual articles

Redirects are in place to ensure all content can still be accessed. The DOI registry has been updated to reflect the new URLs on Bentham Direct, so the DOIs for journal articles will not change.

However, we recommend that you update your systems with our new URLs for individual journals, issues and non-DOI links to individual articles. We have created a URL crosswalk document showing how the current URLs will transfer to Bentham Direct URLs: Download our URL Crosswalk.

Subscriptions

View your institution's subscriptions

Click on the 'View Subscriptions' link within the 'Content' section in your administrator dashboard (cog icon). It will take you to a page listing your currently active subscriptions as well as expired subscriptions granting perpetual access.

Please visit our How to get access / subscribe page for more information on purchasing content from Bentham.

KBART files and MARC records

Access KBART-compliant holdings files

You can download KBART-compliant files for books and journals by accessing https://eurekaselect.com/openurl/kbart/books and https://eurekaselect.com/openurl/kbart/journals

Access MARC records

Click on the MARC records link within the 'Content' section in your administrator dashboard (cog icon). It will take you to a page where you can access month by month as well as complete MARC records.

Usage reports

Access COUNTER compliant usage statistics

Please note that COUNTER 4 reports will be retired in April 2024. Click on the 'COUNTER 5 reports' link within the 'Reports' section in your administrator dashboard (cog symbol at the top of the page).

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 receive one of the Standard Reports for that report type via email, or create a Master Report.

SUSHI

Please access https://eurekaselect.com/help/sushi for information on SUSHI setup and requests.