CRC Press – Scheduled server Maintenance

CRC Press will be performing maintenance on their servers beginning Friday August 8th at 16:30 (4:30 P.M.) through 22:00 (10:00 P.M.) Eastern Time. Note: local time (PST) = 1:30-8:00 PM Access to CRCnetBase resources will be unavailable during this time.

OvidSP databases via RSVPN – RESTORED

Update: Friday, July 25th Access has been restored. Please report any continuing problems to eResources Help. Thursday, July 24th Access to OvidSP databases is currently unavailable through the Library’s rewriting proxy (RSVPN). The vendor has been notified and we hope to have access restored shortly.

Haworth Press journals – slow to no access

Haworth Press is experiencing server difficulties and access to their journals is routinely unavailable due to time outs and slow loading pages. Taylor & Francis, the parent company is working to resolve the current problem, but we’ve been advised that the situation will not improve significantly until these journals are transitioned to the Informaworld platform […]

EBSCOhost 2.0 – now LIVE!

Our EBSCO databases all have a new look and feel with the launch of the 2.0 interface today. Be sure to check them out and tell the EBSCO Interface Working Group what you think! The Library’s existing default settings and preferences have been migrated to the new platform. Changes are now possible in the administrative […]

EBSCOhost 2.0 – COMING July 16th

The new Ebscohost 2.0 interface will be released on Wednesday, July 16th. To get a sneak preview of how our EBSCO databases will look follow these steps: Go to any EBSCO database and click on the New features link in the top left banner. Select Test Drive….. Then take one of the databases for a […]

Blackwell content – Gone again…. – RESTORED

Update: 11:40am Fortunately, the outage was short-lived. We should be back on-track. —— Aaargh! Well it was nice while it lasted! Access to our Blackwell content went down again. It’s been reported to Wiley and I’m hopeful this this is a just a temporary outage. Stay tuned for an update. Many of you have discovered […]

Access to Blackwell journal content on Wiley InterScience – RESTORED!

Good news! Access to most of our subscribed Blackwell journals has finally been restored on Wiley InterScience. Article-level linking (through Citation Linker, Google Scholar, PubMed etc.) is still unavailable, however Wiley is anticipating these services will be activated by the end of the week. The publisher has also made progress on migrating some of the […]

Access to Blackwell journal content on Wiley InterScience – NOT AVAILABLE

Access to most of our subscribed Blackwell journal content on Wiley InterScience is currently unavailable. Be assured that our account rep at Wiley is working to resolve this as soon as possible. Unfortunately in the meantime, the typical search leads to that frustrating ‘login below to purchase access’ screen. We are certainly not alone in […]

Wiley InterScience – missing Blackwell content

As many of you have discovered there is missing content from Blackwell which is not yet available on the Wiley InterScience site. This includes some issues, articles, parts of articles (e.g. article loaded in xml but not in PDF) plus some missing metadata and articles which need to be fixed due to special character rendering […]

Update: Blackwell Synergy Journals have moved to Wiley InterScience

As of Monday, June 30, 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—has been incorporated into Wiley InterScience. Blackwell Synergy is no longer online. PLEASE NOTE: OpenURL links are currently not redirecting at the journal level but instead default to the […]

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