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Global Market Information Database – ACCESS RESTORED
Update: October 1st – 9:20am Access has been restored. Please report continuing problems to eResources help. September 30th – 1:30pm Contact has been made with GMID. The glitch is at their end, and many libraries are experiencing the same problem as us. They expect the problem to be fixed tomorrow morning. Watch for an update. […]
Taylor & Francis Informaworld – Scheduled Maintenance – Sept.27th, 2008
Taylor & Francis will be performing essential server maintenance on Saturday, September 27, 2008, resulting in intermittent access to informaworld. Two short periods of downtime are expected throughout the day which will last a maximum of thirty minutes. The informaworld team would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience this might cause.
Proquest Databases – ACCESS Restored
Update: Monday, Sept.22nd Access restored. Friday, Sept.19th 1:00pm Access to the Proquest site and all databases is currently unavailable due to a server outage. Proquest is working to have service restored as quickly as possible.
Rewriting Proxy Server (RSVPN) – RESTORED
Update: Thursday, September 18th – 11:00am RSVPN is now available. UBC IT Services confirmed that the outage was due to a routing problem. Please report any continuing difficulties with RSVPN to the Library Systems Help Desk at 604-822-6725. Wednesday, September 17th – 11:30am Access to electronic resources through the Rewriting Proxy Server (RSVPN) is unavailable […]
RSC Website Service Disruption – September 20th, 2008
The RSC website at http://www.rsc.org will be unavailable on Saturday, September 20th between 9:30am and 1:30pm. The RSC apologises for any inconvenience this may cause.
SFX/UBC elink – RESTORED
Update: 11:00am UBC eLink is back on track. We apologize for any inconvenience. Tuesday, September 9th – 7:00am UBC eLink is temporarily unavailable. We are working to restore access as quickly as possible.
Firefox 3 and VPN
We’ve had reports from users that they are being denied access to a some of UBC Library online resources (ScienceDirect, Wiley Interscience etc.). It appears there are some incompatibilities with VPN and Firefox 3. Recommended solution – quit the browser and restart. If you’ve had a similar experience or discovered other fixes, please send a […]
CiNii – scheduled power supply maintenance
CiNii and all other National Institute of Informatics (NII) services will be unavailable on Sunday, September 7th 2008 from 7:00am-9:00pm (JST) for power supply maintenance. The services that will be unavailable are as follows: – GeNii: NII Scholarly and Academic Information Portal – (CiNii, Webcat Plus, KAKEN, NII-DBR) – NII Repository of Electronic Journals and […]
Project MUSE launches new web interface
Project MUSE is pleased to announce the release of a new web interface, enhanced with many features to aid ease of navigation, expand discovery, and encourage deeper interaction with the wealth of scholarly content offered by MUSE. As stated in the publisher’s press release: The new site design offers several new tools and resources for […]
SFX – Scheduled Server Maintenance – COMPLETED
Update: Sunday, Aug.17th 9:30am Our server maintenance & testing has been completed. Please report any problems to eResources Help. Friday, August 15th We will be performing SFX server maintenance on Sunday, August 17th from 7:00am-10:00am. UBC eLink will be unavailable during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
