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Elsevier Resources (ScienceDirect, ClinicalKey, Engineering Village, etc.) Down -Jan.2021

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Access Restored. If you have any further problems, please reach out to us via our Help Form. Several Elsevier resources -ScienceDirect, ClinicalKey, Engineering Village, various ebooks & ejournals are down. This is a known issue that is being worked on. Please stay tuned for updates.

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Elsevier ScienceDirect – PDF download problem

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Issue Resolved There is an issue affecting certain Elsevier ScienceDirect journals. While green ‘Full-Text Access’ icons may be displaying next to an article, the PDF Download functionality isn’t working correctly, and all users are confronted with a paywall. The Elsevier team is working on this issue and we hope to have an update for you […]

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ScienceDirect – Elsevier – Off-Campus Access Blocked Feb.07, 2020

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UPDATE: Off-Campus Access has been restored as of Sunday, Feb.9, 7:00PM (PST) . Please clear your cache and cookies. If problems persist, contact us via our Help Form. ScienceDirect => Off-Campus Access Blocked EZproxy (off-campus access, where you log in with your CWL) has been blocked by ScienceDirect. We are working to get the block […]

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ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Journals – PDFs not downloading

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UPDATE : PDFs now working PDFs of articles are not downloading for a number of ScienceDirect ejournals. An error message saying “Something went wrong” appears. We have reported the problem. Stay tuned!

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ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Blocked Off Campus

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UPDATE => ScienceDirect restored. Elsevier has restored access to ScienceDirect. They blocked access for almost a full day due to “Systematic downloading of significant amounts of data”. Please read about the use of Library-licensed online resources. Do not use automated software to download articles. If you wish to do Text & Data Mining or other […]

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ScienceDirect (eJournals & eBooks) : Some Site Problems

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UPDATE! Science Direct is tweeting that the issue is resolved. If you are still having problems: clear the history (cache & coolies) from your browser and try again report via the Help Form below if problems continue The ScienceDirect platform from Elsevier is experiencing intermittent problems. Sometimes there is an error message “Sorry, your request […]

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ScienceDirect Journal Articles : Problems with linking

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UPDATE: PROBLEM SOLVED ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Journal Article links producing error: Sorry, your request can not be processed due to a system problem. Contact the Help Desk if the problem persists. [SD-009] This is a known issue that is being worked on by the publisher. However, it may take several days. It seems to be caused […]

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ScienceDirect: Article-level Linking Problem

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Currently, there seems to be a problem linking at the ARTICLE level from Summon, PubMed, etc. to ScienceDirect. We are investigating. If you don’t want to land at the JOURNAL level in ScienceDirect and then hunt for your article, you can go to ScienceDirect’s Advanced Search page and search for the article from there. Remember […]

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ScienceDirect PDFs: Problem with Off-Campus Access

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**UPDATE**Problem Solved. Please clear the cache & cookies from your browser and try the PDF icon at the article level. It should pop-up into a .pdf document now. For people off campus accessing PDFs of articles from journals on ScienceDirect, you can access the HTML version no problem through EZproxy, but clicking on the PDF […]

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ScienceDirect eJournal Additions: New Titles Galore!

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Several new ejournals have been added to our Elsevier / ScienceDirect collections. They are: Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology   1996+ AORN Journal   1995+ Healthcare Management Forum   1995+ Journal of Dairy Science   1995+ Mayo Clinic Proceedings   1995+ Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology   2003+ Seminars in Nephrology   2003+ Seminars in Oncology   2001+ Solid […]

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