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.
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.
Due to essential site maintenance, access will be temporarily
unavailable to Wiley InterScience on:
Monday – September 22, 2008 starting at 7:00AM (PST) for approximately one hour.
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 at the moment.
Please use VPN or the Proxy Server instead. We apologize for any inconvenience this is causing.
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.
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.
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 note to eResources Help. Thanks!
Note: UBC Library workstations are currently running on Firefox vsn.2.0.0.13.
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 Online Publications (NII-REO)
– Webcat
– Institutional Repository Portal (JuNii+)
– IRDB Contents Analysis System
– Academic Society HomeVillage
– Sciterm
– NII-Electronic Library Service
– Cultural Heritage Online
– NII WebPage
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 scholars, librarians, and publishers. MUSE offers full text access to current content from nearly 400 high quality journals in the humanities and social sciences, from some 100 not-for-profit publishers, and the web site’s improved features will help users find, utilize and share this content more readily and efficiently.
A highlight of MUSE’s new web site is wider range of functionality at the individual journal article level, including the ability to email a link, find more articles from the same author(s), and share the article via popular social bookmarking services. Color indicators allow users to easily determine to which content they have full text access, at both the journal and article level.
Improved navigation in the site’s informational pages makes it easier for researchers, librarians, and publishers to access tools such as training guides, usage statistics, journal holdings information, and technical documentation. A new search feature also offers the ability to search only the informational pages, to quickly locate key details such as pricing, upcoming journal additions, or supported technologies. An entirely new section is dedicated to information for current and prospective publishers of journals in MUSE.
More new features including reference linking and Related Articles listings at the journal article level are scheduled for release later this fall and winter.
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.
