Accessible Archives, the publisher for several of Fondren Library's fulltext collections, is experiencing service problems (11/20/06, noon).

Affected databases include: "African American Newspapers (The 19th Century)" and "Godey's Lady's Book (1830-1885)".

We are working with the publisher to restore access and apologize for any inconvenience.

Update (11/21/06, 8:30am) - Publisher has resolved the problem

Ebsco journals will be offline for required systems maintenance on Sunday, November 19 from 6 a.m. until 1 p.m. Central time.

This will impact those journals listed in WebCat with a url containing
"ejournals.ebsco.com" or linked in the Serials Solution ejournal listing
"in EBSCOhost EJS"

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) website (http://www.rsc.org) will be unavailable on Saturday 2 December 2006...

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) website (http://www.rsc.org) will be
unavailable on Saturday 2 December 2006 from 09.00 to 17.00 GMT for
essential maintenance.

Rewiring of campus buildings has led to a temporary difficulty in

Rewiring of campus buildings has led to a temporary difficulty in
accessing library subscriptions for users on campus. Please see the
Library's remote access
(http://www.rice.edu/fondren/collections/access.html) information page for the solution.

SAGE Journals Online, SAGE's Online journal delivery platform will be intermittently down on November 15th starting at 2 PM PST, and is expected to be fully back online on November 16 with a new look and enhanced features and functionality developed based on feedback from customers.

Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA) - a problem reported yesterday appears to have been a transitory one and is now resolved.