ATLA Religion Index Maintenance 6/4/07

Just in from EBSCO

"We are pleased to advise that, in order to improve response time for searches in ATLA products, ATLA will to perform significant network upgrades on ATLA systems during the afternoon of Monday June 4th, beginning at 4:00 p.m. CDT. It is possible that you will encounter an interruption of ATLA database access, between the hours of 4:00 and 6:00 EDT.

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience and look forward to providing you with the upgraded ATLA products."

Peeters Online interrupted 5/23/07

Due to maintenance to the publishers network, access to the Peeters Online Journals and Peeters Online Bibliographies may be interrupted on Wednesday May 23, 2007

Wiley journals site maintenance, 5/21/07

Just in from Wiley:

"Due to a scheduled upgrade to Wiley InterScience, access to full-text content may be temporarily unavailable on the indicated date and time:
DATE: 21 May 2007
TIME: 3 a.m.
DURATION: 45 minutes"

Our apologies for any inconvenience.

Nature website schedule maintenance 5/15/07

Just in from Nature:

"On Saturday, May 19th at midnight (EST), NPG will be conducting important maintenance work on nature.com and the social software network. We expect that all sites running on these two platforms will be off-line for approx 30 minutes."

This scheduled maintenance may impact on all Nature and Nature-affiliated journal subscriptions provided by Fondren Library. We apologize for the unavoidable inconvenience.

EuroTrade Online Unavailable for an extended period

EuroTrade Online is undergoing a major software upgrade and will be
unavailable for several months. Access to the Rice Community should be
available as soon as they have their new site in place.

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David M. Bynog Acquisitions Dept. MS 230
Assistant Acquisitions Librarian Fondren Library
Phone : (713) 348-4811 Rice University
Fax: (713) 348-5862 PO Box 1892
E-mail: dbynog@rice.edu Houston, TX 77251-1892

Alexander Street Press text collections down, 5/10/07

This in from Alexander Street Press:

"Dear Valued Customer,
It has just come to my attention that we are experiencing technical difficulties on one of our servers. This may impact web-based access to all of your Alexander Street Press products.

Our technical teams are working diligently to resolve this problem. During this time, you may experience minimal or no access to your databases until this problem is corrected."

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Update, 12:02pm:
Alexander Street reports that access to all databases has been restored.