ATLA Religion Index Maintenance 9/10/07

This just in from EBSCO:

"Please be advised that ATLA plans to perform routine system maintenance on Monday, September 10, beginning at 5:00 p.m. EDT. It is possible, though not likely, that you will encounter an interruption of access to full text records on ATLASerials and ATLA Religion Databases with ATLASerials, between the hours of 5:00 and 7:00 EDT. On the first Monday of the following few months, ATLA will conduct routine maintenance during the same timeframe."

IEEE Xplore maintenance, 8/31/08

This just in from IEEE:

"On Friday, 31 August, from approximately 10:00 to 10:30 AM EDT [9:00 to 9:30 Houston time], IEEE Xplore is scheduled to for brief planned maintenance. The site will be unavailable during this time. There is a message posted to the IEEE Xplore welcome page to alert your users to the downtime.

The downtime will affect all products delivered through IEEE Xplore including IEL, ASPP, POP, IEEE Enterprise, IEEE Power & Energy Library, and IEEE Standards Online."

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Royal Society of Chemistry outage, 9/1/07

This just in from RSC:

" The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) website (http://www.rsc.org) will be unavailable from 08:00 GMT on Saturday 1 September until 16:00 GMT on Sunday 2 September 2007 for an essential upgrade. This will mean that there will be no access to RSC's online products and services via its website during this period.

The RSC apologises for any inconvenience that this downtime may cause."

Please note, these times convert to 3:00am Saturday, 9/1/07, to 11:00 am Sunday, 9/2/07 local Houston time.

Indexes & text collections out, 8/21/07

This just in from University of Michigan, which hosts a number of our databases and text collections:

"At approximately 8:00am EDT on Tuesday, August 21, we were informed by campus network administrators that intermittent sluggish network performance and losses of connectivity are being observed between campus and arbitrary internet sites. These problems may be affecting connectivity to resources hosted here. As before, these problems are external to the UM network.

The expected outage time is not known at this time, but additional information will be sent as it becomes available.

Affected sites and collections include, but are not limited to:

* ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
* American Verse Project
* Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
* British Women Romantic Poets
* Early English Books Online
* Humanities Text Initiative
* HRAF Archaeology and Ethnography
* Making of America
* The Medieval Review
* Middle English Compendium (MEC)
* Old English Corpus (OEC)
* Radical Scatters (Emily Dickinson)
* The United States and its Territories
* UM Historical Math Collection
* William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience

We apologize for this inconvenience."

Xplore down, 8/13/06 11:30-noon EDT

This just in from IEEE

"On Monday, August 13, IEEE will perform planned maintenance to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The site will be unavailable from 11:30 - noon EDT. A message is posted to the IEEE Xplore home page to alert users to the expected disruption.

The downtime will affect all products delivered through IEEE Xplore."

We apologize for the ongoing inconvenience.

Ovid / Silverplatter down overnight, 8/11-8/12

Ovid / Silverplatter has scheduled infrastructure maintenance that will prevent access to a number of journals and databases from 9pm, Saturday, August 11, 2007 to 2am, Sunday August 12, 2007 Eastern Daylight Time.

Databases affected include:

* Biological Abstracts
* Philosophers Index

In addition, a handful of Fondren journal subscriptions (primarily for biomedicine titles) will be unavailable during this time.

IEEE Xplore loses our IP ranges, 8/1/07-?

IEEE has "lost" the new Rice IP ranges, reverting back to servicing only the old 128.42.*.* range. All university workstations and wireless on the new RiceNet2, can currently access these journals and conference proceedings only with proxy or VPN authentication.

The Library staff have been working on this problem with IEEE since early Wednesday, 1 August, and have grudging acknowledgement from IEEE that the problem is exclusively theirs. Due to their previously scheduled system maintenance (see previous DigiService Alert), IEEE technical support is resisting restoring our RiceNet2 (168.7.*.*) IP ranges at this time.

We continue to press them for immediate relief, but cannot warrant the problem will be resolved until Monday, August 6th (the date provided by IEEE).

We do apologize for the inconvenience caused by this publisher failure.