AIAA Electronic Library maintenance, 12/4/07

This just in from American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA):

"The AIAA website including the E-Library will be shutdown Tuesday, December 4, 6am to 9am EST, US. We apologize for the inconvenience."

Philosophers Index temporarily unavailable, 11/14/2007

Philosophers Index online is temporarily unavailable. When it returns, it will be via a new vendor interface.

Library staff are aggressively working to resolve the access problem. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Update (11/29/2007):
Access to Philosophers Index has been restored. Thank you for your patience.

Alexander Street Press databases down, 10/10/07

This just in from Alexander Street Press:

"Service Interruption Saturday, November 10

All Alexander Street Press databases will be down for routine maintenance and upgrades on Saturday, Nov 10 from approximately 7:00pm-11pm EST."

Affected databases at Rice include:

Social theory
Latin American women writers
Black thought and culture

Fondren Catalog down 11/21/07 6pm - 11/23/07 10am

Library Patrons,

Fondren Library wants to inform you that our catalog will be going offline on November 21st at 6:00pm and will back online on November 23rd at 10:00am. The reason the catalog will be unavailable is the server will be moved off-campus to the Data Center.

Thank You For Your Patience,

Fondren Staff

AIAA Electronic Library Problem, 11/6/07

9:30am

This just in from American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA)

"Users who search and attempt to download journal articles are receiving an error message. Our IT Department is working on this problem now, and I will notify you when the fix is made.

Sorry for the inconvenience."

Update from AIAA (2:00pm)

"We believe the problem has been resolved."

IEEE Xplore down 11/10/07 - 8am-noon

Just in from IEEE:

"Dear IEEE online subscriber:

On Saturday, 10 November, IEEE will implement an upgrade to the IEEE Xplore digital library.

As a result, users will experience approximately 2-4 hours of downtime on that date, between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. EST. A message will be posted to the IEEE Xplore home page to alert your users to the planned downtime. Please encourage your users to take this into account when they plan their research.

This update includes the following features:
* Tabbed search results, including a beta test of Application Notes, practical content for working engineers
* Citation (Known Item) search, RefWorks/BibTeX citation download, and improved author search
* Subscriptions to IEEE Expert Now educational courses available through the IEEE Xplore platform

Thank you for subscribing to your IEEE online collection. We look forward to your response to these new tools and features and bringing you additional enhancements in the coming months."