OneSearch & Ebsco databases down, 3/27/12 am

Our vendor Ebsco is having system-wide difficulties today.  This impacts:

• for some people:  Fondren Library's OneSearch (hint - use the Classic Catalog of the library's website for books, print journal titles, videos, etc. For articles please see one of the subject research guides, which may help you find a source for articles.)
• all of the EbscoHost databases.  This includes popular favorites such as Academic Source Complete, Business Source Complete, Art Index, Humanities International Complete, MLA International Bibliography, Avery Index, etc.

We hope the problem will soon be resolved.

Update: Ebsco has resolved their service issues, and all databases/search engines should now be working.  Our apologies for the inconvenience.

IEEExplore searches lost, 4/1/2012

On 1 April 2012 IEEE will release their new platform. While many new features will be added with this release, please note: Saved Searches and Search History will be deleted

All current saved searches and search history records will be DELETED with this release. We encourage users to copy and paste their saved searches into a document so they can recreate the search after launch. IEEE has communicated to all saved search alert holders about this change. Table of Contents alerts are not affected and will remain active.

New features incorporated into IEEE Xplore with this release include:

• Enhanced and more streamlined abstract page
• Enhanced browsing by title with the inclusion of refinements
• More prominent institutional branding
• New placement of sign-in links for personal accounts and institutional accounts
• New and improved IEEE personal account registration process
• New citation diagram
• And more

Learn more about the new features: See the new features web page: www.ieee.org/newieeexplore. Users can also sign up for live webinar training at www.ieee.org/go/training.
All training dates after 1 April 2012 will cover the new features of this release.

Ejournal Portal maintenance, 3/24

Required maintenance will take Fondren Library's Ejournal portal (and the article connector service represented by the "FondrenFulltext?" icon) offline Saturday, March 24 from 7pm-8pm.

The service outage will be no more than one hour

Wiley Online Library Site Maintenance, 3/24/12

Due to site maintenance, access may be interrupted, Saturday, March 24, 2012 from 5:00am (Central) to 9:00am (Central).