tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373753092012-01-26T16:01:01.690-08:00FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comBlogger1821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-19732697573530217272012-01-26T15:59:00.001-08:002012-01-26T16:01:01.702-08:00

IEEE Xplore will be unavailable for approximately 1 hour, Saturday, January 28, starting at 10am local time.

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Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted during the indicated date and time.

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BioOne will be experiencing scheduled maintenance on Friday January 13th, 2012 starting at 6:00 pm ET (3:00 PT). The maintenance period will be no longer than four hours in duration and the website will be unavailable for at least one hour during this time. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Due to excessive downloading (using harvesting software, in violation of licenses), Fondren Library's access to REAXYS has been blocked by the publisher (since 12/22/2011).Library & IT staff are working to resolve the issue with REAXYS, and hope to have access restored within the next 2 weeks.

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Dear Plunkett Research Online User:The Plunkett Research Online system will be down intermittently between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM Central time on Saturday, December 10, while we do some website maintenance. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

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On Sunday, November 20 there will be a scheduled service downtime for FirstSearch from midnight until up to 7 a.m. (Houston time). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Bowker will be performing scheduled maintenance which may cause some minor unavailability on Books In Print.Maintenance will occur on Saturday November 12, 2011 starting at 5 PM and will run until 11 PM.Thank you for your patience.

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Just in from the Goettingen State and University Library, Germany"Dear Sirs and Madam,due to a power failure our service is temporary out of order.Please forgive the interruption!"

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Due to an emergency maintenance issue, servers hosting Wiley Online Library content will need to be restarted. As a result, access may be interrupted during the indicated date and time.We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted during the indicated date and time.We apologize for any inconvenience.

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The heavy snow storm in the Northeast - with accompanying power outages - is affecting a number of Fondren Library's online services today. Services affected include: * enhanced cataloging links in the online catalog (thumbnail images of the dust jackets, synopses, etc.) This is also causing slow response time for the catalog as it searches, searches, searches for the feed... * Ulrichs.web We

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Fondren Library is working with one of our ebook providers - EBL - to fully implement their useful features, including the ability to have a personal bookshelf of ebooks, and the ability to make personal notes in the ebook.In order to activate these features, EBL needs to distinguish between users. We are testing various approaches, but at present (and until further notice) you will be asked to

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"On Sunday, July 10 there will be a scheduled service downtime for the FirstSearch service from midnight until at least 5:00 am and possibly as late as 10:00 a.m. Houston time. This temporary service interruption is required so we can upgrade storage systems and capacity for all OCLC services.This event is part of ongoing upgrades that OCLC undertakes in order to improve services for all member

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-54687256460940233802011-05-12T06:14:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:36:25.261-07:00

Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted during the indicated date and time.

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Just in from MIT"MIT CogNet will be temporarily unavailable on Thursday, April 7th beginning at 9:00 am (EST) for approximately 15 to 20 minutes while we perform a hardware update to the system. Be assured that MIT CogNet will be fully functional and available after this short period of time.We thank you for your patience as we perform this update."

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Due to essential site maintenance, access to the Wiley Online Library may be interrupted during the indicated date and time.DATE: Saturday - April 2, 2011TIME: 4:00 am CTDURATION: up to 2 hours

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The vendor of E-Journal Portal, Full-Text Search, and Article Search will perform regular system maintenance on these services Friday, March 18th, from 8PM-10PM. Users attempting to access these services in the first hour may see a web browser screen informing them that they are currently unavailable.

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The following SciVerse products are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 12 hours on Saturday, February 26th due to scheduled upgrades: * ScienceDirect * Scopus Down time by region is expected to be as follows on February 26th, 2011: U.S. Central Standard Time (CST): 7:00AM EST - 7:00PM EST In addition, SciVerse ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Sunday, March 13th

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On Sunday, February 27 there will be a scheduled service downtime for a number of OCLC services from midnight until at least 5:00 am and, at most, 10:00 am (U.S. Central Time). We apologize for any inconvenience this causes. We need to take the services off-line in order to upgrade the storage systems and capacity for all OCLC services. During this time, the following services will be unavailable

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The Ulrichsweb platform (http://www.ulrichsweb.com) will be temporarily unavailable on Monday, February 21, 2011 from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Central Standard Time in order to conduct maintenance on the platform.

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ebrary will be performing scheduled maintenance for two hours starting at noon US Central Standard Time, Saturday, February 12, 2011.While we will attempt to minimize user impact, the ebrary service may be unavailable at times during this period.Please contact support@ebrary.com or your account representative with any questions or concerns. We appreciate your business and support.

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Ulrichsweb will be temporarily unavailable on Friday, February 11, 2011 from noon to 4:00 pm Central Standard Time in order to release additional features. Among the enhancements being introduced are: The name of the library account the user is accessing Additional language localization (Korean and Dutch) Enhanced display of Online Availability by provider and database

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OCLC FirstSearch service will be unavailable between 1:00- 5:00 am US CT on Sunday, February 13th. OCLC will be conducting a maintenance install. Service will resume at least by 6:00am US CT.

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-61250895994843095712011-02-03T07:39:00.000-08:002011-02-03T07:40:09.316-08:00

Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted during the indicated date and time.

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-80338938455949688372011-02-02T09:01:00.000-08:002011-02-02T14:27:00.272-08:00

Just in from IEEE:"Due to inclement weather and subsequent power issues in the New Jersey IEEE corporate office, IEEE Xplore is currently unavailable. IEEE is working diligently to restore service as soon as possible and we will provide updates to you as we receive them.We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."RESOLVED - 3PM Houston Time"IEEE Xplore is now back online and

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LexisNexis has discovered a glitch - and a work-around - in the links in their system to non-digital hearing transcripts. The problem occurs with a Basic search and Search by Number forms. (Link is Legislative histories, and Bills & Laws should be functional; links to PDFs are also unaffected.)LN will be fixing the problem with a system change on February 11, and until then recommends the

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We have discovered that the ejournal platform MetaPress is down this morning.A number of our journals are hosted on this platform, especially those from Springer. We apologize for this inconvenience and will update you when/as the problem is resolved.

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Just in from the publisher:"We would like to inform you that on Saturday, January 22nd, the IOPscience service will be unavailable for approximately 8.5 hours, between 8:30am and 5:00pm BST (3:30am and 12:00pm EST).This is due to essential maintenance work we are carrying out in order to increase the performance of our websites. All services will be restored to normal operation by 5:00pm BST (12:

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The vendor OCLC has scheduled maintenance on Sunday, December 19 from midnight-6 AM Central Standard Time. All OCLC services will be unavailable at this time, including WorldCat, Worldcat.org, all FirstSearch databases (ArticleFirst; Library Literature; Francis; Heritage of the Book; GPO Monthly Catalog; History of Science Technology & Medicine) and all ejournals on the "newfirstsearch.oclc.org"

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-10261890533539178832010-12-16T08:41:00.000-08:002010-12-16T08:42:21.092-08:00

Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted during the indicated date and time.DATE: Sunday - December 19, 2010TIME: 4:00 am CentralDURATION: up to 2 hours

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Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted during the indicated date and time.DATE: Saturday - November 27, 2010TIME: 5:30 amDURATION: up to 2 hours

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"Dear ebrary Customer,ebrary will be performing scheduled maintenance for eight hours starting at noon, US Central time, Friday November 26, 2010.While we will attempt to minimize user impact, the ebrary service may be unavailable at times during this period."

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Just in from AAAS:"On Tuesday, 16 November 2010, the Science website, including all weekly article and issue content of the journal Science, will transition to the new platform. Please note this is fundamentally a back-end transformation to convert our content into an industry-standard markup approach based on the XML article format designed by the National Library of Medicine. However,

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Just in from the Linguistic Data Consortium"LDC will change our network IP address between 3PM and 5PM on Friday, November 12th. During that time, LDC's web site, including the LDC Intranet and catalog, will be unavailableAs external networks may not register our new IP address for up to 72 hours, LDC customers may experience issues with accessing our site until Monday, November 15th.

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Two large online journal publishers announced mobile access on Wednesday, Nov 10 : JSTOR and Cambridge Journals online.Curious about what resources you can use on your smart phone, PDA or tablet? Check out:Fondren's mobile website (http://m.library.rice.edu/)Fondren's mobile resources guide (http://libguides.rice.edu/mobile)

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OCLC will be conducting maintenance Sunday, November 7th, which is typically completed between 1-5 A.M., Central. WorldCat.org (the open-access version of WorldCat) will be unavailable during this time.OCLC also will be conducting maintenance Sunday, November 14th, which is typically completed between 1-5 A.M., Central. Both WorldCat and WorldCat.org (the open-access version of WorldCat) will

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Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted during the indicated date and time.DATE: Saturday - October 30, 2010TIME: 4:00 am HoustonDURATION: up to 2 hours

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The products and services mentioned above are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 4 hours on November 7th and 6 hours on November 13th. During this time, upgrades will be implemented and maintenance performed. Please see below:November 7:U.S. Central Standard Time (CST): 1:00AM -5:00AMNovember 13:U.S. Central Standard Time (CST): 7:00AM - 1:00PMWe apologize for the

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OCLC FirstSearch service will be unavailable from 1:00- 5:00 am on Sunday, October 17 for maintenance. Service will resume by 5:00 am Houston time.

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-90360433696844155502010-10-15T09:20:00.000-07:002010-10-15T09:24:52.779-07:00

Due to a product upgrade, the E-Journal Portal may experience intermittent interruptions or service degradation on Saturday, October 16, 2-8 a.m. Central Time.

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-47267460053548285352010-10-15T09:15:00.000-07:002010-10-15T09:19:54.078-07:00

Due to a product upgrade, Ulrichsweb may be unavailable Friday, October 15, 2010, for up to two hours starting at 8 p.m. Central Time.

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-7263364092099580192010-10-14T10:32:00.000-07:002010-10-14T10:33:19.462-07:00

Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted during the indicated date and time.

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-88901868908179177832010-10-12T20:19:00.000-07:002010-10-12T20:21:51.996-07:00

From the InformaWorld ejournal hosting site:"Informaworld is currently experiencing technical difficulties with our green access icon.Not only is it displaying against content to which an institution is entitled, but the green icon is also being displayed against content to which users are not subscribed.This error is currently being investigated by our technical team and we will contact

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-35338375715259346832010-10-01T09:27:00.001-07:002010-10-01T09:55:52.769-07:00

Just in from Naxos:"We are experiencing some server trouble at the moment--one of our authentication servers dropped at about 10:40 a.m. US Central Time. We have our tech team working like crazy on this and hope to have everything back up and running as soon as possible."Our apologies for any inconvenience.Update:We have received (at noon) the following from Naxos"Thank you for your patience with

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Due to essential site maintenance, Wiley access will be offline:Saturday - October 2, 2010,4:00 am through 6:00 am

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Springer, who recently has modified their publishing platform for online journals, etc., is experiencing system-wide problems today, Tuesday, September 21.Earlier in the day, the Springer website was slow. At this time, access to all journals, books and reference tools has failed ... users are seeing error messages from Springer's software.We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working with

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-44291904622287935982010-08-24T07:41:00.000-07:002010-08-24T07:43:16.178-07:00

ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours on Saturday, 28 August.During this time, upgrades will be implemented to these systems as part of the launch of the new SciVerse platform. For more information about SciVerse, please visit www.acceleratescience.com.

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Scheduled Maintenance Underway This period of maintenance is scheduled to begin at approximately 9:00 am CDT Friday, August 20 and is expected to last until noon CDT Saturday, August 21. During this scheduled maintenance you should be able to perform basic functions like searching, browsing and downloading content you have access to, but you will not be able to: * reset your password

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-79640360474460830282010-07-26T06:55:00.000-07:002010-07-26T06:58:23.817-07:00

This just in from JSTOR:"When the beta period ends on July 30, 2010 the citations you have saved while enrolled in the Beta will not exist in your standard MyJSTOR saved citations list. If you have saved citations within the MyJSTOR Beta and you want to keep a record of them, the best option is to export the citations from your account.When viewing the list of saved citations, select the

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Just in from the publisher:"A major server upgrade for 19th Century Masterfile will beBeginning: 5pm, Saturday, July 17, 2010.Ending: 4 am, Sunday, July 18, 2010."

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JSTOR reports that they are experiencing problems with one of their data centers, which has caused a widespread outage of the site Saturday evening, 7/3/2010. Repairs are underway, and the JSTOR staff hope to have the site back online late evening.We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Just in from the publisher: Due to essential site maintenance, access will be offline during the indicated date and time.DATE: Saturday - June 19, 2010TIME: 7:00 am CentralDURATION: up to 5 hours

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-72140844166830413862010-06-08T07:24:00.000-07:002010-06-08T07:27:43.651-07:00

Just in from the vendor:As part of ongoing platform development at Gale-Cengage Learning, a software maintenance release will take place this weekend. The work will begin at 11 pm on Friday, June 11 and last until approximately 7 am on Saturday, June 12. Customers who are accessing TexShare resources Literature Resource Center or the Twayne and Scribner modules during this maintenance period may

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Please be advised, ARTstor will be performing temporary maintenance on Saturday evening, May 1, 2010 between the hours of 8:00 PM and 1:00 AM CDT. At this time, service will be termporarily suspended. We anticipate service to return by the end of the maintenance window.

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Just in from ACS:"ACS Publications is experiencing a severe system disruption resulting in complete or partial loss of access across our ACS Web Editions products including journals, e-books and archives for many of our customers worldwide. We apologize for the inconvenience to you and your patrons. We are working diligently to both restore access as well as trace the root cause of the

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Just in from IEEE:"On Wednesday, 7 April 2010, IEEE will perform planned maintenance to the IEEE Xplore digital library. We do not expect any downtime, but users may experience intermittent service disruptions. We are excited to announce that the IBM Journal of Research and Development will be available in IEEE Xplore with this release. "

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OCLC will be conducting a maintenance install this Sunday, March 21, which should be completed between 1-5 A.M., CT. WorldCat.org, OCLC's free resource for searching library catalogs, will be unavailable during this time.

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"Discontinuation of the Bibliography of the History of Art: please note that the Bibliography of the History of Art is being withdrawn from distribution, and will no longer be available after 31st March 2010. [...] Getty Research Institute is no longer able to support the database and has not yet been able to reach an agreement with a new publisher."Fondren Library will investigate a possible

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This just in from the publisher:"ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 8.5 hours during the period from 9:30PM CST on Saturday 13, March to 07:00AM CDT Sunday 14, March. We apologize for the inconvenience."

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We have been attempting to obtain an acceptable license renewal with Wiley since September 2009. They continue to place language in their license which Rice General Counsel and library staff agree are unacceptable.Unlike the industry standard to continue access while good faith negotiations are underway, Wiley has removed our access for 2010 content.We continue to negotiate with the

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Just in:"Please be advised, ARTstor will be performing temporary maintenance this Saturday evening, February 27th, into Sunday morning, February 28th, between the hours of 6:00 PM and midnight CST. During this time, service will be intermittently interrupted. We anticipate full service to return by midnight.If you experience any severe delays, please notify ARTstor User Services at userservices@

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Fondren Library is changing access to SciFinder Scholar to a web version. The web version has the following advantages:- no downloading required of SciFinder and VPN client software.- remote authentication is now possible using your NetID username and password after clicking on the web link.A personal Rice login is required to access the web version of SciFinder Scholar.Please go to the SciFinder

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OCLC System AlertPosted: 02/10/2010 11:29:40 AM ETSystem problemsAffected Services:FirstSearchILLiadWorldCatWorldCat.orgDescription:OCLC is experiencing problems with several services at this time. We are working to identify them. We will update this message as we have more information and we apologize for the inconvenience this causes.

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Just in from Eastview:"East View's website and online databases will be inaccessible due to routine maintenance by our Internet service provider on Saturday, February 6, from 10pm - 11pm Central Time."This will affect the China Academic Journals Full-text Database (current and retrospective).

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Users will not be able to login or access Ulrichsweb 8:00 pm to midnight CST on Friday, February 5 , and may also experience intermittent site slowness for a period after service restarts. Regular service will be restored by 3:00 AM CST on Saturday, February 6.This system downtime will allow us to put a series of enhancements into production.

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This just in from the publisher Elsevier:ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12 hours Saturday, 24 January, 7:00AM CST Saturday to January 23 7:00PM CST.We apologize for the inconvenience.

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WebCat/OneSearch down through 12/31/09 - try WorldCat.org Fondren Library's catalog will be inaccessible December 29th - December 31st for a system upgrade. Catalog search services will resume December 31st.Thank you for your patience during this upgrade.During the upgrade, search for books in Fondren and elsewhere using WorldCat.org

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Wiley Interscience will be offline for system maintenance for up to one hour, beginning at 3am (local time) on Monday, December 21.

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Fondren Library's catalog and One Search will be inaccessible December 29th for a system upgrade. Catalog search services will resume December 30th.Thank you for your patience during this upgrade.During the upgrade, search for books in Fondren and elsewhere using WorldCat.org

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The China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), English interface, is currently experiencing technical difficulties. This includes the following databases: Please note that during this interuption in service, users can access the Simplified Chinese interface for the same CNKI browsing, searching and content here.

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WorldCat services will be down for system maintenance on Sunday morning (12/13/09), from 1am-5pm Central time.

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The Wiley InterScience site was unavailable for approximately 6.5 hours on Monday, November 23, 2009, from 3:00 a.m. to about 9:30 a.m. Central Time, because of technical problems. During this time, a maintenance message appeared for customers trying to access the site.

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Please note that the Fondren Catalog will be in read-only mode on Saturday, November 7th from 6-10am. You can continue to search the catalog, but please be aware that some information won't be current until after 10am. You will be unable to access the catalog's User Services menu (to renew books) or place holds during this period.Thank you for bearing with this early-morning inconvenience as we

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Fondren Library's catalog (Classic interface) is offline. Library staff are attempting to resolve the problem and hope to have this interface functional in short order. (You will be unable to access the User Services menu to renew books, or place a hold/retrieve during this outage.)We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this unscheduled downtime.The newest library catalog interface -

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ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours from 8:00PM CDT Saturday, October 31 to 4:00AM CST Sunday 1, November.We apologize for the inconvenience.

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A system upgrade to Ulrich's Periodicals Directory may cause the user interface to be unavailable on Saturday, October 24, 2am-5am CDT.

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-9902656133678692142009-10-16T11:54:00.000-07:002009-10-21T11:16:37.210-07:00

A system upgrade to the Serials Solutions 360 services may cause all related user interfaces to be unavailable on Saturday, October 24, 2am-5am CDT.

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-57036657107396698032009-10-16T11:52:00.000-07:002009-10-21T11:16:55.002-07:00

A system upgrade to the Serials Solutions 360 services may cause all related user interfaces to be unavailable on Saturday, October 24, 2am-5am CDT.

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A system upgrade to the Serials Solutions 360 services may cause all related user interfaces to be unavailable on Saturday, October 24, 2am-5am CDT.

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Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted to the Wiley Interscience platform on October 19, 2009, for up to 1 hour at 3:00 am Central time.

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OCLC will be conducting a maintenance install this Sunday, October 11th, which is typically completed between 2-6 A.M., ET. WorldCat.org will be unavailable during this time.Note that the Fondren Library subscription to the FirstSearch WorldCat will not be affected by this maintenance period.

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Access to government information through the Government Printing Office purl server is not working at this time. If you have problems with a link to a government publication through Fondren Library's catalog or elsewhere, please contact the Kelley Center for Government Information and Microforms (govhelp@rice.edu, 713-348-5483) for assistance. We can likely access the information through

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"... Ebsco databases are experiencing intermittent connection delays because of Ebsco server errors. Some of our member institutions may not have access to the Ebsco databases for the remainder of the day. Ebsco is working to restore full access for all of our TexShare member libraries..." (TexShare)

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Wiley InterScience Site Maintenance StatusDue to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted on the indicated date and time.DATE:Monday - September 21, 2009TIME:— beginning —03:00 am HoustonDURATION:up to 1 hour

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ScienceDirect & Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 13 hours from 12:00 GMT Saturday, 19 September to 01:00 GMT Sunday, 20 September (07:00 EDT Saturday, September 19 to 20:00 Central Time).

FondrenRefDeskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14164320670441618914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37375309.post-71322799184180712012009-09-08T11:08:00.000-07:002009-09-08T11:19:03.127-07:00

GPO continues to rebuild the PURL resolution database to re-establish linking to all its content following a signficant hardware failure on August 24. No data has been lost. Most PURLs have already been restored. At the current restoration rate, all the PURLs should be restored within the next two days.

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Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted on the indicated date and time. DATE: Monday - September 7, 2009

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Unauthorized agents are spidering the ACM Digital Library system, slowing it down. ACM is currently trying to block them.

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"We are currently experiencing a high volume of activity on our network outside of our customer base. This congestion is preventing some users from logging in and causing slowness for many. We are working to reduce the traffic being generated automatically by systems and programs... We appreciate your patience as we work to free up our network for our customers." (YBP Library Services)

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Just in from HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index):"We're having some issues with our server right now so we'refocusing on reconciling that. We hope to have everything fixed by sometime next week...you may experience some issues with HAPI Online service while we're updating some thingson our end."We apologize for any inconvenience.

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ArtStor has upgraded two features of their software: 1) the ability to zoom into an image and save detail, and 2) the functionality of folders used by those on instructor-level accounts.To see the details, and follow other changes to ArtStor, see the ArtStor blog

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Just in from Wilson:"Please be aware that on Thursday, August 20, 2009, from 10:00 PM to midnight (Eastern Time), the H.W. Wilson Company will conduct an important upgrade to the WilsonWeb system. During this two-hour period, WilsonWeb won't be available for searching."Databases impacted are: Applied science & technology index, Art index retrospective, Book review digest plus, Library Literature

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Just in from Knovel:"This afternoon, beginning at 3 PM Eastern Standard Time Knovel will begin a technical upgrade of our service. The upgrade process will be completed before 7 PM. During the upgrade period you should not notice disruption to your use of Knovel. Upgrades to Knovel will include enhancements to result displays, a new Graphs, Equations, Tables (GET) search, and the introduction

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Just in from Wiley:"Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted on the indicated date and time.Monday - August 17, 2009Time: 3:00 am CentralDURATION: up to 1 hour"We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Just in from the publisher:"Women Writers Online and the Women Writers Project web site will be briefly unavailable on the morning of August 6, 2009 while some necessary work is performed on our server. The outage will begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT (11:30 a.m. UTC) and should last approximately one hour."We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Fondren Library will be performing maintenance on our catalog server.The catalog, via the 'classic' interface, will be unavailable from 6pm, Saturday, August 8, 2009 through 6pm, Sunday, August 9, 2009.During this time, you will have access to the new library catalog search interface, One Search, at http://search.library.rice.edu

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Just in from our vendor, SerialsSolutions:Due to system maintenance, several library resources will be unavailable from 8:00pm 7/31/09 (Fri) through 2:00am 8/1/09 (Sat). These include: * the library's Ejournal Portal * the library's OpenURL resolver - this powers the "Fulltext@Fondren" links you see in many library databases, and which link you to the proper fulltext article at a publisher

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Please be advised, ARTstor will be performing temporary maintenance on Saturday evening, July 25, 2009 between the hours of 11:00pm and midnight. At this time, service will be temporarily suspended. We anticipate service to return after approximately 20 – 30 minutes.

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Just in from Wiley:"Due to essential site maintenance, access will be unavailable on the indicated dates and times.DATE: Saturday - July 18, 2009TIME: — beginning — 04:00 am HoustonDURATION: approximately 2 hoursDATE: Monday - July 20, 2009TIME: — beginning — 03:00 am HoustonDURATION: up to 1 hour"We apologize for any inconvenience

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This just in from Elsevier:"ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 16 hours from 7:00AM Saturday, June 20 to 11:00PM Saturday, June 20.We apologize for the inconvenience."

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