Full Text A-Z Downtime

On Saturday, 7 October 2006, Full Text Journals A-to-Z will be unavailable from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m., EDT, due to maintenance.  During the outage, you can use the Rensselaer Libraries' Catalog to find both print and electronic journals.

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IEEE Xplore Back Up

IEEE seems to have fixed the problem.

 

IEEE Down

There is a problem with IEEE Xplore not connecting, which appears to be a problem with their server.  Will post more information when we learn more.

EBSCO (Business Source Premier) Slowness: known and being worked on

EBSCOhost is experiencing server problems at this time. Our systems engineers are working to resolve the issue.

Deep Linking Coming to LexisNexis

LexisNexis has made software changes to allow linking to the article level and creation of durable links to articles.  They have been working with ExLibris (which provides SFX) so that eventually SFX will be able to link deeper into LexisNexis than it does currently.

 

The URL API Specification and some FAQs are in the LexisNexis Information Central website at http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicmigration.

Financial Times Embargo Coming for All Third-Party Vendors (Including ProQuest)

We want to alert you to a change that's coming in the delivery schedule for The Financial Times. On September 1, 2006, the Financial Times is initiating a 24-hour embargo for all third-party vendors who distribute the Financial Times, including ProQuest. Currently, the Financial Times content is available on the day of publication; after September 1, content will be available in ProQuest until midnight GMT or 24 hours after publication.

IEEE Xplore

The planned deployment of IEEE Xplore release 2.1.4 this past Saturday, 16 September has been delayed. IEEE Xplore 2.1 is currently online and fully functional for our users. IEEE's goal is to provide the reliable online service our users expect. We are therefore conducting additional pre-release testing of 2.14 in preparation for the relaunch. When the testing phase is successfully completed, we will inform customers of the new release timeline.

iCONN Changes Colors & Logo

On Thursday 9/21, iCONN will have a new look - its color scheme will be updated to reflect the new iCONN logo. Finally, a new search results page will display a brief list of the resulting titles which can be sorted by author, title, or publication date.

We hope you like these enhancements!

STAT-USA/Internet Current Industrial Reports categorized and archived

Current Industrial Reports (CIRs) provide timely, accurate data on domestic production and shipments of selected products. These popular reports have always been one of the larger file areas in the State of the Nation (SOTN) database of STAT-USA/Internet. However, the overwhelming quantity of the files made them cumbersome to navigate quickly. STAT-USA has taken steps in an effort to make it easier for users to not only find the most current CIRs, but the historical ones as well!
To read the complete article, please click on
http://home.stat-usa.gov/statnews

ProQuest September 30th Maintenance Window

Dear ProQuest Customer,

The next ProQuest platform enhancement release will be on September 30, 2006. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install these exciting new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, September 30, 2006, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 10:00 EDT.

ProQuest will be unavailable during this window.

Please email your comments to platform.feedback@il.proquest.com or visit www.proquest.com/suggestions.

EBSCO rep on campus - 10/11 @ 1pm

Come to the library to hear about new enhancements to Business Source Premier.

IEEE Xplore Upgrade 9/16

Dear IEEE Subscriber:

On Saturday 16 September, IEEE will release a major system upgrade to the IEEE Xplore digital library.

As a result of this upgrade, users may experience up to 12 hours of downtime beginning at approximately 9:00 AM EDT (-5 UTC).

IEEE Xplore 2.1.4 will be OpenURL compatible, which provides a standardized syntax for organizing bibliographic metadata and identifiers in a URL and transferring data between information services.  Links are enabled between unsubscribed content in IEEE Xplore to a    library resolver, leading users to appropriate resources within their institution. With this enhancement, librarians can work with commercially available link resolver software to fully enable their publication catalog. OpenURL will be provided in these areas:

        * Search results
        * References
        * Brief abstracts
        * IEEE Book abstracts

Other features of the IEEE Xplore 2.1.4 upgrade include:

        * RefWorks and Bibtex format downloadable citations from IEEE AbstractPlus records, search results, and tables of contents

        * Monthly lists of each periodical's most-downloaded articles

        * Watermarked PDF documents, illustrating the value of your library subscription

This release continues our successful launch of IEEE Xplore 2.0, and incorporates many of the requests we have heard from our customers.

An additional update is planned for release before the end of 2006.

Server Maintenance - Thu 9/14/06 - 9 PM - Today

From the network administrator:

A 15-30 minute maintenance window is scheduled for this evening, Thursday, 9/14/06 at 9:00 PM, at which time the server will be shutdown and power re-routed.

All students, faculty and DE, library and TIS staff will *NOT* have access to file and print services during the outage, which we hope will be as brief as possible.

Regular hours will commence on Tuesday, September 5, 2006.