ProQuest will be carrying out a scheduled upgrade of its online services on Sunday 16 February 2014, with an eight-hour ‘at risk’ period starting (for UK customers) at 03:00, and finishing at 11:00.
During that period access to all databases on the search.proquest.com platform may be unavailable at times or throughout. The affected databases are:
- Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
- ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)
- Australian Education Index
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- British Education Index
- British Humanities Index (BHI)
- British Periodicals (1681 – 1937)
- Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
- ERIC
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
- MLA International Bibliography
- Periodicals Archive Online
- PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
- Social Services Abstracts
- Sociological Abstracts
- The Vogue Archive
RefWorks will also be affected during the same upgrade period. ProQuest indicate:
During this time period RefWorks users can expect sporadic availability, including short periods of complete downtime. We anticipate that access issues and possible functionality problems will last anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes. If you experience issues with RefWorks during this maintenance window we recommend that you close your browser session, and return to RefWorks at a later time.
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