Month: April 2024

eZproxy authentication – scheduled maintenance – Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April 2024

Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team

A scheduled system maintenance period for eZproxy authentications services will begin Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April between 22:00 and 07:00 hours.

The provider advises that this authentication service will be unavailable for approximately two hours during this maintenance window so off-campus access to some of our electronic resources and journals may be unavailable during this time and you may see a connection timeout or connection refused page.

Screenshot of an example timeout page

The provider advises that in the event of access issues to try again later or outside of the scheduled maintenance period.

Time to update your old LexisLibrary links

Marie Kauffman - Applications and Technical Services team

AFTER UPGRADING TO a new platform several months ago, Lexis+ UK (formerly known as LexisLibrary) is now planning to stop redirecting any old LexisLibrary links to Lexis+ UK on Sunday 21 April.

Before this date, please consider using the redirect to update LexisLibrary links you may have bookmarked, as any of these links will return error messages such as “Service Unavailable” or “Unfortunately we can’t find the page you’re looking for” after the service is decommissioned. LexisLibrary links have ‘www.lexisnexis.com’ as part of their URL, while new Lexis+ links use ‘plus.lexis.com’.

Past April 21, accessing these resources from outdated bookmarks will require to manually search for them in the new platform, and create new bookmarks from permalinks in Lexus+ UK if you wish to save them again.

If you have bookmarked old LexisLibrary links and need assistance in updating them, please get in touch with the library.