A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Thursday 3 December 2020 at 07:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during this time.
Author: Jill Walker - Applications & Technical Services Team
VLeBooks – scheduled maintenance – 19 September 2020
A scheduled system maintenance period for the VLeBooks and Askews and Holt e-book platforms will begin Saturday 19 September 2020 between 22:00 and 03:00 Sunday 20 September.
The provider advises that the service may be unavailable during these times.
Nexis UK – access restored
The Nexis UK technical team have now resolved the recent issue of authentication errors when attempting to access Nexis UK from both on and off campus.
Access should now be available for both staff and students.
Nexis UK have apologised for the length of the outage and any disruption this may have caused.
Nexis UK – database unavailable
We have received reports of an authentication error message when attempting to access Nexis UK from both on and off campus.
We are currently working with Nexis UK support to try and resolve this issue.
Learning on Screen – scheduled maintenance – 22 May 2020
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Learning on Screen platform will begin Friday 22 May 2020 between 14:00 and 20:00. The provider advises that the following services may be unavailable during these times:
- TRILT
- Off-Air Request Service
- Channel 4 Press Packs
- Radio Collections
Refworks – scheduled maintenance – 10 May 2020
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Refworks platform will begin Sunday 10 May 2020, between 02:00 and 14:00(UK time). During this twelve hour period the following services will unavailable:
- Legacy Refworks
- Proquest Refworks
- Refworks Citation Manager
- Write-n-Cite
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 28 April 2020
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Tuesday 28 April 2020 between 14:30 and 16:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during these times.
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 20 February 2020
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Thursday 20 February 2020 between 07:00 and 09:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during these times.
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 13 February 2020
A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Thursday 13 February 2020 between 06:30 and 08:30. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during these times.
ProQuest platform – scheduled maintenance – 9 February 2020
A ROUTINE MAINTENANCE period on the ProQuest platform is scheduled for Sunday 9 February 2020, between 3:00 and 15:00 (UK time).
This means that the following ProQuest databases, eBook platforms and services, to which the library subscribes, will be unavailable throughout the first six hour period, 3:00 to 9:00 (UK time).
And upon completion of the maintenance window, for an additional six hours from 9:00 to 15:00, automatic citation functionality and MyResearch account access will continue to be unavailable:
- Alexander Street Press
- EBook Central
- RefWorks
- Syndetics solutions
- All databases on the search.proquest.com platform, namely:
- Academic Video Online
- Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) (1987 – current)
- Art, Design & Architecture Collection (1973 – current)
- Art and Architecture Archive (1895 – 2005)
- Australian Education Index (1977 – current)
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1934 – current)
- British Periodicals (1681 – 1939)
- Country Life Archive (1897 – 2005)
- Digital National Security Archive
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (1880 – 2000)
- ERIC (1966 – current)
- Humanities Index (1962 – current)
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) (1951 – current)
- MLA International Bibliography (1926 – current)
- Periodicals Archive Online
- PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress (1871 – current)
- ProQuest Central (1970 – current)
- ABI/INFORM Collection (1971 – current)
- Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection (1971 – current)
- Arts & Humanities Database information
- Asian & European Business Collection (1971 – current)
- Australia & New Zealand Database information
- Biology Database (1998 – current)
- Business Market Research Collection (1986 – current)
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database information
- Canadian Newsstream information
- Career & Technical Education Database information
- Computing Database (1998 – current)
- Continental Europe Database information
- Criminal Justice Database (1981 – current)
- East & South Asia Database information
- East Europe, Central Europe Database information
- Education Database (1988 – current)
- Family Health Database information
- Global Breaking Newswires information
- Health & Medical Collection information
- Health Management Database information
- India Database (1998 – current)
- International Newsstream information
- Latin America & Iberia Database information
- Library Science Database (1970 – current)
- Linguistics Database information
- Middle East & Africa Database information
- Military Database information
- Nursing & Allied Health Database information
- Political Science Database (1985 – current)
- Psychology Database information
- Public Health Database information
- Publicly Available Content Database information
- Religion Database (1986 – current)
- Research Library information
- Science Database information
- Social Science Database information
- Sociology Database (1985 – current)
- Telecommunications Database (1995 – current)
- Turkey Database information
- UK & Ireland Database information
- US Newsstream (1980 – current)
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
- PsycARTICLES (1894 – current)
- PsycINFO (1806 – current)
- PsycTESTS
- Sociological Abstracts (1952 – current)
- Social Services Abstracts (1979 – current)
- Sociological Abstracts (1952 – current)
- Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War (1914 – 1919)
- The Vogue Archive
- The Women’s Wear Daily Archive
LinkedIn Learning – access restored
THE LINKEDIN LEARNING technical team have now resolved the earlier access issues and the site is available again.
LinkedIn Learning apologise for any inconvenience caused.
LinkedIn Learning currently unavailable
THE LINKEDIN LEARNING site is currently experiencing technical difficulties and is unavailable.
Their technical team is working on the problem and are hoping to have it resolved soon.
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