A scheduled system maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform will begin Friday 31 August 2018 between 12:00 and 16:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during these times.
Category: Outage and service issues
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance -7 August 2018
The Box of Broadcasts (BoB) streaming off-air recording service has announced another maintenance period for 7 August 2018. The service should be considered ‘at risk’ between 14:00 and 17:30 on that date.
Issues affecting the Kanopy streaming video service
The library is working with the technical team at the Kanopy streaming video platform to reinstate access to the service, which is currently unavailable on and off campus.
A further update will follow once the issue has been resolved.
ProQuest platform – scheduled maintenance – 18 August 2018
A routine maintenance period on the ProQuest platform is scheduled for Saturday 18 August 2018, between 15:00 and 23:00 (UK time). This means that the following ProQuest databases, eBook platforms and services, to which the library subscribes, may be unavailable throughout this eight hour period:
- EBook Central
- RefWorks
- Sydnetics 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
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 6 August 2018
A routine maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform is scheduled for Monday 6 August 2018 between 08:00 and 12:00. The provider advises that the service should be considered ‘at risk’ during that time.
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 19 July 2018
A scheduled maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform is due on Thursday 19 May 2018 between 07:00 and 09:00. The provider advises that the service may be at risk during these times.
Off-campus to the Gale Cengage platform restored
The problem preventing off-campus access to subscription databases on the Gale-Cengage platform (reported on 15 June) has now been resolved by the Gale-Cengage technical team.
Off-campus access is now available once again, with authentication by university username and password.
The databases accessible off-site once again are:
- Picture Post Historical Archive
- British Library Newspapers
- 19th Century UK Periodicals
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
- The Times Digital Archive
Off-campus access to the Gale Cengage platform unavailable
The library is working with the technical team at Gale Cengage to reinstate off-campus access to the databases on the Gale Cengage platform. On-campus access is working normally, but, at present, off-campus access requests, authenticated by university username and password, are failing to complete successfully. A further update will follow once on-campus access has been restored. Affected databases include:
- Picture Post Historical Archive
- British Library Newspapers
- 19th Century UK Periodicals
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
- The Times Digital Archive
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 11 June – 13 June 2018
A scheduled maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform is due from Monday 11 June 2018 – 05:00 to Wednesday 13 June – 22:00. The provider advises that the service may be unavailable during these times.
VleBooks Temporary Maintenance – Monday 4 June 2018
Please be advised that temporary maintenance to VLeBooks (www.vlebooks.com) will be carried out on Monday 4 June at 17:00. It is expected to last less than 30 minutes, during which time you will be unable to access the site.
Box of Broadcasts – scheduled maintenance – 24 May 2018
A scheduled maintenance period for the Box of Broadcasts platform is due on Thursday 24 May 2018 between 07:00 and 09:00. The provider advises that the service may be at risk during these times.
Maintenance work planned for American Society Of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Please be aware that maintenance work is planned for American Society Of Civil Engineers (ASCE) from 10:00 to 22:00 hours GMT on 22/05/2018
There might be disruption to the service between the time advised.
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