Scheduled maintenance to the Libraries Electronic Resources on 1/3/2012

On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, the Systems Division will be upgrading our EZproxy server. This could potentially lead to an intermittent down time of up to 3 hours. We will be initiating the upgrade at 9am and estimate that the upgrade will be completed by noon. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Posted on December 20th, 2011 by Jeannie Castro and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on Scheduled maintenance to the Libraries Electronic Resources on 1/3/2012

Intermittent problems with Gale Virtual Reference Library eBooks

The Gale Virtual Reference Library is currently experiencing intermittent connectivity problems. The library is working with Gale to restore seamless access to the eBook content. If you are trying to connect to a Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook, please try the link several times. We have found that retrying will sometimes force a connection. If retrying now does not bring up the eBook, please retry your search later today.

Posted on April 27th, 2011 by Jeannie Castro and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on Intermittent problems with Gale Virtual Reference Library eBooks

Science Direct scheduled downtime

Science Direct electronic journals will be offline and unavailable on Saturday, February 26, 2011 for approximately 12 hours between 7AM-7PM for scheduled upgrades and maintenance.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Posted on February 25th, 2011 by Jeannie Castro and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on Science Direct scheduled downtime

Wiley Online Library scheduled maintenance

On Saturday, February 5, 2011, Wiley Online Library will be down for scheduled maintenance at 4am for approximately 2 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Posted on February 3rd, 2011 by Jeannie Castro and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on Wiley Online Library scheduled maintenance

ProQuest Connectivity Problems

Access to ProQuest databases has been restored. If you get the an error message that states ” 2000: ProQuest is unable to retrieve the search results at this time” then please clear out your cache and cookies and restart your search. If the problem still persists, contact Electronic Resources as uhliber@mail.uh.edu.

Posted on January 24th, 2011 by Jeannie Castro and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on ProQuest Connectivity Problems

ProQuest connectivity problems

ProQuest databases are currently offline due to a problem with the ProQuest servers. As soon as access is restored a notice will be posted.

Posted on January 24th, 2011 by Jeannie Castro and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on ProQuest connectivity problems

Wiley Online Library scheduled maintenance

Wiley Online Library announces scheduled maintenance on Sunday, December 19, 2010 beginning at 4:00am. Wiley expects their Web site to be down for approximately 2 hours.

Posted on December 17th, 2010 by Jeannie Castro and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on Wiley Online Library scheduled maintenance

JSTOR Platform Change

The JSTOR Platform is changing Saturday, December 18th. Some of the new features will be:

  • A wider range of content formats, including full-text HTML for some journals and downloadable PDFs for all current journal issues
  • Multimedia files for some journals
  • New personalization features, including the ability to register for Table of Contents (TOC) emails and alerts when new content matches saved search terms
  • New informational pages for the titles participating in the Current Scholarship Program

During the Platform change, JSTOR expects intermittent downtime but is not planning on taking their Web site down fully.

Posted on December 17th, 2010 by Jeannie Castro and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on JSTOR Platform Change

SciFinder Scholar scheduled downtime

Due to maintenance work on the database server that supports myCAS® and Self Registration, these applications (including Forgot Password) will be unavailable from 9:00 p.m.-midnight on Saturday, December 4, 2010.

We apologize for the inconvenience.


Posted on December 3rd, 2010 by Jeannie Castro and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on SciFinder Scholar scheduled downtime

SciFinder Scholar scheduled maintenance

Maintenance work on the database server that supports SciFinder’s myCAS® and the Self Registration module (including Forgot Password) will cause these applications to be unavailable from:

9:00pm to midnight on Saturday, November 20, 2010

and

9:00pm to midnight on Saturday, December 4, 2010.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Posted on November 20th, 2010 by Jeannie Castro and filed under Announcements | Comments Off on SciFinder Scholar scheduled maintenance