FACTIVA outage this weekend

From the vendor:

On occasion, it is necessary to perform essential maintenance to
Factiva’s servers.

Our next scheduled maintenance will take place between Saturday,
20-May and Sunday, 21-May 2006. Details of the maintenance are
listed below. Access to the following products/features will be
unavailable from:

US EST (UTC-4): 20-May 8PM to 12AM
Global.Factiva.com: Factiva Search 2.0 (Alerts), Factiva Modules
(Track), Track folders, E-Mail (On-Demand/Continuous/Scheduled)
Only the above components of global.Factiva.com will be
affected. This is not a full product outage.

US EST (UTC-4): 20-May 8PM to 10PM
Global.Factiva.com: No new content
Only new content in global.Factiva.com will be affected. This
is not a full product outage.

access to NATURE has been restored

We now (once again) have online access to articles from 1987-present.

NATURE holdings prior to 1997 currently unavailable …

… despite the fact that we have a licence for issues back to 1987. We’re looking into it.

Scholars Portal servers to be rebooted tonight

From Alan Darnell:

We need to reboot the ScienceServer/E-Journals server and the Illumina server tonite. This will happen between 11pm and 12:30am. It takes about 20 minutes for each server to go through its shutdown and restart routine.

“Omega journal of death and dying” : Access to vol 52(1) has been restored

Canadian Census Analyser — PROBLEM SOLVED

The issue with not being able to access the Canadian Census Analyser via the proxy server has been resolved.

“Omega journal of death and dying” is partially unavailable

There appears to be no full-text available for volume 52(1), even though there is for everything else from vol 44 to 52(2). The relevant authorities have been alerted …

Literature Online

A blurb from the vendor:

Congratulations on subscribing to Literature Online, the acclaimed literature database that supercharges faculty research in the United States’ top 10 literature programs. As a valued subscriber, we want to share with you a few reasons why these literature programs use Literature Online:

• Quick Search lets users search Literature Online’s 12,000 authors, more than 350,000 literary works, full text of 180 specialist literature journals, a vast reference shelf, and the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature . All of this content is fully browseable.
• Durable URLs allow faculty and scholars to bookmark articles or searches of interest for future reference and to embed them in course web pages.
• Email content alerts provide updates to content on authors in Literature Online
• My Archive feature offers a personal archive of the user’s marked articles, previous searches, and publications visited
• KnowledgeNotes™ text-based student guides provide critical study and in-depth introductions to key novels, poems, and plays
• Poets on Screen features 900 film clips of contemporary poets reading their own and other poets’ works
• Citation software support lets users mark articles online, then print a bibliography in their choice of citation styles
• Direct linking allows users to access full-text JSTOR articles from Literature Online

Plus, recent enhancements make this database an even more powerful research resource. They include:

• Updates to full-text journals  — 180 titles and growing
• New and revised biographies  — 3,000 biographies of leading authors
• MLA International Bibliography add-on module (making Literature Online the only tool that lets you cross-search ABELL and the MLA International Bibliography)
• OpenURL linking from ABELL and MLA records to access additional full-text articles
• Early English Books Online cross-searching (for libraries that have this resource)
• Enhancements to the MLAIB thesaurus browse list

Accessing all of this vital information is easy. Just consult the quick reference guide for search tips. You can also download other training materials [via this link].

We hope that you are enjoying your subscription!

ProQuest maintenance window last night: did you notice?

In the words of the vendor:

“We have discovered an unanticipated opportunity to enhance the ProQuest® online information system that will improve performance and further enhance ProQuest’s reliability. To install these modifications, we are scheduling a maintenance window during a low-usage period. The maintenance window will begin Thursday, May 4th at 2:00 a.m. EST and end May 3rd at 3:00 a.m. EST.

[NOTE: unless there's some sort of weird time warp they're using for the maintenance, I think they mean Thursday, May 4th from 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. -- in other words, they notified us of it after it happened]

The following products will be unavailable during this brief window:

• ProQuest®, including ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
• Third-party databases such as CINAHL® Database with Full Text
• ProQuest Archiver

Training Resources for HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS and AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE

In case you're interested, ABC-CLIO is making various training resources available for HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS and AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE. Quick Tips guides can be had at http://www.abc-clio.com/hatrainingfiles/HistoricalAbstractsSearch.pdf
and http://www.abc-clio.com/ahltrainingfiles/AmericaHistoryandLifeSearch.pdf.

Other resources (e.g., guides that explain new interface enhancements, site overviews, administrator tools, PowerPoint training guides) are found at http://www.abc-clio.com/academic/pressroom/pressview.aspx?contentid=100128
and http://www.abc-clio.com/academic/pressroom/pressview.aspx?contentid=100129