CAMIO, RLG Cultural Materials, and our web page http://www.rlg.org will be unavailable Friday January 26 from approximately 9 am – 2 pm Pacific Time (UTC-8) for system maintenance.
[My apologies for not having sent this note out earlier.]
Some of you will have gotten messages from users, wondering what’s happened to these databases. Due to the buyout of Micromedia by Proquest last year, they’ve finally gotten around to migrating the above databases to the Proquest platform — except they haven’t, really. If you search for either title in the eresources database, you’ll find a note under the link; either
Coverage:
Note: please click on “select multiple databases” then scroll down and click on TORONTO STAR: PAGES OF THE PAST.
or
Coverage:
Note: Please click on “select multiple databases” then scroll down and click on CANADA’S HERITAGE FROM 1844 – THE GLOBE AND MAIL.
What this means is that, once you get to the Proquest login screen, which is either
http://proquest.umi.com/login (on-campus)
or
http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/login (off-campus)
you have to click on the “Select multiple databases” link, then scroll down until you reach the link to the Toronto Star or Globe and Mail. Once you click on these links, you’ll find that the interface for either database is the same as it was before, but this is now the only way to get to it. Proquest states elsewhere on their website that “Please note at this time a custom login directly into the database is not available.” Catherine D is trying to find out how long it might be before a direct login is available.
Those of you who link to either of these databases in your pathfinders or other web pages might want to include a brief note to this effect, to make it a little easier for users.
Just a note to let you know that the former “Current Research @” database has been migrated to the ProQuest platform and is now called Dissertations and Theses @ York University. This change has been reflected on our webpage about finding York Theses at http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/eResources/YorkTheses.htm
Any subject pathfinders will need to be updated as well – the URL remains http://www.library.yorku.ca/eresolver/?id=50620
The webpage mentioned above has also been updated to reflect important expansion of York theses and dissertations available in fulltext. We now have access to almost all York theses that had been held in the UMI vaults (with the exception of non-microfilmed and embargoed texts) back to 1967.
Catherine
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