From our Electronic Resources Librarian:
ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, Oct. 31, starting at 3 p.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until midnight of the same day. The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.
PubMed (Medline) has a completely redesigned interface that went live today. Many of the enhancements are not major changes, but the look and feel is quite different and may be confusing to some regular users. The articles at the links below provide explanations of the changes.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_now_redesign.html
More from our Electronic Resources Librarian:
The potential FindIt button outage we alerted you to last week has been rescheduled to begin at 9 p.m. HST on Friday, Oct. 23. The planned upgrade should take about 2 hours, but could last up to 6 hours. Again, this potential outage would only affect linking directly to articles from database searches and the Electronic Journals and Books page. You will still be able to find electronic journals, books and databases via the Library’s Electronic Resources page.
From our Electronic Resources Librarian:
The FindIt button, which allows for one-click access from database searches to full-text articles, may be unavailable next Friday, Oct. 23, due to a system upgrade. The upgrade is scheduled to take place between 3 and 9 p.m. HST. The Library’s Electronic Journals and Books page may also be unavailable during this period.
From UH Manoa Library DNS Department:
“Access to libweb.hawaii.edu and Manoa proxy resources has been restored. I will continue to monitor the situation…”
Great work guys!
From the UH Manoa Library DNS Department:
“We are been experiencing high traffic load for the electronic resource gateway and libweb.hawaii.edu for the past 2 hours. All requests through the electronic resources gateway including access to remote electronic reserves will be disrupted.
I have had to shut down access to these two resources for now while we attempt to find a resolution. I apologize for the inconvenience this will cause everyone.”
Stay tuned!
From our Electronic Resources Librarian at 9:30 am this morning:
“We are currently experiencing problems connecting to the Electronic
Resources Gateway at http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/ . DNS has been notified and are looking into the issue.”
This will affect access to all types of resources including electronic journals and databases.
From our Electronic Resources Librarian:
ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, Sept. 19, starting at 2 a.m. Hawaii time. The outage is scheduled to last until 3 p.m. of the same day. The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.
Message from Kris Anderson, UH Manoa Library Collection Development Officer:
Aloha,
I’m writing to update the faculty, staff and students of UH Manoa about the effects of the mandated budget restrictions to the University Libraries.
The 4% cut plus the most recent cut of 6% mean a total reduction of $1.7 million to the Library’s working budget. To address the reduction, the Libraries have cut student employment hours, cut casual hire staff, reduced hours of service, and restricted or eliminated entirely other internal expenditures. The reduction has also affected the purchase of library resources such as books, journals, audiovisual materials and databases.
The rest of this message is to inform you what changes have been made to the available resources. Some of these measures will be felt immediately, while others will not take effect until 2010. We have:
The full list of cancelled titles, which will take effect in 2010, may be viewed at: http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/about/collection/2009serials/2009cancels.html
The list of additional titles to which we will lose access in January 2010 will be available soon.
Everyone at UH Manoa Library understands that these reductions and cancellations will have significant adverse effects on the UH Manoa community. Unfortunately the size of the budget reductions leaves us with few choices. We will try to cushion the impact of these losses through subsidized interlibrary loan, however, we predict that our interlibrary loan allocation may not be able to cover all anticipated requests.
Questions regarding the impact of the loss in funds may be directed to Kris Anderson (krisa@hawaii.edu).
-Kris Anderson, Collection Development Officer
September 3, 2009
Serials Solutions will be offline for up to 6 hours on Friday, July 31, for an equipment upgrade. The work is scheduled to run from 3pm – 9pm HST. As a result, Article Linker – the little yellow Find It button in our databases – will not be working during this time.
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