E-Resources Access Alert – EZProxy issues TAGS: downtime | ezproxy | outage There are currently intermittent access problems to e-resources via EZProxy links which are being investigated by our IT team. Eg http://www.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/ may not work but if you drop the “http://www.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url=” …Continue reading →

Jstor access issues TAGS: database | e-journals | JSTOR The Jstor website is experiencing intermittent technical issues with authentication. See first screenshot below – you will be asked to login.  Please try again later as the authentication issues are …Continue reading →

Access issue – Springer website TAGS: Access Issues | Authentication | e-books | e-journals | IP Access | Shibboleth | Springer As reported earlier on twitter, there are access issues to Springer content – both e-books and e-journals.  The publishers have now restored Shibboleth authentication which means all users can now …Continue reading →

A-Z lists unavailable TAGS: AZ lists | databases | e-books There is currently an outage on the Library website – updates will be posted on the ISHelpline twitter account –  https://twitter.com/isalerts Please use DiscoverEd to access e-resources during the downtime

ScienceDirect website down TAGS: downtime | ebooks | ejournals | ScienceDirect The ScienceDirect website is currently unavailable due to an outage.  Elsevier are aware of the issue and are urgently working to restore access to their website. ACCESS RESTORED

E-Resources Access Alert – EZProxy downtime TAGS: Access alert | e-resources downtime | ezproxy Access to E-Resources using EZProxy will be unavailable on Tuesday 9th June between 8.30am and 9.30am followed by a further 1 hour at risk period.  This is to allow our …Continue reading →

Weekend e-resource disruption TAGS: downtime | MyILibrary | Web of Science   The MyILibrary e-books website will be shut down for maintenance on Saturday 30th May – 1pm – 7pm.  Ingram Content Group apologise for any inconvenience that may be caused …Continue reading →

China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database platform access issue TAGS: CNKI Access to the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database platform via http://eng.oversea.cnki.net and http://gb.oversea.cnki.net is temporarily unavailable. This includes access to the following databases: China Academic Journals (CAJ) Century Journals …Continue reading →

Financial Times access issue TAGS: access issue | e-journal | Financial Times | FT.com Our access to Financial Times via http://www.ft.com/home/uk is currently unavailable due to a renewal issue which is under investigation.  Alternate access to the Financial Times via Factiva remains unaffected. Update: …Continue reading →

Wireless access to e-resources TAGS: access issue | databases | e-books IP Access | e-journals | eduroam | VPN | wireless We are receiving a number of reports about loss of access to e-resources via the wifi network (Eduroam).  If affected please use the library links which are set up to …Continue reading →