E-Books on the Dawsonera website will be unavailable for up to half an hour between 7:30am and 8:00am on Thursday 25th August 2016 while they undertake essential work on the platform. Dawsonera will be offline during this time and students should ensure they have downloaded and opened any e-books they need access to before this outage occurs. It will also not be possible to read titles which have been downloaded but not opened before the outage period.
Several publishers are taking advantage of vacation time to carry out maintenance work and platform updates. The following affect our e-resources this weekend:
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=” portion e.g. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public the link will work.
Please see http://edin.ac/1bjVuCC for details of how to access E-Resources during this time, especially if off campus.
Further updates may also appear on the IS Alerts page http://reports.is.ed.ac.uk/alerts/.
We apologise for any inconvenience during this time.
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
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 during this downtime.
Thomson Reuters have advised that Web of Science and Endnote Online are “at risk” during their maintenance period on Sunday 31st May 2015 – 1:00pm – 16:00pm.
They expect minimal interruption to the service for users who are logged into Web of Science™ or EndNote® Online. Thomson Reuters apologise for any inconvenience.
At 10pm tonight, our e-journals will become unavailable for about 1 hour via the e-journal A-Z links, Searcher and the catalogue. This maintenance work is expected to resolve recent instability issues affecting e-journal access.
During this time, please access the journals directly on campus or off campus via the VPN or by adding http://ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url= to the front of a url eg for nature journal, the link is http://www.nature.com and then add http://ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url= to make it http://ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/login?url=http://www.nature.com which will then work off campus. There is also the option to log in off campus via UKFederation/Shibboleth if offered by the publisher.
Cite Them Right will be unavailable between 08:00am and 10:00am on Thursday 12th February. This is due to essential maintenance.
The Zetoc service will experience downtime beginning on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 9:00am. While it is expected that this may be completed in an hour, the Zetoc Service should be considered at risk until 12.00 noon and availability of the service database functionality may be intermittent during this period.
There will be a period of downtime on the Emerald Insight platform. This affects e-books and e-journals.
The maintenance is scheduled to take place on Saturday 25 October 2014, between 12am and 3am. During this maintenance window, Emerald Insight will be unavailable for up to 1 hour. If you access the website during this time you will receive a ‘connection timeout’, or similar message, within your browser.
Due to essential maintenance users will not be able to access Taylor & Francis e-books for a maximum of 1 hour between 23:00 – 02:00 hours BST on Friday 24th October.
Due to the fact that this maintenance is on the firewalls, which is the outermost layer of the system, users visiting the site during this time will receive a “connection timeout” or similar message within their browser.
The publisher has now cancelled this maintenance period.