Please see below for information about this weekend’s ProQuest database outage.
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Dear GALILEO users,
ProQuest has scheduled a twelve-hour system maintenance window beginning Saturday, December 15, 2007, at 10:00 PM to Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 10:00 AM. During this maintenance window, access to ProQuest databases available through GALILEO will be unavailable. These include:
-ProQuest Platform
(ABI INFORM, Research Library, ProQuest Newspapers, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses or Dissertation Abstracts, ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health, and Hoover’s Company Capsules)
-SIRS Platform
(SIRS Researcher and Discoverer, Discoverer WebFind, SKS WebSelect, and SIRS Interactive Citizenship)
-Chadwyck-Healy Platform
(African American Biographical Database, African American Poetry 1760-1900, American Poetry 1 and 2, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, Archives USA, The Bible in English, English Poetry 600-1900, LION [Literature Online], Literature Online Reference Edition)
ProQuest has scheduled this maintenance to install enhancements to their interfaces and products, which are described in the announcement from ProQuest below.
If you have any questions or need more information, please use GALILEO’s Contact Us feature or contact OIIT Customer Services at helpdesk@usg.edu.
Karen Minton
GALILEO Support ServicesÂ
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Dear ProQuest Customer,
The next ProQuest platform enhancement release will be on December 15, 2007. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install these exciting new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, December 15, 2007, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 10:00 EDT. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.
Enhancements include:
* ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Multimedia Support release—ProQuest has seen an increase in dissertations and theses that include supplementary digital materials – audio, video, spreadsheets, etc. To properly support scholarly access to these materials, ProQuest is now making them available online in the Full Text version of the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database.
* ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source Study Paths—Study Paths allows a user to quickly view full text articles recommended by a board of experienced nurse educators on topics relevant to their curriculum. This exciting new enhancement makes it easier for users to complete their assignments, research a topic, or prepare for examinations. A new splash page will appear when users log into the product. The Study Paths feature is for the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database only and does not impact other ProQuest products.
The following products will be unavailable during this window:
* ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
* Third-party databases such as ERIC® PlusText
* ProQuest Archiverâ„¢
* eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™
* Chadwyck-Healey products housed in the US (all products with domain names ending with chadwyck.com)
* “Digital Vault” products, including ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and Digital Sanborn Maps
We welcome customer feedback. Please email your comments to platform feedback or visit www.proquest.com/suggestions.
Thank you for continuing to support ProQuest and the products we provide.
