Georgia Tech Library News

9/14/07 7:08 pm: FindIt is now back up and functioning properly.

FindIt is currently down, affecting the eJournals search page and linking to eJournals from within sources such as databases and GIL.

An update will be posted once the problem has been resolved.

Thanks for your patience.

Due to site maintenance, Royal Society of Chemistry journals will be unavailable from 4:00 pm EDT on Saturday, 9/1 to 12:00 noon on Sunday, 9/2. Please be aware in case you experience problems or receive questions about RSC title access during this time.

UPDATE: Webauth is now back up, so access to electronic journals and databases has been restored.

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4:45 pm: Due to a power outage at OIT, Webauth is currently down, so users are currently unable to authenticate for access to the library’s electronic journals and databases.

OIT expects to have the problem remedied shortly. An update will be posted when access has been restored.

Please see below regarding a problem with FirstSearch databases and WorldCat.

——- Original Message ——–
Subject: [Galileo] FirstSearch and WorldCat Concurrent User Messages
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:51:52 -0400
From: Katie Gohn <katie.gohn@usg.edu>
To: GALILEO Users <galileo@mailbox.gsu.edu>

Katie
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Katie Gohn
GALILEO Support Services

ProQuest databases will be unavailable from 10:00 pm this Saturday night (7/21) to 10:00 am this Sunday morning (7/22).

Affected databases of greatest interest to GT users are

ABI Inform
Research Library
ProQuest Newspapers
Dissertation Abstracts
Hoover’s Company Capsules

See below for full details.

——- Original Message ——–
Subject: [Galileo] ProQuest and SIRS databases unavailable Saturday, 7-21 to Sunday, 7-22
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:29:25 -0400
From: Katie Gohn <katie.gohn@usg.edu>
To: GALILEO Users <galileo@mailbox.gsu.edu>

Dear GALILEO Users,

ProQuest has scheduled a twelve-hour system maintenance beginning
Saturday, July 21, 2007, at 10:00 PM to Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 10:00
AM. During this maintenance, access to ProQuest databases available
through GALILEO will be unavailable. These include:

-ProQuest Platform
(ABI Inform, Research Library, ProQuest Newspapers, Dissertation
Abstracts, and Hoover’s Company Capsules)
-SIRS Platform
(SIRS Researcher and Discoverer, Discoverer WebFind, SKS WebSelect, and
SIRS Interactive Citizenship)

ProQuest has scheduled this maintenance to install many new and exciting
enhancements to their interfaces and products. See the note from
ProQuest below for details on these enhancements.

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.

GALILEO announcements and status updates are available at:
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/status/. Information about the GALILEO
mailing list is available at:

http://www.usg.edu/galileo/about/news/list.phtml

Please encourage others at your institution to subscribe.

Thanks,

Katie
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Katie Gohn
GALILEO Support Services

FindIt functionality may be limited tomorrow night/early Saturday morning, due to network maintenance, 11pm-7am.

Please be aware in case you experience problems or receive questions about the eJournal/A-Z list results or FindIt buttons/links not working properly during this time.

Full details below….

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: [Galileo] UGA Network Maintenance, June 29, 2007
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:58:45 -0400
From: Dave Falke <dave.falke@usg.edu>
To: Galileo@mailbox.gsu.edu

Dear GALILEO Users,

PeachNet has scheduled network maintenance at the University of Georgia on [Friday] June 29, 2007, 11:00 p.m., until Saturday, June 30, 2007, 7:00 [a.m.]

Due to this maintenance, certain portions of GALILEO may become unavailable briefly and intermittently, including:
- Georgia Library Catalogs page, GALILEO Help, including Quick Help, and About GALILEO
- SFX/Find IT services hosted at UGA (sites affected: University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Agnes Scott University, University of West Georgia and the Medical College of Georgia)
- Digital Library of Georgia databases and other GALILEO locally hosted databases
- GALILEO Usage Statistics Reporting Tool

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.

GALILEO announcements and status updates are available at: http://www.usg.edu/galileo/status/. Information about the GALILEO mailing list is available at http://www.usg.edu/galileo/about/news/list.phtml

Please encourage others at your institution to subscribe.

Thanks,
Dave

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Dave Falke
GALILEO Support Services

FindIt functionality will be limited on Sunday morning, June 3, due to an SFX server outage from 7:00 to 9:30 am.

Please be aware in case you experience problems or receive questions about the eJournal/A-Z list results or FindIt buttons/links not working properly during this time.

–—– Original Message ——–
Subject: SFX Outage Sunday June 3 7am-9:30am
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:26:24 -0400
From: Katie Gohn <katie.gohn@USG.EDU>

Hi Everyone,

The UGA Library has scheduled a network maintenance on Sunday morning
from 7:00AM until 9:30AM. Because the SFX server that hosts your
instance lives on the UGA library network, SFX will be unavailable
during this maintenance window.

This outage will only affect SFX access for the following schools:

University of Georgia
Georgia State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Emory University
University of West Georgia
Agnes Scott University
Medical College of Georgia

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. 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.

<snip>

Katie Gohn
GALILEO Support Services

On Saturday, May 19th at midnight (EST), NPG will be conducting
important maintenance work on nature.com and the social software
network. We expect that all sites running on these two platforms
will be off-line for approx 30 minutes.

The following journals and applications on nature.com will not be
accessible during the downtime:
- Nature branded journals
- NPG Academic Journals
- All Palgrave Journals
- Librarian Gateway
- Site Licence Administration Accounts
- Blogs and social software tools
Plus, society sites, Nature press site and npg.nature.com.

We apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.
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Customer Services
Nature Publishing Group

SciFinder Scholar 2002, 2004 & 2004.1 clients for the PC were discontinued July 1. To continue to access SciFinder Scholar, please download and install the 2006 client from the Library’s web page using the following path - Search & Locate > Search the Databases > Browse by TITLE: > S > SciFinder Scholar > Download client.

Because of recent problems with what appeared to be systematic downloading of IEEE and ASCE journal articles that resulted in the temporary interruption of our access, the Library has implemented downloading limits.  We will continue to monitor this situation. Please note that downloading entire collections of data or entire issues of a journal or conference is a violation of copyright law and a violation of Georgia Tech’s licenses with publishers.
For more information refer to our Policy for Use of Online Services.