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Suspension of CHANT Database

Due to the maintenance of the CHANT Database, the Database will be suspended from 6:00pm HKT 22 December to 9:00am HKT 27 December, 2017. We apologize for any inconvenience. 

Digitized Versions of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post

Digitized, full-page view versions of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post are now available for our subscriptions that run from 2008 until 3 months ago. You can browse the full-page issues of these newspapers or simply search for articles as always. ProQuest Digitized Newspapers: The New York Times Recent (2008-Recent; <B>Digitized Versions of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post</b>

OCLC WorldCat Down for Maintenance from 11 p.m. on August 5 to 8 a.m. on August 6

A new OCLC Community News item has been posted: “Reminder: OCLC system downtime planned 5-6 August”. ————————————————————————————- Reminder: As part of ongoing work to maintain and advance our systems, we will be performing a disaster recovery exercise on 5-6 August that will require system downtime. This work will be done in our U.S. data center OCLC WorldCat Down for Maintenance from 11 p.m. on August 5 to 8 a.m. on August 6

Update 7/20/2017: ProQuest Databases have returned to working status!

ProQuest System Downtime 7/17/2017 ProQuest is currently experiencing system downtime and all ProQuest databases are unavailable. Notices are appearing on the databases and when they are working again those notices will be removed. In addition, a posting will appear here. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Update 7/21/2017: Newsbank/Readex Issues remain unresolved. Please see below for temporary access work-arounds.

For on-campus access, just remove the proxy prefix and go directly to the main URL. For example, if the URL is: https://login.revproxy.brown.edu/login?url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=AWNB Use http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=AWNB For off-campus access, download the VPN client from CIS at: https://www.brown.edu/information-technology/software/catalog/vpn-f5-desktop-client All Readex and Newsbank Databases Unavailable 7/13/2017 The following databases are currently unavailable. The Library and CIS are working with Update 7/21/2017: Newsbank/Readex Issues remain unresolved. Please see below for temporary access work-arounds.