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

Anne Nolan | August 4, 2017

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

AccessWorldNews and Other Newsbank/Readex Databases Return

Anne Nolan | August 3, 2017

AccessWorldNews and other databases such as America’s Historical Newspapers, Early American Imprints, Early American Newspapers, and Latin American Newspapers have all returned to normal functioning, both on and off-campus.

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

Anne Nolan | July 17, 2017

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.

Anne Nolan | July 13, 2017

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.

UPDATE: EZProxy Issues Resolved 7/11/2017

Anne Nolan | July 10, 2017

UPDATE 7/11: CIS has resolved the issues with EZProxy and it is now working as it should. If you continue to have problems with EZProxy, please contact eresources@brown.edu. CIS has been experiencing issues with EZProxy which have affected access to Library databases and ejournals. They are working on fixing the problem and as soon as … UPDATE: EZProxy Issues Resolved 7/11/2017

Exhibit | Schwedischen Fewerwerks. Anno 1650

Tiffini Bowers | June 30, 2017

Schwedischen Fewerwerks. Anno 1650, on display at the John Hay Library, 2nd Floor Landing from July 1 – July 31, 2017. A depiction of the Swedish fireworks at Nuremberg in honor of the Swedish plenipotentiary in Germany, Count Palatine Carl Gustav (the future king of Sweden, Charles X Gustav). Dates: July 1 – July 31, 2017 Time: John … Exhibit | Schwedischen Fewerwerks. Anno 1650

UPDATE 5/1: LexisNexis is Working!!

Anne Nolan | April 26, 2017

4/26/2017:LexisNexis is currently unavailable from off-campus. On-campus, you need to remove the phrase revproxy.brown.edu from your URL after you login to be able to search effectively in LexisNexis. The publisher and CIS have been notified and a notice will be posted here when the service is back up and working properly. We apologize for the … UPDATE 5/1: LexisNexis is Working!!

JSTOR for Alumni is BACK!

Anne Nolan | March 17, 2017

We have finally resolved the issues with JSTOR for Alumni and it is now available. Thanks to everyone for your patience while we have been working to get this up and running on the new Alumni/Giving website.

Alumni Resources are Currently Unavailable!!

Anne Nolan | February 27, 2017

2/27/17: Due to the changeover to the new Alumni/Giving website, Library eresources for Alumni are currently unavailable. We are working to fix the problems and hope to have the eresources up and running very soon. In the near future, we will be adding new eresources as well such as Project Muse, Sage Ejournals, Adam Matthew … Alumni Resources are Currently Unavailable!!

RESOLVED!! ScienceDirect Issues with EZProxy and Multiple Browsers

Anne Nolan | February 14, 2017

Elsevier Publishing has announced that they are working to fix the problem that they are having with ScienceDirect, multiple browsers, and EZProxy. As we use EZProxy with ScienceDirect both on and off-campus, access to ScienceDirect is sporadic. We will keep you updated and announce when the problem has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience.