New EBSCOhost Interface Launching August 5, 2025 EBSCOhost’s user interface (UI) will be changing on August 5, 2025. If you currently have saved searches, folders, or articles in your EBSCOhost account, some, but not all, of this content will migrate automatically. Essential Deadlines Your EBSCOhost Account Your EBSCOhost account contains several types of saved content. … Migrating Your Data to the New EBSCOhost User Interface
Due to an unforeseen issue with EZProxy, the third party software that allows the Library to securely deliver eresources to our patrons, off-campus users may encounter access issues. To access library resources from off campus, you will need to log into VPN first. View VPN instructions from Brown’s Office of Information Technology: https://ithelp.brown.edu/kb/articles/connect-to-brown-s-vpn-pc-mac. If you … Off-campus Users: Use VPN to Access Eresources until EZProxy Restored
Service Issue Reported – EBSCO eBooks – Full Book Download Disabled Service Issue Reported – EBSCO eBooks – Full Book Download Disabled New incident: InvestigatingWe have discovered an issue which requires us to temporarily disable full eBook downloads. Users will not be able to download EBSCO eBooks or Audiobooks at this time. We will post … …
The library has scheduled an update and associated maintenance for the library catalog software on Tuesday, March 26 beginning at 10 am. This will require approximately eight hours of downtime for the library catalog and services tied to the software API. We chose this date to reduce the number of faculty, staff, and students affected … Planned maintenance and service interruption: multiple library systems
The Library will be updating one of its core servers on Thursday morning, March 21. You may see instability in some Library services for a brief period of time. All buildings will remain open and all in-person services will continue to operate normally during the system update.
ProQuest is planning a data center migration and associated downtime for a number of assets that impact the library’s services. This does not affect ProQuest content or databases, but will cause significant disruption to some of the the connectors between systems like the link resolver and Journal Finder. Downtime begins Friday, February 8, 2019 8:00 … Link resolver and JournalFinder maintenance
The following Library services have been restored as of this morning: “My Library Account” link from josiah.brown.edu “Request This” link from search.library.brown.edu We apologize for any inconvenience.
The single-sign-on service (SSO) for Josiah that is hosted by Innovative is down. This has been reported as an urgent problem. Losing SSO means graduate / med / faculty patrons cannot page items from the Rock until service is restored. In the meantime, users can request most materials from the Annex using the Blacklight discovery … Library Paging Service Down
Access Medicine will be unavailable on Saturday, June 2, 2018 from 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. on Sunday June 3, 2018 for maintenance.
The database system Eurkea.cc has undergone a complete transformation and access to all French-language newspapers, including Le Monde, has been stopped. We have notified the vendor and are attempting to repair the issue. Please check back here for more news. We apologize for the inconvenience.
