Update: NYT and JAMA Resources Available as of 11 a.m. 4/4
Both the NYT new registration link and JAMA are both up and running this morning! Thanks very much for your patience while we resolved these issues.
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Eresources Outages April 3, 2018 – NYT Registration and JAMA
New registrations for the NYT Academic Pass are currently not being accepted. Already registered users should have no problems using their accounts and accessing their NTY accounts. We are working on fixing the issue. JAMA is currently unavailable. The vendor has been notified and is working towards a resolution to the problem. Please check back here … Eresources Outages April 3, 2018 – NYT Registration and JAMA
Update 5:30 p.m. Nature Journals Working!
Nature ejournals are working again. If you continue to have problems, please try clearing your cache/history before trying again. This clears up problems in Chrome, especially. Thank you very much for your patience while we resolved this issue.
Nature Journal Outage Reported 4/2/2018 – 4:12 p.m.
Nature ejournals are currently unavailable. The problem has been reported to the vendor and we will let you know just as soon as they are working again. We apologize for any inconvenience.
UPDATE 3/13/2018: Naxos Music Jazz Database Access Restored
UPDATE: Access to Naxos Jazz has been restored. 3/13/2018. The Naxos Music Jazz database is currently unavailable. The vendor has been notified and we will post here as soon as the problem has been resolved. Thanks for your patience.
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
AccessWorldNews and Other Newsbank/Readex Databases Return
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!
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.
UPDATE: EZProxy Issues Resolved 7/11/2017
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