Author Archives: Anne Cerstvik Nolan

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

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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; 3-month embargo)
https://search.proquest.com/pdnnewyorktimes
ProQuest Digitized Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal Recent (2008-Recent; 3-month embargo)
https://search.proquest.com/pdnwallstreetjournal
ProQuest Digitized Newspapers: The Washington Post Recent (2008-Recent; 3-month embargo)
https://search.proquest.com/pdnwashingtonpost

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

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A new OCLC Community News item has been posted: “Reminder: OCLC system downtime planned 5-6 August”.

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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 and will impact all OCLC services.

While we schedule maintenance on dates and times to minimize service disruption, we recognize that this work will impact users. We apologize for any disruption this may cause.

System Downtime Window:

United States Data Center: Saturday, 5 August 2017, 23:00 EDT–Sunday, 6 August 2017, 08:00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time UTC -4)

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

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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 the publisher to resolve the issue. When the problem has been resolved, this post will be updated.

AccessUN
AccessWorldNews
America’s Historical Newspapers
Early American Imprints
Early American Newspapers
Latin American Newspapers

We apologize for any inconvenience.

UPDATE: EZProxy Issues Resolved 7/11/2017

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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 [email protected]

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 it has been remedied a notice will be posted here on the Eresources blog.

We apologize for the inconvenience.