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 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 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: 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.
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)
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.
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.
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 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.
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 inconvenience. An alternate resource to use is HEINOnline.
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.