Friday 25 October 2013

Scopus downtime scheduled for Saturday 2nd November

Scopus will unavailable due to planned maintenance on Saturday 2nd November between 6.45 am and 7.15 am.

Brill journals - downtime on Monday 28th October

The publisher Brill will be upgrading their e-journal platform on Monday 28th October, so if you are accessing Brill journals you may experience temporary interruptions of service. This only affects journals with a link including the words "Brill Archive Online", with a url including "booksandjournals.brillonline.com".

Thursday 24 October 2013

Repository and BioMed Central journals downtime, Saturday 11th January

We've been warned of downtime to our Repository on Saturday 11th January, while our supplier migrates data to a new data-centre. The Repository may be offline for up to 4 hours during the day.

The disruption will also affect Open Access journals provided by BioMed Central and Springer Open (but other Springer journals will not be affected). 



Web of Knowledge - intermittent acess on 27th October

Web of Knowledge will be having an upgrade on Sunday October 27th, beginning at 2pm and ending by 2am on Monday 28th October. Web of Knowledge may be intermittently unavailable during this period. There is more information on what is included in the upgrade here.

Thursday 10 October 2013

Dawsonera ebooks maintenance notification 10th October 5pm-6pm

We've been warned of maintenance to the Dawsonera ebook platform this evening (Thursday 10th October) between 5pm and 6pm.During this time the service will stay online but may be subject to minor disruption - you find that you get logged off the system. If this happens you should be able to log back in again and access the system as usual. During this time you will also not be able to download ebooks, but will be able to read online.
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Thursday 3 October 2013

CBT Nuggets - iPhone and iPad apps updated



CBT Nuggets have updated their iPhone and iPad apps:

  • Speed control: You can watch videos at four different speeds, up to 2X faster.
  • Airplay: Ability to wirelessly stream video training from your iOS devices to HDTVs makes it easier to train anytime, anywhere.
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