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Library Outages

This is a communication tool to alert University Library users to outages, regularly scheduled maintenance, and serious problems with electronic resources (MIRLYN, Lexis-Nexis, MOA, etc.)

If you are experiencing a problem not reported here, or to enquire about the status of a current outage, contact Ask a Librarian.

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Major Service Outages

 
Title: Library website and Mirlyn catalog
Outage Date: 11/05/2009 -- 07:00:00 (EST)
Description: At 7AM the Library website and Mirlyn will be unavailable for approximately one hour while the servers are upgraded as part of regular maintenance.
Update: 11/05/2009 -- 08:34:21 (EST): All library website and catalog services are back up and fully functioning now.
 
 
Title: The Library's Proxy server was not accepting new clients from 4:45-5:00pm October 15. The problem causing this has been resolved, and new clients have been seen using it.
Outage Date: 10/15/2009 -- 16:45:00 (EST)
Description: The Library's Proxy server was not accepting new clients from 4:45-5:00pm October 15. The problem causing this has been resolved, and new clients have been seen using it.
 
 
Title: Test
Outage Date: 09/08/2009 -- 12:00:00 (EST)
Description: Test
Update: 09/08/2009 -- 16:00:09 (EST):
 
 
Title: Search Tools
Outage Date: 08/25/2009 -- 14:12:50 (EST)
Description: If you search by title for a database under Find Database, you go to the top of the alphabetical list. The same if you click on a letter in the alphabetical links on the Find Databases page. I was able to get to the database by searching as a Words Anywhere under Keyword search for databases.
Update: 08/25/2009 -- 15:04:53 (EST): Fixed.
 
 
Title: Library Web Site
Outage Date: 08/25/2009 -- 08:00:00 (EST)
Description: There is a problem viewing many library web pages in Internet Explorer. The workaround is to view the library web site in another browser (Firefox, Safari, etc.).
Update: 08/25/2009 -- 10:09:19 (EST): The problem has been resolved. If you are still experiencing problems viewing the library web site using Internet Explorer, please contact libwebteam@umich.edu.
 
 
Title: Library Website
Outage Date: 08/21/2009 -- 06:30:00 (EST)
Description: Web Systems will be upgrading a javascript library, and an associated software module for the Library Website. Failures or client caching problems may result in an inability to follow links on the website. No real difficulties are expected, however.

Update: 08/21/2009 -- 08:32:05 (EST): There were some problems with this between 6:30am and 8:30am, which are believed to have been resolved.
 
 
Title: MLibrary Outages Website
Outage Date: 08/03/2009 -- 10:24:00 (EST)
Description:
Update: 08/05/2009 -- 17:08:00 (EST): MLibrary Outages Website appears to be working working.

Please go to http://www.lib.umich.edu/askus/ for help or additional information.
 
 
Title: INGENTA_CONNECT_TAYLOR_FRANCIS_LTD
Outage Date: 07/14/2009 -- 10:05:42 (EST)
Description: This SFX Target has some inaccuracies. Many of them are also reflected in Mirlyn.
Update: 07/15/2009 -- 09:25:29 (EST): Mirlyn and MGetIt have been updated.
 
 
Title: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Outage Date: 07/13/2009 -- 12:10:18 (EST)
Description: The link in Search Tools goes to Bartleby but the dictionary is now available via Yahoo.
Update: 07/17/2009 -- 08:35:42 (EST): Search Tools has been updated.
 
 
Title: Nursing & Allied Sources
Outage Date: 07/10/2009 -- 09:07:55 (EST)
Description: The link in Search Tools doesn't work.
Update: 07/10/2009 -- 10:48:58 (EST): Search Tools has been updated.
 
 
Title: International Political Science Abstracts
Outage Date: 06/29/2009 -- 14:12:29 (EST)
Description: The link in SearchTools to International Political Science Abstracts doesn't seem to work. It leads me to a page that says that no database is selected and doesn't seem to give me the option to select a database.
Update: 06/30/2009 -- 16:35:07 (EST): Mirlyn and Search Tools have been updated.
 
 
Title: Baillière's best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology.
Outage Date: 06/23/2009 -- 14:18:14 (EST)
Description: MGetIt says we don't have e-access to it, but I was able to get the pdf through Mirlyn.
Update: 06/23/2009 -- 14:18:34 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Plant Biotechnology Journal
Outage Date: 06/19/2009 -- 13:22:23 (EST)
Description: This title is asking for a separate login and password. It is not working correctly.
Update: 06/19/2009 -- 13:23:08 (EST): We only have access to 2003; MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Clinical orthopaedics and related research
Outage Date: 05/27/2009 -- 11:38:48 (EST)
Description: MGetIt says that we have access to 2007 volume: 5 until 2008 volume: 6 via PubMed Central Open Access but we really only have access to v.466(1) Jan 2008 up to 12 months ago.
Update: 05/27/2009 -- 11:43:42 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Search Tools
Outage Date: 05/26/2009 -- 20:30:00 (EST)
Description: The Search Tools service experienced degraded service on May 26, from approximately 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm. The problem was identified, and addressed. Symptoms included: unusual results in any of the My Search Tools pages, unusual results from Quick Search, or Power Search, too many results in keyword Database Search, none in Database Category browses, and eventual inability to log in.
 
 
Title: The cerebellum
Outage Date: 05/26/2009 -- 16:19:04 (EST)
Description: MGetIt says we have access to this journal, via Ingenta, but we don't.
Update: 05/26/2009 -- 16:31:18 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database/UN Comtrade
Outage Date: 05/21/2009 -- 16:06:35 (EST)
Description: The link in Search Tools doesn't work.
Update: 05/22/2009 -- 08:02:49 (EST): The link has been updated.
 
 
Title: Oncology Reports
Outage Date: 04/30/2009 -- 08:13:44 (EST)
Description: Users are prompted for a username and password when attempting to access full-text of volume 20, number 1.
Update: 04/30/2009 -- 08:18:07 (EST): We only have access to 2006 up to one year ago. MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Abstracts in Gerontology and Urban Studies Abstracts
Outage Date: 04/17/2009 -- 15:45:43 (EST)
Description: The links to these two databases in Search Tools don't work. Please use Mirlyn while they are being updated.
Update: 04/17/2009 -- 16:12:29 (EST): Search Tools has been updated.
 
 
Title: New York Review of Books
Outage Date: 04/02/2009 -- 16:25:11 (EST)
Description: A patron called reporting a problem with access to the above electronic resource.
Update: 04/06/2009 -- 15:37:37 (EST): We have only access to "selected" articles.
 
 
Title: Scientific American 0036-8733
Outage Date: 04/01/2009 -- 10:00:30 (EST)
Description: MGetIt is incorrectly telling us that we have no access to Scientific American for May, 2008.
Update: 04/02/2009 -- 09:04:05 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Sage eReference
Outage Date: 03/26/2009 -- 08:20:23 (EST)
Description: Sage eReference, which is labeled as a trial resource in Search Tools, is not available. According to the Search Tools entry, our trial ended 11/03/08.
Update: 03/30/2009 -- 15:14:05 (EST): Search Tools has been updated.
 
 
Title: AIDS Care
Outage Date: 03/17/2009 -- 08:12:03 (EST)
Description: The MGetIt link says we have AIDS Care online through Informaworld from 1989 onward, but Mirlyn says we have online access from 1995-2005.
Update: 03/17/2009 -- 08:16:15 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Journal of cardiovascular medicine
Outage Date: 03/12/2009 -- 15:05:57 (EST)
Description: For Journal of cardiovascular medicine (Hagerstown), MGetIt links are telling us that we have full-text access. However, we don't actually get access to the articles and neither Mirlyn nor E-journals indicates that we are supposed to.
Update: 03/12/2009 -- 15:06:10 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Saline Area Historical Photos link in Search Tools
Outage Date: 03/11/2009 -- 09:30:26 (EST)
Description: When you click on the link in Search Tools it says "Access was denied."
Update: 03/11/2009 -- 11:16:07 (EST): Search Tools has been updated.
 
 
Title: Soil and foundation [0038-0806]
Outage Date: 03/10/2009 -- 15:45:13 (EST)
Description: There is an MGetIt link that shows online access to an article, but when we follow the links to the electronic resource, the article is not available.
Update: 03/10/2009 -- 15:46:14 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Addictive disorders & their treatment
Outage Date: 03/05/2009 -- 08:22:48 (EST)
Description: According to MGetIt we have electronic access to this journal but we don't.
Update: 03/05/2009 -- 08:23:46 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Simply Map
Outage Date: 03/03/2009 -- 10:14:42 (EST)
Description: This database is not available off-campus.
Update: 03/03/2009 -- 10:25:54 (EST): This is available off-campus now.
 
 
Title: British Periodicals database
Outage Date: 02/12/2009 -- 14:45:22 (EST)
Description: This database is listed in Search Tools as a Trial but we don't appear to have access to it.
Update: 02/12/2009 -- 15:15:20 (EST): Search Tools has been updated.
 
 
Title: Oklahoma Nurse
Outage Date: 02/12/2009 -- 10:20:21 (EST)
Description: The link in MGetIt doesn't work.
Update: 02/12/2009 -- 10:22:52 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Integrated Ferroelectrics
Outage Date: 02/05/2009 -- 08:47:47 (EST)
Description: MGetIt says that we have access to this journal but we don't.
Update: 02/05/2009 -- 08:48:32 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Journal of patient safety
Outage Date: 02/03/2009 -- 13:39:32 (EST)
Description: When looking up the Journal of Patient Safety in WorldCat or MGetIt CitationLinker, SFX is telling me that we have online access to the journal through Ovid Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Total Access Collection. Actually, we don't, and according to Mirlyn, we're not supposed to, so SFX seems to be wrong.
Update: 02/04/2009 -- 09:36:04 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
Outage Date: 01/16/2009 -- 10:20:07 (EST)
Description: In Search Tools, there's a link to a database called: Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007. However, if you follow the link, you get an error message.
Update: 01/19/2009 -- 08:06:09 (EST): Search Tools has been updated.
 
 
Title: Search Tools
Outage Date: 01/13/2009 -- 08:00:00 (EST)
Description: Facets in Search Tools are not visible; the vendor is working on a fix.
Update: 01/14/2009 -- 16:43:20 (EST): Facets are now displaying in Search Tools results.
 
 
Title: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Outage Date: 12/30/2008 -- 15:47:26 (EST)
Description: Using the MGetIt button from within Ovid Medline results in a page not found error for this citation:
Title: Fifth metacarpal fractures in a compensation clinic population. A report on one hundred and thirty-three cases.
Source: Journal of bone and joint surgery [0021-9355] Hunter yr:1970 vol:52 iss:6 pg:1159 -65
Update: 01/05/2009 -- 16:16:59 (EST): Manually entering the citation into the Citation Linker works, as does the Mirlyn record for this journal.
 
 
Title: Search Tools
Outage Date: 12/23/2008 -- 11:25:34 (EST)
Description: Quick Search in the Government set in SearchTools gives a message that CQ Weekly Report is currently not available.
Update: 12/23/2008 -- 13:32:13 (EST): This now works.
 
 
Title: ILL Request in MGet It
Outage Date: 10/29/2008 -- 10:45:09 (EST)
Description: An ILL request for "The shift in the "paradigm" of the pharmacology of hypertension" gives the following error message: "" is not a valid recipient e-mail.
Update: 10/29/2008 -- 10:45:40 (EST): This works now.
 
 
Title: Search Tools Find e-Journals list
Outage Date: 10/27/2008 -- 08:24:59 (EST)
Description: The links to e-journals don't work off-campus.
Update: 10/28/2008 -- 09:22:03 (EST): These work now.
 
 
Title: Search Tools
Outage Date: 10/24/2008 -- 20:00:00 (EST)
Description: Search Tools is being upgraded from version 3 to version 4. Please use http://www.lib.umich.edu/searchtools/ to help you locate the native interface for a database to search. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Authentication issues surfaced Saturday and were resolved Sunday.

The core pieces of Search tools has been working since the authentication failure was repaired. It should be safe to close this outage.
Update: 10/29/2008 -- 10:36:54 (EST): The core pieces of ST has been working since Sunday afternoon.
 
 
Title: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
Outage Date: 10/23/2008 -- 09:02:35 (EST)
Description: MGetIt indicates that we have on line access to this journal via Ovid-LWW beginning in 2007. However, we seem to have access to the tables of contents only, not to the full text of the articles.
Update: 10/23/2008 -- 09:02:48 (EST): MGet It has been updated.
 
 
Title: Simulation in Healthcare
Outage Date: 10/20/2008 -- 13:04:36 (EST)
Description: MGetIt says that we have electronic access to Simulation in Healthcare when we do not.
Update: 10/20/2008 -- 14:24:36 (EST): MGetIt has been updated.
 
 
Title: American journal of pediatric hematology/oncology
Outage Date: 09/17/2008 -- 11:14:07 (EST)
Description: The American journal of pediatric hematology/oncology is in our list of e-journals, but it doesn't show up if you search on the title. You can find it by browsing under 'A,' but not by searching.
Update: 09/26/2008 -- 08:33:29 (EST): It is possible to find this journal by searching for it.
 
 
Title: Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology
Outage Date: 09/12/2008 -- 11:42:14 (EST)
Description: MGet It has a link to this journal but we don't have access.
Update: 09/12/2008 -- 11:42:28 (EST): MGet It has been updated.
 
 
Title: MGet It
Outage Date: 08/29/2008 -- 15:44:23 (EST)
Description: MGet It will be moving to a new server on Tuesday, September 2. There may be short outages associated with this early in the morning.
Update: 09/02/2008 -- 10:59:43 (EST): The transition went smoothly.
 
 
Title: MGet It is not available
Outage Date: 08/13/2008 -- 16:23:25 (EST)
Description: MGet It is not available.
Update: 08/13/2008 -- 16:32:36 (EST): It's available.
 
 
Title: MGet It fails to resolve to MDConsult
Outage Date: 08/13/2008 -- 13:40:35 (EST)
Description: Links to MDConsult are resolving to our proxy server.
Update: 08/13/2008 -- 13:40:55 (EST): MGet It has been updated.
 
 
Title: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Outage Date: 07/30/2008 -- 15:04:45 (EST)
Description: We have lost access to this database.
Update: 08/01/2008 -- 09:31:05 (EST): There are speed bump pages for this resource in Mirlyn and Search Tools.
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 07/08/2008 -- 15:05:00 (EST)
Description: SFX was down from about 3:05 pm to 3:20 pm, today, 7/8/08.
 
 
Title: Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening
Outage Date: 06/20/2008 -- 16:13:11 (EST)
Description: MGet It says that we have electronic access through Ingenta but we don't.
Update: 06/20/2008 -- 16:13:39 (EST): This has been deactivated in MGet It.
 
 
Title: Palliative & Supportive Care
Outage Date: 06/16/2008 -- 13:12:00 (EST)
Description: The online journal Palliative & Supportive Care appears in MGetIt as having online access; however, I am unable to access the journal and it does not appear in Mirlyn.
Update: 06/16/2008 -- 13:12:30 (EST): This title has been removed from MGet It.
 
 
Title: MGet It
Outage Date: 06/11/2008 -- 10:16:35 (EST)
Description: MGet It is not available.
Update: 06/11/2008 -- 10:42:36 (EST): It works now.
 
 
Title: SearchTools & ILL request forms
Outage Date: 06/04/2008 -- 09:14:04 (EST)
Description: MGetIt routes to wrong request form when used from SearchTools Quick Search.
Update: 06/05/2008 -- 12:29:21 (EST): MGetIt now routes to the right request form when used from Search Tools Quick Search.
 
 
Title: MGet It Menu
Outage Date: 05/09/2008 -- 15:43:46 (EST)
Description: The "Check our library catalog for an electronic or print copy" links are not displaying in the MGetIt menu.
Update: 05/09/2008 -- 15:47:43 (EST): The links are now displaying.
 
 
Title: Archive of Americana link (via SearchTools)
Outage Date: 04/29/2008 -- 17:57:19 (EST)
Description: SearchTools link to Archive of Americana is not working.
Update: 05/09/2008 -- 13:38:13 (EST): SearchTools URL updated. Testing in and out of proxy server was successful.
 
 
Title: Search Tools
Outage Date: 04/27/2008 -- 03:00:00 (EST)
Description: Search Tools will require further maintenance by staff at Ex Libris. It is expected to be offline for several hours, very early Sunday morning.
Update: 04/28/2008 -- 12:05:57 (EST): The maintenance has been completed.
 
 
Title: Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
Outage Date: 04/21/2008 -- 14:04:39 (EST)
Description: Please correct the SFX record for Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. Mirlyn correctly shows that we own 34- 1997- and SFX is incorrectly showing that we have everything from 1964.
Update: 04/21/2008 -- 14:20:15 (EST): SFX has been updated for this and other AIAA journals.
 
 
Title: Searchtools
Outage Date: 04/13/2008 -- 00:03:00 (EST)
Description: Searchtools will require maintenance by staff at Ex Libris. It should be working in the interim, however instabilities may arise in between. Ex Libris and Library staff will be monitoring the server. The maintenance is expected to occur Sunday morning, largely during the Library's official maintenance window.
Update: 04/15/2008 -- 13:37:23 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: SearchTools
Outage Date: 04/10/2008 -- 08:01:16 (EST)
Description: SearchTools' login function not working properly: first action by user causes automatic log-off. Search function also malfunctioning, retrieving data not related to users' queries.
Update: 04/16/2008 -- 13:06:30 (EST):
 
 
Title: MGetIt; SFX; Citation Linker
Outage Date: 04/08/2008 -- 08:15:51 (EST)
Description: MGetIt down; alerting Systems Office.
Update: 04/08/2008 -- 10:01:34 (EST):
 
 
Title: Search Tools
Outage Date: 04/08/2008 -- 08:00:00 (EST)
Description: Search Tools is unable to process authentication requests. Patrons attempting to do so will receive the message:

Authentication to Search Tools failed. Reason: failed to validate GPG signature. Please notify askus@umich.edu
Update: 04/08/2008 -- 13:58:12 (EST):
 
 
Title: Sociological Abstracts
Outage Date: 03/25/2008 -- 08:46:40 (EST)
Description: Mirlyn link for article, "Integration of Women into the Military" goes to incorrect link ("Balan [sound recording] : The Cracow Klezmer Band plays Masada book two.")
Update: 12/04/2008 -- 15:15:30 (EST): Vendor is working to update their metadata.
 
 
Title: The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history
Outage Date: 03/24/2008 -- 08:38:06 (EST)
Description: This new resource is not available from off campus.
Update: 03/28/2008 -- 14:14:04 (EST): Cataloging has suppressed the link.
 
 
Title: MGetIt
Outage Date: 03/13/2008 -- 11:57:06 (EST)
Description: MGetIt (SFX, Citation-Linker) not working.
Update: 03/13/2008 -- 15:17:10 (EST): MGetIt works now.
 
 
Title: Gale Infotrac Custom Newspapers
Outage Date: 03/06/2008 -- 11:49:33 (EST)
Description: Links for Gale Infotrac Custom Newspapers target not working.
Update: 05/28/2008 -- 13:25:03 (EST):
 
 
Title: SFX/MGetIt
Outage Date: 03/05/2008 -- 14:08:00 (EST)
Description: SFX and Citation Linker not working.
Update: 03/05/2008 -- 16:08:23 (EST): SFX restored 2:40 p.m. 3/5/08.
 
 
Title: MGetIt (SFX and related products)
Outage Date: 02/20/2008 -- 15:28:34 (EST)
Description: The MGetIt database (SFX and related products like Citation Linker) is currently not working.
Update: 02/20/2008 -- 17:34:10 (EST): Service has been restored.
 
 
Title: Equity & Excellence in Education [1066-5684]
Outage Date: 02/11/2008 -- 16:32:00 (EST)
Description: No access via FirstSearch(ERIC); access available via ERIC(CSA).
Update: 05/29/2008 -- 09:08:47 (EST): SFX and Mirlyn updated to show Ingenta's incomplete holdings.
 
 
Title: Neuroreport [1473-558X]
Outage Date: 02/01/2008 -- 11:57:00 (EST)
Description: Discrepancy between Mirlyn and SFX. Current access 1996- present; Mirlyn shows 1990- present.
Update: 02/08/2008 -- 13:59:49 (EST): Vendor responded: correct holdings are 1996- present. Mirlyn & SFX updated to reflect changes made.
 
 
Title: Informa Healthcare (Publisher)
Outage Date: 01/31/2008 -- 17:25:47 (EST)
Description: We've discovered several problems related to the publisher Informa Healthcare as access for several titles has shifted from IngentaConnect to Informaworld.
Update: 05/05/2008 -- 14:28:28 (EST): We haven't seen one of these problems recently.
 
 
Title: Harvard Business Review (0017-8012)
Outage Date: 01/30/2008 -- 10:04:00 (EST)
Description: Mirlyn and SFX in disagreement on availability, though Citation Linker points to sole working link, Gale General One File, for 1997-2000.
Update: 03/05/2008 -- 09:14:07 (EST): Mirlyn has been updated to show 1997-2000; SFX in agreement now.
 
 
Title: Leading and Learning with Technology
Outage Date: 01/29/2008 -- 11:17:00 (EST)
Description: Free E-Journals link for this title not working.
Update: 01/29/2008 -- 13:13:57 (EST): Free E-journals link access has been turned off.
 
 
Title: JN Journal of Nephrology [1121-8428]
Outage Date: 01/28/2008 -- 17:14:11 (EST)
Description: The MGetIt Linker indicates electronic access from 1996 via Free E-journals, but the website states that full-text access is only available to subscribers. In addition, there is no Mirlyn record for this particular title, although there is an Internet Journal of Nephrology that should not be confused with this title.
Update: 02/12/2008 -- 13:10:03 (EST): Databases have been updated.
 
 
Title: MGetIt; SFX
Outage Date: 01/23/2008 -- 13:37:12 (EST)
Description: MGetIt (SFX) is not responding. The vendor had been contacted and will be doing testing to help resolve this ongoing problem. Estimated downtime: 20 minutes.
Update: 01/23/2008 -- 14:13:49 (EST): SFX has been restored.
 
 
Title: Endocrine [0969-711X]
Outage Date: 01/04/2008 -- 08:16:17 (EST)
Description: The e-journal link to Endocrine at
http://journals.humanapress.com/JournalTOC.pasp?issn=0969-711X is not providing fulltext articles.
Update: 01/17/2008 -- 12:35:58 (EST): Links appear to be working correctly and no further reports.
 
 
Title: Journal of Cancer Education [0885-8195]
Outage Date: 12/06/2007 -- 09:20:00 (EST)
Description: SFX links from Journal of Cancer Education via PubMed are resulting in the error message: "Error - DOI not found."
Update: 05/30/2008 -- 14:11:32 (EST): The links to this journal from PubMed are now working.
 
 
Title: Dissertation Abstracts International
Outage Date: 11/30/2007 -- 10:32:00 (EST)
Description: If you look up the title "Relationship of parenting stress and social support to adolescent maternal parenting behavior and child abuse potential" in PsychInfo and click MGet It, you get a link to "Miscellaneous ejournals" which takes you to Dissertation Abstracts International. Then there are two problems: (a) the link is outdated and (b) the link you're redirected to prompts off-campus users to authenticate, whereas on-campus users are taken to the ProQuest search page.
Update: 11/30/2007 -- 13:30:12 (EST): This portfolio has been deactivated in SFX.
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 11/25/2007 -- 13:30:00 (EST)
Description: SFX was reported to be unresponsive at 1:30pm EST; service was restored at 1:40pm.
Update: 11/26/2007 -- 09:42:44 (EST): SFX is "currently" fine.
 
 
Title: SFX (MGetIt)
Outage Date: 11/18/2007 -- 14:30:00 (EST)
Description: SFX was unresponsive. I have restarted it and it should be working now.
 
 
Title: MGetIt/SFX
Outage Date: 11/13/2007 -- 14:45:00 (EST)
Description: MGetIt/SFX is down.
Update: 11/13/2007 -- 15:00:07 (EST): MGetIt/SFX is working again.
 
 
Title: Book Review Index (MGetIt)
Outage Date: 11/02/2007 -- 16:15:42 (EST)
Description: When searching in Book Review Index, if you click on MGetIt, links to articles in LexisNexis are not working. Links to articles in ProQuest Research Library work sporadically.
Update: 12/01/2008 -- 14:10:04 (EST): Gale is making a change to their database which might cut down on this problem but not all book reviews have page numbers associated with them so it likely won't be perfect.
 
 
Title: SFX/MGetIt
Outage Date: 10/18/2007 -- 17:55:00 (EST)
Description: Clicking on MGetIt from the main library homepage does not does nothing. New window just says "waiting for SFX.lib.umich.edu..."
Update: 10/19/2007 -- 08:18:37 (EST): Not sure how this was resolved but there is no longer a problem with this.
 
 
Title: Search tools
Outage Date: 10/17/2007 -- 16:30:00 (EST)
Description: Search Tools is temporarily inaccessible; it should be back up by 17:00.
Update: 10/18/2007 -- 08:21:56 (EST): Back up and running after Search Tools re-indexed the journals list.
 
 
Title: MGet It buttons
Outage Date: 10/12/2007 -- 10:00:00 (EST)
Description: When accessing licensed resources from the Music Library, wMGet It buttons do not load, and "availability at UM" links do not load info from MGet It.
Update: 10/16/2007 -- 10:37:37 (EST):
 
 
Title: Risk Analysis [0272-4332]
Outage Date: 10/01/2007 -- 16:09:23 (EST)
Description: (Via e-mail) The Synergy global threshold is 1981- but the MGetIt menu says that full text is available in Synergy from 2000 through 2003.
Update: 10/01/2007 -- 16:10:27 (EST): SFX had a phantom threshold for journal; this is now corrected
 
 
Title: MGetIt in PubMed
Outage Date: 10/01/2007 -- 08:45:36 (EST)
Description: In PubMed clicking on the MGetIt button brings up only a blank screen; it seems to be working with other resources (this problem was noted in Web of Science, but disappeared on a second attempt). This has been referred to SFX-Tech.
Update: 10/01/2007 -- 16:09:51 (EST): NLM responded shortly after noon to say that they were aware of the problem and were working on it. As of 4 pm 10-1-07 the MGetIt links in PubMed are working.
 
 
Title: MGet It
Outage Date: 09/28/2007 -- 10:40:40 (EST)
Description: MGet It is not working.
Update: 09/28/2007 -- 11:46:57 (EST): MGet it working again as of 11:40am Friday.
 
 
Title: Citation Linker (aka MGet It from Library Web Pages)
Outage Date: 09/24/2007 -- 14:27:31 (EST)
Description: Starting Monday morning (9/24), the Citation Linker will be running all searches (on-campus and off-campus) through the Library's Proxy Server. This is essentially a test period to see if the Proxy Server can handle all of this traffic. If it can, it will resolve problems that people are having while trying to access Citation Linker from off-campus through the Library's web pages.

Please report any "slowness or non-resolving" Citation Linker problems on this outage so that we can track staff and patron experience during the initial days following this change. Thanks.
Update: 10/02/2007 -- 13:46:54 (EST): About 10 days into this and no reports of problems (slow or otherwise); there's confidence that this is now a transparent process.
 
 
Title: ERIC - MGetIt links to documents
Outage Date: 09/19/2007 -- 15:10:00 (EST)
Description: In ERIC, MGetIt sometimes sends users to the government version of the ERIC database for full text of documents, although the full text of the documents is not available there.
Update: 02/08/2008 -- 09:27:04 (EST): Closing outage as situation understood.
 
 
Title: Minerva Chirurgica
Outage Date: 09/19/2007 -- 10:20:00 (EST)
Description: MGetIt through PubMed gives shows links for articles from this journal as available at "Free e-Journals." However, no text is available via that MGetIt link.
Update: 09/19/2007 -- 10:50:26 (EST): This is not available for free anymore and we canceled our subscription. SFX has been updated.
 
 
Title: The New Republic [0028-6583]
Outage Date: 09/14/2007 -- 12:01:58 (EST)
Description: (Via e-mail) Gale does not offer full text for this magazine.
Update: 09/21/2007 -- 13:45:13 (EST): SFX and Mirlyn are up to date.
 
 
Title: Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association [1090-7173]
Outage Date: 09/11/2007 -- 11:53:45 (EST)
Description: (Via e-mail) By searching PsycINFO for this journal, the MGetIt link says no online access but you can get to in from Mirlyn.
Update: 09/11/2007 -- 13:40:28 (EST): SFX has been updated.
 
 
Title: New England Journal of Medicine [1533-4406]
Outage Date: 09/11/2007 -- 11:49:11 (EST)
Description: (Via e-mail) MGetIt indicates we have New England Journal of Medicine via Highwire from 1990- when in fact we have it from 1993- .
Update: 09/11/2007 -- 11:49:46 (EST): SFX was updated.
 
 
Title: Ovid's Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Outage Date: 09/06/2007 -- 14:37:55 (EST)
Description: MGetIt always indicates no online access available, even when it is.
Update: 10/05/2007 -- 08:59:07 (EST): MGetIt links have been removed by Ovid from Health and Psychosocial Instruments and EBM Reviews - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects. Referred to the SFX Working Group 10/5/2007.
 
 
Title: Critical reviews in food science & nutrition
Outage Date: 08/29/2007 -- 16:00:00 (EST)
Description: Conflict in SFX and Mirlyn about availability of electronic resource.
Update: 08/29/2007 -- 16:29:25 (EST): Databases updated.
 
 
Title: Care Management Journals
Outage Date: 08/28/2007 -- 14:46:00 (EST)
Description: SFX suggests we might have a license to this content, but it seems more likely we do not.
Update: 09/05/2007 -- 09:59:08 (EST): We have access through Ingenta. Databases have been updated.
 
 
Title: Molecular Physics
Outage Date: 08/28/2007 -- 14:00:00 (EST)
Description: SFX/MGetIt is unaware of availability of at least one issue from 1992.
Update: 09/13/2007 -- 08:42:14 (EST): SFX has been updated.
 
 
Title: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Outage Date: 08/27/2007 -- 15:06:00 (EST)
Description: MGetIt suggests our subscription includes 2006, but it seems actually stops at 2005
Update: 08/30/2007 -- 12:58:29 (EST): SFX has been updated and the Springer information added to Mirlyn and SFX.
 
 
Title: SFX (and related products)
Outage Date: 08/17/2007 -- 09:34:42 (EST)
Description: Update being performed. Back online by about 9:45am.
Update: 08/17/2007 -- 09:47:05 (EST): Update complete
 
 
Title: SFX (and related products)
Outage Date: 08/16/2007 -- 09:41:42 (EST)
Description: SFX currently not responding. Library Systems looking into it.
Update: 08/16/2007 -- 09:45:37 (EST): SFX is back working again.
 
 
Title: TR News (TRB's bimonthly magazine)
Outage Date: 08/08/2007 -- 13:27:51 (EST)
Description: (Via e-mail) Mirlyn URL is incorrect. The site URL is now:

http://www.trb.org/trb/publications/trnews.asp
Update: 08/08/2007 -- 17:20:30 (EST): Databases updated
 
 
Title: OCLC FirstSearch ECO
Outage Date: 08/07/2007 -- 12:10:37 (EST)
Description: EAU-Support has turned off the OCLC/ECO Target Service because it is totally unusable by the users. A new route into that service is being explored and we'll update this outage as things develop.
Update: 08/28/2007 -- 10:58:47 (EST): New SFX targets are up and working (Mirlyn was already working correctly).
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 07/20/2007 -- 08:30:00 (EST)
Description: SFX will be updated Friday, July 20, 2007 at 8:30AM for about 1-2 hours.
Update: 07/20/2007 -- 09:56:50 (EST): The update is complete.
 
 
Title: Educational and Psychological Measurement (Access via SFX/MGetIt link to OCLC ECO)
Outage Date: 07/19/2007 -- 11:54:39 (EST)
Description: The link for this title in SFX/MGetIt takes patrons to OCLC's "Find in a Library" page rather than to the page that will allow them to access full text.
Update: 08/07/2007 -- 12:12:55 (EST): OCLC/ECO outages being combined into outage no. 1959
 
 
Title: SFX database and related products
Outage Date: 07/11/2007 -- 15:02:07 (EST)
Description: SFX database not responding (or extremely slow). Called in problem.
Update: 07/11/2007 -- 15:12:07 (EST): Database working again
 
 
Title: SFX database
Outage Date: 06/22/2007 -- 15:45:54 (EST)
Description: SFX and related products (like Citation Linker) are currently not working. Trying to get a time estimate on when it will be back up.
Update: 06/22/2007 -- 16:06:10 (EST): SFX back up and running
 
 
Title: SAE Digital Library
Outage Date: 06/15/2007 -- 16:32:00 (EST)
Description: SAE papers migrating to terminal server. SAE replaced by GMD. Yoyu can find SAE here...
http://www.elecpubs.sae.org/NXT/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=S
AE:SAE6
Update: 06/20/2007 -- 09:42:30 (EST): migration complete as Terminal Server up and running
 
 
Title: American journal of kidney diseases [0272-6386]
Outage Date: 05/23/2007 -- 14:42:57 (EST)
Description: (Via e-mail) Please add SFX access for the Saunders/Highwire version of American
Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Update: 05/23/2007 -- 14:43:43 (EST): access added to SFX
 
 
Title: Journal of personality assessment (ISSN 0022-3891)
Outage Date: 05/10/2007 -- 16:46:00 (EST)
Description: Full-text is available through LEA Online from 1975 to the present, but SFX indicates it's only available starting in 2000.

In addition, SFX indicates that full text is available through OCLC First Search ECO, but ECO only provides citations and abstracts for this journal.
Update: 05/15/2007 -- 10:36:07 (EST): databases updated
 
 
Title: Public Health Reports (ISSN 0033-3549)
Outage Date: 05/07/2007 -- 13:31:00 (EST)
Description: This title is available through PubMedCentral as shown in Mirlyn, but this information isn't given in SFX.

In addition, at least one article ("Racial discrimination and alcohol-related behavior in urban transit operators: findings from the San Francisco Muni Health and Safety Study" from Sept. 1999, v. 114, i5, p. 448) is not available in OCLC Wilson Select Plus and GaleGroup Health and Wellness Resource Center.
Update: 05/09/2007 -- 14:36:04 (EST): SFX database updated
 
 
Title: PsycCritiques
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:55:00 (EST)
Description: SFX shows no link to full text; Mirlyn indicates we have 2005-
Update: 04/30/2007 -- 16:56:56 (EST): Fulltext access available through SFX (now) and Mirlyn; dates have to do with cataloging rules and don't effect access
 
 
Title: Journal of Comparative Pathology [ 0021-9975]
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:55:00 (EST)
Description: SFX finds no full text for years 1995-2002; Mirlyn indicates full text is available.
Update: 04/30/2007 -- 14:53:37 (EST): SFX updated
 
 
Title: Journal of Gerontological Nursing [0098-9134]
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:50:00 (EST)
Description: SFX (via UM-Medsearch) is not returning links to full text; by Mirlyn and Search Tools, we have full text for 2003-
Update: 05/01/2007 -- 10:03:10 (EST): modified SFX target to direct to U-M password page
 
 
Title: Health News [0821-3925]
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:45:00 (EST)
Description: SFX does not detect full text of an article from July 2006; Mirlyn indicates that we have full text through November 2006.
Update: 04/10/2008 -- 14:24:54 (EST): MGet It now detects full text for all years.
 
 
Title: Clinical Nutrition
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:45:00 (EST)
Description: SFX shows a gap for full text availability for this title from 1994-2000; Full text is available from 1982-.
Update: 04/30/2007 -- 14:24:40 (EST): SFX updated
 
 
Title: Obesity Surgery [0960-8923]
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:45:00 (EST)
Description: SFX shows no full text availability; Mirlyn shows that we have full text for 1991- via Ingenta.
Update: 05/08/2007 -- 16:23:44 (EST): databases updated
 
 
Title: Immunity [1074-7613]
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:45:00 (EST)
Description: SFX shows full text availability is for 1994 only; we have full text for 1994- via ScienceDirect.
Update: 05/01/2007 -- 11:30:45 (EST): SFX updated
 
 
Title: Histology and Histopathology [0213-3911]
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:35:00 (EST)
Description: SFX shows no link to full text; Mirlyn shows that full text is available for 2002-
Update: 04/30/2007 -- 12:08:59 (EST): SFX updated
 
 
Title: Midwifery Today with International Midwife
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:35:00 (EST)
Description: SFX indicates full text for 2006 via Genderwatch; Mirlyn holdings indicate that Genderwatch coverage of this title is 1997-2002. Per Mirlyn, 2006 is available via Ebscohost.
Update: 05/03/2007 -- 12:27:13 (EST): databases updated
 
 
Title: Qualitative Health Research
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:30:00 (EST)
Description: SFX indicates that online coverage is v.9- 1999-; Mirlyn indicates that coverage is 1991-
Update: 04/30/2007 -- 11:39:07 (EST): SFX updated
 
 
Title: British Journal of Haemetology
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:30:00 (EST)
Description: SFX shows no link for full text. Mirlyn shows full text available for 1996- via Blackwell.
Update: 05/02/2007 -- 16:56:12 (EST): databases updated
 
 
Title: Advances in Contraception [0267-4874]
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 16:30:00 (EST)
Description: SFX shows no link to full text; Mirlyn shows that full text is available via Springer for 1985-1999.
Update: 04/30/2007 -- 12:04:30 (EST): SFX updated
 
 
Title: Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 11:35:00 (EST)
Description: Full text is available from 1996-. SFX is returning links to full text pages that require login (which is not available).
Update: 04/27/2007 -- 13:04:43 (EST): SFX database corrected
 
 
Title: Neuron [0896-6273]
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 11:30:00 (EST)
Description: SFX is not detecting full text for articles from 1988.
Update: 04/30/2007 -- 09:26:39 (EST): SFX updated
 
 
Title: Journal of Chemical Education [ 0021-9584]
Outage Date: 04/27/2007 -- 11:30:00 (EST)
Description: SFX is not detecting full text of articles from 1977 (and other earlier dates).
Update: 05/16/2007 -- 09:57:39 (EST): SFX database updated
 
 
Title: Challenge [1077-193x]
Outage Date: 04/25/2007 -- 11:00:00 (EST)
Description: Issues v.11 no.1 and v.12 no.1 are missing.

Also, this title does not appear in the Search Tools e-journals list.
Update: 10/16/2007 -- 15:43:57 (EST): Databases update with archival access
 
 
Title: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines [0021-9630]
Outage Date: 04/24/2007 -- 11:00:00 (EST)
Description: SFX links from UM-Medsearch, PubMed, and Web of Knowledge are not finding online access to full text.
Update: 05/16/2007 -- 14:22:03 (EST): checked links via SFX and search is working
 
 
Title: SFX server not responding
Outage Date: 04/23/2007 -- 17:08:21 (EST)
Description: SFX server (and associated products) not responding. Should be back up within 10 minutes.
Update: 04/23/2007 -- 17:24:00 (EST): sfx server back working again
 
 
Title: SFX Server (related products)
Outage Date: 04/19/2007 -- 16:12:14 (EST)
Description: SFX server is not responding due to the monthly update process (Third Thursday of the month). Server and related products should be available again by about 4:45pm today.
Update: 04/19/2007 -- 16:52:04 (EST): SFX server working again
 
 
Title: SFX; Citation Linker; MGetIt button
Outage Date: 04/12/2007 -- 09:35:33 (EST)
Description: SFX is currently experiencing intermittent slow response times and time outs. We are working with the vendor to try to diagnose the cause of the problem. If you encounter these problems, please report them to AskUs, then wait twenty minutes and try your search again.
Update: 04/17/2007 -- 15:37:58 (EST): staff will continue to monitor the situation but no new reports have surfaced in the past week
 
 
Title: SFX server is down
Outage Date: 04/10/2007 -- 10:50:33 (EST)
Description: SFX server is down and affecting all associated programs
Update: 04/10/2007 -- 11:46:55 (EST): SFX server back up
 
 
Title: SFX server not responding
Outage Date: 04/10/2007 -- 09:41:22 (EST)
Description: SFX server not responding and affecting associated resources.
Update: 04/10/2007 -- 09:54:19 (EST): SFX server is back up
 
 
Title: Shock (ISSN: 1073-2322)
Outage Date: 04/05/2007 -- 16:58:42 (EST)
Description: Mirlyn and E-Journals indicate that we have 1996- available online. SFX/MGetIt appears to show we have only 2002- .
Update: 06/01/2007 -- 12:28:28 (EST): databases updated
 
 
Title: SFX Database
Outage Date: 03/12/2007 -- 15:46:47 (EST)
Description: SFX not responsive. Called in.
Update: 03/12/2007 -- 16:00:58 (EST): Don fixed server problem.
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 03/08/2007 -- 15:12:16 (EST)
Description: Server is down for the time being.
Update: 03/08/2007 -- 15:20:52 (EST):
 
 
Title: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Outage Date: 02/27/2007 -- 11:23:39 (EST)
Description: Problem reported as not having "full text" access to V.69,#10,Suppl.1 via ScienceDirect.
Update: 02/27/2007 -- 11:26:05 (EST): Piece in question "Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2005" are *only* available as abstracts on site.
 
 
Title: sfx
Outage Date: 02/13/2007 -- 19:45:00 (EST)
Description: sfx is currently down -- outage duration is unknown
Update: 02/15/2007 -- 13:10:11 (EST): SFX is back up.
 
 
Title: "find it" button in SearchTools
Outage Date: 02/13/2007 -- 16:52:57 (EST)
Description: Clicking the "find it" button in a results list causes another window to open, but the contents never loads. Message at bottom reads "waiting for sfx...".
Update: 02/15/2007 -- 13:07:26 (EST):
 
 
Title: Search Tools
Outage Date: 02/12/2007 -- 09:09:06 (EST)
Description: Using the SearchTools interface, it is no longer possible to search PubMed vusing only a PMID; all such searches return no results.
Update: 03/22/2007 -- 09:36:26 (EST): Locally we are referring to this as a "change in functionality and that searching by PMID won't work." Until Ex Libris decides that it's a problem.
 
 
Title: International Social Work (Journal)
Outage Date: 02/09/2007 -- 10:15:32 (EST)
Description: Citation search on this journal through SFX is currently problematic. Please access this journal to locate individual articles via Mirlyn.
Update: 02/12/2007 -- 12:12:41 (EST):
 
 
Title: International Affairs
Outage Date: 02/09/2007 -- 09:42:18 (EST)
Description: Citation search on this journal through SFX is currently problematic. Please access this journal via Mirlyn.
Update: 02/12/2007 -- 12:15:27 (EST):
 
 
Title: Sociological Methodology
Outage Date: 02/02/2007 -- 10:15:00 (EST)
Description: SFX is returning an Ingenta link to this journal. We do not have full text through Ingenta. Users can find full text by JSTOR and Synergy.
Update: 02/26/2007 -- 16:09:53 (EST): SFX corrected.
 
 
Title: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
Outage Date: 01/04/2007 -- 13:08:31 (EST)
Description: There may be a problem with remote (off-campus) access to articles from this ejournal. On-campus access is working OK.
Update: 01/04/2007 -- 13:36:30 (EST): Remote access has been fixed.
 
 
Title: Astronomy and Astrophysics - remote access
Outage Date: 11/22/2006 -- 12:44:43 (EST)
Description: Astronomy and Astrophysics ejournal fulltext access is not available remotely (off-campus) for authenticated UM users. On-campus access is working OK.
Update: 11/28/2006 -- 08:39:21 (EST):
 
 
Title: Journal of Professional Nursing
Outage Date: 11/16/2006 -- 13:40:00 (EST)
Description: SFX Citation Linker is not finding holdings for this journal. E-Access is available through Mirlyn.
Update: 11/22/2006 -- 13:03:40 (EST): Updated and now working in SFX.
 
 
Title: Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing
Outage Date: 11/16/2006 -- 13:35:00 (EST)
Description: SFX Citation Linker is not finding holdings for this journal. E-Access is available through Mirlyn.
Update: 11/22/2006 -- 13:04:08 (EST): Updated and now working in SFX.
 
 
Title: ARTFL
Outage Date: 11/15/2006 -- 12:36:04 (EST)
Description: You can access this resource via the link in Mirlyn, but trying to access it via the main Library web page or SearchTools/SFX results in an error message.
Update: 06/13/2007 -- 14:35:13 (EST): Search Tools link in Databases now works
 
 
Title: The American Psychologist [0003-066X]
Outage Date: 11/06/2006 -- 11:02:54 (EST)
Description: Access to this journal using SFX is currently unavailable. Patrons can still access it from Mirlyn or the eJournals Page.
Update: 06/08/2007 -- 14:48:35 (EST): SFX link corrected
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 10/19/2006 -- 15:40:00 (EST)
Description: SFX is not working.
Update: 10/19/2006 -- 16:36:46 (EST): Reported to be working at 4:29 p.m.
 
 
Title: Search Tools
Outage Date: 10/09/2006 -- 20:35:00 (EST)
Description: The Search Tools login is not working. Users who login are immediately logged back out by Search Tools.
Update: 03/27/2007 -- 12:19:34 (EST): Search Tools login working correctly at this point with no further reports
 
 
Title: Resources published by Mary Ann Liebert.
Outage Date: 10/09/2006 -- 09:53:00 (EST)
Description: Titles are shortened, or are not found on an "exact match" query with SFX, or need to be updated.
Update: 07/26/2007 -- 15:00:25 (EST): titles seem to be working better; will reopen if new complaints arise
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 10/06/2006 -- 11:41:00 (EST)
Description: Periodic SFX outages.
Update: 03/27/2007 -- 12:14:47 (EST): SFX working fine at this point
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 10/05/2006 -- 17:00:00 (EST)
Description: SFX is down.
Update: 10/06/2006 -- 09:16:45 (EST): SFX is working again.
 
 
Title: American journal of health-system pharmacy
Outage Date: 10/05/2006 -- 09:40:00 (EST)
Description: SFX does not recognize availability of full text.
Update: 10/16/2006 -- 12:12:51 (EST): This has been corrected
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 10/04/2006 -- 11:27:00 (EST)
Description: SFX is presently not working.
Update: 10/04/2006 -- 11:45:15 (EST): SFX is working again.
 
 
Title: Ethnicity & Disease
Outage Date: 10/03/2006 -- 16:33:00 (EST)
Description: Full access not allowed if approached through Search Tools. Access via Miryln works.
Update: 10/16/2006 -- 12:16:44 (EST): The corrected URL now appears in SearchTools lists and SFX.
 
 
Title: Cochrane database of systematic reviews [1469-493X]
Outage Date: 09/28/2006 -- 19:43:00 (EST)
Description: SFX reports "No full text online via SFX". Fulltext and PDF are available in the Wiley version of Cochrane. As of 2007-02-20, now reports "malformed URL" when attempting to access ISSN 1469-493X through SFX CitationLinker or Search Tools. Note: this ISSN is not listed in MIRLYN.
Update: 07/19/2007 -- 16:12:28 (EST): SFX link working again
 
 
Title: DSM-IV-TR
Outage Date: 09/28/2006 -- 16:48:00 (EST)
Description: The link in SearchTools leads to a "not logged in" error page. The link in the Mirlyn record is working correctly.
Update: 09/29/2006 -- 10:27:31 (EST): The link in SearchTools has been updated.
 
 
Title: HealthFacts (via SFX and EBSCOhost)
Outage Date: 09/12/2006 -- 11:45:00 (EST)
Description: Access to the online journal HealthFacts via the SFX link to EBSCOhost is not working. Users *can* access the online journal using Proquest (via SFX) or using EBSCOhost (via Mirlyn).
Update: 09/15/2006 -- 11:26:02 (EST): This problem has been resolved.
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 09/12/2006 -- 10:15:00 (EST)
Description: SFX is down as of 10am.
Update: 09/12/2006 -- 10:31:01 (EST): Back up as of 10:30am.
 
 
Title: SFX Citation Linker
Outage Date: 09/11/2006 -- 17:19:41 (EST)
Description: SFX is unavailable due to unknown reasons.
Update: 09/11/2006 -- 21:49:20 (EST): SFX should now be working normally.
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 09/07/2006 -- 12:45:00 (EST)
Description: Appears that SFX is unavailable. When attempting to use SFX in ProQuest for example, I am getting the following message:

The connection was refused when attempting to contact sfx.lib.umich.edu:9300

The SFX group has been notified.
Update: 09/07/2006 -- 13:25:50 (EST): The problem has been resolved.
 
 
Title: Journal of Urban Affairs
Outage Date: 08/25/2006 -- 11:05:33 (EST)
Description: Links to this journal via SFX to either FirstSearch or Wilson Select Plus currently go to the Worldcat.org public "Find in a Library Page" rather than to the database, thus creating a loop.
Update: 10/16/2006 -- 11:52:14 (EST):
 
 
Title: MEDLINE-Ovid and Pubmed
Outage Date: 08/18/2006 -- 16:30:15 (EST)
Description: SFX links not working from these 2 databases.
Update: 08/18/2006 -- 17:15:29 (EST): SFX links are now working. There was a general SFX server problem.
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 08/17/2006 -- 16:35:00 (EST)
Description: SFX is down.
Update: 08/18/2006 -- 10:10:20 (EST): Per SFX-Tech, this has been resolved.
 
 
Title: Gale Resources - SFX Links
Outage Date: 08/03/2006 -- 13:20:00 (EST)
Description: SFX links for the following Gale resources are not working properly: InfoTrac OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center Gold, General Business File ASAP.
Update: 08/17/2006 -- 12:35:08 (EST):
 
 
Title: Biochimica et Biophysica ACTA journals
Outage Date: 08/01/2006 -- 12:00:00 (EST)
Description: Some citations from these journals in the MEDLINE database (UM-MEDSEARCH and PUBMED) do not provide SFX links that work. Others do. For those that don't, search for the article in Web of Knowledge and use the SFX linkage there.
Update: 10/10/2007 -- 14:31:09 (EST): SFX is working about as well as one can make it giving the way this title is sectioned. Mirlyn is probably still the easier way to approach these titles.
 
 
Title: Theatre Research International through Expanded Academic ASAP
Outage Date: 07/26/2006 -- 08:00:00 (EST)
Description: Two problems
Going through Search Tools, the link from SFX to the Gale database results in an error message (both on and off campus).
Both Mirlyn and the e-Journals page list access to the journal through Cambridge University Press only, and not Gale Expanded Academic ASAP.
Update: 10/16/2006 -- 12:25:29 (EST): SFX has been updated. Gale now displays properly in SFX menus and the links connect to full text.
 
 
Title: Search Tools and SFX
Outage Date: 07/20/2006 -- 03:00:00 (EST)
Description: Search Tools and SFX will have intermittent availability between 3:00am and 6:00am on Thursday, July 20th, due to maintenance and testing.
Update: 08/02/2006 -- 12:30:01 (EST):
 
 
Title: the journal IEEE transactions on circuits and systems. I, Regular papers
Outage Date: 07/14/2006 -- 08:42:59 (EST)
Description: SFX citation linker and Search Tools are currently only pointing to the 2004- issues of this journal. Patrons can temporarily access the 1992-2003 issues of this journal under the title 'IEEE transactions on circuits and systems. 1, Fundamental theory and applications'(changed title) in Mirlyn.
Update: 10/16/2006 -- 11:54:45 (EST):
 
 
Title: SFX, Search Tools
Outage Date: 07/06/2006 -- 16:00:00 (EST)
Description: SFX and Search Tools will be unavailable from roughly 4:00 to 4:30 pm Thursday for maintainance.
Update: 07/07/2006 -- 09:35:47 (EST): Closed outage
 
 
Title: Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Outage Date: 07/05/2006 -- 16:52:12 (EST)
Description: This journal is not accessible for full text via SFX citation linker.
Update: 07/07/2006 -- 09:33:35 (EST): The journal's fulltext access via sfx has been restored.
 
 
Title: Tropical Medicine & International Health
Outage Date: 06/26/2006 -- 08:11:00 (EST)
Description: SFX article links do not find item via OCLC First Search. Synergy works fine.
Update: 07/11/2006 -- 15:54:12 (EST): SFX info has been updated for OCLC holdings. Works OK now.
 
 
Title: SFX linking for journal Pediatric Research
Outage Date: 06/12/2006 -- 12:05:03 (EST)
Description: SFX links to online journal Pediatric Research are not functioning. Access to this journal is available via Mirlyn or the Electronic Journals & Newspapers List.
Update: 07/11/2006 -- 16:57:48 (EST): SFX link is now working.
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 05/24/2006 -- 06:00:00 (EST)
Description: SFX will be down for diagnostics between approximately 6am and 6:30am on Wednesday, May 24th. Services that rely on SFX (including the "Find It" button in SearchTools) will be unavailable during that period.
Update: 05/31/2006 -- 12:19:29 (EST):
 
 
Title: SFX
Outage Date: 05/18/2006 -- 06:00:00 (EST)
Description: SFX will be taken down for investigation into performance problems between 6am and 6:30am. SFX and sevices that rely on it, such as the "Find It" button in Search Tools, will be unavailable durin that period.
Update: 05/21/2006 -- 07:58:00 (EST):
 
 
Title: Radiographics e journal
Outage Date: 04/26/2006 -- 08:00:00 (EST)
Description: SFX access to articles in this journal is not working for all articles. Noted through PubMed.
Update: 10/16/2006 -- 12:48:35 (EST): A note has been added to the SFX display indicating that an institutional password is needed for current issues and providing a link to the password info. The problematic citations that were not current appear to have resolved.
 
 
Title: Searchtools
Outage Date: 04/09/2006 -- 16:00:00 (EST)
Description: Searchtools has unexpected problems; a second instance, with slightly out of date data, has been set up via redirect for use both directly and via the search boxes.
Update: 04/10/2006 -- 09:37:59 (EST): Service has been restored.
 
 
Title: SFX links to OCLC Wilson Select Plus not working
Outage Date: 03/31/2006 -- 15:58:42 (EST)
Description: SFX links to OCLC Wilson Select Plus do not give usable results. It goes to a WorldCat related resource. From this page, the "results in WilsonSelectPlus" link does not work, instead claiming that your session in OCLC has timed out.
Update: 03/29/2007 -- 15:51:29 (EST): database now working correctly
 
 
Title: PsycINFO / GaleGroup InfoTrac
Outage Date: 03/31/2006 -- 15:17:29 (EST)
Description: Error when trying to link through SFX to an article.
Update: 08/23/2006 -- 14:09:40 (EST):
 
 
Title: The International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
Outage Date: 03/31/2006 -- 12:44:50 (EST)
Description: SFX links to 2004 and later articles do not work.
Update: 04/06/2006 -- 17:24:36 (EST): We have corrected Mirlyn, SFX, and ejournals page data to properly indicate that our access to this ejournal is only thru 2003.
 
 
Title: Journal of Sexual Medicine
Outage Date: 03/29/2006 -- 11:08:00 (EST)
Description: Journal is included in SFX even though we seem to not have a subscription.
Update: 03/30/2007 -- 16:21:46 (EST): no current subscription; SFX link deactivated
 
 
Title: Wiley Interscience -- specific article
Outage Date: 03/27/2006 -- 14:12:00 (EST)
Description: SFX Link to specific article does not work. This has been reported to sfx-tech.
Update: 03/29/2006 -- 12:12:47 (EST): This has been fixed.
 
 
Title: Haematologica
Outage Date: 03/27/2006 -- 05:23:00 (EST)
Description: Citation specific SFX link is broken for one article at least. Link in Mirlyn to top level resource works fine. http://www.haematologica.it/ Problem has been reported for correction.
Update: 03/20/2007 -- 13:23:53 (EST):
 
 
Title: BJU via SFX
Outage Date: 03/17/2006 -- 13:56:04 (EST)
Description: When linking from PubMed to BJU article(s), SFX doesn't indicate that there's full text available in Synergy.
Update: 03/17/2006 -- 14:57:58 (EST): SFX-tech has fixed the problem. The solution will be visible in the menus after next week's update.
 
 
Title: Military Medicine journal in Ingenta
Outage Date: 03/16/2006 -- 13:39:17 (EST)
Description: SFX does not reflect that Military Medicine is available online in full text via Ingenta from 2004 through the present.
Update: 10/16/2006 -- 11:57:26 (EST):
 
 
Title: ERIC and SFX
Outage Date: 03/15/2006 -- 12:08:14 (EST)
Description: Using SFX to link from ERIC to conference proceedings currently takes users to the journal NATURE.
Update: 03/17/2006 -- 15:06:06 (EST): SFX-tech has fixed the problem.
 
 
Title: Search Tools, SFX, Search Boxes on Library Web Site
Outage Date: 03/07/2006 -- 07:00:00 (EST)
Description: The server that hosts Search Tools and SFX is scheduled for a memory upgrade at 7:00 am on Tuesday, March 7. Expected down time is 1 hour.
Update: 03/08/2006 -- 12:42:50 (EST):
 
 
Title: Search Tools and SFX
Outage Date: 03/02/2006 -- 10:05:19 (EST)
Description: We are currently experiencing problems with Search Tools and SFX. These two resources are not available. Core Services and Web Services are investigating it.
Update: 03/02/2006 -- 11:02:48 (EST): Both Search Tools and SFX are running now.
 
 
Title: SFX book chapter links from PsycINFO go to wrong content
Outage Date: 03/02/2006 -- 08:55:00 (EST)
Description: SFX links-out-to-fulltext from PsycINFO results for book chapters inaccurately point to Nature BioTechnology fulltext instead.
Update: 10/16/2006 -- 12:06:51 (EST): Corrected by Ex Libris. These searches currently return a proper SFX menu for the citation title.
 
 
Title: SFX for ejournals: Neurochemical Research, Traffic, Ultrastructural Pathology
Outage Date: 02/24/2006 -- 16:12:23 (EST)
Description: SFX shows different availability for the ejournals: Neurochemical Research, Traffic, Ultrastructural Pathology than what Mirlyn shows. Mirlyn is correct. We are updating the sfx info for these titles.
Update: 03/07/2006 -- 16:13:24 (EST): SFX information has been corrected.
 
 
Title: Art Index Retrospective and Bibliography of the History of Art when cross searched in Search Tools
Outage Date: 02/01/2006 -- 08:00:00 (EST)
Description: Cross searching does not return correct results.
Update: 03/09/2006 -- 14:35:38 (EST): This outage is closed.
 

Large Database Outages

 
Title: Research Guides (LibGuides)
Outage Date: 09/15/2009 -- 09:00:00 (EST)
Description: Research Guides -- http://guides.lib.umich.edu/ -- is largely unavailable. The problem has been reported to the vendor.
Update: 09/15/2009 -- 09:30:28 (EST): Research Guides are once again available.
 
 
Title: Safari Tech Books
Outage Date: 09/10/2009 -- 13:51:22 (EST)
Description: We are only being granted "Preview" access to Safari Tech Books.
Update: 09/10/2009 -- 15:35:30 (EST): Our subscription only entitles us to 3 concurrent users. If are only able to "preview" a book in this database keep trying.
 
 
Title: DLPS
Outage Date: 09/07/2009 -- 01:10:00 (EST)
Description: Beginning at approximately 1:10a on Monday, September 7, a problem with a data server resulted in some users being unable to access DLPS collections and services. Full service was restored at approximately 9:15a EDT.

Affected sites and collections included, but were not limited to:

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
American Verse Project
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
British Women Romantic Poets
Copyright Review Management System
DLPS Usage Statistics
Early English Books Online
Encoded Text Services
Humanities Text Initiative
HRAF Archaeology and Ethnography
Image Services
Making of America
The Medieval Review
Middle English Compendium (MEC)
OAIster
Old English Corpus (OEC)
Pictures of Record
Radical Scatters (Emily Dickinson)
The United States and its Territories
UM Historical Math Collection
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience
 
 
Title: Wiley InterScience
Outage Date: 09/04/2009 -- 12:42:03 (EST)
Description: Due to essential site maintenance, access may be interrupted on the indicated date and time.

DATE: Monday - September 7, 2009
TIME: — beginning —
04:00 am New York
DURATION: up to 1 hour
Update: 09/08/2009 -- 08:09:08 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: ScienceDirect and Scopus
Outage Date: 08/27/2009 -- 15:02:12 (EST)
Description: ScienceDirect, Scopus and The Admin Tool will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 7.5 hours from 18:30 Saturday, 29 August to 02:00 GMT Sunday, 30 August (2:30 PM EDT Saturday, August 29 to 10:00PM EDT).
Update: 08/31/2009 -- 07:58:14 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: ScienceDirect
Outage Date: 08/21/2009 -- 12:06:33 (EST)
Description: Many links to pdfs don't work. ScienceDirect is aware of the problem and working to fix it. In the meantime they suggest using the following method to download pdfs: If the article is downloaded through the Document Download Manager (e.g., selecting the necessary document from a search results/browse page and clicking the "Download PDFs" link at the top of the list, or choosing the "Download PDF" option from the Article Toolbox to the right of the title on the article page), this may be more successful in retrieving the PDF(s).
Update: 08/24/2009 -- 09:53:32 (EST): The pdf links in ScienceDirect are working again.
 
 
Title: Wiley InterScience
Outage Date: 08/14/2009 -- 08:27:41 (EST)
Description: Wiley InterScience will not be available Monday - August 17, 2009 from 4am to 5am.

Please plan your use accordingly or go to http:www.lib.umich.edu/askus/ for help and alternative suggstions.
Update: 08/17/2009 -- 08:13:24 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Applied Physics Letters
Outage Date: 07/29/2009 -- 09:24:50 (EST)
Description: Access from off-campus appears to be temporarily blocked. On-campus access is fine.
Update: 08/06/2009 -- 08:17:54 (EST): Access has been restored.
 
 
Title: Micromedex
Outage Date: 07/22/2009 -- 15:49:37 (EST)
Description: Micromedex is not available via the link in Mirlyn.
Update: 08/31/2009 -- 10:00:00 (EST): Micromedex is now available. In order to log in to the UMHS Level 1 Authentication Service you may need to override your browsers security warning. We have notified MCIT about their expired certificate. Any problems accessing MICROMEDEX should be directed to MCIT at (734) 936-8000.
 
 
Title: Women and social movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Outage Date: 07/16/2009 -- 11:29:59 (EST)
Description: There is no access on the Dearborn campus.
Update: 07/16/2009 -- 14:37:39 (EST): Access has been restored.
 
 
Title: Constitutions of the Countries of the World
Outage Date: 07/15/2009 -- 12:32:39 (EST)
Description: This trial database is not available from some buildings on campus.
Update: 07/17/2009 -- 15:26:03 (EST): They didn't have all of our IP adress ranges set up. We contacted Oxford University Press Wednesday and Thursday about this. It seems fixed on Friday.
 
 
Title: Wiley
Outage Date: 07/15/2009 -- 09:23:50 (EST)
Description: Due to essential site maintenance, access will be unavailable on the indicated dates and times.

DATE: Saturday - July 18, 2009
TIME: — beginning —
05:00 am New York

DURATION: approximately 2 hours
Update: 07/20/2009 -- 08:04:05 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Informaworld
Outage Date: 07/14/2009 -- 08:28:20 (EST)
Description: Informaworld will be unavailable on Saturday, 18th July from 08:00-10:00 BST / 07:00-09:00 GMT in order to complete some essential maintenance.
Update: 07/20/2009 -- 08:04:16 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Journal of Dental Hygiene
Outage Date: 07/10/2009 -- 10:29:42 (EST)
Description: OpenURLs directed to Gale don't work.
Update: 07/14/2009 -- 10:56:37 (EST): The links should work now.
 
 
Title: World Education Encyclopedia
Outage Date: 07/02/2009 -- 10:31:58 (EST)
Description: You get the following error message when you try to get to World Education Encyclopedia online:

• Application Error
• UnrecognizedInfomarkError.errorMsg
• Error Code:UnrecognizedInfomarkError.errorMsg
• ID:C5F5F4404C34CAB3B30E644E88978CC1
Update: 07/02/2009 -- 10:59:21 (EST): Mirlyn and Search Tools have been updated.
 
 
Title: Informaworld
Outage Date: 07/02/2009 -- 10:01:25 (EST)
Description: Informaworld will be unavailable between 1800-1900 BST/1700-1800 GMT on Sunday 5th July 2009 to perform some essential maintenance work.
Update: 07/06/2009 -- 08:39:39 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: ProQuest
Outage Date: 06/26/2009 -- 15:01:13 (EST)
Description: The next ProQuest platform maintenance window will be on June 27, 2009. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place. The window will take place from Saturday, June 27, 2009, at 22:00 Eastern Standard Time to Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 10:00 Eastern Standard Time.
Update: 06/29/2009 -- 08:30:03 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Shoah Visual History Archive
Outage Date: 06/22/2009 -- 11:06:56 (EST)
Description: Shoah Visual History Archive is presently not working (server times out).
Update: 06/22/2009 -- 15:58:59 (EST): The Archive is available now.
 
 
Title: InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
Outage Date: 06/16/2009 -- 15:38:08 (EST)
Description: Our links in Search Tools to this database sometimes result in an error.
Update: 06/23/2009 -- 11:00:32 (EST): This was a known issue which Gale has apparently fixed.
 
 
Title: Wiley InterScience
Outage Date: 06/10/2009 -- 15:57:15 (EST)
Description: Due to essential site maintenance, access will be unavailable on the indicated dates and times.

DATE: Saturday - June 13, 2009
TIME: — beginning —
09:00 am New York
DURATION: up to 1 hour
Update: 06/15/2009 -- 13:57:21 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: ACS
Outage Date: 06/10/2009 -- 08:08:07 (EST)
Description: The American Chemical Society's automatic abuse monitoring systems have blocked an IP adress associated with our organization due to suspected unauthorized downloading of content on the ACS Publications website, in excess of their established threshold and in violation of their Terms and Conditions. To prevent further violations, this IP address has been blocked.
Update: 06/15/2009 -- 13:58:16 (EST): This problem has been referred to the proper authorities.
 
 
Title: Ovid
Outage Date: 06/08/2009 -- 09:17:19 (EST)
Description: This article is incomplete in Ovid:

Complications of epicardial pacing wire removal.
Johnson LG, Brown OF, Alligood MR.
J Cardiovasc Nurs. 1993 Jan;7(2):32-40.
PMID: 8433122 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Only pages 32 and 33 are available in the pdf.
Update: 06/08/2009 -- 09:17:32 (EST): Reported to Ovid.
 
 
Title: OCLC WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Outage Date: 05/18/2009 -- 10:12:26 (EST)
Description: This database doesn't work with the Safari browser, the search times out and doesn't list any results.
Update: 05/18/2009 -- 14:29:57 (EST): Per OCLC: Currently we do not support Safari or Firefox browsers. Our list of supported browsers can be found at the following URL: http://firstsearch.oclc.org/help/en/platform.html#browsers
 
 
Title: Scirus
Outage Date: 05/14/2009 -- 11:41:09 (EST)
Description: A ppt was abstract was found in Scirus but the link didn't work.
Update: 05/14/2009 -- 11:41:39 (EST): The document was obtained from its author and provided to the patron.
 
 
Title: Informaworld
Outage Date: 05/04/2009 -- 08:39:30 (EST)
Description: Please note that the informaworld COUNTER statistics tools will be unavailable from 7.00am - 12 noon GMT, 5th May and the informaworld site will be unavailable from 5:00am – 7:00am GMT, 9th May due to scheduled maintenance work.
Update: 05/11/2009 -- 08:08:05 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Gene Therapy
Outage Date: 04/27/2009 -- 16:29:43 (EST)
Description: Some of the MGetIt buttons to this journal in PubMed go to a citation report and do not offer the PDF of the article, including this one:

Correction of the disease phenotype in the mouse model of Stargardt disease by lentiviral gene therapy.
Gene Therapy. (PMID 18463687)
Update: 04/30/2009 -- 10:50:02 (EST): Per Nature Publishing Group: "Your communication regarding the doi has been forwarded to the relevant staff member for further assistance."
 
 
Title: Sage Journals Online
Outage Date: 04/15/2009 -- 16:47:14 (EST)
Description: Searching Sage Journals Online doesn't limit the results to articles available to UM even with the "Sage content available to me" box checked.
Update: 04/30/2009 -- 10:48:57 (EST): According to Sage: "During the April free trial, the access indicators have been disabled and I'm sorry for the temporary inconvenience."
 
 
Title: ProQuest®
Outage Date: 04/13/2009 -- 13:49:32 (EST)
Description: The next ProQuest® platform maintenance window will be on April 18, 2009. An eight (8) hour maintenance window will take place for infrastructure maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, April 18, 2009, at 22:00 Eastern Standard Time to Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 6:00 Eastern Standard Time.
Update: 04/20/2009 -- 08:10:26 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: American Cinematographer
Outage Date: 04/13/2009 -- 08:27:38 (EST)
Description: I am unable to access the August 2007 Supplement issue of American Cinematographer. The Art Full Text link -- the first electronic location listed in the Mirlyn record -- provides no link to full text or PDF of the particular article needed (In the Trenches [Special section]. American Cinematographer (August 2007 supp) p. 14-16, 18-24). A search of Wilson Select Plus -- the second electronic location listed -- does not produce the article, implying that it might not have been indexed.
Update: 04/13/2009 -- 11:58:20 (EST): The article is in the Art Full Text database but it is indexed under the titles of parts of the article. Here is the explanation from Wilson:
"We do not have full text.
This article was indexed before we implemented our policy that abolished special section "umbrella" records.
The individual articles included within the page range can be found in Wilsonweb.
We apologize for the inconvenience."
 
 
Title: Sophocles, poet and dramatist
Outage Date: 04/13/2009 -- 08:15:37 (EST)
Description: WorldCat indicates that we have the book: Sophocles, poet and dramatist. OCLC accession number: 1509018 but we don't.
Update: 04/14/2009 -- 10:29:28 (EST): The book was withdrawn from the Undergraduate Library. The holdings were withdrawn from OCLC 4/14/2009 and WorldCat should reflect the change shortly.
 
 
Title: Issues and Controversies and other Facts on File databases
Outage Date: 04/08/2009 -- 11:51:00 (EST)
Description: On the Facts on File page showing our subscribed databases, none of the databases on the right side are available. The link just refreshes the same page.
Update: 04/08/2009 -- 11:53:25 (EST): Facts on File has fixed this problem.
 
 
Title: Informaworld
Outage Date: 04/06/2009 -- 12:27:31 (EST)
Description: Informaworld will not be available during the following periods over the next few weeks due to essential maintenance work:

Friday 10th April 11.00pm - Saturday 11th April 07:00am GMT

Saturday 18th April from 3:00am - 11:00am GMT
Update: 04/20/2009 -- 08:10:44 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: American Journal of Surgical Pathology [0147-5185]
Outage Date: 04/03/2009 -- 16:07:30 (EST)
Description: Mirlyn (and MGetIt) indicates that we have electronic access from 1977- through present. Patron could not access Feb. 1980 V.4(1).
Update: 04/30/2009 -- 10:59:38 (EST): The missing issues have been reported to Ovid.
 
 
Title: Informaworld
Outage Date: 03/27/2009 -- 08:47:48 (EST)
Description: Informaworld is currently experiencing some technical difficulties, which they are working to fix.
Update: 03/27/2009 -- 14:24:00 (EST): The site is working again.
 
 
Title: Problems with "linked full text" in PsychINFO
Outage Date: 03/20/2009 -- 09:15:13 (EST)
Description: Some patrons do not see the MGetIt button in PsychINFO but rather a label that says "Linked Full Text."
Update: 03/26/2009 -- 11:59:04 (EST): This problem has been fixed.
 
 
Title: Engineering Village
Outage Date: 03/20/2009 -- 08:39:14 (EST)
Description: Due to scheduled maintainance, Engineering Village's RSS and email alerts will not be available this week (March 19-March 25).
Update: 03/30/2009 -- 13:33:37 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: JSTOR
Outage Date: 03/17/2009 -- 14:52:48 (EST)
Description: The SFX buttons in JSTOR go to a weird red on black page.
Update: 03/18/2009 -- 08:15:10 (EST): These work now.
 
 
Title: Engineering Village
Outage Date: 03/16/2009 -- 13:45:44 (EST)
Description: The full text button is not working, it results in the following message:
"The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. Please inform the site administrator of the referring page."
Update: 03/18/2009 -- 08:49:07 (EST): These links work now.
 
 
Title: Science Direct
Outage Date: 03/05/2009 -- 13:16:11 (EST)
Description: ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12.5 hours from 13:00 Saturday 7 to 01:30 Sunday, 8 March GMT (18:00 EST to 07:30 EDT).
Update: 03/09/2009 -- 08:13:01 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: World Bank e-Library
Outage Date: 03/02/2009 -- 13:27:43 (EST)
Description: When trying to access books in the World Bank e-Library we get this message:

The requested document is freely available only to registered users with an online subscription to the World Bank e-Library
World Bank has recognised your registration(s) as:

* University Of Michigan; Ms J Jordan (ID: 50000021)
* University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (ID: 183897)
* University of Michigan-Dearborn (ID: 85004597)
* Univ of Michigan (ID: 292505)
* University of Michigan (ID: 58014344)

However, the above registration(s) do not hold a valid subscription to the World Bank e-Library. If you believe your institution should have access please contact your library.
Update: 03/26/2009 -- 12:08:44 (EST): Mirlyn has been updated.
 
 
Title: Wiley InterScience
Outage Date: 02/06/2009 -- 12:15:49 (EST)
Description: Due to critical site maintenance, access may be significantly interrupted Saturday - February 7, 2009 beginning at 9:00 am and lasting up to 12 hours.
Update: 02/09/2009 -- 08:46:52 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Psychiatric services
Outage Date: 02/03/2009 -- 08:51:11 (EST)
Description: We have lost our electronic access. We are renewing our subscription.
Update: 02/04/2009 -- 09:37:58 (EST): Access has been restored.
 
 
Title: CQ Congress Collection, CQ Supreme Court, CQ Voting and Elections
Outage Date: 02/02/2009 -- 08:30:16 (EST)
Description: Patrons are getting a message that there is a problem with our institutional subscription.
Update: 02/04/2009 -- 09:46:09 (EST): Access has been restored.
 
 
Title: WilsonSelectPlus, ProQuest Research Library and General OneFile
Outage Date: 01/12/2009 -- 08:28:20 (EST)
Description: This article is missing from all three databases:
Kids Do Well If They Can
Ross Greene. Phi Delta Kappan. Bloomington: Nov 2008. Vol. 90, Iss. 3; p.
160
Update: 01/12/2009 -- 08:29:26 (EST): The article is available online. All three of these vendors have been notified that it is missing from their databases.
 
 
Title: Scopus, Science Direct, Admin Tool and 2collab
Outage Date: 01/10/2009 -- 14:30:00 (EST)
Description: On Saturday, 10 January, Scopus, ScienceDirect, The Admin Tool and 2collab will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately eight hours starting at 7:30 p.m. 12:35:45 (EST):C/GMT (2:30 p.m. EST)
Update: 01/12/2009 -- 12:35:45 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Gale (Software)
Outage Date: 12/20/2008 -- 05:00:00 (EST)
Description: Service interruption due to scheduled maintenance for all Gale products, beginning 5:00 a.m. Dec. 20th and lasting until approximately 6:30 a.m. Dec. 20th, 2008.
Update: 12/22/2008 -- 08:07:15 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: BrePolis databases
Outage Date: 12/18/2008 -- 09:42:05 (EST)
Description: BrePolis databases will be migrating to new environment. Sevice will be interrupted for limited time periods between Thursday, Dec. 18 and Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008.
Update: 01/05/2009 -- 08:26:21 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Ulrichsweb.com & Ulrich's Serial Analysis System
Outage Date: 12/05/2008 -- 18:00:00 (EST)
Description: Please note that Ulrichsweb.com and Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System will be temporarily offline from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM PST on Friday, December 5 (2:00 AM to 4:00 AM GMT on Saturday, December 6).

Update: 12/08/2008 -- 08:10:43 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption
Outage Date: 12/05/2008 -- 17:05:52 (EST)
Description: Access to the database Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption is not available.
Update: 12/08/2008 -- 13:33:41 (EST): Search Tools has been updated.
 
 
Title: Alt-Press Watch (via ProQuest)
Outage Date: 11/24/2008 -- 07:42:02 (EST)
Description: Coverage via ProQuest inconsistent: The Nation & The Progressive not covered?
Update: 11/24/2008 -- 08:14:21 (EST): ProQuest does not list either title on their publication title list, accurate as of Oct. 1, 2008.
 
 
Title: UM-MEDSEARCH off campus
Outage Date: 11/20/2008 -- 11:46:05 (EST)
Description: There may be a problem in accessing Medsearch from off-campus computers, despite authentication/log-in.
Update: 11/20/2008 -- 13:27:04 (EST):
 
 
Title: Web of Science
Outage Date: 11/20/2008 -- 09:53:00 (EST)
Description: Web of Science site is inaccessible via SearchTools link.
Update: 11/20/2008 -- 13:27:18 (EST):
 
 
Title: ScienceDirect, Scopus and the Admin Tool
Outage Date: 11/12/2008 -- 10:39:04 (EST)
Description: On Saturday, 15 November, Scopus, ScienceDirect and the Admin Tool will be unavailable for scheduled upgrades during the following periods:

Scopus: For eight hours - 1:00 p.m. 13:48:27 (EST):C/GMT (8:00 a.m. EST) until 9:00 p.m. 13:48:27 (EST):C/GMT (4:00 p.m. EST).

ScienceDirect and Admin Tool: For nine hours - 1:00 p.m. 13:48:27 (EST):C/GMT (8:00 a.m. EST) until 10:00 p.m. 13:48:27 (EST):C/GMT (5:00 p.m. EST).
Update: 11/18/2008 -- 13:48:27 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: RefWorks
Outage Date: 11/11/2008 -- 13:48:26 (EST)
Description: RefWorks is not working, via website and SearchTools link.
Update: 11/11/2008 -- 14:15:55 (EST):
 
 
Title: American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy
Outage Date: 10/17/2008 -- 10:42:24 (EST)
Description: No access to current issue; site says we have no subscription.
Update: 10/24/2008 -- 15:31:55 (EST): Access restored; outage closed.
 
 
Title: MideastWire
Outage Date: 10/14/2008 -- 09:51:52 (EST)
Description: Site inaccessible from off-campus.
Update: 10/14/2008 -- 10:08:49 (EST): Site added to proxy-server; now works.
 
 
Title: RefWorks
Outage Date: 10/10/2008 -- 15:58:33 (EST)
Description: Link to RefWorks from MGetIt from FirstSearch (OCLC) databases does not work.
Update: 11/11/2008 -- 08:48:09 (EST): Link now works; outage closed.
 
 
Title: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (from off-campus)
Outage Date: 10/03/2008 -- 10:38:05 (EST)
Description: Patron is seeing different interface than on-campus users.
Update: 10/10/2008 -- 15:19:37 (EST):
 
 
Title: Demographics Now
Outage Date: 10/01/2008 -- 08:08:50 (EST)
Description: Demographics Now is requiring a login.
Update: 10/01/2008 -- 09:38:03 (EST): URL updated; outage closed.
 
 
Title: Ebsco Databases
Outage Date: 09/30/2008 -- 12:50:48 (EST)
Description: Ebsco databases including PsycINFO and Index Islamicus are not available.
Update: 10/02/2008 -- 10:19:53 (EST): These databases are available now.
 
 
Title: Wiley InterScience
Outage Date: 09/22/2008 -- 04:00:00 (EST)
Description: Due to essential site maintenance, access will be temporarily unavailable on Monday, Sept. 22, from 4:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m.
Update: 09/22/2008 -- 08:28:24 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Informaworld journals
Outage Date: 09/18/2008 -- 10:40:57 (EST)
Description: Informaworld site (and all journal access via Informaworld) temporarily unavailable due to peak demand. "Normal access to resume shortly" (Informaworld site).
Update: 09/24/2008 -- 10:21:37 (EST):
 
 
Title: American Drama
Outage Date: 09/10/2008 -- 07:56:35 (EST)
Description: Access to American Drama (database, not serial) is not available.
Update: 12/04/2008 -- 13:40:55 (EST): Mirlyn and Search Tools have been updated. We plan to host this locally but there is no estimate of when it will be available.
 
 
Title: NORD (National Organization of Rare Diseases)
Outage Date: 08/21/2008 -- 11:22:49 (EST)
Description: After logging in with username and password, site indicates, "Membership expired".
Update: 08/21/2008 -- 14:28:52 (EST): Resource is now working; publisher has reactivated our access with payment pending.
 
 
Title: ScienceDirect, Scopus
Outage Date: 07/29/2008 -- 12:39:31 (EST)
Description: Upgrade of administrative stystem will cause ScienceDirect and Scopus to be unavailable from 5:30 EDT Saturday August 2 to 1:30 EDT Sunday August 3. Email alerts and RSS feeds will not be sent from 11:30 EDT on Friday August 1 until downtime is finished.
Update: 08/04/2008 -- 14:02:16 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Outage Date: 07/29/2008 -- 11:56:16 (EST)
Description: No access--subscription cancelled.
Update: 07/31/2008 -- 08:46:28 (EST): Mirlyn has been updated.
 
 
Title: Congressional Quarterly Almanac (CQ Press)
Outage Date: 07/22/2008 -- 17:10:59 (EST)
Description: Access to Congressional Quarterly resources is not available. Please go to http://lib.umich.edu/askus/ for help or additional information.
Update: 07/23/2008 -- 08:04:18 (EST): Access restored.
 
 
Title: UM-MedSearch
Outage Date: 07/18/2008 -- 16:47:16 (EST)
Description: Authenticated link for UM-Medsearch is not working due to server relocation (see red banner announcement at top of Kiosk page).
Update: 07/22/2008 -- 07:53:43 (EST): Authenticated link now functioning (per W. Townsend 7/21/08).
 
 
Title: Wire Journal International (ISSN 0277-4275)
Outage Date: 07/07/2008 -- 14:12:52 (EST)
Description: The 2008 issues of Wire Journal International (ISSN
0277-4275) are not complete in WilsonSelectPlus. Specifically, the April 2008 issue is missing, even though later issues like June 2008 have content available.
Update: 08/01/2008 -- 10:09:48 (EST): The articles from the April 2008 issues have been added to the database.
 
 
Title: Former Blackwell Synergy Journals now available via Wiley.
Outage Date: 07/01/2008 -- 17:13:25 (EST)
Description: OpenURL links are currently not redirecting to the journal level but instead default to the journal homepage.
Update: 07/09/2008 -- 08:55:38 (EST): OpenURLs now redirect correctly.
 
 
Title: Ulrich's services; 360 (from Serials Solutions)
Outage Date: 06/24/2008 -- 17:29:27 (EST)
Description: Temporary outage affecting all 360 and Ulrich's services.
Update: 06/25/2008 -- 08:48:59 (EST): Full service and functionality has been restored to the 360 and Ulrich’s services.

 
 
Title: MyJSTOR
Outage Date: 06/24/2008 -- 08:17:38 (EST)
Description: MySTOR not working via remote access; unable to set up account.
Update: 10/01/2008 -- 11:05:36 (EST): Remote Tech has fixed the problem.
 
 
Title: Sage Journals Online.
Outage Date: 06/19/2008 -- 14:54:43 (EST)
Description: SAGE is currently in the process of updating and loading back-file issues to the journals hosted on SAGE Journals Online. Please note that some of the back-file journal issues may be temporarily unavailable during this enhancement process. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.
Update: 10/10/2008 -- 09:11:04 (EST):
 
 
Title: Blackwell-Synergy
Outage Date: 06/19/2008 -- 09:16:47 (EST)
Description: Blackwell-Synergy will be unavailable from the end of business Friday, June 27, through Sat-Sun, June 28-29. After June 30th, Blackwell Synergy will no longer be available. As of Monday, June 30th 2008, all Blackwell journal content -- including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print -- will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience.
Update: 06/30/2008 -- 16:14:03 (EST): The maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Academic OneFile (Gale)
Outage Date: 06/05/2008 -- 11:41:35 (EST)
Description: Many journals from Gale are not available via Infotrac off-campus using the URL in Mirlyn. Try visiting the database (e.g. Academic OneFile) through Search Tools and then navigating to the journal.
Update: 07/21/2008 -- 10:38:35 (EST): These links should work off-campus now.
 
 
Title: Orbis Database
Outage Date: 06/02/2008 -- 08:42:34 (EST)
Description: The Orbis database is not available off-campus.
Update: 06/02/2008 -- 09:00:11 (EST): It is now available off-campus.
 
 
Title: IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Outage Date: 05/23/2008 -- 12:40:52 (EST)
Description: Planned outage: IEEE Xplore Digital Library will not be available from 2:00-3:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Please plan your use accordingly or go to http://lib.umich.edu/askus/ for help or additional information.
Update: 05/29/2008 -- 07:35:22 (EST):
 
 
Title: CSA Illumina
Outage Date: 05/09/2008 -- 17:49:56 (EST)
Description: Users can expect intermittent slow service Saturday and Sunday, May 10-11.
Update: 05/12/2008 -- 08:11:27 (EST):
 
 
Title: TracFED
Outage Date: 05/06/2008 -- 13:29:08 (EST)
Description: Database is moving servers. Access may be interrupted May 7, 9-11 PM.
Update: 05/08/2008 -- 07:47:41 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: SAE
Outage Date: 05/06/2008 -- 12:45:50 (EST)
Description: Full-text access within database temporarily disabled due to user abuse.
Update: 05/07/2008 -- 12:49:57 (EST): Access restored, save the two violating IP addresses (both on-campus).
 
 
Title: Wiley InterScience
Outage Date: 05/01/2008 -- 14:16:12 (EST)
Description: Wiley Interscience will conducting necessary maintenance work Sat., May 3, 2008, from 6:00-8:00 a.m. EDT.
Update: 05/05/2008 -- 09:31:27 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: Mirlyn: not printing
Outage Date: 05/01/2008 -- 12:58:02 (EST)
Description: Mirlyn is not printing search results nor individual records.
Update: 05/01/2008 -- 13:25:36 (EST): Fixed by Aleph-Support @ 1:22 Thursday May 1.
 
 
Title: Haworth Online Press
Outage Date: 04/29/2008 -- 15:15:35 (EST)
Description: Haworth Press seems to be experiencing technical difficulties--all journals provided by Haworth are currently unavailable.
Update: 04/30/2008 -- 08:05:38 (EST):
 
 
Title: SAI Global – ILI Publishing (www.ili-info.com)
Outage Date: 04/25/2008 -- 13:38:24 (EST)
Description: Web service will not be available between 10:00 pm. Friday, April 25, and 1:00 pm. Saturday, April 26, 2008, for scheduled maintenance.
Update: 04/30/2008 -- 07:49:30 (EST):
 
 
Title: Thesaurus in ERIC in CSA
Outage Date: 04/25/2008 -- 11:16:41 (EST)
Description: When you go to the thesaurus in ERIC in the CSA interface and enter a term to search (I tried story telling) you get the top and bottom of the page looking like it’s supposed to but you get no list of descriptors. This is for a search in the alphabetical index.

Update: 04/30/2008 -- 10:33:12 (EST): This works now.
 
 
Title: World Development Indicators
Outage Date: 04/17/2008 -- 16:49:32 (EST)
Description: Website not working.
Update: 04/17/2008 -- 17:29:12 (EST): Website now up and running.
 
 
Title: Blackwell-Synergy
Outage Date: 04/16/2008 -- 13:59:55 (EST)
Description: Blackwell-Synergy is asking for password when using Firefox; Internet Explorer users may not see the same problem.
Update: 04/22/2008 -- 09:28:46 (EST): Access restored.
 
 
Title: ProQuest
Outage Date: 04/16/2008 -- 11:26:01 (EST)
Description: ProQuest will be conducting three platform enhancements and will be unavailable on Saturday, April 19, from 10:00 pm to 12:00 a.m., and Saturday, April 26, from 10:00 p.m. until Sunday, April 27, at 10:00 a.m.
Update: 04/28/2008 -- 08:30:54 (EST): Maintenance period is over.
 
 
Title: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Outage Date: 04/15/2008 -- 13:11:55 (EST)
Description: ProQuest provides a redirect page when trying to access dissertation via title search (Power Search) in Search Tools and clicking MGetIt button.
Update: 05/06/2008 -- 13:38:03 (EST):
 
 
Title: Wiley InterScience
Outage Date: 04/09/2008 -- 17:42:08 (EST)
Description: Interruption of service.
Update: 04/10/2008 -- 07:57:30 (EST): From Wiley, 4/9/08: This message is to alert you that the previous interruption of Wiley InterScience service has been corrected. Access to all online content and functions should be fully restored.
 
 
Title: Naxos Music Library
Outage Date: 04/09/2008 -- 10:38:29 (EST)
Description: Access from off-campus, esp. with Macs, does not take user to Naxos but to login screen instead.
Update: 07/01/2008 -- 10:32:09 (EST):
 
 
Title: MyJSTOR (JSTOR)
Outage Date: 04/08/2008 -- 12:36:38 (EST)
Description: MyJSTOR (within JSTOR site) is not working via campus wireless network.
Update: 05/13/2008 -- 09:41:21 (EST): As of 4/15/08, JSTOR resolved the problem with authenticating MySTOR accounts (per JSTOR's own website).
 
 
Title: ProQuest
Outage Date: 04/02/2008 -- 07:39:06 (EST)
Description: ProQuest showing persistent error messages during past week: "ProQuest is unable to retrieve the search results at this time."
Update: 04/09/2008 -- 16:09:26 (EST): ProQuest said there was a hiccup in the system resulting in a corrupt cookie. Browser settings may have been the problem for the user.
 
 
Title: SpringerLink
Outage Date: 03/20/2008 -- 08:49:25 (EST)
Description: "Recommend This Book" auto-email feature not working.
Update: 12/04/2008 -- 08:35:51 (EST): Springer is planning to improve this feature. Spam filters may block some emails from being sent.
 
 
Title: USP DI updates on-line
Outage Date: 03/13/2008 -- 10:24:50 (EST)
Description: Site discontinued.
Update: 03/13/2008 -- 16:50:36 (EST): Site discontinued - Mirlyn record deleted.
 
 
Title: SAE Technical Papers
Outage Date: 03/11/2008 -- 15:00:00 (EST)
Description: Patron using PC cannot access SAE Technical Papers from off-campus.
Update: 04/15/2008 -- 07:42:41 (EST): Remote-tech was unable to duplicate problem; access working.
 
 
Title: IngentaConnect Titles: Applicable Analysis, Applied Financial Economics Letters
Outage Date: 02/28/2008 -- 11:54:17 (EST)
Description: There's problem loading full-text PDF files from these (and possibly) other IngentaConnect ejournals.
Update: 03/03/2008 -- 14:26:08 (EST): Ingentaconnect is not timing out anymore.
 
 
Title: Gale INFOTRAC databases
Outage Date: 02/19/2008 -- 10:35:04 (EST)
Description: Gale INFOTRAC database experiencing intermittent problems.
Update: 02/26/2008 -- 09:01:57 (EST): We haven't experienced problems with Gale recently.
 
 
Title: IEEE Xplore
Outage Date: 02/19/2008 -- 10:00:00 (EST)
Description: IEEE Xplore will be down for one (1.0) hour of testing, 10:00 a.m.EST - 11:00 a.m. EST, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008.
Update: 02/25/2008 -- 08:18:05 (EST): The maintenance period has passed.
 
 
Title: FirstSearch
Outage Date: 02/12/2008 -- 16:31:00 (EST)
Description: FirstSearch not exporting to EndNotes or RefWorks.
Update: 02/14/2008 -- 08:15:24 (EST): OCLC managed to fix problem with RefWorks; FirstSearch now exporting w/o problem to both Endnotes and Refworks.
 
 
Title: IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Outage Date: 02/02/2008 -- 09:00:00 (EST)
Description: IEEE Xplore Digital Library is scheduled for Saturday, 2 February. During this deployment, the system will be unavailable for up to eight hours beginning at approximately 9:00 AM EST. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Update: 02/04/2008 -- 09:55:42 (EST): Maintenance period over.
 
 
Title: IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Outage Date: 01/26/2008 -- 09:00:00 (EST)
Description: An upgrade of the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is scheduled for Saturday, 26 January. During this deployment, the system will be unavailable for up to up to eight hours beginning at approximately 9:00 AM ET. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Update: 01/28/2008 -- 09:29:06 (EST): Maintenance to be rescheduled at a later date.
 
 
Title: Ahd.com [American Hospital Directory]
Outage Date: 01/25/2008 -- 15:35:47 (EST)
Description: It's reported that we currently have no access due to abuse of license.
Update: 03/28/2008 -- 13:53:51 (EST): This record was deleted per the instructions of the selector.
 
 
Title: World Bank eLibrary
Outage Date: 01/25/2008 -- 11:03:08 (EST)
Description: We are not receiving access to this database.
Update: 01/25/2008 -- 13:51:21 (EST): World Bank has restored access.
 
 
Title: PsycINFO
Outage Date: 01/24/2008 -- 11:37:31 (EST)
Description: PsycINFO, along with other databases from EBSCO, seems to be off line.
Update: 01/24/2008 -- 16:38:54 (EST): EBSCO's ISP has regained its power and database access has returned.
 
 
Title: Gale InfoTrac Databases
Outage Date: 01/09/2008 -- 11:34:59 (EST)
Description: Gale is experiencing technical problems with their InfoTrac databases which is effecting user access. A resolution time-frame is unknown at this point.
Update: 01/16/2008 -- 10:28:25 (EST): No further reports of technical problems.
 
 
Title: Lexis-Nexis via Safari web-browser
Outage Date: 12/17/2007 -- 15:23:28 (EST)
Description: Attempts to search Lexis-Nexis Academic and other Lexis-Nexis products using the Safari web-browser on Mac OSX cause the web-browser to crash.
Update: 05/30/2008 -- 15:18:41 (EST): According to Lexis-Nexis:
Apple has released two software updates that correct the problem.
For users of OS 10.5: a March 2008 update to the OS 10.5.x operating system includes a Safari upgrade.
For users of OS 10.4: there is a Safari 3.1 update released earlier in April.
You can find the updates at http://www.apple.com/downloads/ or by using the Software Update feature on your Mac.
 
 
Title: ProQuest platform scheduled maintnenance
Outage Date: 12/15/2007 -- 22:00:00 (EST)
Description: The ProQuest database platform will be down for a 12-hour maintenance window starting at 22:00 on Sunday December 15th.

ProQuest interface products and Chadwyck-Healey products will be affected.
Update: 12/17/2007 -- 10:16:13 (EST): Maintenance period over.
 
 
Title: Ulrich's
Outage Date: 12/15/2007 -- 09:00:00 (EST)
Description: Ulrich's will be down for maintenance from 9 pm EST Friday Dec 15th until 9 pm EST Saturday Dec 16th.
Update: 12/17/2007 -- 10:14:23 (EST): Maintenance period over.
 
 
Title: IHS Specs & Standards
Outage Date: 12/07/2007 -- 17:15:00 (EST)
Description: Patron reports that remote access is requiring a login. This database is allowing access from off campus.
Update: 12/10/2007 -- 10:55:28 (EST): It works now.
 
 
Title: IEEE Explore
Outage Date: 12/06/2007 -- 16:20:00 (EST)
Description: On Thursday, 13 December, IEEE will perform planned maintenance to the IEEE Xplore digital library.

During the maintenance, users may experience up to two hours of downtime beginning at approximately 4:00PM (EST). A message will be posted to the IEEE Xplore home page to alert your users to the planned downtime. Please encourage your users to take this into account when they plan their research.
Update: 12/11/2007 -- 09:57:23 (EST): Maintenance period over.
 
 
Title: WorldCat
Outage Date: 12/05/2007 -- 13:30:00 (EST)
Description: FirstSearch stalls daily between 4am-7am.
Update: 03/04/2008 -- 12:30:21 (EST): We haven't had this problem in a while.
 
 
Title: Ebscohost - PDFs in Safari
Outage Date: 12/04/2007 -- 14:22:00 (EST)
Description: Safari is not properly opening PDF files from Ebscohost databases.
Update: 05/23/2008 -- 16:01:07 (EST): Safari is now properly opening PDF files from EBSCOhost databases.
 
 
Title: Mineralogical Abstracts
Outage Date: 12/03/2007 -- 12:15:00 (EST)
Description: This database is requiring a login.
Update: 12/05/2007 -- 08:53:30 (EST): Our access has been restored.
 
 
Title: Library Proxy server
Outage Date: 12/01/2007 -- 10:30:00 (EST)
Description: At approximately 10:30am EST, the library proxy server was reported as nonresponsive. Service was restored at 11:45am.
Update: 12/03/2007 -- 08:41:05 (EST):
 
 
Title: 19th-century music [0148-2076]
Outage Date: 11/12/2007 -- 16:07:05 (EST)
Description: (Via e-mail) We have no access currently at the Caliber web site. Proquest coverage is still working.
Update: 11/14/2007 -- 17:02:17 (EST): Access to current issues has been reinstated.
 
 
Title: Alexander Street Press databases (http://alexanderstreet.com)
Outage Date: 11/10/2007 -- 19:00:00 (EST)
Description: (Bulletin) 'All Alexander Street Press databases will be down for routine
maintenance and upgrades on Saturday, Nov. 10 from approximately
7:00pm-11pm EST.
Update: 11/12/2007 -- 12:43:32 (EST): Maintenance period over.
 
 
Title: AIAA Electronic Library (incl. Meeting Papers)
Outage Date: 11/06/2007 -- 13:00:07 (EST)
Description: (From AIAA) 'Users who search and attempt to download journal articles are receiving an error message. Our IT Department is working on this problem now, and I will notify you when the fix is made.'
Update: 11/06/2007 -- 14:45:06 (EST): Technical Problem has been resolved.
 
 
Title: UN Commodity Trade Statistics
Outage Date: 10/30/2007 -- 09:47:47 (EST)
Description: Currently allowing guest access. Information not available for subscription service.
Update: 11/29/2007 -- 14:17:29 (EST): No further reports about lack of access
 
 
Title: EbscoHost journals
Outage Date: 10/29/2007 -- 15:55:30 (EST)
Description: Electronic journals available via EbscoHost are not showing the MGetIt button/link.
Update: 10/30/2007 -- 09:09:15 (EST): Combined efforts late yesterday, got all of this working once again.
 
 
Title: UM-MEDSEARCH
Outage Date: 10/25/2007 -- 15:24:00 (EST)
Description: When starting a session in UM-MEDSEARCH, the following message is displayed at the top of the page, although poor performance was not replicated.

"Some clients are intermittently experiencing less than optimal performance on the Ovid platform. We are well aware of this issue, which occurred after a recent data center migration. In turn, we have our technology partner Perot Systems and our other strategic vendors fully engaged in resolving the problem and expect to have a resolution very soon. When fully operational, this state-of-the-art data center and associated services will make for better performance, redundancy, and stability in ongoing operations. We apologize for any inconvenience this temporary performance issue has caused."
Update: 10/31/2007 -- 16:12:47 (EST): System message has been removed and database seems to be operating as expected.
 
 
Title: Community of Science (COS) Patents database
Outage Date: 10/17/2007 -- 16:35:00 (EST)
Description: Is requiring a login.
Update: 10/18/2007 -- 11:28:04 (EST): Per the vendor: COS is discontinuing the Patents database. We suggest you use the USPTO site for patent searches.
This database has been removed from Mirlyn and the AAEL patents page.
 
 
Title: The Nation [0027-8378]
Outage Date: 10/10/2007 -- 09:26:16 (EST)
Description: (Via e-mail) Gale’s General Ref Center Gold database has incorrect bibliographic information regarding the journal The Nation. The record, although linking to the correct corresponding issues and articles, describes the magazine as a daily (it is a weekly), and the description is: “Magazine covering news in the James Bay Cree area of northern Quebec and Ontario in Canada.�


Update: 07/23/2008 -- 15:19:29 (EST): Gale has corrected the description and frequency information for this journal in their database.
 
 
Title: Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine [1476-7058]
Outage Date: 10/09/2007 -- 11:27:47 (EST)
Description: (Via e-mail) 'According to IngentaConnect, we have access to vol. 11 through vol. 18 (2005). But any article link that I have checked, beginning with Dec. 2003, does not link to full text and I get the message:

There was a error in delivering the fulltext - please report the below error :
NO Igorconfig - but we are supposed to proxy!

Update: 10/09/2007 -- 11:59:02 (EST): Access has been restored; databases have been updated
 
 
Title: Selected Ovid Applications
Outage Date: 10/06/2007 -- 21:00:00 (EST)
Description: Ovid has scheduled maintenance for Saturday evening, October 6 from 9 pm to midnight. The following resources will be inaccessible for all or part of this time:

Ovid SearchSolver®
Ovid LinkSolverâ„¢
Journals A-Z
Ovid PayPerView
Ovid PayPerView Deposit Accounts
Ovid Gateway Admin Tools

Update: 10/08/2007 -- 09:22:46 (EST): Maintenance period over
 
 
Title: Informaworld
Outage Date: 09/21/2007 -- 20:00:00 (EST)
Description: Please be advised that a period of scheduled maintenance is planned for
between 00:00 and 01:00 BST on Saturday 22nd September (app. 7pm-8pm EDT Friday, September 21st). This will cause some downtime of Informaworld during this period.
Update: 09/25/2007 -- 10:34:16 (EST): Maintenance period over.
 
 
Title: ISI Web of Knowledge
Outage Date: 09/13/2007 -- 17:31:20 (EST)
Description: ISI Web of Knowledge platform is down. This includes Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, Biosis, JCR, etc.
Update: 09/13/2007 -- 21:31:00 (EST): Working as of now.
 
 
Title: Oxford English Dictionary
Outage Date: 09/12/2007 -- 17:45:00 (EST)
Description: OED Online is experiencing technical difficulties that will prevent user access. The vendor is working to resolve the problem and hopes to have the site operating again shortly.
Update: 09/13/2007 -- 10:24:47 (EST):
 
 
Title: Oxford Reference Online
Outage Date: 09/11/2007 -- 14:02:00 (EST)
Description: Cannot access any ORO reference sources.
Update: 09/11/2007 -- 15:56:52 (EST): Oxford experienced a temporary outage on their end. It is working now.
 
 
Title: ATLASerials and ATLA Religion Databases
Outage Date: 09/10/2007 -- 17:00:00 (EST)
Description: Please be advised that ATLA plans to perform routine system maintenance on Monday, September 10, beginning at 5:00 p.m. EDT. It is possible, though not likely, that you will encounter an interruption of access to full text records on ATLASerials and ATLA Religion Databases with ATLASerials, between the hours of 5:00 and 7:00 EDT. On the first Monday of the following few months, ATLA will conduct routine maintenance during the same timeframe.
Update: 09/11/2007 -- 09:29:35 (EST): Maintenance period over.
 
 
Title: WilsonWeb
Outage Date: 09/07/2007 -- 10:55:03 (EST)
Description: Click on a link for HTML full text results in a blank display with options to print, save or email. Selecting print or save presents error messages. Email is theoretically allowed, but the email message never arrives. PDF access still works.
Update: 09/11/2007 -- 09:32:42 (EST): Back to normal operations.
 
 
Title: Leadership Library on the Internet
Outage Date: 09/05/2007 -- 11:37:09 (EST)
Description: Asking for log in and password when you try to access it.
Update: 09/13/2007 -- 09:03:54 (EST): This subscription lapsed and the records were be suppressed. We may or may not renew the subscription.
 
 
Title: ProQuest
Outage Date: 08/24/2007 -- 10:38:49 (EST)
Description: ProQuest was returning error messages Thursday evening, on August 23. The problem was resolved as of 11:30pm that evening.
Update: 08/24/2007 -- 15:31:07 (EST): Proquest seems to be ok...for now.
 
 
Title: Smithsonian Global Sound
Outage Date: 08/13/2007 -- 07:53:00 (EST)
Description: Mirlyn and SearchTools appear to be linking to a different resource.
Update: 08/16/2007 -- 08:30:19 (EST): Access has been restored.
 
 
Title: EconLit
Outage Date: 08/12/2007 -- 18:09:00 (EST)
Description: Links from SearchTools and Mirlyn don't link into the resource.
Update: 08/15/2007 -- 08:10:45 (EST): Databases have been updated.
 
 
Title: Safari Tech Books Online
Outage Date: 08/12/2007 -- 01:43:00 (EST)
Description: Resource requires login and password.
Update: 08/13/2007 -- 16:34:05 (EST): Access was restored after a mass downloading incident.
 
 
Title: LitFinder database
Outage Date: 08/06/2007 -- 13:33:00 (EST)
Description: The link to LitFinder in Mirlyn and SFX (Search Tools) prompts the user for a username and password.
Update: 11/29/2007 -- 14:16:11 (EST): Notation on suspension was added to Search tools
 
 
Title: Nature.com
Outage Date: 07/22/2007 -- 14:09:55 (EST)
Description: July 22nd, 2007 0400GMT-0600GMT

Database replacement: The nature.com database servers will be replaced with newer hardware. All NPG websites will be temporarily unavailable during this window.
Update: 07/23/2007 -- 09:51:02 (EST): maintenance period over
 
 
Title: Brill Online
Outage Date: 07/01/2007 -- 13:08:23 (EST)
Description: "We wish to inform you that on Monday 1 July 2007 we will be updating
Brill Online. In the course of that day, www.brillonline.nl will be
temporarily unavailable. During this update, which will take no longer
than 5 to 10 minutes, Brill Online cannot be accessed. Your access
should resume afterwards automatically."
Update: 07/05/2007 -- 09:10:58 (EST): maintenance period over
 
 
Title: MathSciNet
Outage Date: 06/28/2007 -- 14:21:02 (EST)
Description: Hangs when you try to access it until the browser times out.
Update: 06/28/2007 -- 14:28:42 (EST): It works now.
 
 
Title: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
Outage Date: 06/25/2007 -- 11:42:46 (EST)
Description: Asking for name and password for full-text access to articles from 2007, although we should have acces from 1998 onward.
Update: 06/26/2007 -- 13:16:37 (EST): We have access only to 1998-2006. Mirlyn and SFX corrected to reflect this.
 
 
Title: IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Outage Date: 06/21/2007 -- 15:00:00 (EST)
Description: Scheduled maintenance, June 21, 3 - 4 p.m.
Update: 06/22/2007 -- 09:20:50 (EST): maintenance period over
 
 
Title: Informaworld (Taylor & Francis)
Outage Date: 06/21/2007 -- 11:21:01 (EST)
Description: "Please be advised that a period of scheduled maintenance is planned for 00.00 to 02.00 BST (guess: 6am to 10am our time) on Tuesday 26th June. This may cause intermittent downtime. We apologize for any inconvenience caused."

informaworld team
support@informaworld.com

Update: 06/26/2007 -- 11:30:44 (EST): maintenance period over
 
 
Title: International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) [1528-3127]
Outage Date: 06/18/2007 -- 08:45:00 (EST)
Description: International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) is reported not accessible remotely.
Update: 06/18/2007 -- 15:36:07 (EST): Local databases up-to-date
 
 
Title: Eastview's Universal Databases
Outage Date: 06/15/2007 -- 14:00:00 (EST)
Description: The databases and information at
http://online.eastview.com and http://china.eastview.com
will be unavailable for up to 24 hours starting June 15, 2007 at 5:00 pm Central Daylight Time.
Update: 06/18/2007 -- 09:11:01 (EST): maintenance period over
 
 
Title: Economist Intelligence Unit
Outage Date: 06/12/2007 -- 11:24:00 (EST)
Description: Not accessible from China.
Update: 08/07/2007 -- 12:36:39 (EST): Almost two months from initial report; we'll assume that the proxy server change fixed the problem.
 
 
Title: Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
Outage Date: 06/01/2007 -- 00:00:00 (EST)
Description: Emergency network maintenance and upgrades are being performed on Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) on Friday June 1st, 2007 between 12:00am–12:15am. (Eastern) During this window you may experience intermittent connectivity issues to your online subscriptions of Gale Virtual Reference Library. (GVRL) This maintenance will not affect any other subscriptions to Thomson Gale products.
Update: 06/01/2007 -- 12:20:20 (EST): maintenance period over
 
 
Title: IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Outage Date: 05/30/2007 -- 14:00:00 (EST)
Description: IEEE Xplore Digital Library will be unavailable from 2:00pm-3:00pm EDT on 30 May due to scheduled maintenance.
Update: 05/31/2007 -- 09:32:04 (EST): maintenance period over
 
 
Title: Peeters Online Journals and Peeters Online Bibliographies
Outage Date: 05/22/2007 -- 12:15:26 (EST)
Description: "Due to maintenance works to our network, access to our website, to Peeters Online Journals and to Peeters Online Bibliographies can be interrupted on Wednesday May 23, 2007."
Update: 05/24/2007 -- 09:31:26 (EST): maintenance period over
 
 
Title: Mirlyn
Outage Date: 05/21/2007 -- 08:12:30 (EST)
Description: Mirlyn is down. Support staff are working to correct the problem.
Update: 05/21/2007 -- 09:08:03 (EST): Outage has been repaired.
 
 
Title: Shoah Visual History Archive
Outage Date: 05/14/2007 -- 13:45:00 (EST)
Description: Shoah Visual History Archive is not able to show video.
Update: 05/14/2007 -- 20:50:04 (EST):
 
 
Title: Nature
Outage Date: 05/14/2007 -- 11:00:55 (EST)
Description: The Nature website is experiencing technical problems. Nature says they are working to restore access and suggest you try again later in the day.
Update: 05/14/2007 -- 14:14:06 (EST): web site back working
 
 
Title: Alexander Street Press products
Outage Date: 05/10/2007 -- 09:41:03 (EST)
Description: "We are experiencing technical difficulties on one of our servers. This may impact web-based access to all of your Alexander Street Press products."
Update: 05/10/2007 -- 13:48:45 (EST): Access restored.
 
 
Title: LexisNexis Academic Search -> Business News -> Industry News
Outage Date: 05/08/2007 -- 13:50:00 (EST)
Description: In LexisNexis Academic Search, if you choose Business News and then limit to Industry News, all searches give an error message that "We are unable to process any searches at this time. Please wait a few minutes and try again. We apologize for any inconvenience." This has been happening since at least 1 p.m.
Update: 10/24/2007 -- 16:07:24 (EST): LexisNexis revised search interface and this type of tree search is no longer available.
 
 
Title: Grove Dictionary of Art, Grovemusic
Outage Date: 04/26/2007 -- 11:35:00 (EST)
Description: Grove dictionaries are currently unavailable.
Update: 04/26/2007 -- 12:47:28 (EST): access has returned to both resources
 
 
Title: Grove Art Online, Grove Music Online
Outage Date: 04/18/2007 -- 17:29:33 (EST)
Description: Publisher/platform (Oxford Online Products) reports intermittent problems that may prevent access to Grove Music Online and Grove Art Online.
Update: 04/19/2007 -- 13:12:26 (EST): Problems have been fixed and access restored.
 
 
Title: WorldSciNet (World Scientific) ejournals system maintenance/upgrade
Outage Date: 04/18/2007 -- 11:41:18 (EST)
Description: Online journals from World Scientific (worldSciNet platform) may experience intermittent disruptions of service on April 18th.
Update: 04/19/2007 -- 09:25:06 (EST): upgrade period over
 
 
Title: Guidestar
Outage Date: 04/18/2007 -- 09:06:55 (EST)
Description: Guidestar may be having problems from some on-campus IP addresses, requiring a UM login instead of connecting directly.
Update: 08/22/2007 -- 16:40:08 (EST): Web site appears to be working normally.
 
 
Title: Heart (access via http://heart.bmjjournals.com)
Outage Date: 04/04/2007 -- 10:53:45 (EST)
Description: Access to full text for latest 12 months only (i.e., currently no access before May 2006). Mirlyn and E-journals indicate we should have 1997-
Update: 04/06/2007 -- 09:23:02 (EST): registration issue resolved; SFX link corrected
 
 
Title: Psychology Today [0033-3107]
Outage Date: 03/30/2007 -- 10:07:00 (EST)
Description: Psychology Today via Infotrac: September 1986 issue fulltext is missing.
Update: 06/19/2007 -- 09:41:18 (EST): Issue now posted on Gale site
 
 
Title: ASEE Prism
Outage Date: 03/21/2007 -- 16:34:00 (EST)
Description: Several issues are missing from various years. It's easiest to see which issues we can access if you go through SearchTools.
Update: 05/22/2008 -- 09:31:39 (EST): Mirlyn and MGet It have been updated to reflect the missing issues.
 
 
Title: African Studies Companion Online, 3rd ed.
Outage Date: 03/21/2007 -- 14:11:00 (EST)
Description: Access to the 3rd edition has expired. We should soon have access to the 4th edition.
Update: 04/20/2007 -- 14:16:35 (EST): we now have access to the 4th ed. see: http://www.africanstudiescompanion.com/online/index.shtml
 
 
Title: Original Sources
Outage Date: 03/21/2007 -- 11:18:00 (EST)
Description: Resource requires username and password for access.
Update: 03/26/2007 -- 11:21:50 (EST): no more access; Search Tools updated
 
 
Title: Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage database
Outage Date: 03/15/2007 -- 01:04:24 (EST)
Description: Access from medical campus is reported to be unavailable.
Update: 03/19/2007 -- 12:50:29 (EST): Per Kresge Business Administration Library: users should access through the Search Tools/Find Database area and avoid other links that send the user through a Business proxy which could result in access failure
 
 
Title: World Bank e-Library
Outage Date: 03/11/2007 -- 16:40:00 (EST)
Description: Some books from the World Bank e-Library can not be reached via the URLs in Mirlyn. Full text appears to still be viewable if you go directly to the World Bank e-Library via Search Tools. Select advanced search and search by title.
Update: 03/16/2007 -- 10:57:40 (EST): The updating project for World Bank e-library titles is now complete and all titles should have access.
 
 
Title: IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Outage Date: 03/09/2007 -- 14:00:00 (EST)
Description: The IEEE Xplore Digital Library is scheduled for an upgrade on Friday, March 9th. During this deployment, the system will be unavailable for up to three hours beginning at 2:00pm EST.
Update: 03/12/2007 -- 10:16:34 (EST): Operation over.
 
 
Title: Science Direct and Scopus
Outage Date: 03/03/2007 -- 06:30:00 (EST)
Description: Scopus and Science Direct will be unavailable Saturday, March 3 starting at 6:30.
Update: 03/07/2007 -- 13:48:36 (EST):
 
 
Title: Thomson Gale databases
Outage Date: 02/16/2007 -- 10:01:57 (EST)
Description: They will be performing network maintenance and upgrades on Sunday February 25th, 2007 between 5:00am - 11:00am. (Eastern) During this window we may experience intermittent disruptions in accessing your online subscriptions. TG are not anticipating a system outage for the duration of this maintenance.
Update: 02/26/2007 -- 09:56:10 (EST):
 
 
Title: Safari Tech books
Outage Date: 02/15/2007 -- 13:53:09 (EST)
Description: Currently asking for login/password when you try to read a book, even if you've authenticated.
Update: 02/15/2007 -- 14:55:36 (EST): Resource is fine. Our subscription has a rolling 3-year window, so as of 1/1/2007 we no longer had access to anything published prior to 2005.
 
 
Title: Image servers
Outage Date: 02/14/2007 -- 17:00:00 (EST)
Description: At 5:00pm EST on Wednesday, February 14, the servers that host image and non-public text resources will be taken down for maintenance on a storage subsystem.

The expected outage time is approximately 1 hour.

Affected sites and collections include, but are not limited to:

* ACLS History E-Book Project
* Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
* Early English Books Online
* Encoded Text Services
* HRAF Archaeology and Ethnography
* Image Services
* LLMC-Digital Collections
* Middle English Compendium (MEC)
* Old English Corpus (OEC)
* Pictures of Record
* Radical Scatters (Emily Dickinson)
Update: 02/15/2007 -- 13:06:38 (EST):
 
 
Title: SAE Digital Library
Outage Date: 02/02/2007 -- 10:05:00 (EST)
Description: Database is unavailable.
Update: 02/05/2007 -- 16:06:57 (EST): Access has been restored.
 
 
Title: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders (1460-6984)
Outage Date: 01/29/2007 -- 17:00:00 (EST)
Description: Vol. 35, no. 2, 2000,
"Prevalence and natural history of primary speech and language delay: findings from a systematic review of the literature", not currently available.

Update: 05/29/2008 -- 07:57:19 (EST): Check on 5/29/08 shows that access to article is now available.
 
 
Title: Foundations in Social Neuroscience
Outage Date: 01/15/2007 -- 14:55:00 (EST)
Description: Database reports internal error: Can't find copyright page.
Update: 01/23/2007 -- 17:57:07 (EST): This is now working.
 
 
Title: Naxos Music Library
Outage Date: 01/10/2007 -- 14:40:17 (EST)
Description: Some of their services may be unreachable or unusually slow due to cable connection disruption caused by earth quakes in Taiwan.
Update: 03/07/2007 -- 13:59:22 (EST): Naxos Music Library (Streaming Audio Services) via our Music Library is working.
 
 
Title: Index to Current Urban Documents
Outage Date: 01/10/2007 -- 10:40:26 (EST)
Description: This index is currently unavailable through Search Tools.
Update: 01/11/2007 -- 11:02:00 (EST): The index is now available through a new domain.
 
 
Title: MBooks
Outage Date: 01/08/2007 -- 08:00:00 (EST)
Description: The MBooks service has been experiencing periodic outages today (since early this morning). Pages may fail to appear, or the service itself may appear to be unreachable. This behavior is expected to continue as the problem is investigated.

The system will be available at times, but we do not yet have an estimate for a complete resolution of the problem.
Update: 03/19/2007 -- 12:55:39 (EST): Basic stability restored
 
 
Title: All Gale Group http://www.galegroup.com/
Outage Date: 01/02/2007 -- 10:40:00 (EST)
Description: All Thompson Gale online resources are unavailable.
Update: 01/03/2007 -- 10:44:17 (EST): Gale is up and running.
 
 
Title: RLG Eureka databases
Outage Date: 12/20/2006 -- 11:22:00 (EST)
Description: All Eureka databases are experiencing sporadic connection failures. There is no timetable for a fix but the problem is expected to be short-term.
Update: 12/20/2006 -- 13:21:55 (EST): Service restored.
 
 
Title: Making of the Modern World (GaleNet)
Outage Date: 12/19/2006 -- 11:26:00 (EST)
Description: Following the link in Mirlyn for a MOME title
(e.g. De agricultura omnibusque plantarum & animalium generibus libri XII conomi studioso & medico uerumetiam philosopho aliquid hinc accessurum)
resulted in this error:
"Unauthorized GaleNet Access
You do not have access to this product. Please call your Electronic
Sales Specialist at 1-800-877-4253"
 
 
Title: The navigator: containing directions for navigating the Monongahela, Alleghany, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers, with an ample account of these much admired waters ... and a concise description of their towns ... (8th ed.)
Outage Date: 12/18/2006 -- 12:53:02 (EST)
Description: Mirlyn link leads to "Unauthorized GaleNet Access" page.
Update: 08/06/2007 -- 14:35:36 (EST): access has been verified
 
 
Title: SFX - online journal linking
Outage Date: 12/16/2006 -- 21:00:00 (EST)
Description: SFX Journal Linking is down (probably related to the SearchTools outage, below). To check online availability for an article, look up the _journal name_ in Mirlyn (http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu). Then click the link to the electronic journal, if it's available, and search or browse issues to find your article.
Update: 12/17/2006 -- 10:38:47 (EST): Reported to be working again at 9:39 a.m.
 
 
Title: Searchtools
Outage Date: 12/16/2006 -- 18:00:00 (EST)
Description: Searchtools is out of order - staff are working to repair it. For now, doing an advanced search in Mirlyn (http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu) for the name of your database and the phrase "electronic resource" in quotes, can often get you to the database directly.
Update: 12/17/2006 -- 10:38:14 (EST): Reported to be working again at 9:39 a.m.
 
 
Title: Shoah Visual History Archive
Outage Date: 12/15/2006 -- 14:58:26 (EST)
Description: The Shoah Visual History Archive webserver will be down this weekend : Friday, Dec.15, 9pm to Sunday, Dec.17 5pm EST.
Update: 02/26/2007 -- 10:00:51 (EST):
 
 
Title: Mirlyn
Outage Date: 12/15/2006 -- 14:12:06 (EST)
Description: The Mirlyn system will be taken down for regularly scheduled maintenance Sunday December 17, 2006, 08:00 - 08:30 EST.
Update: 02/26/2007 -- 09:59:38 (EST):
 
 
Title: ProQuest
Outage Date: 11/26/2006 -- 23:02:53 (EST)
Description: Proquest is down.
Update: 11/26/2006 -- 23:11:52 (EST): Cleared cookies and the problem went away.
 
 
Title: Economist Intelligence Unit
Outage Date: 11/26/2006 -- 22:35:31 (EST)
Description: Access to parts of EIU Data Services require a login and password. Searches using CityData, CountryData and Market Indicators and Forecasts all eventually ask for a user name and password once all selections have been made and the continue button is clicked. Also the link to "Combination of CountryData and Market Indicators" gives an error message when clicked.
Update: 08/06/2007 -- 11:36:25 (EST): current access has been verified
 
 
Title: Journal of Technology in Human Services (via Haworth Press) [1522-8835]
Outage Date: 11/20/2006 -- 10:05:26 (EST)
Description: Currently get an error when trying to access this journal online.
Update: 08/02/2007 -- 16:01:58 (EST): Access is available and now complete
 
 
Title: Wire Journal International [0277-4275]
Outage Date: 11/13/2006 -- 15:50:00 (EST)
Description: Certain issues published in 2005 and 2006 are missing when accessing Wilson Select Plus from MIRLYN or from Search Tools
Update: 06/11/2007 -- 16:56:25 (EST): 2005 and 2006 issues accessible
 
 
Title: Brepolis
Outage Date: 11/13/2006 -- 10:10:01 (EST)
Description: