Jisc Journal Archives unavailable Tuesday 30 April, 8-9am

There will be maintenance on Jisc Journal Archives on Tuesday 30 April 2013, which means the platform will be unavailable from 8:00-9:00am.

Web of Knowledge maintenance this weekend (27th-29th April)

Access to Web of Knowledge will be disrupted over the weekend, beginning at 11pm on Saturday 27th April. It should be back to normal by 2am on Monday 29th.

Zetoc - new screencast videos

The people at Zetoc, the British Library's Table of Contents service, have produced some helpful videos to get you started. Topics include Introduction to Zetoc, Authentication to Zetoc, Zetoc Search and Zetoc Alerts.

Dawsonera upgrade Wednesday 24th April

The Dawsonera ebook platform will be getting a new look from Wednesday 24th April. There will be some disruption to the service during Wednesday evening:

"dawsonera will see two periods of 10 minutes downtime on the evening of the 24^th April at 17:00 BST and 19:00 BST.  At approximately 22:00 BST users will start to see the new version of the reader portal. There should be no downtime while this happens, however users that are on the platform at the time of the switchover will be logged off. When they log back on, they will be on the new reader portal and will be greeted by a message welcoming them to the new look dawsonera".

Following this, there will be a period of disruption to the search function within Dawsonera, which may last until 6pm on Thursday 25th. This will not affect your access to ebooks via DISCOVER or the library catalogue.

XpertHR login problem fixed

The problem we were having with login to the XpertHR database has now been fixed - please let us know if you have any further problems.

XpertHR database unavailable

The XpertHR database is currently unavailable. We have contacted our supplier and hope to have access restored as soon as possible.

Cochrane Library database - unavailable 9pm Saturday 13th to 9am Sunday 14th

We've had warning of maintenance planned on the Cochrane Library database between 9pm on Saturday 13th April and  9am on Sunday 14th. Anyone trying to access the site will get a “Site not found” or similar message.