Proquest Ebook Central - back to normal

Ebooks from Ebook Central seem to be back to normal following yesterday's issues. 

Please let us know if you have any further problems.

Proquest Ebook Central problem

We are currently having an issue accessing ebooks on the Proquest Ebook Central platform. We are urgently investigating this.

Ebook Central problems update (“Sorry, your institution does not allow access to ProQuest Ebook Central from your current IP address”)

ProQuest have not completely solved this problem, but they have come up with a fix.

If you see the error “Sorry, your institution does not allow access to ProQuest Ebook Central from your current IP address”, it is because of a specific cookie on your device. If you go to https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/clearcookie/clearcookie.html, you can clear this cookie and should be able to proceed normally.

Ebook Central - “Sorry, your institution does not allow access to ProQuest Ebook Central from your current IP address.”

We are getting reports of users seeing this error message when trying to access ebooks from Ebook Central

We are waiting for ProQuest to fix this, in the meantime they suggest 

1. Clear your web browser history, cache and cookies
2. Try an incognito web browser window
3. Try an alternative web browser

 

Brtiish Nursing Database/ProQuest problem

There is currently a problem with access to the the ProQuest databases platform, which for us mostly means British Nursing Database. There is an alternative link you can use for BND here. 

ProQuest scheduled maintenance, Sunday, 16 January 2022 - ebooks and British Nursing Database

ProQuest have scheduled maintenance for Sunday, 16 January 2022, 3am - 11am.

Ebooks on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform may be unavailable during this time.

The British Nursing Database will also be affected.

ProQuest downtime 3am 25th July - 1pm 26th July

ProQuest have planned maintenace for this weekend and some resources will be unavilable.

Ebooks from Ebook Central - this includes any ebooks with http://ebookcentral.proquest.com in the URL

Databases on the ProQuest Platform - including British Nursing Database

ProQuest Ebook Central downtime Saturday 26th June

Due to scheduled maintenance, ProQuest Ebook Central will be unavailable on Saturday 26 June 2021 10:00 am - 6:00 pm EDT. This will affect all of our ebooks with ebookcentral.proquest.com in the URL

ProQuest Product maintenance downtime: Sunday 31st January 2021

ProQuest will be taking up to an eight-hour maintenance window beginning Sunday 31st January 2021 from 3am for 8 hours to upgrade infrastructure, enhance security, and maintain reliability on many ProQuest products. During this maintenance window, the following products will be temporarily unavailable:

Ebooks from Ebook Central - this includes any ebooks with http://ebookcentral.proquest.com in the URL

Databases on the ProQuest Platform - including British Nursing Database

ProQuest Ebook Central downtime 27th June : 5:00pm - 8:00pm

ProQuest have warned us they will be performing maintenance on the Ebook Central platform on 27th June, 5:00pm - 8:00pm. Proquest ebooks will be unavailable during this period. This will affect ebooks with ebookcentral.proquest.com in the URL.

ProQuest Ebook Central downtime 21st December 2am-12pm

ProQuest are going to be doing some maintenance on their Ebook Central platform from 2am to 12pm on 21st December. Ebooks with http://ebookcentral.proquest.com in the URL will be unavailable during this time.

ProQuest ebooks downtime 19th October 5pm-8pm

We have been warned that ProQuest will be performing maintenance on ProQuest Ebook Central on 19th October, 5pm-8pm. During this time ebooks with URLs containing ebookcentral.proquest.com may be unavailable.

ProQuest Ebook Central downtime planned, Saturday 20th July 5pm-8pm

We've been warned of planned downtime for ProQuest Ebook Central, on Saturday 20th July from 5pm to 8pm. This will affect all ebooks with ebookcentral.proquest.com in the URL.

ProQuest Ebook Central downtime Saturday 20th April 5pm-7pm

We've been warned of downtime for ebooks on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform, on Saturday 20th April from 5pm to 7pm. This only affects ebooks with ebookcentral.proquest.com in the URL.

ProQuest Ebook Central downtime Saturday 20th April 5pm-7pm

We've been warned of downtime for the ProQuest Ebook Central platform on Saturday 20th April 5pm-7pm.

This only affects ebooks from ProQuest with aq UR beginning with http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/

ProQuest and RefWorks downtime Saturday 20th January 3am - 11am

We've been warned of downtime for ProQuest products including Ebook Central, ProQuest databases and Refworks (old and new) on 20th January 3am - 11am.

ProQuest Ebook Central scheduled downtime January 5th & January 20th 2019

ProQuest will be performing maintenance on Ebook Central in January 2019.

• January 5: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
• January 20: 3:00am - 11:00am

 

 

Ebook Central (ProQuest ebooks) downtime 27th October 5pm - 6.30pm

We've been warned of downtime for Ebook Central (ProQuest ebooks) on 27th October 2018 from 5pm to approximately 6.30pm

ProQuest downtime 3am - 11am Sunday 19th August

We've been warned of downtime for all ProQuest products from 3am to 11am, Sunday 19th August. This includes

• ProQuest ebooks
• ProQuest databases, including ASSIA and British Nursing Database
• RefWorks

ProQuest/RefWorks downtime Sunday 28th January 3am-11am

ProQuest will be taking up to an eight-hour maintenance window beginning on Sunday 28th January 3am-11am (UK time) to upgrade infrastructure, enhance security, and maintain reliability . During this time access to all ProQuest resources will not be available and users will be re-directed to a webpage explaining the scheduled maintenance.

This will affect our access to  ASSIA and British Nursing Database. RefWorks (old and new versions) will also be unavailable.