trico libraries news & notes

JSTOR linking problems

Johanna Riordan — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:20:08 +0000

JSTOR has been having sporadic linking problems over the last few weeks. We are aware of this issue, as are JSTOR, who are working on resolving it.

If the FindIt menu leads you to a JSTOR error message, please search within JSTOR for the article you want, and you will most likely find it. If you have problems, please feel free to let us know via the Report a Technical Issue link on the FindIt menu and we will do our best to help you.

Thanks for your patience while JSTOR corrects this problem.

Radical Chapters: How Pacifist Roy Kepler Changed the World

pharris1 — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:22:39 +0000

Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park, CA was long the hub of literary bohemians, counterculture musicians, and those in search of a good read. It was one of the most influential, independent bookstores in the history of America. Kepler’s created a community space which particularly fed the minds of young beatniks like Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, and Willie Legate. The store’s owner, Roy Kepler, was a radical pacifist, World War II conscientious objector, anti-nuclear activist, influential member of the War Resisters League, activist against the war in Vietnam , and a pioneer in the “paperback” revolution in the middle of the twentieth century.

Michael Doyle is the author of Radical Chapters Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback Revolution. Using resources from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection and other sources he will speak about Kepler and his decades-long fight for social justice, the independent bookstore movement, and creating a vibrant community. Doyle is a reporter in the Washington, DC, bureau of the McClatchy newspaper chain. He holds a master’s degree in government from Johns Hopkins University and a master of studies in law from Yale Law School, where he was a Knight Journalism Fellow.

Popular Reading Room, McCabe Library
7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Reception to follow talk
Open to the public

ProQuest Maintenance Window – September 29, 2012

Johanna Riordan — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:52:04 +0000

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on Saturday, September 29, 2012. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance to install the latest enhancements to the ProQuest platform. The window will take place from Saturday, September 29, 2012, at 22:00 ET to Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 10:00 ET. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

Products on the ProQuest platform
Products on ProQuest Congressional

ProQuest Maintenance Window – September 22, 2012

Johanna Riordan — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:12:48 +0000

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on Saturday, September 22, 2012. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance to install the latest enhancements to the ProQuest platform. The window will take place from Saturday, September 22, 2012, at 22:00 ET to Sunday, September 23, 2012 at 10:00 ET. See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.

The following products will be unavailable during these windows:

Products on the ProQuest platform
Products on ProQuest Congressional

Scheduled outage and platform improvements on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect, Scopus & Hub

Johanna Riordan — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:11:49 +0000

ScienceDirect, Scopus, Hub, Applications, SciVal, Journals Consult and the Admin Tool are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 19 hours beginning Saturday, August 25th, 2012 for scheduled maintenance for a new release.

What are the changes you will see with this new release?

ScienceDirect:    Effortless access to relevant information thanks to a new design for journal article
and book chapter pages as well as improved user experience for RSS feeds, image
search, and other features.
Scopus:               Easy updates with Alerts Features functionality improvement.
Hub:                    Faster and friendlier search capability through several new features.

Please click here to find out the details of the new features per each product

The downtime by region is expected as follows:

New York: Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 7:30 AM EDT until Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 2:30 AM EDT (UTC-4 hours)
Singapore: Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 7:30 PM SGT until Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM SGT (UTC+8 hours)
Corresponding UTC (GMT): Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 11:30 until Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 06:30

We encourage you to share this information with your users to minimize the impact of the outage to their research and teaching schedule.

We apologize for the inconvenience while we improve your Elsevier products.

Kind regards,

The SciVerse Team

Journal Title and other new search options added to new Tripod’s Home tab

slamm1 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:38:38 +0000

We are continuing to work on new Tripod to add features, enhancements, and address issues. Just today we launched the ability to start a journal title search from the Home tab. Running this search will push you over to the Books & More tab where the results will be displayed. In addition, we have enabled In Abstract and ISSN searching of Article tab content from the Home tab as well.

Happy Searching!

Laurie, Kate, Spencer, Berry, Dawn and Rich

Scheduled maintenance & downtime on Alexander Street Press collections, Sun. 5/20 10am-3pm ET

Former Staff — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:25:34 +0000

There will be scheduled maintenance on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 between the hours of 10:00 am and 3:00 pm EST / UTC-5. There will be an estimated downtime of 5 hours for all Alexander Street products. Thank you for your understanding.

ProQuest maintenance window Sat-Sun 5/5-5/6

Former Staff — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:26:15 +0000

Please note that ProQuest has announced a 12-hour maintenance window from 10pm EDT on Saturday, 5/5 through 10am EDT on Sunday, 5/6.

This maintenance window affects products on the ProQuest, Chadwyck-Healey, and CSA Illumina platforms. These resources may be inaccessible during the maintenance window. Please plan accordingly (check out the Subject Portal to identify alternative resources during that time) — thanks!

UPDATE: ‘Articles’ Tripod tab and bX recommendations RESTORED

Former Staff — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:30:33 +0000

The ‘Articles’ tag in Tripod and bX recommendations in the FindIt menu have been restored. Thank you for your understanding.

Original post:

The ‘Articles’ tab in Tripod and bX recommendations in the FindIt menu are currently unavailable. These services are supplied by a third party vendor; they are aware of the problem and are currently working to restore these services. Thank you for your patience.

UPDATE: EbscoHost platform access restored

Former Staff — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:11:27 +0000

Access to the EbscoHost platform has been fully restored. Thank you for your patience.

Original post from 27 March 2012:

From Ebsco support: “Due to routine maintenance currently underway, we are experiencing temporary service interruptions for EBSCOhost and EDS users.

We apologize for this inconvenience and assure you that our engineering team is working on this top priority to restore service as soon as possible.”