System Downtime for WorldCat Services

Over the next few weeks, as OCLC continues our cataloging and resource sharing migration projects, regularly scheduled system downtimes will be altered. OCLC services that rely on WorldCat* will be unavailable at the following times. Here are the plans for system downtime with respect to WorldCat Services*:

• Sunday, May 29, 2:00 am-6:00 am EST - all systems will be unavailable for normal system maintenance
• Saturday and Sunday, June 4-5 - all systems will be available throughout the weekend, no maintenance is scheduled
• Friday, June 10, 11:00 pm EST - Monday, June 13, 12:00 am (midnight) EST WorldCat Resource Sharing and OCLC ILLiad will be unavailable to accommodate database migration
• Saturday, June 11, 1:00 am - 2:00 am EST - all systems will be unavailable for shortened system maintenance

* WorldCat Services include the following:
      OCLC FirstSearch
      WorldCat Resource Sharing
      OCLC ILLiad
      OCLC Union List
     WorldCat Collection Analysis
     WorldCat Partner Program

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Please contact your regional service provider (http://www.oclc.org/contacts/regional/) or OCLC Customer Support (1-800-848-5800 or support@oclc.org) with questions.

Database Downtime

Early this Thursday morning (12:30am), systems will be upgrading MySQL to a new version because of a security concern.

During the upgrade (s/b less than one hour), the electronic resources search will not be available and, of course, none of the administrative functions will work.

While the database server is down, the search pages will display a message advising users to locate resources using the browse lists (alpha and subjects) instead of the search.

Changes to the Emerald Website

From: Emerald
Date: Wed May 18, 2005 03:06:55 US/Pacific
To: Emerald Administration List
Subject: Emerald Admin No 53 - Changes to the Emerald Website
Reply-To: Emerald

Changes to the Emerald Website
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited will shortly be launching a new platform
for our product and service delivery - Insight. More information is
available at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/insight.

To ensure a smooth transition from the current web site to the new one, we
have had to temporarily withdraw the following services:

Emerald Admin Section
We have temporarily withdrawn this service. If you need to update your
subscriber profile to, for example, change your IP addresses, please
contact Emerald Customer Support (support@emeraldinsight.com). We will
make the necessary changes on both the current and new platforms.

Emerald Saved Search E-Mail Alerts
We have also withdrawn the saved search alerting services. No new saved
searches can be set up, although alerts already set up will continue to be
sent.

Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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OCLC System Downtime

To allow for system maintenance the following OCLC services will be unavailable for approximately 6 hours from 2:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. US Eastern Time Sunday, May 22, 2005.

OCLC Connexion (including CatExpress)
OCLC Cataloging (Passport for Cataloging, CatME, CJK and Arabic)
OCLC Z39.50 Cataloging
OCLC FirstSearch
WorldCat Resource Sharing
ILLiad
OCLC Union List
WorldCat Collection Analysis
WorldCat Partner Program
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
For support questions, first contact your regional service provider (U.S. Network or OCLC Service Center). If further assistance is needed from OCLC, contact the OCLC Customer Support Department via phone (USA 1-800-848-5800; International 1-614-793-8682) or via e-mail (support@oclc.org).

CSA Illumina Enhancement: New Browse Functionality

Dear CSA Customers,

A new browse capability has been introduced for those customers who subscribe to any of CSA's Full-Text collections: SAGE Full-Text collections, PsycARTICLES, and/or BioOne Full-Text. The new Browse tab allows you to browse through an alphabetical listing of all full-text journals to which you subscribe, or you can limit journal browsing to a single collection. You can also enter terms in the 'Find a Journal by Title' query box to locate a specific journal title.

Clicking on a journal title displays a list of all available volumes and issues for that particular journal - the journal archive. Clicking on an issue here takes you to that table of contents with links to the full-text articles. At the bottom of each table of contents and the journal archive display, additional search features are available for use.

Please note: This new Browse tab is present only if you subscribe to full-text collections on the CSA Illumina platform.

Please email support@csa.com if you have any questions.

Amy Mather
Senior Project Specialist, Web Development CSA

RLG online services interruption Friday, May 11-13

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jennifer_Hartzell@notes.rlg.org
Date: Wed May 11, 2005 17:58:43 US/Pacific
To: RLG Services Discussion Forum
Subject: [rlg-services-forum] May 11 post-migration update
Reply-To: RLG Services Discussion Forum



RLG members and customers: A May 11 update was
posted 90 minutes ago to
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=400

What's new:

** ALL users
-- service interruptions *change*: The Friday
May 13 9pm - midnight (PDT) interruption will
affect *all* online services, including this
Web site, *except* for RedLightGreen.

Haworth press problems

We are currently having problems with Haworth Press journal access. The problems have been reported and Haworth Press is working on fixing them. We will post again when the problems are all fixed.