Scholars Portal unavailable Saturday June 18th, 6-7 am

From: Deborah Holmes-Wong
Date: Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:32:11 US/Pacific
To: isd-rs@isd.usc.edu
Subject: Scholars Portal Unavailable Saturday Morning June 18th 6 - 7 am Los Angeles Time

The Scholars Portal will be unavailable Saturday morning June 18th from 6 am - 7 am Los Angeles Time for routine maintenance. If you notice any hiccups, in the system on Saturday or Sunday please send and email to usc-support@fdusa.com. Thanks.

Deborah Holmes-Wong, Project Manager
Scholars Portal

Proquest new release

Dear ProQuest Customer,

The next ProQuest release is scheduled for June 11th . To perform the changes, we are scheduling a maintenance window during a low-usage period. The maintenance window will begin Saturday June 11, 2005 at 22:00 EDT (02:00 GMT) and end Sunday June 12th at 02:00 EDT (06:00 GMT). (See below for more detail.)

This release will have exciting new enhancements including:

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and ABI/INFORM Global databases will now support browsing dissertations by subject and location

Enhancements to our "More like this" feature making it easier to find and use.
• The feature will be displayed automatically at the bottom of the article page and will always be open
• A link to More like this will be added to the top of the full text article page to further promote this feature
Author Profiles Enhancement - Profiles that include dissertations will be hyperlinked to the best available format for that dissertation.
Two new citations styles will be available: Harvard and Vancouver.
• Harvard is an author-date style similar to Chicago/Turabian
• Vancouver will be listed as a new option
To enhance support for our customers outside of the United States, ProQuest will add four new interface languages
• Italian
• Russian
• Polish
• Norwegian
As well as ten new article translation languages bringing the total number of languages to twelve
• ­Spanish
• ­Portuguese
• ­French
• ­German
• Italian
• ­Russian
• ­Polish
• ­Chinese-simplified
• Chinese-traditional
• Japanese
• Korean
• Turkish
My Research Summary and the Marked List page will be combined into a single feature called My Research. The tab at the top of every page will be updated to display a single “My Research” selection. The search results page has also been updated so the My Research options (Email/Cite/Export) will be added to the “yellow bar” above the first result.

To preview these enhancements, please visit our website at: www.il.proquest.com/division/pqnext/previews/

A four (4) hour maintenance window will be taken to install the enhancements mentioned above. The window will begin Saturday June 11, 2005 at 22:00 EDT (02:00 GMT) and end Sunday June 12th at 02:00 EDT (06:00 GMT). See below for a more complete list of times and time zones. The following products will not be available during this time:
• ProQuest®, including ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series, third-party databases such as CINAHL® Database with Full Text
• XanEdu® CoursePacks Editor and XanEdu® Research Engine
• ProQuest Archiver™
• eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™
• "Digital Vault" products, including the Gerritsen Collection, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Policy File, DNSA, and Digital Sanborn Maps


Maintenance window schedule, by time zone:

EST: Saturday, June 11, 2005, 22:00 EST to Sunday, June 12, 2005, 2:00 EST

BST: Sunday, June 12, 2005, 03:00 British Summer Time to Sunday, June 12, 2005, 7:00 British Summer Time

Central European Time: Sunday, June 12, 2005, 04:00 to Sunday, June 12, 2005, 08:00

Japan/Korea Standard Time: Sunday, June 12, 2005, 11:00 to Sunday, June 12, 2005, 15:00

Malaysia/China Standard Time: Sunday, June 12, 2005, 10:00 to Sunday, June 12, 2005, 14:00

Australia Eastern Standard Time: Sunday, June 12, 2005, 12:00 to Sunday, June 12, 2005, 16:00

Brazil Standard Time: Saturday, June 11, 2005, 23:00 to Sunday, June 12, 2005, 03:00

We welcome customer feedback. Please email your comments to platform.feedback@il.proquest.com or visit www.proquest.com/suggestions.

Thank you for continuing to support ProQuest and the products we provide.

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EDUCAUSE Webcast!

Received this announcement today:

    On June 15, EDUCAUSE is offering a free webcast (advance registration required, however) featuring Reg Carr from Oxford and John Price Wilken from the University of Michigan speaking out the progress of the Google digitization programs at those institutions. Both of these speakers gave outstanding presentations as part of the five-institution panel on the Google project at the CNI Spring 2005 Task Force Meeting recently, and I highly reccomend them for anyone who wants to get a better understanding of the project and its broader implications.
    For more information, and to register, visit http://www.educause.edu/LIVE0512/
    I suggest registering early, as EDUCAUSE actually limits registration for these events.
    Clifford Lynch
    Director, CNI

Take the Project MUSE survey

Here is the info:

Dear Colleagues and Customers,
 
Project MUSE® (http://muse.jhu.edu), a collection of 270 distinguished peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences from nearly 60 not-for-profit publishers, invites your participation in a web-based survey on enhancing our functionality, interface, and navigation. The survey web site is http://muse.jhu.edu/survey.
 
Please complete the survey by Tuesday, June 21, 2005.
 
We are sending invitations to Project MUSE subscribing libraries, but we also invite colleagues and prospective customers to respond. Multiple responses from individuals in differing roles at the same library are welcome. Please share this invitation with interested colleagues, since one individual may not be the best person to respond to every question.
 
The survey will take 15 to 30 minutes, depending on how many comments you choose to make.  You may work on the survey in several sessions.  It will save your place if you wish to exit and return, provided no one else accesses the survey from the same browser.
 
Those who complete the survey and include an email address will be entered into a drawing for five gift certificates of $50 each to Amazon.com.
 
For academic libraries in the United States, the survey will ask for your institution's Carnegie Classification.  If you would like to look it up before beginning, please follow this link: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/Classification/.

Resource of the Month added!

June's Resource of the Month has been posted. This month's selection is the CQ Electronic Library. The CQ Library is a subscription-only service that provides Web access to two of CQ's premier print publications, the CQ Weekly and The CQ Researcher. It's a fulltext resource. FYI: the Resource of the Month can always be found linked on the right hand column of the electronic resources page.

Some Firstsearch Databases Access Problems

We are having some problems with our per-search databases that show a message saying the we are out of searches. We have bought more searches and the databases should have been reactivated already. They will be back online soon.

Marianne

All-services interruption 7-11 p.m. Friday June 3

From: Jennifer_Hartzell@notes.rlg.org
Date: Wed Jun 1, 2005 17:59:45 US/Pacific
To: RLG Services Discussion Forum
Subject: [rlg-services-forum] June 1 post-migration update
Reply-To: RLG Services Discussion Forum

RLG members and customers: a June 1 update was just
posted to
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=400

Please note --

** All users
All-services interruption 7-11 p.m. Friday June 3
Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7). With the exception
of RedLightGreen, all online services--including RLG's
Web sit--will be temporarily unavailable for a four-hour
period of systems maintenance and reconfiguration

** Z39.50 users
Change in names to use for LC/NACO and LC/SACO
authority files. AUT is no longer the database name to
use in configuring your connection to these files. Use
either NAF or SAF (it is not possible to combine searches
of the two files).

Updated system downtimes for WorldCat Service

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

• Saturday, June 4, 6:00 am – 8:00 am EDT – searching WorldCat via all WorldCat Services interfaces will be unavailable for shortened system maintenance
• Saturday, June 4, 6:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT – WorldCat Resource Sharing, ILLiad and OCLC Union List will be unavailable for system maintenance
• Friday, June 10, 11:00 pm EDT - Monday, June 13, 12:00 am EDT – WorldCat Resource Sharing and OCLC ILLiad will be unavailable to accommodate data migration
• Saturday, June 11, 1:00 am - 2:00 am EDT - 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