WorldCat maintenance - July 10th

We have been informed by OCLC that several of their services, including the WorldCat online catalogue, will be down for scheduled maintenance between 6am and 11am British Summer Time, and there is a possibility that service will not be restored until 4pm.

The old library catalogue will not be affected by this maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.

--Further details from OCLC--
On Sunday, July 10, 2011 there will be scheduled service downtime for several OCLC services(see list further below) from 1:00 am until at least 6:00 am and possibly as late as 11:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern time. This temporary service interruption is required so we can upgrade storage systems and capacity for all OCLC services.

This event is part of ongoing upgrades that OCLC undertakes in order to improve services for all member libraries. We are working to minimize outages in the future, and upgrades such as this will help us provide better, more robust services going forward. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes to your library.

UPDATE: Issues with access to some electronic journals

We have now reconfigured EZProxy so that it should redirect from the old informaworld.com address to tandfonline.com, with the ISSN in the correct format. Unfortunately, this is working only for the title-level links to the journals themselves, not for article links. We are working on resolving this with Worldcat.

If a particular journal article is available from another provider as well as Taylor and Francis, please use the alternative link. If you find any that are not working, and no alternative is available, please copy the full URL from your web browser's address bar and send it in an email to: libraryqueries@yorksj.ac.uk with "online journal access" in the subject.

-- Original Message--
We are currently experiencing issues with access to Taylor and Francis online journals, due to a recent change at the publisher's end. We are working on making changes in order to restore access.

If you are on a PC on the University's network, you can get access in the meantime by editing the URL. Replace the EZProxy URL with "www.tandfonline.com", and ensure that the ISSN of the journal is in the correct format (four digits, hypen, four digits). For example, the journal Cultural Trends, with the EZProxy URL of:

http://www.informaworld.com.ezproxy.yorksj.ac.uk/openurl?genre=journal&issn=09548963

... can be accessed at:

http://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=0954-8963

We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause, and will restore normal access off-campus as soon as possible.

SCONUL access to Kingston University

Knights Park Learning Resources Centre at Kingston University has relocated to the Penrhyn Road campus from June 2011 until January 2012 while work is underway to create a new LRC on the Knights Park campus.

Knights Park LRC holds material on art, design, architecture and surveying. The majority of the stock will be available in the temporary LRC in the John Galsworthy Building on the Penrhyn Road campus ('KP@JG'), most of the remaining stock will be in Penrhyn Road LRC. The library catalogue will continue to show the location of this material as 'Knights Park.'

SCONUL users wishing to consult specific books or journals from Knights Park LRC can ring 020 8417 3355 or email library@kingston.ac.uk to confirm the availability of the material.

Learning Centre Refurbishment 3 June 2011

From 6 June to Mid-September 2011, Fountains Learning Centre is undergoing a refurbishment project (full details available on the project website http://w3.yorksj.ac.uk/project-fountains/project-fountains.aspx). During this period, the library service will continue to operate as normal, providing access to resources on the first and second floors of the Learning Centre. There may be some disruption in the week commencing 6 June when library staff will be transferring to temporary accommodation on the first and second floors but services will still be available. Please take note of directional signage.

The ground floor of the Learning Centre will be closed while works are carried out and access to the Learning Centre will be through the De Grey Court building via the first floor bridge. Book boxes will be available for return of items in the foyer of De Grey Court and will be open 24 hours a day and emptied regularly during the library service’s opening hours. Self issue and return machines will be available opposite the information desk on the first floor of the Learning Centre. There will be uninterrupted access to PCs on the first floor 24 hours per day.

Information and help will continue to be available from library staff at the information desk on the first floor of the Learning Centre during the library service’s normal opening hours at this time of year (accessible on the library webpages).