Since Wednesday 24th march, Elsevier ScienceDirect is not accessible via the Consortium Portal. After extensive debugging, it was established that there has been a human error at Elsevier. No other consortium seems to have experienced the outage. Thursday around 14h, access was partially restored to ca 400  subscribed journals. As of Thursday18h, no exact time could be given by Elsevier when the access will be fully restored. The national library stays in close contact with Elsevier technical support.

Update 26th march: Elsevier claimed again that access was restored, but it isn’t. Only 408 titles are available as full-text (->Browse, check “full-text only”), but ca 2000 should be.
(Titlelist: http://info.sciencedirect.com/techsupport/journals/freedomcoll.htm).

Update 26th march 11h15: Access has been restored by Elsevier.

ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 8.5 hours during the period from 04:30 to 13:00 on Sunday 14th March.

Elsevier apologizes for the inconvenience.

In order to access all the services of the portal, the servers and ports below must be accessible from your computer. As content grows, we update the port range on the proxy accordingly. This is the latest 2010 update:

• proxy.bnl.lu – ports :2048 and :2050 to :3550
• portail.bnu.lu – port :80
• sfx.etat.lu port – :9003

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Mardi, le 19 janvier 2010 entre 7 et 7h45 heures, le Centre des technologies de l’information de l’Etat va procéder à un update du logiciel du portail (nouvelle version 4.3 de ExLibris Metalib). Le portail bnu sera inaccessible pendant cette période.

Portal software will be updated.

Mercredi prochain, le 25 novembre 2009 entre 7 et 8 heures nous mettrons à jour le logiciel du portail bnu qui sera inaccessible pendant cette période.