As previously announced, Elsevier’s Scopus and Sciencedirect products have been merged under a common hub called Sciverse. The migration went well and both products are fully working. However the new additional Sciverse functions will only be rolled out on the 22nd September. Until then, all links pointing to the “sciverse.com” domain, for example the “Hub” link, will throw an error message. If you want to know more about the forthcoming functionality of Sciverse, please consult acceleratescience.com.
Author: PP
JSTOR 2nd interface update. 2 September
On August 21, 2010, JSTOR released a new interface. One feature of this new interface, the ability for any user to submit a search against all JSTOR content, drew strong reactions from many in the library community. The key concern expressed was that JSTOR users at participating institutions with a subset of JSTOR collections could get search results pointing to content they could not access, and that JSTOR had not yet enabled OpenURL (This service is called “Find It!” at Consortium Luxembourg) for all articles, making it difficult for libraries to use link resolvers to re-direct users to other copies of the articles that might be available to them.
In response, JSTOR will issue an update to the interface changes released in August. This update is scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, September 2. Beginning tomorrow, the default option for authenticated users on all search forms will be to search licensed content only. Authenticated users include users on campus or users logged in via a remote access option. Our reason for taking this step is to reduce any potential frustration for authenticated users until we can extend support for OpenURL linking throughout the platform, at which point librarians will be able to direct their users to alternative options for accessing content not licensed through JSTOR.
ScienceDirect and Scopus offline. Saturday 28 August
Elsevier products ScienceDirect and Scopus will be offline on Saturday 28th August from 13h30 to 22h00. Both products will be merged in a new single platform called Sciverse, which should be available immediately after the outage. More information: www.acceleratescience.com
Wiley-Blackwell offline. Saturday 28 June till Monday morning
Blackwell journal content will migrate to the Wiley InterScience platform as a result of the Wiley-Blackwell ongoing reorganiation.
Services are offline from Saturday 28th June, 15h, till Monday 30st June, 03h. Details: see table below.
Note: Last time these vendors decided to touch the computers, it was a travesty, for months! So: Go, Wiley-Blackwell, go! 🙂
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The plan as announced first in January is still on track and the transition will take place this weekend.
The scheduled downtime is as follows:
Saturday – June 28
Blackwell Synergy closes down
21:00 New York (June 27)
03:00 Luxembourg
09:00 Singapore
Sunday – June 29
Wiley InterScience goes offline temporarily
05:00 New York (June 28)
11:00 Luxembourg
05:00 Singapore
Monday – June 30
Wiley InterScience comes back online, with Blackwell journals incorporated
21:00 New York (June 29)
03:00 Luxembourg
09:00 Singapore
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Tuesday – June 31
further notice with update on the status. On peut s’attendre au pire, peut-être on ne sera pas deçu!
Encyclopaedia Britannica and Universalis
The two most renowned English and French language Encyclopaedias are now available in the Consortium Luxembourg Portal. They can be found via the “Databases” header under the letter “E”.
Direct links:
Britannica Online (Academic Edition)
Encyclopædia Britannica School Edition
Encyclopædia Universalis
Note: For German reference, there is Brockhaus Enzyklopädie.
Elsevier ScienceDirect problems (Update)
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.
Elsevier: Maintenance of ScienceDirect and Scopus
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.
Better readability for webpages
This simple bookmarklet lets you remove the clutter from webpages, so you can concentrate on reading the text.
Demo video: http://vimeo.com/8798492
Link: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Note: Doesn’t work with… tada: Micorsoft Internet Explorer. Works with Firefox, Safari & Chrome.
Updated port ranges for accessing portal
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
PDF (french / english)
Nouveau service: indicateur disponibilité Full-text
Nous avons le plaisir de vous communiquer l’implémentation d’un nouveau service dans le portail bnu.
Désormais de nouvelles icônes apparaissent pour indiquer d’emblée si le texte intégral est accessible pour la référence choisie
Deux types d’icônes peuvent se présenter:
(affichage bref des références bibliographiques) ou 
(dans l’affichage complet) aux références où le texte intégral est accessible et
(affichage bref) ou 
(affichage complet) pour les références aux articles évalués par des pairs “peer-reviewed”
Pour tester la nouvelle fonctionnalité cliquez sur le lien ci-contre (recherche accessible après authentification dans le portail) http://tinyurl.com/ycm2rmx