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Maintenance – Changes to Proxy – Thursday 16 December

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After this upgrade, if you have any direct links to products in the portal saved in your bookmarks, you must re-create them via the portal.

On the 16th December the site http://portail.bnu.lu will not be accessible from 7h30  to 9h00.

The Proxy server will be reconfigured and change from the current system of « high-ports » (http://proxy.bnl.lu:2067/…) to a system of « sub-domains » (http://springerlink.proxy.bnl.lu/…).

For continued access to the full functionalities of the portal after the 16th December, you must have access to port 80 on the server « proxy.bnl.lu ».

If no further notice is given, you may block ports :2048 and :2050 to :3550 from 20th December.

Please check www.consortium.lu for updates and subscribe to its feed for further information: https://www.consortium.lu/?feed=atom. In case of problems, contact: consortium@bnl.etat.lu.

Current

•          proxy.bnl.lu      ports     :2048 et :2050 à :3550
•          portail.bnu.lu    port      :80
•          sfx.etat.lu         port      :9003

Before 16th December

•          proxy.bnl.lu      ports     :80 et :2048 et :2050 à :3550
•          portail.bnu.lu    port      :80
•          sfx.etat.lu         port      :9003

After 20th December

•          proxy.bnl.lu      port      :80
•          portail.bnu.lu    port      :80
•          sfx.etat.lu         port      :9003

You can download this information as PDF in english and french (“About” section of consortium.lu site).
 

New Hub: Elsevier Sciverse brings together Sciencedirect and Scopus

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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.

JSTOR 2nd interface update. 2 September

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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.

Wiley-Blackwell offline. Saturday 28 June till Monday morning

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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! 🙂

<snip>
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
</snip>

Tuesday – June 31
further notice with update on the status. On peut s’attendre au pire, peut-être on ne sera pas deçu!

Elsevier ScienceDirect problems (Update)

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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.

Updated port ranges for accessing portal

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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)