Legicorp, a database specifically dedicated to corporate legislation: consolidated legislation, related case law (in extenso), administrative circular letters and comments by Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg, is now available in the Consortium Luxembourg Portal. It can be found via the “Databases” header under the letter “L”.
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
Consortium portal offline tuesday 19th jan 7h-7h45am
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.
Waiting for disruption of scientific publishing
Looking back on 2009, there was one particular note that seemed to sound repeatedly, resonating through the professional discourse at conferences and in posts throughout the blogosphere: the likelihood of disruptive change afoot in the scientific publishing industry. (…)
Consortium portal offline thursday 10th dec 7-9am
Proxy server is moved to a shiny new rack.
Jeudi, le 10 décembre 2009 entre 7 et 9 heures le Centre des technologies de l’information de l’Etat va déplacer le serveur Proxy dans une nouvelle armoire. Le portail bnu sera inaccessible pendant cette période.