Information providers gone mobile

January 5th, 2012 by inga

Over the last two years, an increasing number of information providers started to offer mobile versions of their platforms or developed specialized applications to access the electronic content. In most cases, users with mobile devices will be automatically redirected to the corresponding version. Access to subscribed content may depend on your IP address, but some providers support remote access via specific measures.

Here you find some further information for selected providers:

Using MPG/SFX with your favorite literature management tool?

December 20th, 2011 by inga

Unfortunately, we don’t know what your favorite tool is, but want to share a short video which provides some instructions for how to use MPG/SFX with Mendeley:

The so-called base URL for the MPG/SFX link resolver is: http://sfx.mpg.de/sfx_local

Please note that Mendeley is by far not the only literature software which supports this kind of integration, e.g. the colleagues from the IVS-BM put together some information for EndNote. You are welcome to contact us if you are interested in instructions for any other tool, we’ll do our best to figure it out…

vLib downtime due to electrical power outage

May 23rd, 2011 by eia

Due to a scheduled power outage vLib will be unavailable between Friday, 27/05/11, 8 p.m., and Saturday some time during the day.

Please see the GWDG schedule (in German) for the most detailed information we found.

As a high number of services will be experiencing a downtime, systems will be started successively.

We have done our best to prioritize the start of vLib, however, we are unable to give any precise point of time when vLib will be available again after the outage.

MPG/SFX services should be available without interruption.

More info see GWDG News (in German see here).

We apologize for any inconvenience.

MPG/SFX still down

February 11th, 2011 by eia

MPG/SFX was scheduled to be recovered in the course of the weekend, hence we cannot guarantee that the MPG/SFX server will resume normal operation before Monday.

Please see GWDG News for updates.

We sincerely regret the prolonged downtime.

The vLib Project Team

MPG/SFX unavailable

February 10th, 2011 by eia

Unfortunately, MPG/SFX is unavailable this morning, see GWDG News for more information.

We apologize for the outage,

The vLib Project Team

MPG/SFX server maintenance, Wednesday 26 January, morning

January 24th, 2011 by eia

After the switch to SFX version 4 the SFX server wants more resources.

Hence some memory will be added on Wednesday between 8 and 9 am (i.e. during our scheduled maintenance hours), which will require a maximum of 30 minutes downtime.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

vLib hardware migration

December 2nd, 2010 by eia

vLib is to move to a new server hardware, and will thus be unavailable from Tuesday 07/12/10 night until Wednesday 08/12/10 in the morning when the migration is planned be completed during our scheduled maintenance hours.

We sincerely regret the downtimes vLib has experienced recently, and apologize for any inconveniences caused.

vLib maintenance ahead, Wednesday 01 December, 7-9 am

November 30th, 2010 by eia

Unfortunately, last week’s update failed because of networking problems, and has thus been re-scheduled to take place tomorrow morning, 1st of December, between 07:00 a.m. and 09:00 a.m.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this repeated downtime.

vLib maintenance ahead, Wednesday 24 November, 7-9 am

November 22nd, 2010 by eia

A software component will be upgraded on Wednesday, 24/11/10, in the course of our scheduled maintenance hours.

Since the upgrade requires approximately 2 hours downtime of vLib, the installation will be started at 07:00 a.m. Services are expected to be back by 09:00 a.m.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

vLib downtime due to scheduled power outage

November 8th, 2010 by eia

Due to a scheduled power outage vLib will be unavailable on Wednesday, 17/11/10, from 6 am onwards.

As a a high number of services will be experiencing a downtime, systems will be initialized successively after the outage.

We have done our best to prioritize the start of vLib, however, we are unable to give any more precise point of time when vLib will be available again but between 9 and 12 o’clock in the morning.

MPG/SFX services should be available without interruption.

More info see GWDG News.

We apologize for any inconvenience.