ProQuest introduced a new mobile-optimized website for customers of the academic version of the Safari Tech Books collection, including the MPG.
The emphasis of this additional website is to deliver easy access to licensed content via a simplified user interface. You can view it at: http://m.proquest.safaribooksonline.com.
Safari Books Online's mobile website supports the following devices:
All iOS 3+ devices
All Android 1.5+ (supported without prefetching), 2.1+ (supported with prefetching)
Blackberry 6, PlayBook (Blackberry Tablet)
Please note that access to the Safari Tech Books collection is IP authenticated, thus you need to ensure that your mobile device is assigned an MPG IP address.
Please feel free to comment on the new mobile-optimized website – here or via our contact form.
As a consequence of an unexpected change of web services (i.e. services required by vLib to search databases in the background, and present results), Web of Science databases (e.g. A&HCI, SCI, SSCI) are no longer searchable through a single resource – see Web of Science – hence no vLib search checkbox is available for Web of Science at the moment.
In addition, integration of remaining WoK databases (Biosis Previews, INSPEC, Zoological Record) has turned out to be problematic and error-prone (at least INSPEC search had to be switched off entirely, investigation is continuing).
Please drop us a comment if you appreciate a stable, cross-searchable interface to search WoK databases in vLib.
Just type any term (presently a minimum of three characters) to display a list of resources matching the input right below the form field.
To navigate through suggestions use the mouse or cursor up/down. To select an entry, click on it or press enter.
The service behind it has been designed to consider all title variants of a resource (or publisher name variants, respectively).
However, the list of suggestions actually shown contains display titles only (suggesting any title variants would be rather confusing and would unnecessarily bloat the list).
If you type some entry, and if matches are found, it’s obvious that some of the resource titles suggested do not seem to contain the string entered, for example:
This is because the term does not always match part of a vLib display title, but only part of the full or alternative title of the resource that is being suggested.
If you follow a suggestion, resource titles may be verified by opening the info window (by clicking the button):
In our example, resource info reveals that the resource was suggested because of its former name which is still recorded in vLib.
vLib will be unavailable on Wednesday, 28/03/12, during our scheduled maintenance hours, some time between 8 and 9 am, due to the installation of a minor software release.
There should be a maximum of 10 to 15 minutes downtime.
!! PLEASE NOTE: to be reapplied tonight after 6 pm !!
Last year the information provider ProQuest released a new user interface which brings together reference databases and full text resources which were previously spread over various platforms (CSA Illumina, Chadwyck-Healey, ProQuest).
Please note that we will start to redirect the relevant entry points to the new platform next week. We also recommend to update all local links and bookmarks as soon as possible.
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:
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…
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.
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.
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