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 !!
We apologize for any inconvenience.
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).
The new platform is now ready to use via http://search.proquest.com/.
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.
For more information on using ProQuest, please consult your local MPI librarian or send your questions to the colleagues in the IVS-BM. Some online workshops featuring the new platform are now available, as well as a series of training videos created by the ProQuest team.
This is the list of the databases which have been migrated so far:
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.
More info see GWDG News (in German see here).
We apologize for any inconvenience.
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
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 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.
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.
New vLib resources