Max Planck vLib News

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

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

We apologize for the outage,

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.

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.

In order to prepare an upcoming migration, the GWDG scheduled a few hours downtime for the MPG/SFX server on Sunday between 01:00 a.m. and 06:00 a.m.

Please be aware that MPG/SFX services will be unavailable during that time, while the upcoming system is synchronized with the MPG/SFX server in production.

On Wednesday, February 17, after thorough testing, the new system will be switched to production during our regular maintenance hours, which will involve another short downtime.

!! PLEASE NOTE: Switch to production was re-scheduled to take place on Thursday morning, February 18, between 8 and 9 a.m. Apologies for the short notice. !!

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Unfortunately, we noticed several problems with accessing the Safari Tech Books collection over the last days:

1. The MPG/SFX server sometimes fails to redirect requests to the correct entry page, see example.
   Solution: Prefer the link offered by the "MPG eBook Index" as this seems to work much more reliable.
2. Not all book content loads correctly if you select a particular book section from the table of content, see example.
   Solution: Try to switch to the HTML view instead by clicking the new icon from the Safari tool bar, i.e.
   

Note: We and the Safari support are aware of these problems and hope to solve them soon!

Today, the MPG/SFX server was not available from 12 a.m. to 3 p.m., due to a crash of the SFX database. Meanwhile our hosting partner managed to restore the database from the backfile and restarted the service successfully.

We are sorry for the inconvenience (and will try our best to get rid of all the bad karma

Due to a technical emergency at the GWDG, the power supply will be turned off at 3 pm for an hour at least.

This outage will affect all information services hosted at the GWDG, including:

• vLib portal
• MPG/SFX link resolver
• MPG/Aleph server
• entry pages to CSA, Ovid and Web of Knowledge

All services will be shut down now and restarted successively after 4 pm. We’re sorry for the inconvenience!