sfx link resolver
As of next week, all http requests to the MPG/SFX link resolver will be redirected to a corresponding https request.
The Max Planck Society electronic Book Index is scheduled to be switched to https only access the week after, starting on November 27, 2017.
Regular web browser use of the above services should not be affected.
Please thoroughly test any solutions that integrate these services via their web APIs.
Please consider re-subscribing to MPG.eBooks RSS feeds.
The MPG/SFX link resolver is now alternatively accessible via the https protocol. The secure base URL of the productive MPG/SFX instance is: https://sfx.mpg.de/sfx_local.
HTTPS support enables secure third-party sites to load or to embed content from MPG/SFX without causing mixed content errors. Please feel free to update your applications or your links to the MPG/SFX server.
The MPG/SFX server updates to a new database (MariaDB) on Wednesday morning. The downtime will begin at 8 am and is scheduled to last until 9 am.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
It has been 9 years since we introduced the DOI CookiePusher for the MPG/SFX server. This functionality sets a cookie in the browser which will redirect DOI links to a local link resolver. As a result clicking a DOI link like doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.019 may lead you to a MPG/SFX service menu, instead of forwarding you to the publisher’s web site directly.
Lately, we received quite a lot of feedback from users complaining about the extra clicks caused by this feature. Therefore, we decided to deactivate the DOI CookiePusher on MPG/SFX. It will take some days until all existing cookies have expired, but afterwards DOI links should no longer be hijacked by MPG/SFX.
You still can request a SFX service menu for a known DOI by:
As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. Feel free to post your comment here or to contact us.
Users of the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) can configure their ADS preferences to link to the electronic resources available to them through their library subscriptions. The MPG/SFX server has recently be added to the list of Library Link servers offered by ADS.
To activate 
buttons in the ADS, please:
Your ADS preferences are stored as a cookie in your browser and will remain active until you sign off the system.
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.