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ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on December 4th, 2011. A twelve (12) hour window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 03:00 for twelve (12) hours.

All ProQuest products will be affected by this maintenence, we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Taylor & Francis has scheduled downtime which will occur 11:00-13:00 GMT on Wednesday 16th November. During this time Educational Research Abstracts will be unavailable due to system maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

We’re expecting there will be an upgrade to Summon later on today and this may cause a disruption to the service.

The primary benefit we’ll see from the upgrade is improved article level linking to content from the following publishers:
- BMJ Publishing
- Cambridge University Press
- Ebrary
- Elsevier
- Emerald
- HighWire Press
- JSTOR
- Mintel Group
- Oxford University Press
- ProQuest
- Sage Publications
- Springer-Verlag
- Wiley-Blackwell

In particular, the upgrade should resolve the problems we’ve been experiencing with ProQuest Newsstand.

UPDATE: 16/Nov/2011, 10pm

There were a few post-upgrade glitches with access to articles on the ProQuest platform, but these have now been resolved.

We’re experiencing an occasional problem this morning with searches on Summon returning incorrect results. The problem has been logged with Serials Solutions (the company who develops Summon) and they’re currently working to resolve the issue.

If you’re seeing incorrect results, or results that only bring up a blank page when you click on them, please try refreshing the web page (either by pressing F5 or clicking on your browser’s refresh button).

We apologise for the inconvenience this is causing.

You can now access Web of Knowledge from anywhere at anytime  on your mobile device – simply follow these steps to obtain a login.

For more information on this new service, click here.

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on November 5th/6th, 2011. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from 2am. The affected resources can be found here.

Chemical Database Service - There will be a routine reboot for security updates on Wednesday 2nd November at 6:30pm. The service should be restored within 30 mins. 

For further information see the Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/cds_daresbury 

CDS apologises for the late notice.

JSTOR is currently experiencing problems…

At present, JSTOR don’t know how long it’ll take to fix.