Safari Books Online will be down for maintenance for approximately two to three hours on Saturday April 6th and Saturday April 13th at the time below:

Saturday, April 6th:
Malaysia/China Standard Time at 14:00 for up to three hours

Saturday, April 13th:
Malaysia/China Standard Time at 14:00 for up to three hours

There will be scheduled maintenance at the vendor’s data center for March 31, 2013, 11:00 pm to April 1, 2013, 1:00 am

There will be an estimated downtime of two hours for all Alexander Street products.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

It’s hard to conceive of a topic of more broad and personal interest than the study of the mind. In addition to its traditional investigation by the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, the mind has also been a focus of study in the fields of philosophy, economics, anthropology, linguistics, computer science, molecular biology, education, and literature. In all these approaches, there is an almost universal fascination with how the mind works and how it affects our lives and our behavior. Studies of the mind and brain have crossed many exciting thresholds in recent years, and the study of mind now represents a thoroughly cross-disciplinary effort. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines seek answers to such questions as: What is mind? How does it operate? What is consciousness?The Encyclopedia of the Mind brings together scholars from the entire range of mind-related academic disciplines from across the arts and humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and computer science and engineering to explore the multidimensional nature of the human mind.

Click here to access the free trial to the online version which expires on April 30, 2013.

A six (6) hour maintenance window is needed to install enhancements to the ProQuest and ProQuest Dialog platforms. The window will take place from Sunday, March 10, 2013, at 11:00. During this time all databases on the two platforms will not be available.

Connotea, nature.com’s social bookmarking site, is closing on March 12th, 2013. You are strongly encouraged to download your bookmarks before this date as your library will not be accessible afterwards.

 The Connotea Export Tool will convert your bookmarks into two formats that should be compatible with most common browsers or reference management systems:

• HTML – compatible with most browsers
• RIS – compatible with most reference management systems.

You will be able to log in to the Connotea Export Tool by using your Connotea username and password and following the instructions on screen. Once you have downloaded your HTML and/or RIS file, please refer to the instructions for your browser and/or reference management system to import your bookmarks.

As Connotea stores a large amount of data, in some cases it may take over an hour for your bookmarks file to be generated.

ARTstor will be performing an upgrade to our systems beginning on Sunday, January 27th at 12:00 noon and concluding on Monday, January 28th at 2:00 am. While the upgrade is being performed, users will not have access to the ARTstor Digital Library.

JBI Connect will be unavailable during 2:30pm Oct 30, 2012 to 5:00am Oct 31, 2012 in order to complete the necessary transition work of JBI Tools on to the Ovid platform. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Springer at http://link.springer.com  will be down for 5 hours from 5.30-10.30pm on 27 October. Users should use the old site at http://springerlink.com instead.

About one hour beginning at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, October 26, 2012 certain EBSCOhost functionality will be unavailable due to planned maintenance. Please note that EBSCOhost will continue to be available during this brief interval. Affected functionality will include:
• Personal User Authentication
• Checkout and Download of eBooks
• Alerts
• Access to My EBSCOhost folder items or the ability to save items to personalized folders from session
We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this short maintenance interval.

A system maintenance will be scheduled on Saturday, 27 October 2012 from 13:00 to 19:00. During this period, all services will be temporarily unavailable.