Alexander Street Downtime

Please be advised that we will be performing scheduled maintenance on all Alexander Street Press collections on Saturday, March 27, 2010 between 8 AM and 4 PM EDT / UTC-4. Several collections, including our streaming audio and streaming video products, may experience an extended period of downtime of between 1 and 2 hours. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, but much of the work being done will help improve the overall user experience. As always, we'll try to keep any periods of downtime to a minimum.

If you have any questions prior to the scheduled maintenance, or if you experience problems after the times listed above, please contact Customer Support at support@alexanderstreet.com or 703.212.8520.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. We hope to minimize the impact this downtime has on your access to your collections.

Alexander Street Press

MLNC Update

Click on the image below to view a letter from Tracy Byerly regarding MLNC.

MOBIUS Catalog

This is a reminder that the new InnReach design will be implemented tomorrow at 1:30pm. As before you can view the new design by visiting the staging port:
http://mobius.umsystem.edu:2082


Jessica and I have created two screencasts to talk about the changes and demonstrate usage. Read more about that and download the screencasts here:
http://bit.ly/cpotTX

IOPscience platform launch

On March 2, 2010 IOP launched a new version of the IOPscience platform, which now houses all of IOP's electronic journal content.

Check out the news on updated features at:

• 2010_librarian_insider_22.pdf
• IOPscience User guide
• IOPscience Online tour

A Couple of Trials

Through April 30, 2010, we have access to trials for two EBSCOhost databases "America: History and Life with Full Text" and "Historical Abstracts with Full Text." Currently Owens subscribes to the index versions of both.

If you'd like, submit an evaluation online for each and CM will review your comments.