ProQuest downtime, June 15, 2013

On Saturday, June 15, 2013 ProQuest will install new enhancements, features, and databases, to improve the research experience. A four (4) hour maintenance window is needed to install these enhancements. The window will take place from Saturday, June 15, at 22:00 ET to Sunday, June 16 at 2:00 ET.

Mobile device “desktop version”

Mobile devices and tablet computers may not always display all of the pc-visible web page details.

Free access to the Archaelogy & Heritage collection from Maney Publishing

Maney is offering free article downloads from the Archaelogy & Heritage collection until November 1, 2013.

Closing EBSCO ebooks – a preventable delay

Many of our ebooks are licensed for single user access; additional users will be turned away when a book is in use.  Unless a book is closed in a specific way, the system will not acknowledge that it has been closed. The ebook will time out after 30 minutes so the problem will self-correct but the wait time is unnecessary. 

ProQuest Congressional Updates

Search Syntax Modifications:

- To provide more focused results and remind users of the quoted search function, the type-ahead feature now places the pasted text in quotes for an exact search.

- Default keyword search connection now uses an implied AND.

The search Iran Iraq will be seen by the system as Iran AND Iraq

- Boolean connectors AND, OR, and NOT are now case-insensitive.

Iran and Iraq, Iran Iraq, and Iran AND Iraq will now return the same results set

Because these Boolean connectors are now case insensitive, lowercase “and”, “or”,  and “not” have been removed from the “stop” or “non-keyword” list. Previously these words were disregarded by the search engine unless used in a quoted exact phrase search.

ARTstor Digital Library Upgrade

Please be advised that ARTstor Digital Library will be performing an upgrade on Tuesday, April 16th between 6:00 AM and 1:00 PM EST. During this time, users will be able to access the Digital Library, but may experience some slowness. This upgrade will eliminate the need for Java in the ARTstor Digital Library and single image downloads will be delivered in Zip files.

Many versions of Windows come equipped with a built in zip program, but if you need to install a program on your PC, ARTstor recommends 7-Zip, available free at 7-zip.org. Mac users will not need to install software to handle zip files as it is already built into OS X. If you experience any difficulties, please clear the cache on your browser and restart your Web browser. If you continue to experience difficulties, please do not hesitate to contact User Services at userservices@artstor.org.

ScienceDirect eReader Formats Video Tutorial

eReader Formats is an application that allows you to convert a ScienceDirect article in ePUB or Mobi, formats widely used by electronic readers and mobile devices.