Proquest maintenance: 1/30-1/31

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on January 30, 2010 for twelve (12) hours.

The window will take place from Saturday, January 30, 2010, at 9:00pm Central Time to Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 9:00am Central Time.

The following library subscriptions will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest platform databases, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, and American Periodicals Series


• Genealogy and local history databases including African American Heritage, Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest Online, Historic Map Works Library Edition, ProQuest Obituaries, and Digital Sanborn Maps


• Community of Science (COS) websites


• UMI products including ProQuest Digital Microfilm and online dissertation sites

Proquest/COS/CSA down: 9/26-27

Database maintenance

• 9:00pm Saturday, September 26th - 9:00am Sunday, September 27th
• Improvement: The New York Times will now include browse/search capability for over 3 million assigned subject terms from 1851-1993

Library tools affected include:

• ABI/Inform - business
• Alt-Press Watch - alternative press
• American Periodicals Series - historical (1741-1900)
• ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
• Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
• Chadwyck-Healey databases
• Community of Science (COS) - research collaboration and funding
• Conference Papers Index - environmental and life sciences focus
• CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences - search images, charts, graphs, tables
• CSA Technology Research Database collection
• Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest Digital Dissertations)
• EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• GenderWatch
• Hoover's Company Records
• NTIS - technical reports of federal government-funded research
• Oceanic Abstracts
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers - New York Times, etc.
• ProQuest Newspapers
• ProQuest Research Library - multidisciplinary

Proquest/CSA/Refworks/COS down: 4/18

CSA Illumina / Proquest database maintenance

• Saturday, April 18 at 9:00 p.m. to Sunday, April 19 at 5:00 a.m.

Library tools affected include:

• ABI/Inform - business
• Alt-Press Watch
• American Periodicals Series - historical (1741-1900)
• ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
• Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
• Community of Science - research collaboration and funding
• Conference Papers Index - environmental and life sciences focus
• CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences - search images, charts, graphs, tables
• CSA Technology Research Database collection
• Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest Digital Dissertations)
• EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• GenderWatch
• Hoover's Company Records
• NTIS - technical reports of federal government-funded research
• Oceanic Abstracts
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers - New York Times, etc.
• ProQuest Newspapers
• ProQuest Research Library - multidisciplinary
• Refworks - research citation bibliography manager