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Access Alert - Campus Wireless

Tue, August 28, 2018 4:15 PM
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Beginning Friday, August 31st at 10pm and continuing up to 8 hours, Campus IT will be applying a software patch in an effort to repair wireless connectivity issues that have been impacting the campus. During this time, the campus wireless will be completely offline for a short period of time and intermittently offline as IT reboots it in phases. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

Access Alert - OCLC

Tue, August 7, 2018 5:30 PM
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Beginning Saturday, August 11th at 10pm through Sunday, August 12th at 3am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent interruptions and delayed response times for online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

Access Alert - Network Outage

Tue, August 7, 2018 2:00 PM
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The fiber network that links UC Merced to the internet is currently being repaired due to damage incurred by construction. The campus is completely without internet connectivity and online library resources may also be inaccessible. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope for resolution of this issue by this evening. For status updates, please visit https://it.ucmerced.edu/status.

Access Alert - OCLC

Fri, July 27, 2018 10:20 AM
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Beginning Saturday, August 4th at 11pm through Sunday, August 5th at 3am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent interruptions and delayed response times for online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

ProQuest Platform Interface Enhancements

Thu, July 26, 2018 2:20 PM
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As of July 26th, ProQuest will roll out redesigned basic search and search results pages. These improvements will put a focus on source types to help retrieve more relevant results from across the platform.
Some of these improvements will include: 
A new horizontal source type limiter above the basic search box to help users limit their results to the content types most relevant to their research. 
Help panels to provide search guidance at the point of the most need. 
“You are searching…” statements to show which databases are being searched along with the top source types contained within those databases.

For more details on this release, visit the ProQuest platform release news page.

Access Alert - OCLC

Fri, July 13, 2018 10:05 AM
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Beginning Saturday, July 21st at 9pm through Sunday, July 22nd at 3am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent interruptions and delayed response times for online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

Access Alert - OCLC

Thu, July 5, 2018 10:05 AM
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Beginning Saturday, July 14th at 4:30pm through Sunday, July 15th at 5am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent interruptions and delayed response times for online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

Access Alert - OCLC

Tue, June 12, 2018 9:25 AM
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On Saturday, June 16th at 11pm through Sunday, June 17th at 2:30am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent interruptions and delayed response times for online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

SpringerProtocols to Transition to New Springer Nature Experiments

Thu, June 7, 2018 4:50 PM
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On July 25th, the SpringerProtocols platform will be deactivated and transitioned to Springer Nature Experiments.

Springer Nature Experiments is a database dedicated to protocols and methods. Free-to-use, it has been designed to assist researchers in finding and evaluating protocols and methods across the whole Springer Nature protocols and methods portfolio. Its algorithm tracks lab techniques and model organisms mentioned in articles to help locate the most relevant references. The number of citations and downloads are displayed showing which articles are worth further investigation.

All SpringerProtocols content is already searchable via this new research platform. Check it out here.

Access Alert - OCLC

Thu, June 7, 2018 1:20 PM
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On Friday, June 15th at 10pm through Saturday, June 16th at 6am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent interruptions and delayed response times for online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

 

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