Thursday, June 15, 2023

Online Catalog Downtime – June 29

When: Thursday, June 29 from 1 am to 2 pm PT

What: The Online Catalog will not be available due to scheduled maintenance.

Impact: During this time, you will not be able to access your catalog account to place holds or renew items.

You will still be able to search and access electronic material through the Electronic Resources webpage and the Discovery Service search box on the library website.

If you have questions about your holds or renewing books, contact circ@westernu.edu.

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Online Catalog Downtime – June 6

When: Tuesday, June 6 at 7 am PT for 1 to 3.5 hours

What: The Online Catalog will not be available due to scheduled maintenance.

Impact: During this time, you will not be able to access your catalog account to place holds or renew items.

You will still be able to search and access electronic material through the Electronic Resources webpage and the Discovery Service search box on the library website.

If you have questions about your holds or renewing books, contact circ@westernu.edu.

Friday, April 21, 2023

EBSCO authentication maintenance

EBSCO will be performing maintenance to authentication and personal user account functionality on Saturday, April 29th from 3-6 am. During this time, users may experience some issues logging in. In addition, users will not be able to log in via their Personal User accounts, register new accounts, or update their MyEBSCO accounts during the maintenance window.

This affects the following resources:

  • Academic Search Elite
  • Alt Health Watch
  • Business Source Elite
  • CINAHL
  • DynaMed
  • EBSCO ebooks
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  • Newspaper Source
  • Pumerantz Library Discovery Service (search box on library homepage)
  • Regional Business News

Monday, April 17, 2023

Online Catalog Downtime - April 24

When: Monday, April 24 – 1:30 am to 2:30 am PT

What: The Online Catalog will not be available due to scheduled maintenance.

Impact: During this time, you will not be able to access your catalog account to place holds or renew items.

You will still be able to search and access electronic material through Electronic Resources and the Discovery Service search box on the library website.

Monday, March 13, 2023

Lost Access to Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association (JAPMA)

UPDATE: Access has been restored. 3/16/23 7:01 am

We have temporarily lost access to Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association (JAPMA).  The provider has been contacted and we are waiting to hear back.  We will update this blog when access has been restored.

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Online Catalog – Scheduled Downtime

When: Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 2:00 am to 3:00 am PT

What: SirsiDynix is completing server maintenance affecting the Online Catalog.

Impact: The Online Catalog “My Account” feature will not be available. You will not be able to log into your catalog account to place holds or renew items.

You will still be able to search and access electronic material through Electronic Resources and the Discovery Service search box on the library website.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Ovid Journals 403 error

UPDATE: The problem has been fixed. 4/25/23 1:34 pm

A number of our Ovid Journals are giving a 403 error when trying to link to specific articles using our Pumerantz Library Full Text Locator button.  We have contacted the publisher and they are actively working on the problem.  In the meantime, you can still navigate directly to the journal using the EJOURNALS search tab on our homepage or going directly to our publication finder.