Max Planck vLib News Max Planck vLib News   MPG/SFX server maintenance, Tuesday 01 December, 5-6 pm The database of the MPG/SFX server will undergo scheduled maintenance. The downtime will start at 5 pm. Services are expected to be back after 30 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience. How to get Elsevier articles after December 31, 2018 The Max Planck Digital Library has been mandated to discontinue their Elsevier subscription when the current agreement expires on December 31, 2018. Read more about the background in the full press release. Nevertheless, most journal articles published until that date will remain available, due to the rights stipulated in the MPG contracts to date. To … Continue reading How to get Elsevier articles after December 31, 2018 → Aleph Multipool-Recherche: Parallele Suche in MPG-Bibliothekskatalogen Update, 07.12.2018: Die Multipool-Suche gibt es jetzt auch als Webinterface. Der Multipool-Expertenmodus im Aleph Katalogisierungs-Client dient der schnellen Recherche in mehreren Datenbanken gleichzeitig. Dabei können die Datenbanken entweder direkt auf dem Aleph-Server liegen oder als externe Ressourcen über das z39.50-Protokoll angebunden sein. Zusätzlich zu den lokalen Bibliotheken ist der MPI Bibliothekskatalog im GBV auf dem … Continue reading Aleph Multipool-Recherche: Parallele Suche in MPG-Bibliothekskatalogen → Goodbye vLib! Shutdown after October 31, 2018 In 2002 the Max Planck virtual Library (vLib) was launched, with the idea of making all information resources relevant for Max Planck users simultaneously searchable under a common user interface. Since then, the vLib project partners from the Max Planck libraries, information retrieval services groups, the GWDG and the MPDL invested much time and effort … Continue reading Goodbye vLib! Shutdown after October 31, 2018 → HTTPS only for MPG/SFX and MPG.eBooks As of next week, all http requests to the MPG/SFX link resolver will be redirected to a corresponding https request. The Max Planck Society electronic Book Index is scheduled to be switched to https only access the week after, starting on November 27, 2017. Regular web browser use of the above services should not be … Continue reading HTTPS only for MPG/SFX and MPG.eBooks → HTTPS enabled for MPG/SFX The MPG/SFX link resolver is now alternatively accessible via the https protocol. The secure base URL of the productive MPG/SFX instance is: https://sfx.mpg.de/sfx_local. HTTPS support enables secure third-party sites to load or to embed content from MPG/SFX without causing mixed content errors. Please feel free to update your applications or your links to the MPG/SFX … Continue reading HTTPS enabled for MPG/SFX → Citation Trails in Primo Central Index (PCI) The May 2016 release brought an interesting functionality to the MPG/SFX server maintenance, Wednesday 20 April, 8-9 am The MPG/SFX server updates to a new database (MariaDB) on Wednesday morning. The downtime will begin at 8 am and is scheduled to last until 9 am. We apologize for any inconvenience. ProQuest Illustrata databases discontinued Last year, the information provider ProQuest decided to discontinue its "Illustrata Technology" and "Illustrata Natural Science" databases. Unfortunately, this represents a preliminary end to ProQuest’s long-year investment into deep indexing content. In a corresponding support article ProQuest states that there "[…] will be no loss of full text and full text + graphics images because … Continue reading ProQuest Illustrata databases discontinued → MPG.ReNa via https only The MPG Resource Navigator MPG.ReNa is now accessible via https only. If in doubt, please double-check any routines and applications loading or embedding content via MPG.ReNa APIs. Please note that you may need to re-subscribe to resource feeds, or update URLs of RSS widgets in your Content Management System, etc. We apologize for any inconvenience.