MAINTENANCE: downtime for Scopus and ScienceDirect

Our SciVerse service, that includes Scopus and ScienceDirect, will be offline and unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 13 hours, from 1:30PM GMT – 2:30AM GMT, on Sunday January 8th 2012.

We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this.

Web of Knowledge website now available

Please be advised that the problem with the Mimas Web of Knowledge service website has now been resolved. Thank you for your patience and our apologies for the disruption and inconvenience during the downtime.

Disruption to the Web of KNowledge Service

The Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) service web site is experiencing technical problems and is being investigated as a matter of urgency. Please accept our apologies for this disruption and any inconvenience due as a result. The Web of Knowledge can still be accessed directly at: http://webofknowledge.com.

Vacation opening hours

Term ends today and our Libraries operate vacation opening hours from tomorrow (Saturday 17 December). Full details of opening hours at all our branches at http://bit.ly/upPN8U

MAINTENANCE: Web of Knowledge, EndNote Web & ResearcherID – Sunday 18 December

Thomson Reuters advise that they will be performing maintenance to Web of Knowledge, EndNote Web and ResearcherID this Sunday, 18 December, 2011 beginning at 14:00 GMT.

The maintenance is expected to last approximately 12 hours. During this time, there may be disruption of service and product access, including Web of Knowledge ‘personalisation’.

Apologies for any inconvenience this might cause.

SERVICE UPDATE: Taylor Library Closure

Taylor Library will close at 5pm on Sunday 11 December due to staff shortage. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Forthcoming Lecture: The Sobieski-Stuart Marriage & the Jacobite World

When: Saturday 10 December at 2pm
Where: Special Collections Centre (Lower Ground Floor) , University Library, University of Aberdeen, Bedford Road, AB24 3AA
Presenter: Professor Robert  I. Frost, Chair in Early Modern History, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen

Opening a series of exciting events in connection to the current exhibition at the University Library, Rebels with a Cause: The Jacobites & The Global Imagination, this lecture draws on materials from the University’s rich holdings of Jacobite material. Professor Robert Frost employs the collections to examine the marriage of James III, the Stuart claimant to the British throne, to Clementina Sobieska, granddaughter of King John III Sobieski of Poland.

Special Collections Reading Room Opens Today!

I’m delighted to report that the Special Collections Reading Room in the University Library is opening for business today – Monday 5th December at 09:00. The new facilities are accessible from the staircase to the left of the entry gates on the ground floor, or via the left hand side lifts on the north side

Opening times for the SCC can be found here: http://abdn.ac.uk/library/get-started/opening-hours/#scc

Further information about the collections and is here: http://abdn.ac.uk/library/about/special/ (and relevant pages are being updated at present).

Thank you again for your patience and understanding during the moves. 

Chris Banks