Electronic Resources: News and Alerts
Canceled Subscriptions
The following resources are no longer available electronically:
- Books in Print / Global Books in Print
- Encyclopedia of Chromatography
- Encyclopedia of Water Science
- Engineered Materials Abstracts
- Metadex
- Nineteenth Century Masterfile
- Otsar ha-ḥokhmah
- STAT!Ref
- Television Transcript Project
Melvyl Catalog maintenance: the effects of the migration to OskiCat
Due to the launch of OskiCat, the new UCB library catalog, it is necessary to do maintenance work on the Melvyl Catalog to accommodate the transition from GLADIS and Pathfinder to OskiCat. Most of the work should be transparent to Melvyl and OskiCat users, but some user services will be affected.
Automatic Updates: During the transition, the Melvyl Catalog will be frozen between July 15 and August 30, 2009. During this period, no new catalog records from any of the UC campuses will be added to Melvyl, and this means that users will not receive their usual Automatic Updates.
Request Service: Since the Melvyl Catalog will be frozen for approximately six weeks, this may cause temporary problems with the Request service.
Changes to the campus VPN service
FYI: The campus Virtual Private Network (VPN) service will be changing during the summer.
Starting July 16, 2009: a message will be displayed to VPN users after they authenticate, informing them of the new service and recommending that they switch over by August 12, 2009.
On August 12, 2009: the current VPN service will be disabled.
SAE Digital Library is no longer available to UCB users
The SAE Digital Library is no longer available to UCB users, and the CDL Help Desk ticket has been closed. Here are some suggestions for other ways to locate SAE documents.
Date reported: March 21, 2007
Updated: May 30, 2008
Proxy users and “https” websites
Proxy service users who visit websites that use the "https" protocol, including Lexis Nexis Academic, CQ California Political Almanac, and Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT), should be able to do so without problems as of September 5, 2008.
A proxy server programming workaround is in place for Firefox and Internet Explorer users.
However, the Safari browser is not supported for proxy access to https websites, and proxy users should enable Firefox for proxy access to resources that use the https protocol.
Problems using telnet systems
Some recent software products — including the Windows Vista operating system and Internet Explorer 7 — need to be enabled to work properly with telnet-based systems.
Problems with opening e-book PDF files
Mac users using Preview have reported problems with opening e-book PDF files in ENGnetBASE and other CRCnetBASE products. To resolve this issue, we recommend downloading Adobe Reader and installing it as a browser plug-in.
CRCnetBASE titles need Adobe Reader to open within the browser to work properly on both Macs and PCs. To make sure that Adobe Reader opens within your browser, check the "Display PDF in browser" option within your Adobe Reader preferences.
“Application Error” message
If you get a message such as Application Error when you’re trying to use a licensed resource, close your browser, then open it and try again. Most vendors make use of several servers, and sometimes one gets hung up. Other things to try:
- Refresh the browser display: hold down the Shift key when you click the browser’s Refresh button.
- Clear the browser cache.