Elsevier and Wiley disruptions over the weekend.

Some eresource disruptions over the weekend (Wiley and Elsevier)

Both Wiley and Elsevier are doing some maintenance to their systems this weekend, and some of their resources will be unavailable.

Wylie:
Wylie Online Library will be unavailable for 2 hours from mid-night, Saturday 25th August.

Elsevier
ScienceDirect, Scopus, Hub, Applications, SciVal, Journals Consult and the Admin Tool are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 19 hours between 12.30 am Sunday and 7.30 pm Sunday, August 26th for scheduled maintenance for a new release.

The details of the Elsevier changes are:
We are keen on making our users’ experience of the SciVerse suite of products as smooth, friendly, and effective as possible. For this reason we listen to our user’s feedback and plan new releases to improve the functionality. To implement these changes, we occasionally need to schedule an outage.
ScienceDirect, Scopus, Hub, Applications, SciVal, Journals Consult and the Admin Tool are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 19 hours beginning Saturday, August 25th, 2012 for scheduled maintenance for a new release.
What are the changes you will see with this new release?
ScienceDirect: Effortless access to relevant information thanks to a new design for journal article
and book chapter pages as well as improved user experience for RSS feeds, image
search, and other features.
Scopus: Easy updates with Alerts Features functionality improvement.
Hub: Faster and friendlier search capability through several new features.
Please click here to find out the details of the new features per each product.

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