Kia ora koutou,

This weekend a number of ProQuest products will be temporarily unavailable due to infrastructure upgrades, security enhancements, and general maintenance. This is taking place Saturday 16 July from 2pm to 10pm (UTC Sunday 17 July from 2am to 10am).

This will mainly affect ProQuest databases the Library subscribes to, for example ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I‎, and ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times‎.

Communication of affected databases has not been great. ProQuest chat confirmed to me on Friday that their update page did not list all the relevant information and that the appropriate team would be notified. The page is still incorrect as of this post, but may be useful for updates on the day: https://support.proquest.com/s/article/ProQuest-Notifications-and-Updates?language=en_US

Their rule of thumb for the maintenance window is anything you access with the url www.proquest.com (including the old url search.proquest.com) will be unavailable during this time.

Ngā mihi,
Leah Pengelly
Library Systems