Taylor & Francis access blocked due to systematic downloading

Due to an instance of excessive downloading, Taylor & Francis has applied a block to our account.

This is currently under investigation: 30th May 2013.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

ACS (American Chemical Society) database account blocked due to excessive downloading.

Due to an instance of excessive downloading, ACS (American Chemical Society) has applied a block to our account.

This is currently under investigation: 20th May 2013.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Database Outage – Standards On-Line, NCC/BCA/PCA+Standards & InfoStore

Maintenance window: 08:00 Sat 2nd - 17:00 Sun 3rd March 2013 AEDT

Access to the Standards On-Line, NCC/BCA/PCA+Standards and InfoStore will be unavailable on the above date and time due to an improvement to the service.

This has been scheduled by the provider at a time that will cause minimal service disruption to the majority of our clients. We apologize for the short notice and if this causes you any inconvenience.

DATABASE outage – ScienceDirect – Wednesday 12th Spetember 2012

ScienceDirect are currently experiencing a service outage due to unforeseen technical issues and are working to resolve them as soon as possible.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.

Database downtime – MDC Australia 10.6.2012

We wish to advise the following databases:

MDC Australia,
First Consult

will not be available for a short period of time between the hours of 3.00-9.00pm on Sunday, 10 June 2012.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thieme system maintenance 12-14 March 2009

Thieme online resources may be unavailable due to essential system maintenance.
We apologise for any inconvenience.

Australian Standards Online – scheduled maintenance Sunday 15 March 2009

This service will be unavailable for most of the day due to scheduled system maintenance.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

ScienceDirect available again 11/3/09

Access to ScienceDirect has been restored.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Informaworld interruptions Sat 27 Sept 2008

Due to some essential maintenance on Saturday 27th September 2008 there may be intermittent access to informaworld. Informaworld is expecting two short periods of downtime throughout the day which will last a maximum of thirty minutes.

Informaworld provides access to publications from Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.

We apologise for any inconvenience this might cause.

Database access unavailable – Sat 6 Sep 2008

Unfortunately we are having problems restoring access to our online resources, databases, journals, etc. after today’s server upgrade.  We are urgently working on the problem and apologise for the inconvenience.

If you are on campus, and have a desperate need for access to a resource, please contact one of the Information Desks, and they can provide you with a temporary workaround.  If you are off campus, it is not so straightforward, but staff at the Information Desk may still be able to help.