Faculty - DMC/DACTS (digital media help) Open House on Oct 1

Faculty, please join us for a look at the newly expanded Digital Media Commons and Digital ACT Studio in the lower level of Jackson Library.  Thursday October 1, 4-5:50 pm.

Blood drive Tues 9/15

Are you planning to be in Jackson Library on Tues 9/15?   Check out some light reading then visit the blood drive in the building next door to us, Elliott University Center.

Here's the announcement that I just received:

EUC Blood Drive-Tuesday, September 15
Please join us for the first EUC blood drive for the 2015-2016 school year. The drive is scheduled for Tuesday, September 15 from 8:30am-6:30pm in EUC Cone Ballroom.

Appointments are available for both Whole Blood collection and Double Red Blood Cell collection (automated). Please indicate when you sign up for and appointment if you are faculty or staff to make the process go quicker for you when you arrive for your appointment.

Sign up now at https://euc.uncg.edu/blood-drive.

For questions regarding this event. Please contact Kathleen McGirty.


Kathleen McGirty
Assistant Director
Elliott University Center
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
336-334-5800
https://euc.uncg.edu/

Vintage Viands in Jackson Library on Friday 9/25!

For any students, faculty and staff close enough to visit Jackson Library in person, please visit the Vintage Viands event on Friday 9/25 from non-2:30 pm.

Vintage Viands will be an interactive exhibit focused on the Home Economics materials in SCUA. It will be held in the First Floor Reading Room (the area across from the Reference/Ask Us desk).

IE users must upgrade to use Scopus

Do you like using the Scopus citation index and guide to scholarly literature?

Great!

Now, if you use Internet Explorer, you'll need to be using a more recent version than IE 8.

Here's the announcement that was sent to our electronic resources librarian:

Dear Customer,
As a designated administrator for Scopus, we wanted to remind you that effective October 1, 2015, Scopus will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (IE8).

Why are we ceasing support of IE8?

We are following Microsoft’s directive to focus our support on newer, officially-supported IE browser versions. Microsoft announced in 2014 it would only support the most recent IE browser version with technical support and security updates. We strongly encourage our customers to also follow Microsoft’s directive by updating to more recent versions of IE or by using other supported browsers.
We will discontinue support a few months ahead of Microsoft’s official deadline of January 2016 in order to get an earlier start on some major projects. By removing IE8 from our support list, we will be able to provide the following future enhancements:

• Remove current IE8 security issues
• Enhance existing security measures across all browsers
• Add support for new browser technologies
• Add responsive design to aid use of Scopus across devices
• Improve accessibility to better enable access to people with diverse abilities

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us:
usinfo@elsevier.com – US & Canada
nlinfo@elsevier.com - Europe
sginfo@elsevier.com – Asia, Australia & New Zealand
brinfo@elsevier.com – Mexico, Central & South America
Best regards,
The Scopus Team

New library home page! A work in progress

A nice new look for University Libraries home page this morning: http://library.uncg.edu

A few of the links are still being worked on, expect some hinkiness today.

Digital Media Commons to re-open August 17

The DMC will soon reopen after renovations. Check out the story here: http://uncgfol.blogspot.com/2015/07/after-undergoing-renovations-this.html

Science Direct & Scopus unavailable Saturday night 8/1/2015

These article databases will be unavailable this Saturday night 8/1/2015 from 6 pm to about 10:30 pm

• Science Direct - provides full text for many science and health science journals
• Scopus - citation analysis and more

This is the official announcement from Elsevier, the company that provides these databases to us:

Dear Customer,
We would like to give you advance notice of an interruption of service for Elsevier platforms and solutions due to scheduled maintenance.
On Saturday, August 1, access to Elsevier platforms will be unavailable due to a scheduled maintenance for approximately 4.5 hours starting at 06:00 PM EDT. Please check the World Clock Time Zone Converter to convert the time in your local time.
The platforms and solutions involved are:

• Elsevier Research Platforms: ScienceDirect, Scopus (including Author Feedback Wizard), Engineering Village, Mendeley
• Research Intelligence: SciVal Funding
• R&D Solutions: Reaxys, Embase, Geofacets

Each platform will be displaying a warning to users of this scheduled downtime, and during downtime, there will be a message informing users of the temporary unavailability of service.
To stay up to date with any developments follow the individual Twitter accounts for the products.
Thank you for your patience as we strive to update our products.

Elsevier Customer Service Team