e-Resources
Informaworld down intermittently Sat. Sept. 27th
Customers may experience intermittent access to informaworld on Saturday 27th September 2008 as the company completes some essential maintenance.
Scholars Portal Search Unavailable on Saturday Sept 20
Due to site maintenance, Scholars Portal Search will be unavailable on Saturday, September 20th, 2008 from 8:00am to 9:00am.
LibAccess Unavailable From Off-Campus
UPDATE @ 11:50 AM: LibAccess is up & running again. Thanks for your patience!
LibAccess is currently unavailable from off-campus. Will update this news story once it is back up. We apologize for the inconvenience.
New Database: Past Masters
The Library now has online access to scholarly editions of the writings of selected literary authors, major philosophers, theologians, and political theorists -- in their original language and Engl
Digitized Books Now Available to McMaster Users
The first books to be scanned as part of the Library's mass digitization program are now available to McMaster students, faculty, and staff.
Access to e-Resources using MACID logon - Update: now available
Patrons have reported that their MACID is not being authenticated when trying to logon to LibAccess from off campus.
Temporary disruptions to catalogue on Thursday at 4pm until Friday.
There is to be a mass reindexing of the catalogue starting at 4pm on Thursday, continuing to completion on Friday.
Portico Moves Beyond E-journals: New Digital Preservation Activities
Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation service, introduced three expansions of its preservation work at its third annual Participants
New French E-Journal Collection: CAIRN
The Library now has online access to over 150 European French-language journals in the CAIRN collection.
Periodicals Archive Online: New E-Journal Collection
The Library now has access to Periodicals Archive Online (PAO), which provides fulltext access to over 500 periodicals in the social sciences and humanities from their first issue up to 1995. Titles span over 200 years, with the earliest issue - from the Edinburgh Review - published in 1802. More than 60 foreign-language titles are included.
A full title list is available at http://pao.chadwyck.com/journals/listAll.do.

