This week, Oxford University Press switched over their journals platform at oxfordjournals.org from http to https. The various systems that libraries use to manage e-journal collections–such as the Serials Solutions A-Z journals system and the SFX system that powers our Find It button and the “View Online” button in OneSearch, are trying to play catch up with this change.
If you find that you are unable to load a journal from Oxford on the Oxford Journals platform, one trick that might work is to copy the URL for the page that wouldn’t load into a Word or Notepad document, edit the URL by adding an “s” to the “http” part, deleting any thing that comes after the “.org” part, and then pasting that reworked URL into the address bar.
For example, say you’ve looked up the Journal of American History in our Journals search tool and then you tried to click the “Oxford Journals” link on the results page:
That link will take you to a page on the oxfordjournals.org site that won’t fully load.
But, if you copy the URL out of the address bar and paste into a text editor (Notepad, Word, etc.), you’ll see it like this:
http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/archive
Add an “s” after “http” like this and delete the “/archive” bit:
https://jah.oxfordjournals.org
If you paste that URL in the address bar, the page should load properly. Oxford is aware of this mess they’ve created and are working to fix it. Luckily for us, we only have 11 journals on the Oxford Journals platform:
Many of those journals we have in full text in different aggregator databases as well, which offers another access option depending on the volume and issue needed.
As soon as this problem gets sorted out, I’ll post an update here on the blog.