This weekend, from 6 pm on Saturday (September 7) to 6 am on Sunday (September 8), the servers hosting both SFX and the library catalog will be down for planned maintenance. This will affect not only on the library catalog and the “Find it! @ CUNY” button that pops up in databases but also OneSearch. Here’s how it will change things temporarily and how to work around it.
SFX and the “Full text available” links
Say you’ve just run a search on “turtles’ in OneSearch. In this screenshot of the first four search results in OneSearch, you can see there are green “Full text available” links for each item; these links won’t work at all because SFX is down.
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Although SFX is down, that doesn’t mean we can’t get to the full text. Here’s the workaround for each of the four items in the screenshot.
Item #1: Morphology and evolution of turtles
- This is an ebook. Click the title of the book to get to the OneSearch record that has the full description of the book.
- On the OneSearch record for the book, you can see references to “SpringerLink.” That’s a database we have at Baruch.
- Go back to the previous screen to see the OneSearch page with the search results.
- Click “Databases A-Z” at the top of the OneSearch page.
- Look for “SpringerLink” on the list of databases and click to launch it.
- Search in SpringerLink for the book using the book title.
Item #2: Turtles
- This is a “reference entry,” which means it’s an entry in one of our encyclopedia databases. Click the title (“Turtles”) to get to the OneSearch record that has the complete description of the reference entry.
- On the OneSearch record for the reference entry, you can see a mention near the bottom of “Gale Virtual Reference Library” as the source.
- Go back to the previous screen to see the OneSearch page with the search results.
- Click “Databases A-Z” at the top of the OneSearch page.
- Look for “Gale Virtual Reference Library” on the list of databases and click to launch it.
- Search in Gale Virtual Reference Library for the reference entry using the title “turtles.”
Item #3: Turtles
- This is an article from a journal. Since you can see the name of the journal, the Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, you don’t need to click through to get more info. All you need is here (the name of the journal and year of publication).
- Click “Journals A-Z” at top of the screen.
- When the “Journals, Newspapers, & Magazines” page opens up, search for the name of journal to see what database(s) have access to it and what years.
- Click to connect to the database that has the year you need and then search within that database for the article.
Item #4: The Turtles
- This is another journal article. Use the same steps as for previous item (#3).
The catalog and the real-time availability info in OneSearch
The other part of OneSearch that will be affected by this weekend’s maintenance is connected to the catalog being down. You’ll still be able to find print books and other physical items in our collections by searching OneSearch, but you won’t be able to tell if it is checked out or not. The only workaround is to look for the book on the shelf.
