From 2pm on Monday 21st May until approx midday on Tuesday 22nd May, a number of library services will be unavailable. These include:
- self-service machines for borrowing & return on Level 2 of the University Library, in the Adam Smith Library, Chemistry Branch Library, James Herriot Library (Vet), and in the Language Centre Library.
- login to your library account, including access to reading history, renewals and requesting items on loan or not available from this Library
- Quicksearch
- Classic Search and some specialised search options
- Mobile QuickSearch
You can still search for our holdings using COPAC but please remember that you won’t get current availability information from COPAC. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Borrowing facilities from staff service desks will only be available during staffed opening hours. Please note that no borrowing facilities will be available in the University Library after 5pm on Monday 21st May.
Improved services: the system downtime is required to transfer our services from existing hardware to a new, upgraded server
Further assistance: if you require any assistance, please contact Library Services
Email: library@lib.gla.ac.uk
Telephone: 0141 330 6704
Categories: Library
Tags: borrowing, Library services, login to your library account, Mobile QuickSearch, Quicksearch
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I’m sorry Katie, here’s a quick work around that I’ve tried out that does seem to work.
If you know the name of the database you want to search you could put the name of it into the Title field on COPAC (linked to in the post above) and then select ‘Glasgow University’ from the ‘Library’ list in the ‘Narrow options’ lower part of the COPAC search page. You can then click on the name of the database from the results field and it will show you a weblink to click on to reach the log-in page for that database. For Web of Knowledge, for example, this is http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wayf?idp=gla.ac.uk
I’ve also tried this for SCOPUS and it led me to the log in page at http://www.scopus.com/home.url
I am sorry for the inconvenience but the maintenance is for less than 24hrs and will result in a better service. You should be able to access everything as normal around midday tomorrow.
This is infuriating. How am I supposed to get to a list of databases and link from there to what I need?