OhioLINK Scheduled Maintenance

Several OhioLINK resources will be unavailable briefly on Monday, February 25, from 4:00 a.m. to about 6:00 a.m.  They include the Electronic Journal Center and the Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center.  Access to databases through the Ashland University Library web pages should be unaffected.

OhioLINK Maintenance June 26th

OhioLINK Services will be unavailable Monday evening, June 26th, from 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. because of maintenance. This includes the OhioLINK website, OhioLINK Catalog, OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center, and everything else OhioLink.

OhioLINK EJC Maintenance 5/31

The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC) will be down for maintenance Wednesday morning, May 31st, for perhaps half an hour in the period between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.

OhioLINK Maintenance December 28

OhioLINK services will be down for maintenance on December 28th from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.  Affected services will include the OhioLINK web site, OhioLINK Catalog, OhioLINK Electronic Book Center, OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center, and the OhioLINK Digital Resource Center.

OhioLINK: Electronic Journal Center

Have you used the new Electronic Journal Center (EJC) yet? Do you need help? We have just the thing,  OhioLINK's YouTube channel has playlists and video tutorials available.

• New EJC: Article page overview
• 4 Ways to save a new EJC citation
• Create a new EJC account

If you have an existing EJC account, these resources provide help copying existing journals, articles, and searches to the new EJC.

• Copy my journals to the new EJC
• Copy my articles to a reading list
• Copy my searches to the new EJC

Please be advised that the RSS feed subscription is functioning with Outlook, but not other subscription utilities and apps, such as Feedly. This issue will be addressed in a planned update.  If you experience problems or need help with the new EJC, be sure to contact the library at x5400 or a reference librarian at x5402.

*Originally published 9/4/16.

OhioLINK: EJC Live

We are excited to announce the new Electronic Journal Center (EJC) is now live!  Need help? OhioLINK's YouTube channel has playlists and video tutorials available.

• New EJC: Article page overview
• 4 Ways to save a new EJC citation
• Create a new EJC account

If you have an existing EJC account, these resources provide help copying existing journals, articles, and searches to the new EJC.

• Copy my journals to the new EJC
• Copy my articles to a reading list
• Copy my searches to the new EJC

Please be advised that the RSS feed subscription is functioning with Outlook, but not other subscription utilities and apps, such as Feedly. This issue will be addressed in a planned update.  If you experience problems or need help with the new EJC, be sure to contact the library at x5400 or a reference librarian at x5402.

OhioLINK: New EJC

An updated EJC, Electronic Journal Center, interface will launch Thursday morning, August 4th. Improvements to the database include "the addition of full text searching, PDF links included in the search results, improved faceting, the ability to export citations in a variety of formats, accurate representation of journal subscription gaps" (OhioLINK).

Questions? Contact the library (x5400) if you need help working with the new EJC.

OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center Maintenance

The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center will be unavailable for a short time Wednesday, May 25th, between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.  A good reason to sleep in?

OhioLINK EJC Access Restored

OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center was offline for an hour or two this afternoon but has been restored to service. If you notice problems, clear the cache of your browser and try again, and let us know if problems continue.

OhioLINK: EJC Database down

OhioLINK has notified us that EJC is currently down. They are working on the problem and initially anticipated the issue being quickly resolved. At this time, there is no specific timeline for database restoration.

"We are continuing to work with OH-TECH on bringing the EJC back up. However, resolving this problem is taking more time than previously estimated."- OhioLINK

We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you need help with selecting another database resource, please contact library reference at X5402.

EJC Issues Reported

We will post updates as they become available.

Update: "Articles and PDFs are functioning as normal, the journal pages in the EJC are still down. You can see the error when you click on any journal title; you will see a yellow box indicating that the journal is not available. Browse by journal title functionality is also not working" - OhioLINK

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Issues with the Electronic Journal Center (EJC) – "searching works, but clicking does not appear to be bringing up any content" - have been reported. OhioLINK is working on the problem with with OH-TECH. Information will be posted as it becomes available.  Thank you for your patience.

Library Catalog Problem Corrected

Off-campus access to the library catalog has been restored, along with everything that depends on it, including the ability to place OhioLINK requests and get off-campus access to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center.  If you have any difficulty getting access to any library resources, close your browser and ty again, and if problems continue contact us at library@ashland.edu or text us at 419-768-6106.

Upcoming Catalog Maintenance

On Wednesday evening, August 8th, the AU Library Catalog will be down for what is expected to be a short time as it undergoes an update.  On Thursday evening, August 9th, the OhioLINK Library Catalog and Electronic Journal Center (EJC) will be down briefly between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.

OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center Migration

OhioLINK is in the process of moving the more than 15 million articles of the Electronic Journal Center (EJC) to a new server.  Although the appearance will be much the same, the EJC will have a new search platform that will support expanded search functions and better linking from databases to full text in the EJC.  Citations and alerts that have been stored in MyEJC will also be carried across to the new server.

The cutover is scheduled for Thursday morning, October 6th, during which the EJC is expected to be down for about an hour. New journal content, which recently has not been loaded into the EJC pending the transition, is expected to be added beginning October 11th.

OhioLINK: Facebook status

From OhioLINK's Facebook wall

Did you know? Approximately 600,000 users downloaded 4.5 million articles last year from OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center!

"Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK) includes the full text of more than 7000 online research journals covering many subject areas. Most electronic indexes available to the Ohio academic community link from article citations to the full text in the EJC" (about EJC).