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 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 Maintenance October 26th

Various OhioLINK services will be down briefly tonight, Wednesday October 26th, between 8:00 p.m. and midnight.  Affected services should be down no more than 15 minutes each.

OhioLINK: Review

Let's Review ... Ashland University Library is an OhioLINK member institution. In addition to the digital and physical resources available to you at the main campus library, AU students, faculty, and staff have access to OhioLINK.  This is one way AU Library is working for you.

Below is a narrative from What Does OhioLINK Provide?

"Research Databases OhioLINK offers more than 100 electronic research databases, including a variety of full-text resources. These databases cover many academic areas at varying levels of detail." 

"Electronic Journal Center (EJC) OhioLINK launched the Electronic Journal Center, a collection of full-text research journals, in 1998. The EJC contains almost 10,000 scholarly journal titles from approximately 50 publishers across a wide range of disciplines." 

"Electronic Book Center (EBC) OhioLINK’s growing collection of 81,000 e-books covers a wide variety of subjects and includes scholarly monographs; encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference works (for tracking down a quick fact or illustration); and computer and technology titles (for in-depth, how-to books and technology tips)."  

"Digital Resource Commons (DRC) The Digital Resource Commons preserves and hosts a variety of multimedia material owned and licensed by OhioLINK. DRC collections include: 3,000 digital educational films and documentaries; thousands of electronic images, and more." 

"Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (ETD) The ETD Center is an open access showcase of research and scholarship from students at Ohio universities, offering access to over 39,000 undergraduate honors theses, masters’ theses, and doctoral dissertations from students at participating Ohio colleges and universities."

"Ohio Music Center The OhioLINK Music Center is an online streaming music database of international works in a variety of genres, from Classical to Spoken Word. The Music Center offers more than 81,000 tracks from more than 22,000 albums."  

"Electronic Finding Aid Repository (EAD) The OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository contains descriptions of archival collections from contributing institutions in Ohio."

OhioLINK Maintenance Downtime 6/12-6/13

All OhioLINK hosted services will be down during the following window, as OhioLINK servers are moved to a new data center: Friday, June 12, 6pm – Saturday, June 13, 12pm (noon).  This will affect all of the OhioLINK website as well as the OhioLINK Catalog.  Most library databases will remain accessible from the AU Library webpages, but links from search results to articles in the Electronic Journal Center will not work.  If you have questions, e-mail us at library@ashland.edu

OhioLINK Website Maintenance October 16th

The OhioLINK website will be down for maintenance Thursday morning, October 16th, from 6 a.m. to about 8 a.m.  Other OhioLINK services, such as the OhioLINK Catalog and the Electronic Journal Center, are expected to remain available.

OhioLINK Maintenance Downtime

OhioLINK will be doing maintenance work on its systems from 8:00 p.m. on Monday, September 19th, until 4:00 a.m. the next morning, and again from 8:00 p.m. on Monday, September 26th, until 4:00 a.m. the following morning.  This work may interfere with access to a wide range of OhioLINK resources, including the OhioLINK Catalog, databases, eBook collections, OLinks, and the Electronic Journal Center.

OhioLINK Web Site

OhioLINK's User Services committee has been working to update and refresh the OL web site to, among other things, make it more easily accessible to users using mobile devices. Zoe Stewart-Marshall, Assistant Director, User Services Development at OhioLINK released the following information this morning.

With the approval of the User Services Committee, the new header bar and stylesheet are now in place on the main web site. This continues the ongoing process to refresh our user interfaces which you have seen already in the EJC and other OhioLINK services.

This refresh includes revisions to the home page, including a different layout if the page detects you're using a mobile browser (to see it, resize your browser window to less than 800px wide and go to http://www.ohiolink.edu/ - it also happens automatically if your browser identifies itself with a name that includes iPad, iPod, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, or Symbian*). This logic is also used in the map of members and the EJC article-level display.

As a lagniappe, the home page now also randomly rotates the library photo every thirty seconds. We hope you enjoy the new look and feel and that our users coming in on mobile devices find that website easier to work with.

Zoe Stewart-Marshall Assistant Director,
User Services Development