Scheduled maintenance on library resources

Please be aware that there will be scheduled maintenance by one of the library’s vendors OCLC on Friday 26th April and Saturday 27th April between 10pm – 7am in order to perform essential maintenance. Due to the nature of the upgrade, users may experience intermittent access to some of our online resources during these times.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

If you are experiencing any other issues with online resources from the library, please contact the team via email at ertenq@gcu.ac.uk 

Technical Issue [Access to scans on Resource Lists] – issue resolved

We are currently experiencing access issues to Scanned material that loads using Kortext Reader on Resource Lists. This is due to unexpected downtime from the platform provider.

The provider is working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

We will provide an update to this post with further information as we receive it.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

[UPDATE 29.02.24, 12.07]

This issue is resolved. Thank you for your patience, and our apologies once more for any inconvenience caused.

If you are experiencing any other issues with online resources from the library, please contact the team via email at ertenq@gcu.ac.uk 

GCU London Library: Temporary Opening Hours January 2024

The GCU London Library will be open as follows over the listed two week period in January (Monday 8 January 2024 until Sunday 21 January 2024):

Day Date Time
Monday 08/01/24 9am to 7pm
Tuesday 09/01/24 9am to 7pm
Wednesday 10/01/24 9am to 7pm
Thursday 11/01/24 9am to 7pm
Friday 12/01/24 9am to 7pm
Saturday 13/01/24 Closed
Sunday 14/01/24 Closed
Monday 15/01/24 9am to 7pm
Tuesday 16/01/24 9am to 7pm
Wednesday 17/01/24 9am to 7pm
Thursday 18/01/24 9am to 7pm
Friday 19/01/24 9am to 7pm
Saturday 20/01/24 Closed
Sunday 21/01/24 Closed

 

GCU London Library: Festive Opening Hours 2023/24

The GCU London Library will be open as follows over the Festive period 2023/24:

Day

Date

Time

Monday

18/12/2023

9am to 7pm

Tuesday

19/12/2023

9am to 7pm

Wednesday

20/12/2023

9am to 7pm

Thursday

21/12/2023

9am to 7pm

Friday

22/12/2023

9am to 7pm

Saturday

23/12/2023

Closed

Sunday

24/12/2023

Closed

Monday

25/12/2023

Closed

Tuesday

26/12/2023

Closed

Wednesday

27/12/2023

Closed

Thursday

28/12/2023

Closed

Friday

29/12/2023

Closed

Saturday

30/12/2023

Closed

Sunday

31/12/2023

Closed

Monday

01/01/2024

Closed

Tuesday

02/01/2024

9am to 7pm

Wednesday

03/01/2024

9am to 7pm

Thursday

04/01/2024

9am to 7pm

Friday

05/01/2024

9am to 7pm

Saturday

06/01/2024

Closed

Sunday

07/01/2024

Closed

Library systems scheduled maintenance

Please be aware that the Library’s system provider has scheduled essential maintenance from 11pm on Saturday 6th to 12am on Sunday 7th December.

The library Discover search and Resource Lists system may be unavailable for some of this time.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Level 4 closed 20 to 23 October 2023

Level 4 of the Sir Alex Ferguson Library will be closed from 5pm on Friday 20 October until 7am on Monday 23 October to allow improvements to power and USB charging provision at study spaces to be carried out.

There will also be some minor work carried out on Level 2 of the Library but the floor will remain open.

We thank you for your patience while this work is carried out.

 

Scheduled Downtime [VLebooks platform]

Please be aware that there will be scheduled downtime on the VLebooks platform on Sunday 8th October between 4pm – 7pm in order for the vendor to perform essential maintenance. We have been advised that the platform will be VLebooks offline for approximately one hour during this period.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

If you are experiencing any other issues with online resources from the library, please contact the team via email at ertenq@gcu.ac.uk 

 

Technical issue [Cite them right]

Please be aware that we are currently experiencing access issues to the resource Cite them right.

We are currently working with the publisher to resolve this issue ASAP and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

UPDATE: WORKAROUND

The vendor has issued the following advice on using Cite them right while the access issue is being addressed.

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Website information:

* We are aware of an issue with pages under two navigation menu links: ‘Choose Referencing Style’ and ‘Browse Categories’. We are working on a fix.

* Please use the search bar to find content you are looking for. All pages and articles with referencing guidance remain available. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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Further to this, GCU users can access the ebook version via the Library’s webpages here: https://bit.ly/3JzsI6E

If you are having any issues with online resources please contact the Electronic Resource Team at ertenq@gcu.ac.uk 

Scheduled maintenance on BNF Online

Please be aware that there is scheduled maintenance to the British National Formulary online platform on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 February, 7am – 7pm.

The vendor has made us aware that users may encounter brief periods of downtime and may be unable to access BNF Online during this time. This is to undertake essential infrastructure maintenance work on the platform and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

If you have trouble accessing any of our online resources, please contact the team at ertenq@gcu.ac.uk