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Outages & Maintenance Alerts: Home

This page lists unexpected outages and planned maintenance affecting library services such as the library's discovery or proxy systems as well as databases, eBooks, eJournals and other content. If you are unable to connect to a resource or service not listed here or have a question about one that is listed, please contact us.

eResources: databases, eBooks, eJournals and other content

Status Date Resource Issue Details
Pending 06/26/2021 Ebook Central eBooks Maintenance On Saturday, June 26, 2021 from 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM EDT, Ebook Central will be offline and ebooks will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.
Resolved 05/12/2021 05/12/2021 ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan Maintenance Atlas Systems will be performing scheduled maintenance on May 12, 2021, between 9:00 PM - 12:00 AM EDT. USF's ILLiad web pages may be unreachable during the maintenance window.
Resolved 04/24/2021 04/24/2021 Harvard Business Publishing Maintenance Harvard Business Publishing multimedia cases, online courses, tools, tutorials, and podcasts will undergo system maintenance on Saturday, April 24, from 11:00 PM to 1:00 AM EDT. During this time, access to these products will be unavailable to instructors and students.
Resolved 04/21/2021 04/20/2021 Library eResources Remote Access via EZproxy USF IT has recently corrected this hostname: old.auth.usf.edu. This triggered a remote access issue to the Library via EZproxy. The issue should resolve itself soon, once your Internet provider's DNS servers update this hostname. As temporary solutions for Windows OS, we recommend clearing your browser browsing data, cache, and cookies, then press Windows + R key, open cmd, type ipconfig /flushdns, and click enter; or using VPN (see instructions here: https://www.usf.edu/it/documentation/virtual-private-network.aspx).
Resolved 04/20/2021 04/20/2021 MyEBSCO Personal Accounts Inability to log in There is a known issue with MyEBSCO personal users accounts. Users are not able to log in their MyEBSCO personal accounts and get a 504 Gateway Time-out error. EBSCO is working on resolving the issue.
Resolved 04/19/2021 04/18/2021 Library Authentication via EZproxy Not Working There is a known issue with the USF Libraries authentication/log in via EZproxy. Please use VPN (https://www.usf.edu/it/documentation/virtual-private-network.aspx) to connect and access library resources remotely. We are working on resolving the issue.
Resolved 04/13/2021 04/13/2021 ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan) Upgrade Atlas Systems will upgrade their platform on April 13th, 2021, between 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT. USF's ILLiad web pages may be unreachable during the upgrade window.
Resolved 04/02/2021 04/02/2021 ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan) Maintenance Atlas Systems will be performing preventative maintenance on April 2nd, 2021, between 9:00 PM - 12:00 AM EDT. USF's ILLiad web pages may be unreachable during the maintenance window. We can still utilize our ILLiad client software during this time.
Resolved 03/27/2021 03/25/2021 EBSCO Products Intermittent Linking Errors EBSCO is experiencing intermittent linking errors. Components affected: EBSCOhost Databases, EBSCO Discovery Service (Find It!), and Full Text Finder (Find it @USF). EBSCO is currently investigating the issues.
Resolved 03/24/2021 03/24/2021 EBSCO (EBSCOadmin and Holdings Management) Maintenance EBSCO will be performing scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 between 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST. Users may experience interruptions or slowness with Holdings Management (Full Text Finder) and HoldingsIQ/ RM API during this time.
Resolved 03/08/2021 03/08/2021 EBSCO Products Service Issues EBSCO Find It!, Full Text Finder, and EBSCOhost Databases experience latency issues and/or Service Unavailable Error. EBSCO is working on resolving the issues.
Resolved 02/28/2021

02/25/2021-

02/28/2021

 EBSCO Products Currency Due to a planned systems upgrade, users may experience a delay in the currency of publications on Find It!, Full Text Finder (Find it@USF), and EBSCOhost Databases between February 25 and February 28, 2021. Currency will be restored beginning Monday, March 1st.
Resolved 02/24/2021 02/24/2021 Library Authentication via EZproxy Not Working There is a known issue with the USF authentication/log in via EZproxy. Please use VPN (https://www.usf.edu/it/documentation/virtual-private-network.aspx) to connect and access the library remotely. USF IT is working on resolving the issue.
Resolved 02/24/2021 02/24/2021 EBSCO (EBSCOadmin, Holdings Management, and Reports & Statistics) Maintenance EBSCO will be performing scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 between 1:00 - 3:00 PM EST. Users may experience slowness or brief interrupted access to journal articles (Full Text Finder) during this time.
Resolved 02/18/2021 02/18/2021 EBSCO Full Text Finder Access Issue There is a known issue with Full Text Finder (Find it@USF)  links to journal articles resulting in an error message which reads, "An error has occurred while processing your request". EBSCO is working on resolving the issue.
Resolved 02/10/2021 02/10/2021 EBSCO Products Access Issue EBSCO is currently experiencing problems across products. Components affected: Full Text Finder (journal articles), EBSCO Discovery Service (Find It!), and EBSCOhost Research Databases. EBSCO is working on resolving the issues.
Resolved 02/04/2021 02/04/2021 Wiley Online Library Access Issue Wiley Online Library is currently unavailable. Wiley is working to restore access as soon as possible.
Resolved 01/31/2021 01/30/2021 ProQuest Ebook Central Maintenance Due to scheduled maintenance, ProQuest Ebook Central will be unavailable on Saturday, January 30, 2021 10:00 pm - Sunday, January 31, 2021 6:00 am EDT.
Resolved 01/29/2021 01/29/2021 EBSCO Find It! and EBSCOhost Databases and eBooks Access Issue There is a reported issue accessing content in EBSCO Find It! and EBSCOhost Databases and eBooks. Clicking the detailed record results in an application error.  EBSCO is investigating.