I
was out of town last week and just found an email dated
7/31/15 in my junk email folder regarding changes to our
EBSCO A-to-Z service. I hope there will be more
communication than just this…we would prefer to have
something like this occur during break and not in the middle
of a semester!
·
Over the next 2-3
months, EBSCO will be migrating your library from EBSCO A-to-Z
and EBSCO LinkSource to Full Text Finder (FTF). In the course
of the migration, you can expect EBSCO to copy your
pre-existing holdings from EBSCO A-to-Z and add them to your
Full Text Finder holdings, which will now be accessible via
the Holdings Management tab in EBSCOadmin. If you have any
questions after reviewing these holdings, or would like
assistance modifying them, please contact Customer Support
<mailto:support@ebsco.com?subject=A-to-Z%2FFull%20Text%20Finder%20Account%20Migration>
.
Carol Green
Well, that’s not really the news I wanted to hear! I have
more info now, but am more confused. Here you go:
We did not know about the migration. We may have received an
email, I don’t want to say EBSCO never sent one, but none of
us in the library knew about it. Ironically, my library
coordinator received an email yesterday welcoming her to the
Full Text Resolver, and she flagged it as something to check
into. That’s the first we knew of it, and had no idea it was
going live today. We came in this morning to our A-Z list
gone, with a white page that’s blank. I don’t know if this
will work, but this is the link to what I see: http://resolver.ebscohost.com/openurl?site=ftf&db=edspub&type=44&plp=1&SToken=Aw8TDuNIbOOTs1CQ8Uaap_uOAcBTWiX_q-sOQQH5IIi3yXHIjYpyQEoyTWR45T3K0zSCt4Vvc2t5YHKiUDVBX5rhJ8kH4ze-pM8Kh9TsU9
UU1ZEWHta7JCZ_spkN3fiabYnC58R5zQ-UVTbZmDvUZOJ7JmaSyhB3Nc308iSGOq2mYfJkRTwiKYSwwQAtEGDZe0gzVkXnJYj1gCRvsaThdseblLXouc-SzT7arYIpongCb6OIJn-P8egJpxhhyZSE5ZTnx8emcZ9hBwTl7fS_VJUh
So if you are using A-Z, you might want to contact EBSCO and
see if you are going to be migrated anytime soon. On another
note: we were told this morning that it will have to be
password protected, so our A-Z list can’t be accessed off
campus without a password. That is a real pain. There should
be no reason why someone can’t at least see the list. You
still have to have passwords to access the full text of items.
Joslyn, that does not sound good. I really hope that doesn’t
happen to me as I have not prepared for the migration and
don’t have a current list of our custom titles ready.
I am going to lunch and praying this morning was a dream.
This was just one of many things we walked into this morning.
Happy Friday!!
Melissa DeVerger
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