Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

October 7th, 2021

Search and Request for books and other Libraries items unavailable during October Break.

December 11th, 2020

There is a planned ITAP outage upgrade on December 27th which will also affect access to Libraries accounts and eResources. Any Library systems that require authentication will be unavailable during this time, some examples include: • My Library Account • Illiad (ILL) • Book Requesting • Off-campus access to electronic materials Library search will continue more…

June 23rd, 2020

The EBSCO Research Databases issue has been resolved. See https://status.ebsco.com for more information.

February 24th, 2020

The ILLiad system used for Interlibrary Loan requests is receiving an upgrade on Friday, February 28th between 2-4pm EST. This means that the Interlibrary Loan request pages at http://go.lib.purdue.edu/ill may be unavailable during that time. During the upgrade, you might not be able to log in, a message that the database is inaccessible may be more…

October 16th, 2018

The Hicks Undergraduate Library will close at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19 to accommodate the Boilermake Hackathon. Hicks will re-open at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21. For more information about the Boilermake Hackathon, see https://boilermake.org/about.

October 11th, 2018

Due to a scheduled power outage, the Humanities, Social Science, and Education (HSSE) Library (including Interlibrary Loan) will close at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15. The HSSE Library will re-open at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16.  

September 29th, 2018

On Saturday, September 29th beginning at 5:00pm Eastern, the Libraries will be performing security and maintenance updates on the servers that support our access to electronic resources. Please expect intermittent downtime when attempting to log into our electronic resources using your Purdue Career Account. This maintenance period is expected to last about two (2) hours. more…

September 20th, 2018

Due to scheduled maintenance, IEEE Xplore users may experience intermittent access issues from 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET (6:30 – 8:30 UTC) Friday, Sept. 21. They anticipate that the site may be unavailable for a portion of this time.

August 29th, 2018

We are currently experiencing access issues with IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The vendor is aware of the issue and hopes to have access restored soon. We apologize for the inconvenience!

April 19th, 2018

ProQuest Ebook Central will be unavailable this Saturday, April 21st, 10:00pm through Sunday, April 22nd, 3:00am (EDT) due to scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.