UHD Library Blog

Catalog unavailable notice

The UH-System Library Catalog will be unavailable on Thursday, May 17, 2012 between 7:00pm and 10:00pm due to scheduled maintenance.  Please plan accordingly.   

Trouble with Library Forms Online

Students, Faculty, and Staff - Please be aware that we are having some intermittent problems with some of the library form on our web page. 

If you have requested an instruction class, a research consultation, or applied for a TexShare card and do not hear back from someone in the library in a couple days, we may not have received your request.

Library staff and IT are working hard to quickly resolve this issue.  In the mean time, if you feel you have been overlooked please contact the library either through the Ask-A-Librarian service, or calling the reference desk at 713-221-8187.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Partial outage of UHD Library's online services on Friday, October 23, from 10 PM - 4 AM

On Friday October 23, the following UHD Library online services will be unavailable due to an external service outage:

- Opening "find this article" links in library databases

- List of Journals

The outage is expected to last approximately 6 hours, from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Saturday morning.

Westlaw Campus Research

We are experiencing technical problems with the "Basic Search" feature in the Westlaw Campus Research database. We are working to diagnose and fix the problem as soon as possible.

Sage Journals Online Down

Two collections of Sage Journals Online are currently unavailable due to technical issues -- Sage Health Sciences and Sage Management & Organization Studies. We are working to resolve this problem as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Westlaw Campus Research

Off-campus access to Westlaw Campus Research has been restored.

If you encounter a problem with this database, please use Ask a Librarian to let us know.

It's time to reset your PIN

As we move into the last weeks of the semester, you may need to reset your PIN to continuing using library resources from home. For security reasons, the university requires everyone to reset their PIN periodically. Any PIN that has not been reset in the past few months will expire soon.

To prevent a temporary loss of access, please reset your PIN today by following these steps:

1. Connect to student e-services or faculty/staff e-services.
2. Choose "My Personal Data"
3. Click on the "Change PIN" link and follow the instructions on your screen.

If you are unable to change your PIN, please contact the  Registrar's Office at 713-221-8999.

Business Source Complete

We are currently experiencing a technical problem with Business Source Complete. Some journals such as Business Week are not displaying at this time. The problem has been reported and the publisher is working to find a solution.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

Library Catalog Down Feb. 11

The Library Catalog will be unavailable on Sunday, February 11, from 8:00 am to noon, due to network maintenance at the University of Houston campus. This maintenange will also temporarily disable the Find Books & Multimedia page and some links on our subject guide pages.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Internet Explorer 7.0

If you are using Internet Explorer 7.0, you may see this error screen when you connect to library databases. Please choose "Continue to this website (not recommended)" to connect.

If cannot connect after choosing "Connect to this website," you may need to uninstall Internet Explorer 7.0 or use an alternative web browsers listed on our Connect from Home page.

How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 7 (Windows XP)
(it considered good practice to backup important files before taking these steps)

1. Click on the "Start" button.
2. Click on the "Control Panel" icon.
3. Click on the "Add or Remove Programs" icon.
4. Click on "Windows Internet Explorer 7"
5. Click on the "Remove" button.

Your Internet Explorer software should automatically revert to Internet Explorer 6.