ScienceDirect and Scopus are expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 19 hours beginning Saturday, August 25th, 2012 for scheduled maintenance for a new release.
What are the changes you will see with this new release?
ScienceDirect: Effortless access to relevant information thanks to a new design for journal article
and book chapter pages as well as improved user experience for RSS feeds, image
search, and other features.
Scopus: Easy updates with Alerts Features functionality improvement.
Please click here to find out the details of the new features per each product.
The downtime is expected to last from 6:30 AM CST Saturday, August 25th – 1:30 AM CST, Sunday, August 26th
If you encounter problems due to this outage please call the circulation desk at 504-856-6100
ScienceDirect and Scopus are upgrading this weekend (March 17-18, 2012). While we expect things to go smoothly, it is possible that users may experience temporary service disruptions on these dates.
If you have access problems please call us at 568-6100, and we will try to get you the article another way.
More info
Do you have problem viewing Scopus on computers that are running Windows 7 and use the IE 9?
Here is how you can fix it:
From IE 9 browser go to Tools and then click on Compatibility view settings and check Display all websites in Compatibility View.

We’ve been in contact with Elsevier about this issue and hope it will be corrected in the future.
Both ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable Saturday morning and afternoon for scheduled maintenance. Users will be unable to access either resource from 7 am to 1 pm on Saturday, November 13th.
If you encounter access issues after this time, or have urgent needs, please contact us at 568-6100.
Both ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable early Sunday morning for scheduled maintenance. Users will be unable to access either resource from 1 am to 5 am on Sunday, November 7th.
If you encounter access issues after this time, please contact us at 568-6100.