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Proquest maintenance Aug 8th

Please note the following information we have received:

From Saturday Aug 8, 2015 at 10:00 PM Eastern Time through Sunday Aug 9, 2015 at 6:00 AM Eastern time, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure in the Virginia data center ("DC4"). During the maintenance window, customer access will be redirected to a webpage stating the planned maintenance times. Access may be available sooner than the published end time depending on completion of testing. This maintenance will not impact the ProQuest Support Center or Support Center Portal.

This may impact on access to the medline and psychinfo databases within NHS HDAS, which are provided by Proquest.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

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