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It seems to work for now, at least for me.

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I've tried, and it appears we have access to Grove Music Online, but not other databases.

It doesn't work for me neither.

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It's working for me either.

It's really annoying because there are some books on OUP that'd cost me over £100 each and I had access earlier this year that I really need to finish my article off, because sources are limited and the subject is not much written about due to academic superciliousness.

I have bought all the books I can from eBay for no more than £20, but I aint spending £100 each for any book,

Hello!

We are looking into this on priority. We have reached out to multiple contacts at OUP for their help on this. However, we do not have clarity on how soon OUP collections will be available again.

I will be sending them followup emails this week and next. Thanks!

By the way, is there a report portal for this kind of issues? It seems that we've also lost access to IEEE since a couple of days ago. Thanks!

@Lucho: Does Phabricator count as a portal?

By the way, is there a report portal for this kind of issues? It seems that we've also lost access to IEEE since a couple of days ago. Thanks!

A Phabricator ticket is definitely the best way for reporting this :) I've filed T422805.

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Hello! It seems that we have regained partial access to Oxford Academic, limited almost entirely to the Oxford Handbook collection.

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Hello! It seems that we have regained partial access to Oxford Academic, limited almost entirely to the Oxford Handbook collection.

Not the case unfortunately; how can one access something within OA if OA itself is still 'temporarily unavailable'...

Similar problems also have occurred on Brill and De Gruyter contents, both of which experienced the same issue in the past (T366427, T405707).

In T418834#11895582, @Eryk_Kij hat geschrieben:

Similar problems also have occurred on Brill and De Gruyter contents, both of which experienced the same issue in the past (T366427, T405707).

However, these issues are separate from one another and affect the individual partners due to their own access problems, for which each partner is responsible.

If Oxford wants to remove our access they should just man TFU and be honest about it instead of all this hacking around.

Can the "not currently available" message at TWL please direct people to WP:RX?

We haven't heard anything from Oxford University Press yet, sorry! We are still working on it.

Our point of contact has acknowledged the emails we sent and they are working internally to restore our access. We don't have an ETA though.

@sjvipin I just accessed Oxford Academic, it works fine

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That resource is open access that you do not need a login for (https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28133/chapter/212357184)

A while ago I looked up a number of terms on Grove Music/Oxford Music Online with no problems. If things are back and running, then a sincere thank you to @sjvipin and other Wikimedia staff for their hard work resolving this matter. You all did splendidly here and a lot of us appreciate your efforts to keep knowledge open.

That resource is open access that you do not need a login for (https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28133/chapter/212357184)

No it's not. You need access for the handbooks.
Anyway, form what I have seen we have access to most of the books printed by Oxford. We have instead still no access to the other collections that could be found on Oxford Academic (California, Yale, Columbia etc.).

That resource is open access that you do not need a login for (https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28133/chapter/212357184)

I also managed to visit the paper featured in the original error report at the top of this page. Furthermore, when I accessed Oxford Academic, there seemed to be no red articles in the list, only green and yellow.

That resource is open access that you do not need a login for (https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28133/chapter/212357184)

I just tried, it says get access, log in, etc. when using the link you attached

That resource is open access that you do not need a login for (https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28133/chapter/212357184)

A while ago I looked up a number of terms on Grove Music/Oxford Music Online with no problems. If things are back and running, then a sincere thank you to @sjvipin and other Wikimedia staff for their hard work resolving this matter. You all did splendidly here and a lot of us appreciate your efforts to keep knowledge open.

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@SerialNumber54129 Click on the logo for one of the resources. It takes you to a page with a blue button that says "access collection". Click on it and it takes you to the service you want. In my case, I just right now accessed the New Grove/Oxford Music Online and searched for "Georgy Sviridov", "Hans Knappertsbusch", "hocket", "theorbo", and "Humphrey Searle". All the corresponding articles were fully accessible to me.

You can also change the url to add ".wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org", so "academic.oup.com/whatever" becomes "academic-oup-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/whatever"

Sorry your correct. It appears that accessing the collection thought the library page (https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/93/) must set a cookie or something that works cross domains (oup.com and oclc.org). After going to that login I can then access the non wikipedialibrary link https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28133/chapter/212357184 on the same browser, but on another browser where I still get no access.

The search I had tried just happened to return a first page of results that were all still locked, but when I checked the full list I do have access to 50% of the results. Not sure if we are supposed to only have partial access or if the site is only partially fixed.

@CurryTime7-24 That is absolutely first-class research. It works! And I never would have thought to do that. Thank you!

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Grove Music Online work for me. Oxford Reference and Oxford Art Online still don't.

I am able to read the article through this link. I am logged in through wikipedia library Grove music online, maybe that helps?

@Lajmmoore, I too am able to read the article. Maybe try logging out of TWL and then logging back in again? You could also try this direct link: https://academic-oup-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/edited-volume/61883/chapter/547852494. Cheers, SunloungerFrog

I still have trouble accessing articles of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society such as this one while I have already logged in there via TWL.

As for the example I mentioned above, accessing via Wiley (TWL version) solves the problem (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PermaLink/1358841192#Botanical_Journal_of_the_Linnean_Society). Similar issues could be coped with in the same manner.
@SunloungerFrog I express thanks to you here again!

I have lost access again to OUP:

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@Kepler-1229b that is strange. I just checked, and I can get to the chapter via either of these Wikipedia Library URLs:

Maybe try logging out, clearing cookies, and logging back in again?
Cheers, SunloungerFrog

I am also unable to access Oxford Academic. I've tried the approaches listed here but none have worked. For example, I am unable to access this article: https://academic.oup.com/yale-scholarship-online/book/30845?searchresult=1

Posting so people are aware this is still an issue to be fixed.

Seems to be working again. Not sure what happened there.

It seems working again at my end...

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Working for me. When you click to https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/93/ it has a working link. Can we fix the button to let everyone know? I've spent months avoiding edits I've wanted to do because this resource has been down.

Yep, done. Thanks for the confirmations, all.