Any news? And before the expiry, there are some database we can't use (Oxford Law Pro and Who's Who), may I request a purchase here?

We have contacted the Oxford University Press for help on this, but we haven't heard back yet.

Are we still waiting on someone at Oxford to check their inbox? Is there a Wikipedian in Residence we can set loose on them?

@Alexanderkowal Would you please consider that the Wikipedia Library depends on donations from our partners which sets us apart from their usual customers paying for access and service.

@Aschmidt Whereas you might consider, that these partners might not be motivated purely by the goodness of their hearts, but they get citations for their publications in thousands of Wikipedia articles. And, one might add, the authors of the publications of OUP are not really paid by OUP, mostly, but rather they are paid by the public.

Any news from OUP?

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

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

not for me

It doesn't work for me neither.

ODNB. Nope.

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!

Thank you!

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?

In T418834#11803152, @Lucho wrote:

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.

@Aklapper @Samwalton9-WMF Many thanks!

In T418834#11817130, @Biologo-in-erba wrote:

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.

Any news?

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.

Not your fault @sjvipin :)

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

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

In T418834#11951428, @KylieTastic wrote:

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.

In T418834#11951428, @KylieTastic wrote:

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.).

In T418834#11951428, @KylieTastic wrote:

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.

In T418834#11951428, @KylieTastic wrote:

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

In T418834#11951431, @CurryTime7-24 wrote:

In T418834#11951428, @KylieTastic wrote:

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.

@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.