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The DeSoto St. (2nd Floor) entrance to Alan Magee Scaife Hall is available during all library open hours upon showing valid Pitt or UPMC ID and wearing a mask. From the 2nd floor, proceed down the hall to the Falk Library entrance. The Terrance St. entrance (4th floor) of Alan Magee Scaife Hall is limited to daytime hours on Monday-Friday, ending at 6 PM. Weekend access is also available from Terrance St. from Saturdays 9:30 AM – 10 PM and Sundays 11 AM - midnight. From the 4th floor, take the elevators or stairs down to the 2nd floor to enter Falk Library.

9/3/2021  Access restored

 9/3/2021, 2:20pm.  ClinicalKey, ScienceDirect, Scopus and Embase websites are currently unavailable due to an outage.  Elsevier is aware of the issue and are urgently working to restore access. 

System maintenance for EZproxy service is scheduled to start at 2021-07-21 14:30 Eastern Time through 2021-07-21 18:00 Eastern Time which may very briefly affect access to our online resources.  

System maintenance for all data centers is scheduled to start at 2021-05-19 14:30 Eastern Time through 2021-05-19 18:00 Eastern Time which may very briefly affect access to our online services.

System maintenance for Ovid essential infrastructure is scheduled on May 15th, 2021 between 6am and 2pm EST and may impact some services.

System maintenance is scheduled to start at 2021-04-11 00:00 Eastern Time through 2021-04-11 05:00 Eastern Time which may very briefly affect access to our online services. 

System maintenance is scheduled to start at 2021-03-17 14:30 Eastern Time through 2021-03-17 18:00 Eastern Time which may very briefly affect access to our online services. 

EZproxy maintenance is scheduled for 3/8/2021 at 1:00am. EST, through 3:30am. This may affect access to online resources.

PittNet VPN (Pulse Secure) will be upgraded during scheduled maintenance beginning at 11 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27. Users will be able to connect while maintenance is in progress, but their connections might be briefly interrupted during the maintenance period.