[Eril-l] Directory of Open Access (DOA) Books website down?- blog post about what happened

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Seen on another list. Here is a follow-up post...

OAPEN wrote a short blog post about why DOAB was unavailable for days: a DDoS attack on our Domain Name Server. You can find it here: https://oapen.hypotheses.org/803.

Ramune Kubilius

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THURSDAY AM UPDATE...

From: Ronald Snijder r.snijder at oapen.org<mailto:r.snijder at oapen.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 8:36 AM
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The domain server issues of DOAB have been resolved, and the site is fully accessible. We have taken steps to prevent this from happening again.
Thanks for your patience!

Kind regards,
Ronald Snijder, PhD

CTO/Head of Research OAPEN Foundation
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They have made this announcement on twitter/X https://twitter.com/DOABooks/status/1749797924534616547<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/twitter.com/DOABooks/status/1749797924534616547__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QQ3rRhf-zn4acMM4E5aHL059xzwCCu2KdbTKE3D2-MRXTqm2KCOwvspfWo7QuJvGqTsqnpLr99LOvVVqLfY1MZKcZt3H$> and will post on twitter/X when the issue is resolved.

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I am repeating a message I sent to this list on January 23rd. Yes, the website is down. Someone from OAPEN confirmed it...

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From: Ramune K. Kubilius
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Hello,

Yes, indeed, it is.

Below my signature line is the response I received this morning, posted here with his permission...


Ramune Kubilius, MALS, AHIP-D
Collection Development / Special Projects Librarian
Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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I'm sorry but we are indeed having issues with our website. While it is under investigation by our IT partner, it has not been resolved yet.

Kind regards,
Ronald Snijder, PhD

CTO/Head of Research OAPEN Foundation
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlands
(My timezone is CET/CEST)

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Thanks for pointing this out, Saleena Chiu.  It appears DOAB continues to be inaccessible.   I haven't seen anything else about this - does anyone know what the problem is?

We have many broken links in our discovery layer.   Our workaround is to have patrons search for the book title in a search engine and hopefully find a link directly to it.

Theresa Arndt
Dickinson College Library
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Hi all,
Is anyone else noticing the DOA Books entire website being down for the last 3 days?
Thanks,
Saleena Chiu
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