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Hi. Looks like there are a few issues with On Demand this afternoon. Please bear with us whilst we investigate and resolve. Cheers!

Due to a major server upgrade of the BL On Demand infrastructure, the service will be unavailable from 09.00 GMT on Tuesday 10 January 2023. We expect this upgrade to be completed within 2 days and we will contact you again as soon as the system become available for use. More...

API, Online and OCLC order channels will be unavailable. ARTEmail and ARTWeb requests may continue to be submitted as normal and will be queued for processing. Batch Accepted confirmation messages will be sent as soon as the Service becomes operational. More...

Customers will be unable to download documents from our servers during this time. We apologise for any inconvenience that this essential work may cause. Please do share this message with your colleagues and customers.

We are very pleased to report that the server upgrades were successful and all BL On Demand services are up and running. Queued ARTEmail requests are being confirmed and processed, and the API/Online/OCLC channels are open again. Thanks for your patience.

On Monday 23rd Jan. all BL On Demand services will be unavailable for up to two hours between 0600-0800 for a network upgrade. From 1000 the API ordering route will be unavailable for up to two days for further network upgrades. We apologise for the disruption caused.

The server upgrade work has been successfully completed and On Demand is fully available once again. Thank you for your patience.

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday 28 Feb, On Demand will be unavailable between 0800-0845 for maintenance. ARTEmail orders will be queued up and there is no need to resend messages. API and Online ordering will be unavailable. Thank you, Customer Services

Our maintenance work is complete and all On Demand services are up and running again. Thank you for your patience.

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Disruption to Boston Spa phone lines tomorrow, Wednesday 14th, from 10am. Major upgrade, might take some hours. Please use our Quickchat: bl.uk/about-us/conta… We're here 0930-1600.

Hi. Due to systems issues BL On Demand is currently unavailable. Engineers are working on a resolution. We will let you know when it is back up again.

Morning. Good news - On Demand is back up and running again. Apologies for any inconvenience caused over the last few days.

Some issues with BL On Demand availability function presently. Hope to get things back to normal within 2 hours. Apologies for the inconvenience this may cause. We're pausing ARTEmail orders for the time being; please don't resend files. Cust Servs.

ARTEmail requests being queued since Friday; IT issues at St Pancras affecting Outlook. API and online ordering unaffected. Please don't resend already sent ARTEmail files. Apologies for the inconvenience, Customer services.

1/2 Some customers have recently reported unencrypted docs not opening; Further to an update to Chrome, documents are not opening automatically for some users. For those users we recommend using a different browser such as Edge or Firefox to open the download link.

2/2 For some users, the document has downloaded and gone straight into the Downloads folder without opening. They may access it there and open it using any document viewer