<div dir="ltr"><div>The Portal has been unavailable for a while now, without updates from the NRF at all.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 11:49, <<a href="mailto:irtalk-request@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">irtalk-request@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send IRTalk mailing list submissions to<br>
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   1. Re: National ETD Portal unavailable (Ina Smith)<br>
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:49:16 +0000<br>
From: Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>><br>
To: "Van der Westhuizen, Ansie" <<a href="mailto:vdwesapj@unisa.ac.za" target="_blank">vdwesapj@unisa.ac.za</a>>,<br>
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Cc: "Mabena, Nomsa" <<a href="mailto:mabenna@unisa.ac.za" target="_blank">mabenna@unisa.ac.za</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [IRTalk] National ETD Portal unavailable<br>
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Dear Ansie<br>
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The head of the division, responsible for databases at the NRF:<br>
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Faranah Osman<br>
Executive Director<br>
Information Technology & Knowledge Resources<br>
Tel: +27 12 481 4158<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:faranah.osman@nrf.ac.za" target="_blank">faranah.osman@nrf.ac.za</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:faranah.osman@nrf.ac.za" target="_blank">faranah.osman@nrf.ac.za</a>><br>
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Ina<br>
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From: IRTalk <<a href="mailto:irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za" target="_blank">irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>> On Behalf Of Van der Westhuizen, Ansie<br>
Sent: Tuesday, 25 August 2020 09:38<br>
To: <a href="mailto:irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za" target="_blank">irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a><br>
Cc: Mabena, Nomsa <<a href="mailto:mabenna@unisa.ac.za" target="_blank">mabenna@unisa.ac.za</a>><br>
Subject: [IRTalk] National ETD Portal unavailable<br>
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Dear Colleagues<br>
We are unable to access the NETD Portal from Unisa's side. Could anybody please advise us where we can report this problem. We are getting the message below when trying to open the page:<br>
Service Temporarily Unavailable<br>
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.<br>
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Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at <a href="http://www.netd.ac.za" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.netd.ac.za</a><<a href="http://www.netd.ac.za" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.netd.ac.za</a>> Port 80<br>
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Thank  you for your valued input.<br>
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Non-Commercial Digital Developer (Institutional Repository)<br>
Department of Library Services<br>
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