UPDATE – Problems resolved. Brill Access is now working. Dec 7, 2022
Access to Brill eBooks and Journals via Brill.com is currently down.
This error will appear:
“The page isn’t redirecting properly. An error occurred during a connection to brill.com.
We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
UPDATE – Problems resolved. Sage Access is now working. Nov 29, 2022
Access to all Sage journals and ebooks is currently down. Access attempts will prompt you to continuously ‘login via your institution’ and a ‘You have successfully logged in, but we cannot verify your access entitlements. Your organization appears to be using an invalid security certificate ‘ error in red near the bottom of the page.
Multiple institutions are struggling with this error and the vendor is working on getting it resolved as soon as possible.
In the meantime Sage Journals and Articles can be searched for and accessed by this link: https://journals-sagepub-com.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/
UPDATE – Problems resolved. Canada Commons Access is now working. Nov 17, 2022
Access to Canada Commons ebooks is currently down, showing a ‘HTTP ERROR 503 – Cannot contact Upstream Server’
We are working quickly to get it resolved!
In the meantime, if you are looking for access to a specific Canada Commons ebook, you should be able to search and access it via this link – https://canadacommons-ca.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/
UPDATE – Problems resolved. JOVE Access is now working. Oct 19, 2022
Access to JOVE is currently down and producing a JSON 500 ‘Internal Server Error’.
This is impacting many University Libraries and the vendor is working quickly to get it resolved.
UPDATE – Problems resolved. July 26, 2022
Due to an ongoing issue, attempts to access journals published by AAAS/Science Journals, ASM Journals, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) returns this error:
This is impacting a number of Academic Libraries and it is a vendor issue that should be resolved in the next few days. Sorry for the inconvenience! We know a number of our patrons rely heavily on these publishers.
As a work-around please search for the journal you wish to access in our E-Journal Portal https://search.library.ubc.ca/#journals and then search/navigate to the article you are looking for on the journal page. Please clear cache and cookies from your browser if it still doesn’t provide access and try again. If you still come across issues, contact us at https://about.library.ubc.ca/contact-us/ejournal-help/?login
Access has been temporarily lost to all Human Kinetics journals.
Stay tuned for updates.
The Portal of Canadian Research Outputs has been developed as part of a collaboration between Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and OpenAIRE. The portal presents research results collected from Canadian institutional repositories.
Check it out here.
EBSCOhost eBooks may be down for maintenance from January 3rd to January 5th, 2022.
Per EBSCO:
Starting the evening of January 3rd, 2022 (EST), EBSCO will be performing an upgrade to systems which will affect the speed with which newly acquired content is made available to your library on the EBSCOhost platform. Maintenance is expected to complete on January 5th, 2022.
UPDATE – Problems resolved. 09de2021
There is currently a problem with EBSCOhost ebooks (PDFs are not opening) and with Taylor & Francis ebooks (“gateway” error).
Stay tuned for updates.
NOTE: Refreshed look delayed till later on 15th or early 16th.
Additional updates:
As well as the changes listed below, there are two new features coming:
1) Select a result source: In some results, you will see “More Options” where you can select the source of the item if we have access to it on multiple sites:
2) Login to Summon: Login to the Summon results to see… more results! When Users log into Summon (upper right), some results that were excluded due to some Providers’ rights policies become visible:
Note: the log-in screen that appears will be primarily for CWL users. For Users with OpenAthens Personal or Access Accounts, they must login as they do for other resources (ie here first https://openathens.library.ubc.ca/ ).
On December 15th, 2021, a refreshed look is coming to UBC Library’s Summon interface (that’s the discovery service from the Library’s “General” tab on the Homepage.
Some of the key changes are as follows:
1) Changes to left-hand facets:
2) General changes:
3) Article results changes:
Current Summon View:
View December 15th:
There will also be some changes to how…
However, functionality should remain generally the same.
