UBC eLink
eJournal portal and Citation Linker will be unavailable for 24 hours starting February 8 at 5:00 p.m.
UPDATE – move went well with few problems reported! Due to a migration to new servers by our third-party eResources Discovery provider, the eJournal Portal (our ejournal linking from the “Journal Titles” tab on the Library Homepage) and our Citation Linker (also known as UBC eLink – the page with a big blue button that […]
Summon & Citation Linker : Downtime Longer than Expected
Apologies for the longer than expected downtime of Summon, the Citation Linker (UBC eLink) and the eJournal Portal over the weekend of October 29th & 30th. These systems are maintained by a 3rd-party provider (ProQuest) on servers located off campus (meaning, in “the Cloud”). Initially, they expected the downtime to be two brief windows on […]
PubMed: Problem with UBC eLink Button
UPDATE => UBC eLink now working on PubMed In PubMed, the UBC eLink button is having a problem with the format of URLs. We have fixed this (hopefully) but can’t test until September 12th. In the meanwhile, if you have a PubMed ID number for an article, you can try the following: Go to “Indexes, […]
360 Link: Our New OpenURL Resolver
As part of the implementation of our new Summon discover service (the “Start Here” box on the Library homepage), we are moving to a new OpenURL resolver: 360 Link from Serials Solutions. What’s this OpenURL business all about? Remember the familiar button? That lead to our old OpenURL resolver SFX and then on to ejournal […]
Print Journals & eJournals in the OPAC: a Change to Online Linking
As you may have noticed, there have been some changes in how the UBC Online Public Access Catalogue (the OPAC) looks. One change involves the addition of a blue “Action Box” on the right when you look at an item’s record. For print journals and ejournals this Action Box means the following: within print journal […]