By irobb on January 27, 2009
Ovid is now connecting from all machines that it should connect from now. Some hospital branches had problems as well, but word has come in that they are OK now [except for RSVPN issues, see above]. Direct as many positive thoughts as possible towards Ovid’s Texas server. Previously… Certain staff work stations at Woodward cannot […]
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By dwwest on January 26, 2009
Technical Services staff are also involved with the implementation of Verde, an electronic resources management tool. Verde is a centralized repository which will allow us to specify and manage workflows related to several of our e-resources.
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By irobb on January 15, 2009
The new ebrary Reader is now working in all our ebrary sites. Please visit: Canadian Publisher’s Collection, Canadian Public Policy or Canadian Health Research Collection from the Online Indexes & Databases page. And coming soon eDuke! (Duke University Press ebooks). Take a preview at eDuke. Enjoy. Previously… ebrary has a new interface… but all our […]
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By irobb on January 14, 2009
SFX is back. All looks OK. Previously… SFX (the eLink button, etc.) will be out for a brief moment tonight around 10:00… no more than 45 minutes or so, we’re told. This is not related to the other outage below.
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By irobb on January 14, 2009
We’re back. All looks OK. Previously… From 6 – 7 pm tonight, certain UBC eResource websites will not be available due to server maintenance. Any URL with http://toby.library.ubc.ca in it may go down. This includes the ejournal A-Z list and our database information pages. The eLink button should not be effected, linking directly from the […]
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By irobb on January 7, 2009
UBC Catalogue & Voyager work has been 99% completed (a couple behind-the-scene issues to sort out). All should be working now. Previously… Here is the official word:”Library Catalogue Service Interruptions: Thurs, Jan 8 11:00PM – Mon, Jan 12. UBC Catalogue will undergo major maintenance updates starting on Thurs, Jan 9th at 11:00pm and ending on […]
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By irobb on January 6, 2009
EGADS! Sadly, this problem seems a little deeper. RSVPN is not connecting into some databases/journals. This is proving tricky to solve. For those that can, please try the VPN connection (see link in message below). For those that can’t (some hospital sites, for example), our apologies. Do let us know at lib-ejhelp@interchange.ubc.ca if you encounter […]
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By irobb on January 6, 2009
American Anthropologist and other AnthroSource links are now working in the ejournal A-Z list. Previously… AnthroSource (the site for journals the American Anthropological Association) has re-vamped their entire website. While it looks great, the links to the journals no longer work. You can go directly to the list of journals here, but hopefully our links […]
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