ECCO Ebooks – broken links from the Catalogue
*UPDATE* links to ECCO ebooks from the UBC Catalogue are working again. –Friday, August 6th. Tuesday, Aug.3rd UPDATE: There is some progress to report. The vendor has found the source of the problem. Their programmers are working on the fix with the hope that access will be restored by Friday, Aug.6th. Please stay tuned and […]
NetLibrary: Links to the eBook Hidden in New OPAC
In the new OPAC, links to ebooks are displayed in the “Action” box on the right and look like this: However, NetLibrary ebooks are not currently displaying this icon. To access the ebook, look in the “Action” box on the right and near or at the bottom click on the words “Bibliographic record display” or […]
MyiLibrary: Excessive Downloading leads to Loss of Access
Due to repeated incidents of excessive ebook downloading (like, 10s of thousands of pages over the past month), access to the MyiLibrary ebooks has been blocked by the vendor. This includes access to many Cambridge, Oxford and Taylor & Francis ebooks as well as the Essentials of Canadian Law – Irwin Law e-Books and Irwin […]
Emerald Management Plus: Business Journals Now Available
Currently providing online access to over 250 journals from 22 management disciplines, Emerald Management Plus is Emerald’s premium journal collection. Subscribers to this comprehensive resource will automatically gain access to new and acquired titles, as soon as they are added to the collection, and can rest assured that they will have access to the very […]
Wiley Moves from “InterScience” to “Online Library”
*UPDATE* The big move is this weekend, August 7th & 8th 2010. Be prepared for problems, but hope it goes as smoothly as Wiley promises. Say good-bye to Wiley InterScience and hello to Wiley Online Library… soon. Get the jump on all the upcoming changes here. As for how smoothly the transition will go from […]
eJournals A-Z List: Down for Maintenance July 16
The ever popular ejournal A-Z list will be down for 6 hours on Friday, July 16th for maintenance. “Users may be unable to access [the ejournal A-Z list] for a brief period of time between 6 p.m. PDT Friday and 12 a.m. PDT Saturday (0100 to 0700 UTC Saturday).” Journal titles can be searched in […]