By madgett on March 30, 2012
The links from the Catalogue for Books 24X7 titles are broken. We are fixing. To get to a Books 24X7 title, please do try the following: Find the title in the UBC Catalogue or Summon (some Summon links currently work, but not all) Copy the title and go to the Books 24X7 Resource page Connect […]
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By madgett on March 27, 2012
*UPDATE* Databases are back!!* Per EBSCO: “Due to routine maintenance currently underway, we are experiencing temporary service interruptions for EBSCOhost… We apologize for this inconvenience and assure you that our engineering team is working on this top priority to restore service as soon as possible.” Stay tuned.
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By madgett on March 22, 2012
**UPDATE** The time is nigh! We’ve had some disappear already. The Catalogue should be updated early April. On the heels of University of Toronto Press pulling ebooks from the Canadian Publishers Collection on ebrary, three other university presses are pulling their ebooks: McGill-Queen’s University Press Wilfred Laurie University Press University of British Columbia Press The […]
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By madgett on March 8, 2012
“Emmanuel Bénézit’s Paris was the unrivaled center of Western art, the home of Cézanne, Monet, Picasso, and Matisse, and the birthplace of Impressionism, post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism. In this thrilling context, Bénézit (b. 1854) undertook the monumental project of the Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs… Now comprising fourteen volumes with […]
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By madgett on March 8, 2012
The Library uses Adobe Reader 8, so there is no problem within the Library. However, if you use Adobe Reader X on your personal computer, there are issues with ScienceDirect. Please read here for further details on the problem and a fix.
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By madgett on March 5, 2012
A bit confused by ebrary’s Download functionality? Please read this how-to guide for our Canadian Publishers, Canadian Public Policy and Canadian Health Research Collections. [NOTE: UBC’s “sign in” for the ebrary Bookshelf is in the upper right of the ebrary website and not exactly as shown in the guide below. At this time, the Library […]
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