By madgett on August 2, 2012
Thinking about how you can prepare for next year’s Robbie Burn’s Day? (He’ll be 254 on January 25th). Well, take a look at the National Library of Scotland’s Digital Gallery Covering everything from “The origins of golf … a matter of mystery and controversy” to “The life, work and legacy of Scotland’s Bard…” There are […]
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By madgett on July 26, 2012
Starting tomorrow, links for the China Online Journals will all point to the WanFang Data Periodicals search page. This will mean the journal title will have to be searched a second time from there, but at least the links will work. Apologies for the extra step, but it is a work-around that works, as opposed […]
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By madgett on July 12, 2012
*UPDATE — Access appears to be restored* Some SAGE ejournals are showing a message similar to: FORBIDDEN You don’t have permission to access /sppsp/38/7/895.full.pdf on this server. We are investigating.
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By madgett on July 3, 2012
“Nineteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious scholarly digitization and publication program ever undertaken, providing searchable content from a wide range of primary sources for the “long” 19th century. At all stages of development, Gale sought the guidance and feedback of professionals and end-users to ensure that we were selecting, digitizing and preserving unique, […]
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By madgett on June 29, 2012
Just a reminder, we are closed Canada Day (Monday). So, no email, problems or questions will be looked at till Tuesday, July 3rd. See you in July!
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By madgett on June 25, 2012
*UPDATE* Problem sorted. Linking to RefWorks page working. Some folks trying to get to the usual RefWorks login page are being re-directed to a page like below. Please clear the cache & cookies from your browser and try connecting again. We’ll work on our end to get a fix. Stay tuned!
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By madgett on June 20, 2012
This just in… “CANCELLATION NOTICE: Please be advised that due to funding constraints, UBC Library and the Office of Research Services will be cancelling their jointly-funded subscription to the COS Research Support Suite (comprising COS Funding Opportunities; COS Funding Alerts; COS Papers Invited; COS Scholar Universe; and COS Pivot, formerly COS Expertise). The final day […]
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By madgett on May 28, 2012
**UPDATE: All went well last night. No reported problems. (knock on wood)** Just a heads up that EZproxy (which many people use for off-campus access to Library resources) will be down at 6:00 pm today for an upgrade. Down-time expected to be brief. If you experience EZproxy problems after, say, 6:30 pm, please report them […]
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By madgett on May 22, 2012
*UPDATE* Second copy up and running. Access restored** Handbook of public pedagogy : education and learning beyond schooling / edited by Jennifer A. Sandlin, Brian D. Schultz, Jake Burdick. Unfortunately, we have hit the limit when it comes to the number of views allowed with the copy of the ebook that the Library has purchased. […]
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By madgett on May 17, 2012
We have several eBooks form the University of Toronto’s ITER publishing, but they are not available at the moment. These are part of the “Other Voice in Early Modern Europe” collection. We are working on getting the links fixed.
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