By madgett on February 14, 2012
The access has been restored the SAE Digital Library. The SAE Digital Library contains full-text of SAE Technical Papers from 1906 to the present.
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By madgett on February 13, 2012
This Saturday, February 18th., the CWL (Campus-Wide Login) server will be undergoing maintenance from 8:30 a.m to 4:00 p.m. and DOWN from 11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Read all about it here.
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By madgett on February 10, 2012
Monday, February 13th from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., EZproxy will be down for maintenance. What does this mean? 1) off-campus access must be via myVPN 2) some sites will become inaccessible: ebrary, MyiLibrary, EBL (eBook Library) and any others that require EZproxy Sorry for the inconvenience.
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By madgett on January 31, 2012
Currently, on the EBSCO eBook platform you can download ebooks off-line. Unfortunately, as the majority are single-user ebooks, this means no one else can access the ebook for 7 days. In order to make accessing fairer to all, we will be temporarily suspending off-line downloading on the EBSCO eBook platform later this week. This move […]
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By madgett on January 30, 2012
The SAE Digital Library access is not working for the moment. We are talking to the vendor and hope to get this sorted soon. Sorry for the inconvenience. Stay Tuned.
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By madgett on January 27, 2012
EBSCO has taken over the H.W. Wilson databases. These are primarily Education, Humanities, Social Science, Fine Art, Architecture and Law focused Index & Abstract databases —some with Full Text. As a result, the following Resource pages now point to EBSCOhost sites rather than H.W. Wilson sites: Education Full Text http://resources.library.ubc.ca/91 Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1119 […]
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By madgett on January 27, 2012
*UPDATE* SpringerLink 2012 ebooks are now available! Records for the 2012 SpringerLINK ebooks were added (our mistake) to the Catalogue and Summon before we had the access organized. In fact, due to higher-than-expected costs, it is probable that many 2012 SpringerLINK ebooks will not be purchased by the Library. So, if you come across an […]
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By madgett on January 25, 2012
*UPDATE 2* PROBLEM FIXED!! CINAHL Heading Searches should be working as expected. *UPDATE* “We currently have a Critical Service Issue open and our technical team is working to address the CINAHL issues as soon as possible.“–EBSCO The EBSCOhost database CINAHL [ Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature] is currently experiencing problems with Subject […]
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By madgett on January 24, 2012
A few new online resources you might want to take a closer look at: American National Biography Online: “…offers portraits of more than 18,700 men & women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.” That would be the nation just south of us. Films on Demand: “…Web-based […]
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By madgett on January 23, 2012
EZproxy will be down from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on this Wednesday (January 25th.). What does that mean? For off-campus access you will need to set up and use myVPN For resources that must use EZproxy (like ebrary, eBook Library and MyiLibrary), there will be no access till after 7:00 pm. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
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