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Gale Databases: All Access Lost Wednesday, 02Nov.2011

By irobb on November 2, 2011

Access to all Gale databases from on campus has been lost this morning. The problem seems to be somewhere between here and their servers. Off-campus access via EZproxy & myVPN seems to be working fine. Stay tuned.

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ARBA Online [American Reference Books Annual Online]: New Resource

By irobb on October 25, 2011

ARBA Online [American Reference Books Annual Online] is now available for perusing. “ARBAonline is the most comprehensive, authoritative database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works.”–ABC CLIO More than 23,000 reviews of reference works published since 1997 Written by librarians for librarians More than 400 publishers in over 500 subject areas.

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Life Sciences: a Collection of Titles from Elsevier

By irobb on October 19, 2011

The Life Sciences Package is a collection of related ejournals. Here is a title list: Advances in Agronomy Advances in Applied Microbiology Advances in Botanical Research Advances in Cancer Research Advances in Clinical Chemistry Advances in Ecological Research Advances in Food and Nutrition Research Advances in Genetics Advances in Immunology Advances in Insect Physiology Advances […]

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In the Mood for Something New?: A Few Free Resources

By irobb on October 17, 2011

…okay, really the info is mostly old. But it may be “new” to you. Here’s some free online resources worth a look: AFRO Black History Archives : AFRO-American newspaper archives Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons & Surgery News : both from American College of Surgeons Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society : […]

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Methods in Enzymology: an eBook Collection from Elsevier

By irobb on October 14, 2011

“Methods in Enzymology is a series of scientific publications focused primarily on research methods in biochemistry…The series is widely used and cited in the biomedical research field.” -Wikipedia We have access back to the 2000 publications.

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Irwin Law ebooks: Slight Connection Problem

By irobb on October 12, 2011

Due to technical complications, the ebooks in the Irwin Law Collection are a bit tricky to find at the moment. The records in the Catalogue have old links and will be replaced soon. For now, use this URL and then either browse or search for titles. Titles found in Summon are unfortunately a mix of […]

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British Medical Journal: Available Back to the 1800s

By irobb on October 6, 2011

The UBC Library has access to the British Medical Journal back to 1840 (when it was the Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal ).

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Catalogue work this Weekend: Some eJournal Records Will Be Deleted

By irobb on September 29, 2011

Just a heads up for folks working this weekend. There will be work on the UBC Catalogue this weekend. Many ejournal records will be removed & later replaced. This may cause problems with people using the “Search for Print and Online Journals” left-hand search box, but will not affect the “Search for Online Journals Only” […]

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Summon is Having Problems: 27 Sept. 2011

By irobb on September 27, 2011

*UPDATE* Summon is fixed. Please clear your browser’s cache & cookies and report any further problems to E-Resources & Access. Yikes! Summon is having intermittent problems this morning. It is being worked on. Stay tuned.

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E-Resources & Access Blog: Now with Twitter Feed

By irobb on September 26, 2011

Wondering what new innovations (or current problems) our online resource providers are in a twitter about? Wonder no more with the new Twitter Feed page on the E-Resources & Access blog. …but our home-grown tweets still get the Home page.

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