Emerald Journals: Current issues not available
RESOLVED! We now have access to Emerald Management Plus journals. 258 titles. Due to unforeseen problems –which we are sorting out with the publisher– we do not have access to the latest issues of journals on the Emerald platform. These are mostly business journals. We hope to have the problem resolved shortly. Stay tuned! When […]
MedicinesComplete: AHFS Drug Information now available
“AHFS Drug Information® is a collection of drug monographs on virtually every single-drug entity available in the United States.” “AHFS Drug Information® monographs are written principally on single-drug entities; information on various trademarked preparations and brands of a drug is contained in a single monograph. Drug combinations are described in the monographs on the principal […]
People still read “Books”?: Yep. Find Them Here…
Still reading books made from dead trees (are live electrons really more eco-friendly, hmm)? With the end of our subscription to Global Books in Print, here are a couple other options to try when hunting for a book: Amazon.ca –yes, that Amazon. BookFinder! –search over 150 million books for sale, it says. Keep reading!
Journal of Chemical Education: Access Problem (UBC-V) – Resolved
UPDATE May 10th: Access restored! Please report any continuing problems through our ER help form. Currently, we are having problems accessing the full-text articles in ACS’ Journal of Chemical Education. The publisher is recognizing the UBC-O (Okanagan) IP addresses but not UBC-V (Vancouver). As a result, access is blocked on the Vancouver campus and possibly […]
Scientific American: Now with Access Back to 1948
Today, UNESCO works to protect the Amazon Rainforest. In 1948, UNESCO was poised to help America: “…civilize the wild, rich Amazon and open it to colonization” —The Future of the Amazon, Scientific American, v.178, iss.5, p.11 (1948) What other changes to our world view have occurred over the last 60 or so years? Take a […]
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: Online Access Restored
Life Sciences folk, thank you for your patience. Access to the full text articles in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, both the American & British editions, has been restored. For British Edition, click here. For American Edition, click here.
ScienceDirect: UBC eLink Not Working
Due to recent changes Elsevier made to its ScienceDirect platform, our UBC eLink button is not working as it should (you get a “Server not found” error). Elsevier is working to resolve this problem. If you find a reference, citation or non-full text article in ScienceDirect you want to follow up on, try plugging the […]
CRCnetBase: eBooks not Linking from Catalogue to New Site
*UPDATE* – netBASE links work from Catalogue *NEWS FLASH* FOODnetBASE titles working *NEWS FLASH* CRCnetBASE has a new site… …but our ebooks aren’t linking to it from the catalogue. To get to a CRCnetBASE ebook, please go to the CRCnetBASE home page and browse / search from there. NOTE: CHEMnetBASE titles seems to be OK […]
ISI Web of Knowledge: Two Databases Added
“You now have access to two new research resources on Web of Knowledge through your library and its participation in the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.” -Thomson Reuters email MEDLINE (195o – Present) learn more here Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1899 – Present) learn more here
ubcvisitor: Wireless Internet for Visitors to UBC
The next time you use your laptop on campus, you may notice a new wireless option: ubcvisitor (read more here). As the name suggests, this is a wireless gateway to the internet for visitors — non-UBC folks. If you are part of the UBC community and are trying to connect to eresources to which the […]