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Nature Archive: Issues back to 1869
“Every boy should be furnished with a small deal board, a lens, and a sharp knife.” –Science-Teaching in Schools, Nature, 1869 You can now peruse every issue of Nature from 1869 to the present. Read what was being written about Darwin. Read what Darwin wrote about “Rats and Water-Casks.”
Wireless for Walk-ins?: Yes, but…
So, can walk-ins access the internet from their laptops at UBC? Yes, but only if they fall into two groups: people with FatPort accounts or visitors affiliated with institutions that use eduroam. For more FatPort info, visit UBC IT’s FatPort page. For more eduroam info and the institutions participating, visit UBC IT’s eduroam page. For […]
UBC eLink (SFX): Down at 2:00
*UPDATE* …and we’re back online. Yikes! We’ve lost it for the moment. Stay tuned.
ProQuest: Some Databases Acting Up
*UPDATE* All fixed, per ProQuest. “We are currently experiencing system difficulties and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and your users. We have every available resource working on the problem…” Hmm. Sounds like a peck of trouble down at the ol’ ProQuest place. Everything seemed to be working briefly around 3:30 pm. […]
HAPI: Server Being Upgraded
*UPDATE* “HAPI Online has been up and working steadily for a week now so hopefully our technical issues have been resolved…” -the HAPI folks *UPDATE* Not the HAPpIest of news. “HAPI Online is still experiencing intermittent disruptions in access,” say the site’s tech folks. Stay tuned. “HAPI Online has been experiencing recurring server errors over […]
IOP Journal “Smart Materials and Structures”
“… Smart Materials and Structures, published by non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing, UK, has announced that it has been named one of the most influential journals in the field of engineering in 2009, as recognised by ScienceWatch.com from Thomson Reuters.” –Knowledgespeak Newsletter 13 Aug 2009. And The University of British Columbia Library has a subscription. […]
IPA Source: Opera Online
“Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.” “Ha, stolzer ozean!” Who said that? Find out at IPA Source. (…psst, I think he was Dutch)
Sage Journals Online: Good-Bye CSA Illumina
*UPDATE* The date is back to January 1st. My head is spinning! *UPDATE* The switch-over date is now September 1st not January 1st. “To date, the SAGE Full-Text Collections have been available on both the ProQuest CSA Illumina platform and the SAGE Journals Online platform. After December 31, 2009, the SAGE Full-Text Collections will be […]
UBC Catalogue’s “Sort By” Box: It’s Broke
*UPDATE* Box fixed. Now you can sort your Library Catalogue search results. “Thank you,” to the Systems folks! The title of this post basically sums it up: the “Sort By” drop-down box which appears with your search results in the UBC Library catalogue currently does nothing. We are working on the problem. Stay tuned.
