ScienceDirect PDFs: Problem with Off-Campus Access
**UPDATE**Problem Solved. Please clear the cache & cookies from your browser and try the PDF icon at the article level. It should pop-up into a .pdf document now. For people off campus accessing PDFs of articles from journals on ScienceDirect, you can access the HTML version no problem through EZproxy, but clicking on the PDF […]
ScienceDirect eJournal Additions: New Titles Galore!
Several new ejournals have been added to our Elsevier / ScienceDirect collections. They are: Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology 1996+ AORN Journal 1995+ Healthcare Management Forum 1995+ Journal of Dairy Science 1995+ Mayo Clinic Proceedings 1995+ Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology 2003+ Seminars in Nephrology 2003+ Seminars in Oncology 2001+ Solid […]
Updated Resource: SAGE Reference Online 2012 Encyclopedia Collection
UBC Library has purchased updates to the SAGE Reference Online Encyclopedia collection: the 2012 collection (and the 2013 collection, coming soon). Some titles in the 2012 collection include: Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa: An Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice Technology in Schools Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, […]
MyiLibrary: Watch for the Locked eBook Warning
MyiLibrary has set a limit on how fast you can flip pages in order to protect entire ebooks from being downloaded by machine. If you happen to be flipping through an ebook (and you have to be flipping mighty quickly) and see this message pop up: …please fill in the captcha and prove you are […]
ARTstor: Allowing Images to “Pop-Up” in Summon
Serials Solutions (the providers of our discovery service, Summon) have partnered with ARTstor to allow images to “pop-up” into search results. In order to see these images, you need to allow your browser to display pop-ups for: *.artstor.net *.artstor.org library.artstor.org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca As well, you will have to be on campus or logged into EZproxy to see […]
ENDS Europe: Europe’s environmental news and information service
ENDS Europe is the EU’s leading source on eco-policy, business and markets –ENDS Europe website ENDS Europe covers the latest European environmental news, analyses, interviews, opinion pieces and updates on EU laws, as well as reports on topical issues. Access ENDS Europe here.
In Iran: Text and Photos by Adam Jones (ebook)
Here is a preview of In Iran, an ebook that Adam Jones, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, has made available to the UBC community. In Iran is protected by copyright, but “All photos linked in the text are published under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.” We […]
Missed the News Yesterday? Try the Internet Archive TV News
How would you like to be able to search a news archive for all the major news networks (and some smaller ones) at once? Now you can. Try out the Internet Archive TV News. Streaming Video (or, it says, you can “borrow” via DVD, but I haven’t explored that) results for keyword searches. It was […]
Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek – Frei zugängliche E-Journals : re-named “Regensburg OA Collection”
When looking up an ejournal title in our ejournal Portal (the ejournal A-Z list), you may have seen a result that included a link looking something like: Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek – Frei zugängliche E-Journals Note: Only select articles are freely accessible. …and been confused as to what it meant (unless you can read German). To clear […]