Linking to Journal Articles: Supplements & Special Issues
Generally speaking, when presented with options for linking to an article, clicking works pretty well. However, there are a couple cases where –more often than not– this direct linking fails. Articles that are in “Supplements” or “Special Issues” are a problem as there seems to be no standardized way of citing those articles. Sometimes the […]
ScienceDirect ejournals & eBooks: No Access via EZproxy
ScienceDirect blocking our EZproxy due to security breach.
ALERT: myVPN and Some Buildings Experiencing Network Problems
***RESOLVED** Just a heads up, UBC IT is reporting problems with myVPN and the UBC Network in some buildings. Please follow their Bulletins here.
EZproxy Error Message: “Inter-institutional access failure”
Recently, several people have seen the following error message when using EZproxy: Inter-institutional access failure. Please contact your system administrator for assistance We are investigating the cause. In the meanwhile, clearing the cache & cookies from your browser appears to help. If you’ve tried this and the problem persists, please contact us using the eResources […]
Free Textbooks Next Year?
In case you weren’t watching the news this a.m., the British Columbia government says it plans to introduce free online textbooks for the 40 most popular post-secondary courses in the province. Read more here!
SpringerLink moving to a New Platform this Fall
SpringerLink moving to a new platform.
ERIC: Problem with PDFs Continues… Update
ERIC management team and the U.S. Department of Education became aware that some full-text documents in the ERIC Collection contained personally identifiable information.
ScienceDirect: Landmark Papers on Higgs Boson freely available
“Physics Letters B, … has announced that the observations of the long-sought Higgs particle, hailed as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, have been published. The papers ‘Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC‘ and ‘Observation of a new particle in […]
Thieme Medical Journals: Article-level Linking Problem
**UPDATE — Problem solved** Currently, there is a problem with article-level linking. What this means is that from our OpenURL resolver / Citation Linker page (see example here) the first link labelled “Article” leads to an error message. You need to click on the link labelled “Journal” and then go to the journal issue & […]
RefWorks and ProQuest Databases: Problems with Direct Exporting of Citations
Currently, there is a known problem with exporting citations directly from various ProQuest databases to RefWorks. This is being worked on, and we hope for a resolution soon. The problem seems to occur more often on campus and less often to off-campus folks working via EZproxy. In the meanwhile, there are a couple work-arounds for […]