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ERIC: Update on Full-Text Documents

ERIC: Update on Full-Text Documents

By madgett on September 6, 2012

As you probably know, full-text documents have been unavailable from ERIC for a few weeks now. Here’s the story… “In early August we discovered that sensitive personally identifiable information appeared in some full text documents contained in the ERIC collection. Specifically, social security numbers and other highly sensitive information were found in multiple documents and […]

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SAGE eJournals: Access Is Down

By madgett on September 5, 2012

**UPDATE** SAGE access restored** Clear your Cache & Cookies! For the time being, we have lost access to several SAGE ejournals. We are working on it. Stay tuned!

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Short Loss of Wireless Network: August 29th 4:00pm

By madgett on August 29, 2012

Short outage across all wireless networks of approximately 5 minutes duration between 4:00 – 4:30PM

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UBC Wireless Networks Down for Maintenance: Saturday, August 25

By madgett on August 22, 2012

Hello, this Saturday UBC IT will be working on the wireless networks. Please read their Bulletin. Briefly: On Saturday August 25, 2012 UBC wireless services at all UBC facilities may sporadically be unavailable from 10:00 to 16:00 PT due to infrastructure maintenance and upgrades. During this window, there will be periodic outages to the wireless […]

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Medical Resource Trials: DynaMed & SMART ImageBase

Medical Resource Trials: DynaMed & SMART ImageBase

By madgett on August 16, 2012

Two trials for Medical resources are underway right now. DynaMed : …is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. With clinically -organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an […]

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National Library of Scotland: Take a Look at the Digital Archive

National Library of Scotland: Take a Look at the Digital Archive

By madgett on August 2, 2012

Thinking about how you can prepare for next year’s Robbie Burn’s Day? (He’ll be 254 on January 25th). Well, take a look at the National Library of Scotland’s Digital Gallery Covering everything from “The origins of golf … a matter of mystery and controversy” to “The life, work and legacy of Scotland’s Bard…” There are […]

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China Online Journals: Work-Around Links Added

China Online Journals: Work-Around Links Added

By madgett on July 26, 2012

Starting tomorrow, links for the China Online Journals will all point to the WanFang Data Periodicals search page. This will mean the journal title will have to be searched a second time from there, but at least the links will work. Apologies for the extra step, but it is a work-around that works, as opposed […]

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SAGE ejournals: Some Problems

By madgett on July 12, 2012

*UPDATE — Access appears to be restored* Some SAGE ejournals are showing a message similar to: FORBIDDEN You don’t have permission to access /sppsp/38/7/895.full.pdf on this server. We are investigating.

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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: New resource

By madgett on July 3, 2012

“Nineteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious scholarly digitization and publication program ever undertaken, providing searchable content from a wide range of primary sources for the “long” 19th century. At all stages of development, Gale sought the guidance and feedback of professionals and end-users to ensure that we were selecting, digitizing and preserving unique, […]

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eResources (and ej-help) Closed for Canada Day

eResources (and ej-help) Closed for Canada Day

By madgett on June 29, 2012

Just a reminder, we are closed Canada Day (Monday). So, no email, problems or questions will be looked at till Tuesday, July 3rd. See you in July!

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