ESA eJournals at UBC-Okanagan: Might Need MyVPN for Access
Due to a slight access problem, some Ecological Society of America ejournals may not be accessible directly from UBC-Okanagan campus. If you have trouble accessing: Ecology Ecological applications Frontiers in ecology & environment Ecological monographs …please try clearing the cache & cookies in your browser and connecting again. If that doesn’t work, please set up […]
SpringerLink 2012 ebooks: Now Available!
Sorry for the delay in announcing this: SpringerLink ebooks for 2012 are now available. While the records are not yet loaded in the Catalogue (soon!), the ebooks are discoverable in Summon or, if you know the title, try the Citation Linker. Just enter the ebook’s title in the box marked “Book:”. The way sub-titles are […]
Books 24X7 : Catalogue Links Down, Use Resource Page
The links from the Catalogue for Books 24X7 titles are broken. We are fixing. To get to a Books 24X7 title, please do try the following: Find the title in the UBC Catalogue or Summon (some Summon links currently work, but not all) Copy the title and go to the Books 24X7 Resource page Connect […]
EBSCOhost Databases Down (27th March)
*UPDATE* Databases are back!!* Per EBSCO: “Due to routine maintenance currently underway, we are experiencing temporary service interruptions for EBSCOhost… We apologize for this inconvenience and assure you that our engineering team is working on this top priority to restore service as soon as possible.” Stay tuned.
ebrary: More eBooks to be Pulled
**UPDATE** The time is nigh! We’ve had some disappear already. The Catalogue should be updated early April. On the heels of University of Toronto Press pulling ebooks from the Canadian Publishers Collection on ebrary, three other university presses are pulling their ebooks: McGill-Queen’s University Press Wilfred Laurie University Press University of British Columbia Press The […]
Benezit Dictionary of Artists: New Resource
“Emmanuel Bénézit’s Paris was the unrivaled center of Western art, the home of Cézanne, Monet, Picasso, and Matisse, and the birthplace of Impressionism, post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism. In this thrilling context, Bénézit (b. 1854) undertook the monumental project of the Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs… Now comprising fourteen volumes with […]
Adobe Reader X: Problems with ScienceDirect
The Library uses Adobe Reader 8, so there is no problem within the Library. However, if you use Adobe Reader X on your personal computer, there are issues with ScienceDirect. Please read here for further details on the problem and a fix.
Downloading an ebrary eBook: A New How-to Guide
A bit confused by ebrary’s Download functionality? Please read this how-to guide for our Canadian Publishers, Canadian Public Policy and Canadian Health Research Collections. [NOTE: UBC’s “sign in” for the ebrary Bookshelf is in the upper right of the ebrary website and not exactly as shown in the guide below. At this time, the Library […]
Twentieth Century Drama: On Trial Now!
“Featuring plays from noted playwrights as well as lesser known dramatists, the collection includes works by over 300 writers including Amiri Baraka, Noël Coward, Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Brian Friel, David Mamet, Eugene O’Neill, John Osborne, Sean O’Casey, Harold Pinter, Bernard Shaw, Neil Simon, Gertrude Stein, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott, August Wilson and Elizabeth Wong.” […]
China Online Journals: Wanfang Has Moved, Old Links Broken
*UPDATE* Sadly, Wanfang is reluctant to supply Serials Solutions (the company that helps manage our online linking) with the new URLs. This means the individual links are still broken. Please use the link to the China Online Journals home page listed below. China Online Journals has changed its URLs. Unfortunately, our links haven’t switched over […]