By irobb on December 14, 2009
“The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available – from 55BC to the present. It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History.” […]
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By irobb on December 7, 2009
Do you know about “The Magnetic Anomaly Near Kursk, Russia” investigated in the late 1800s? Or how Argon 40 was used in an attempt to calculate the age of the Earth in 1950? So, dig into the AGU archives and find out. A selection of journal are available to explore, including Terrestrial Magnetism (from 1896 […]
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By irobb on December 2, 2009
*UPDATE* Links in A-Z ejournal list now working. Wanfang-tastic, eh? Currently, the URLs in our ejournal A-Z list are not working for many China Online Journal titles. The URLs are being updated. In the meanwhile, the journals and articles can be accessed and browsed at Wanfang Data’s Canadian Site. The SFX eLink is not effected. […]
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By irobb on October 20, 2009
We’ve had this one for a few months now, but somehow we missed it, man. “The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents…” well you get the drift. Check it out here.
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By irobb on October 16, 2009
*UPDATE* Trial now ended… but try the next Brill trial. Diseases of Babylonia. Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland. Engaging Social Justice: Critical Studies of 21st Century Social Transformation …plus over 750 other titles make up the Brill eBooks collections on trial now. Peruse the site then give us your comments. Trial ends November 15, 2009.
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By irobb on October 15, 2009
*UPDATE* -All has returned to normal, links from Catalogue and platforms’ “Read it Online” working. Thank you Jessie from CRCnetBASE for the phone call. Two problems here: 1) the links from the CRCnetBASE titles in the Library Catalogue are not working. 2) the “Read it Online” feature for ebooks is not working on the platforms […]
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By irobb on October 8, 2009
We’ve just released a special edition of our online publication Women and Social Movements in the U.S. titled “Canadian Women and Social Movements,” and we hope you’ll take a look! –Alexander Street Press Editors for this project include Canadian feminist historians Lara Campbell (Simon Fraser); Nancy Janovicek (University of Calgary); Tamara Myers (University of British […]
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By irobb on October 5, 2009
Almost all search results in the popular Engineering Village (Compendex) display two yellow buttons: the over-promising and our OpenURL resolver Please choose our OpenURL resolver. The other button tries (via DOI) to go to a SPECIFIC full-text source. We may not subscribe to that source. Our resolver tries to find a full-text source we DO […]
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By irobb on October 1, 2009
Due to changes in their website, several links to the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies publications are now broken. We are working to repair them. In the meanwhile, go to the TRB Publications by Series site to search for your favourite publication by, um, series title. Stay tuned.
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By irobb on September 25, 2009
*UPDATE* October issues viewable. Something is up with the October issues for several Nature journal titles. We have a call in to our rep to investigate. Nature Immunology, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature reviews Microbiology, Nature neuroscience… to name a few problem titles. We’ll try to get it sorted soon. Stay tuned.
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