By irobb on September 22, 2009
Users of Firefox have noticed that sometimes the ability to print a full-text article from Gale’s Business & Company Resource Center is not just an icon-click away. If you click the PRINT icon and find yourself on a screen with no “print” options (no browser toolbar, right clicking on the mouse does diddly) remember you […]
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By irobb on September 16, 2009
“The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is the first publisher to place transparent and comprehensive information about the usage and reach of published articles onto the articles themselves … We call these measures for evaluating articles ‘Article-Level Metrics‘…” –PLoS website Visit PLoS’ recently re-vamped site, read up on what the new Metrics include… and what’s […]
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By irobb on September 3, 2009
*UPDATE* All fixed, per ProQuest. “We are currently experiencing system difficulties and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and your users. We have every available resource working on the problem…” Hmm. Sounds like a peck of trouble down at the ol’ ProQuest place. Everything seemed to be working briefly around 3:30 pm. […]
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By irobb on August 25, 2009
*UPDATE* “HAPI Online has been up and working steadily for a week now so hopefully our technical issues have been resolved…” -the HAPI folks *UPDATE* Not the HAPpIest of news. “HAPI Online is still experiencing intermittent disruptions in access,” say the site’s tech folks. Stay tuned. “HAPI Online has been experiencing recurring server errors over […]
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By irobb on July 29, 2009
“Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.” “Ha, stolzer ozean!” Who said that? Find out at IPA Source. (…psst, I think he was Dutch)
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By irobb on July 29, 2009
*UPDATE* The date is back to January 1st. My head is spinning! *UPDATE* The switch-over date is now September 1st not January 1st. “To date, the SAGE Full-Text Collections have been available on both the ProQuest CSA Illumina platform and the SAGE Journals Online platform. After December 31, 2009, the SAGE Full-Text Collections will be […]
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By irobb on July 22, 2009
*UPDATE* Box fixed. Now you can sort your Library Catalogue search results. “Thank you,” to the Systems folks! The title of this post basically sums it up: the “Sort By” drop-down box which appears with your search results in the UBC Library catalogue currently does nothing. We are working on the problem. Stay tuned.
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By irobb on July 22, 2009
The Library’s RefWorks crew has updated their information page. Please take a look. Remember to use the CORRECT URL for UBC patrons. Or as the Library’s RefWorks crew puts it: “Do NOT create an account from the US refworks site.”
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By irobb on July 20, 2009
With nearly 3,000 newspapers from around the world, Access World News (formerly Global NewsBank) really is your one-stop newsstand. So grab your morning cuppa and settle in with the Daily Monitor from Addis Ababa or maybe Orillia Today. Note: from the NewsBank site, you also have the option of clicking on “World Newspaper Archive.” It’s […]
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By irobb on July 13, 2009
Based on Joseph Sabin’s landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900’s. Read more at our Sabin Americana info page. Then go in and have a look at “British Columbia and Vancouver’s island : a complete handbook” – 1858.
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