By madgett on April 3, 2013
MyiLibrary has set a limit on how fast you can flip pages in order to protect entire ebooks from being downloaded by machine. If you happen to be flipping through an ebook (and you have to be flipping mighty quickly) and see this message pop up: …please fill in the captcha and prove you are […]
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By madgett on March 13, 2013
Serials Solutions (the providers of our discovery service, Summon) have partnered with ARTstor to allow images to “pop-up” into search results. In order to see these images, you need to allow your browser to display pop-ups for: *.artstor.net *.artstor.org library.artstor.org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca As well, you will have to be on campus or logged into EZproxy to see […]
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By madgett on February 21, 2013
How would you like to be able to search a news archive for all the major news networks (and some smaller ones) at once? Now you can. Try out the Internet Archive TV News. Streaming Video (or, it says, you can “borrow” via DVD, but I haven’t explored that) results for keyword searches. It was […]
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By madgett on November 29, 2012
**ACCESS RESTORED** We have lost access to the EBSCOhost database “Education Research Complete.” …but we are working on it! Stay tuned.
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By madgett on November 29, 2012
**ACCESS RESTORED** The Emerald sites seem to be down. This means that some others that re-route there (for example some ALPSP Learned Journals Collection titles) are also experiencing problems. We will watch and update when they are back on line.
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By madgett on November 14, 2012
An update on the Springer migration to the new SpringerLink site. The change over will take place on Nevember 26th. And, unfortunately, any personal “My SpringerLink” accounts on the old platform will not migrate. You will need to create an account on the new site. Per Springer: “Do our current SpringerLink users have to create […]
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By madgett on October 31, 2012
For search results in Summon (the primary search box from the Library Homepage) that point to “Journal Article : Citation Online“, all results currently point to the journal “Transactions of the ASABE”. This is a coding error that Summon is working to fix. Sorry for the inconvenience this is causing; but take note: Journal Article […]
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By madgett on September 18, 2012
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.
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By madgett on September 7, 2012
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 […]
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