Handbook of Public Pedagogy: View Limit Has Been Reached
*UPDATE* Second copy up and running. Access restored** Handbook of public pedagogy : education and learning beyond schooling / edited by Jennifer A. Sandlin, Brian D. Schultz, Jake Burdick. Unfortunately, we have hit the limit when it comes to the number of views allowed with the copy of the ebook that the Library has purchased. […]
ITER eBooks (the new Other Voice in Early Modern Europe collection: Unavailable for now
We have several eBooks form the University of Toronto’s ITER publishing, but they are not available at the moment. These are part of the “Other Voice in Early Modern Europe” collection. We are working on getting the links fixed.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
EBSCO eBooks: Off-Line Downloading to End Temporarily
Currently, on the EBSCO eBook platform you can download ebooks off-line. Unfortunately, as the majority are single-user ebooks, this means no one else can access the ebook for 7 days. In order to make accessing fairer to all, we will be temporarily suspending off-line downloading on the EBSCO eBook platform later this week. This move […]
SpringerLINK eBooks: 2012 Titles Not Available Yet
*UPDATE* SpringerLink 2012 ebooks are now available! Records for the 2012 SpringerLINK ebooks were added (our mistake) to the Catalogue and Summon before we had the access organized. In fact, due to higher-than-expected costs, it is probable that many 2012 SpringerLINK ebooks will not be purchased by the Library. So, if you come across an […]
EZproxy Upgrade on Wednesday, January 25th: Down 5:00 – 7:00pm
EZproxy will be down from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on this Wednesday (January 25th.). What does that mean? For off-campus access you will need to set up and use myVPN For resources that must use EZproxy (like ebrary, eBook Library and MyiLibrary), there will be no access till after 7:00 pm. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
ebrary eBooks: University of Toronto eBooks Pulled
This information was posted earlier, but a bit buried. Now that ebrary has the ability to download ebooks, the University of Toronto Pres has decided to pull its ebooks from all subscription collections. What does this mean? Where we have purchased a copy of a U of T ebook, we retain access. Where we only […]