Ejournals
H.W. Wilson Databases have Moved to EBSCOhost
EBSCO has taken over the H.W. Wilson databases. These are primarily Education, Humanities, Social Science, Fine Art, Architecture and Law focused Index & Abstract databases —some with Full Text. As a result, the following Resource pages now point to EBSCOhost sites rather than H.W. Wilson sites: Education Full Text http://resources.library.ubc.ca/91 Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1119 […]
American Chemical Society (ACS) website: Some Problems
While searching and accessing journals and articles on the ACS site should not be a problem, other services (like registering for an account or setting up an alert) are not working due to maintenance.
eJournal Portal, UBC eLink, Citation Linker: Down
*All is well again. Please clear the cache & cookies from your browsers before attempting to return to any site that had an earlier error message* Looks like there is a server problem on campus. This is affecting several things, including our ability to bring up the various pages that link to journals. Please be […]
Cambridge Journals Online: Site Down
The Cambridge Journals site is down. They say it may be back up later today or tomorrow. Stay tuned. The Cambridge Histories Online site (ebooks) is working fine.
East View: China Academic Journals (Chinese Interface) Down
*UPDATE* Chinese interface now working, but connection to Chinese & English very slow.* *BONUS* .pdf files (not working in Firefox for about a month) are now opening.* Per our good friends at East View: “The Chinese interface for the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database platform (http://cnki.zh.eastview.com) is currently unavailable. East View is working to […]
Life Sciences: a Collection of Titles from Elsevier
The Life Sciences Package is a collection of related ejournals. Here is a title list: Advances in Agronomy Advances in Applied Microbiology Advances in Botanical Research Advances in Cancer Research Advances in Clinical Chemistry Advances in Ecological Research Advances in Food and Nutrition Research Advances in Genetics Advances in Immunology Advances in Insect Physiology Advances […]
In the Mood for Something New?: A Few Free Resources
…okay, really the info is mostly old. But it may be “new” to you. Here’s some free online resources worth a look: AFRO Black History Archives : AFRO-American newspaper archives Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons & Surgery News : both from American College of Surgeons Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society : […]
British Medical Journal: Available Back to the 1800s
The UBC Library has access to the British Medical Journal back to 1840 (when it was the Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal ).
The New “Search Collections” Portal: Where’s the ejournals?
If you are wondering where the ejournals are in the Search Collections Portal, it’s pretty simple. Print and ejournals are under “Journals“. The search box on the left searches the UBC Catalogue for Print and ejournal titles. The search box on the right searches searches the Serials Solutions knowledgebase for ejournal only. And what if […]
ProQuest New Platform Migration Underway
*UPDATE* Migration nearly complete. Some smaller Databases (like “Ceramic Abstracts“) have been absorbed by larger Databases. Those Resource pages will point to the pages for the larger site. Please contact us if you have questions. We are currently migrating ProQuest, CSA and a couple Chadwyck-Healey Databases to a new Platform. Here is the list (so […]
