Ejournals
Project Muse: Beta Site with eBooks Launched
Project Muse is doing two things in the new year: launching a new site and offering ebooks. A pre-view beta site has been launched here. The symbols on the left will clearly display the content that is currently available to UBC patrons. This will most likely change after the launch in January 2012, so browse […]
Taylor & Francis / Informaworld: Migration Problems
*NEW UPDATE* EZproxy is working. All access problems should be solved now.* Many ejournals formerly on Informaworld are moving to a new Taylor & Francis platform. Unfortunately, there has been a glitch (well, two): 1) Some URLs are not working (this should be fixed after July 6th) 2) Some articles that we should have access […]
ejournal Portal Changes: “Online Only” Option now Available
**UPDATE** Some people are not seeing the changes. Clear the Cache & Cookies from your Browser(s). This should correct the problem. The ejournal Portal (our ejournal A-Z list) has changed. Starting Friday, June 2nd, there will be an “Online Only” option. This will return hypertext links leading directly to ejournals. To search for Print journals […]
Problems Using Summon, Citation Linker or ejournal Portal? Send us a PURL
You already know that if you run into an access problem with a Library resource, you can use the blue “Access Problems?” button (when available) or just use the eResources Help Form to report the problem. But to help paint a clearer picture of the problem, you can also cut & paste the URL from […]
Journal of Chemical Education: Access restored!
Access has been restored to the Journal of Chemical Education from the American Chemical Society. Please clear your browser’s cache & cookies before accessing the journal here.
American Fisheries Society Journals: Now on InformaWorld
And what does the move mean for accessing the journals? Previously, we had only a 5-year window of access in most cases. Now, we have access back to 1997 for several titles. American Fisheries Society journals links have been updated and will appear in the ejornal Portal (the ejournal A-Z list) tomorrow.
Open J-Gate Links: Down for Today
Open J-Gate (an aggregator of “free” journals) has shifted their URL from a .org to a .com, it seems. What does that mean? Currently, all links to titles in this database from the ejournal A-Z list are broken. A refresh overnight should fix this. If you can’t wait –and why should you?– go to http://www.openj-gate.com […]
Emerald eJournals & eBooks: More Added!
Our access to ejournals & ebooks from Emerald has grown. Along with Emerald Management Plus [ currently offering 225 journals from 24 management disciplines ] we now have: Emerald Engineering eJournal Collection – includes all 19 journals within Emerald’s engineering, materials science and technology portfolio. Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series Collection – over […]
China Academic Journals & CNKI Titles: Sites Down
**UPDATE** The power is on and the journals are back* Due to power outages at the platform site, several Chinese journal collections are unavailable: China Academic journals from East View / CNKI. Stay tuned.
JSTOR: Down for the Moment
*UPDATE* JSTOR is back* “JSTOR is experiencing temporary problems. We are sorry for the interruption, and will be back online as quickly as possible.” –JSTOR site This also means several journal collections (like University of California press) are also down. Stay tuned.
