OpenVersion – Unpaywall Articles Now Available in Summon
We have launched what we are calling OpenVersion in Summon. These are open access versions of articles sourced through Unpaywall. What does this mean? Unpaywall is a database of “freely available” versions of articles. Alumni, Community Users or anyone can click on the OpenVersion link when it appears and be taken to a version of […]
Audio Cine Films : One Month Trial of Streaming Movies (March-April)
UPDATE – TRIAL EXTENDED! Woohoo! And now, some good news… UBC Library is hosting a one-month trial to Audio Cine Films. If you are using MyVPN – disconnect before following the link above Audio Cine Films collection offers access to 1000’s of titles from the world’s most renowned film studios and producers including: Walt Disney […]
Missed the News Yesterday? Try the Internet Archive TV News
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 […]
Little Cree Books: eBooks in Cree
Came across this… “The Little Cree Books below are the first in what we hope will become a large collection of online books designed for early Cree readers. Please check out the About the Project section of this website to learn more…” —Little Cree Books maskosis okîsikâm (Little Bear’s Day) askiw meskocipayowina (The Seasons) Note: […]
Free Textbooks Next Year?
In case you weren’t watching the news this a.m., the British Columbia government says it plans to introduce free online textbooks for the 40 most popular post-secondary courses in the province. Read more here!
ScienceDirect: Landmark Papers on Higgs Boson freely available
“Physics Letters B, … has announced that the observations of the long-sought Higgs particle, hailed as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, have been published. The papers ‘Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC‘ and ‘Observation of a new particle in […]