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Wiley Online Library – Access Problems Especially via EZproxy
**UPDATE – ACCESS RESTORED** If you had problems yesterday, Please clear the history (cache & cookies) from browsers and try accessing Wiley now. Contact us via the Help Form if problems persist. We are currently experiencing access problems for the Wiley Online Library eBooks & eJournals – especially via EZproxy. Working on a solution. […]
Wiley Access Down Off Campus and Some On-Campus Sites
UPDATE – Access temporarily restored while problem being sorted. Please clear history (cache & cookies) from your browser and try accessing again. Access to the Wiley journals & ebooks is experiencing problems. All off-campus access via EZproxy is down. Some on-campus access is down, as well. We are working on the problem.
Closed for the Holidays (eResources Help Team)
Hello & Happy Whateveryoucaretocelebrate! The team here is a little bushed, so we are taking a break over the holiday season. The eResources & Access Team, will be away from December 24th till January 4th. Please continue to submit your questions/problems via our Help Form during that time, and we will get to them ASAP […]
PubMed & Wolters Kluwer / Ovid Links
If you are presented with this option for Linking Out of PubMed to an article, either click on the UBC eLink icon or go to the “LinkOut -more Resources” drop-down under the Abstract and select the “Ovid Technologies, Inc.” link. This is especially important when off campus and logging in through EZproxy […]
Off-Campus Access to Wiley Down
Wiley Online Library will be unavailable on Saturday 7th November 2015 from 10:00-16:00 GMT / 05:00-11:00 EST / 18:00-00:00 SGT for essential maintenance. Apologies for the inconvenience. Hello: Access to Wiley ejournals and ebooks is currently down for off-campus users. On campus access is not effected. We are working on it. Thank you for […]
Several Problem Resources: UN Comtrade, Informs ejournals, etc
This time of years sees a spike in online resource problems. Partly it’s due to renewal payments being delayed, partly it’s new resources launched in January starting to get more notice… and their quirks getting more attention as well. The current list of problems we are working on includes: UN Comtrade – site thinks […]
Google Scholar & EZproxy on Macs – Problem Solved?
There had been reports of people having problems off-campus using Macs/Safari and logging into Google Scholar via EZproxy. If you are wondering why someone would even do this, the reason is that using EZproxy means you have a UBC IP address. So, you can follow the UBC eLink form the Google Scholar results and get […]
eBooks Not Findable? : Summon & Catalogue Problems
**UPDATE** As of the Beginning of February, this problem has been sorted Problems 2 & 3 are sorted now. Problem 1 lingers on. They suggest that problem could be sorted early in January. Stay tuned! Couple of recent problems have collided to make some ebooks we have access to un-findable in the Catalogue and […]
MedLine & CINAHL (EBSCOhost): Changes to Search History
In the EBSCOhost databases MedLine & CINAHL, the Search History now automatically appears above your search results. If you want to turn this feature off at some point, just click on “Search History” (just to the right of “Basic Search” & “Advanced Search”). For other EBSCOhost databases, if you want Search History to […]
Factiva: Limits on Downloading Articles
*UPDATE* Limit raised to 100 articles per session Due to excessive downloading (in one session someone downloaded over 14,000 articles, per Factiva), our downloading ability has been reduced to one article at a time. We are investigating. This is a good opportunity to remind folks that access to a resource does not automatically mean “anything […]
