eResources Blog
“What’s up with E-Resources, now?!”
NetLibrary has become EBSCOhost eBook Collection
The NetLibrary platform is no more, but all ebooks should have moved to the new EBSCOhost eBook Collection platform. Currently, all URLs and links are re-routing. So, access seems to be ok but the look will be new. Let us know if you run into problems. Any personal accounts that had been created on NetLibrary […]
Web of Science: New Look! Problems to Watch
Web of Science has changed its look. It also has some new functionality that you can read about here. But it also has limits on the browsers that it supports. Please read the System Requirements. Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 are not listed at this time. Please use only a supported browser & browser […]
Times of India Archive: Now on Trial!
“On The Bombay Screens This Week; Action & Thrills In Metro’s Canadian Melodrama ‘River’s End’” -The Times of India 25 Jul 1941 Read the movie review -and more- in the Times of India Historical Newspaper trial. Trial on till August 20, 2011. “The world’s most widely circulated English daily newspaper was founded in 1838 to […]
Chrome Browser: Not Supported By EBSCOhost Databases
The Chrome browser from Google may be growing in popularity, but many vendors still only support the old standbys: Internet Explorer & Firefox (with some Safari). EBSCOHost databases, for example, do not support Chrome. You can read their thoughts here. Basically, the .pdfs will not open up in the EBSCO built-in .pdf reader. Rather than […]
World eBook Fair: Free eBooks Till August 4th.
“World eBook Fair: July 4th to August 4th 2011. Download Your Selections from (6,500,000+ PDF eBooks) Six Million eBooks Titles.” So says the World eBook Fair website. They also say… “The collections include light and heavy reading materials, more reference books, scientific items, etc., and about 50,000 music entries in addition to the 12,000 that […]
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 […]
Internet Explorer 9: Problems with Some Library Resources
Microsoft pushing you to upgrading to Internet Explorer 9? Resist! Several of our Library e-Resources are not working with IE 9 (Web of Science, for example). This is commonly a problem with the latest version of browsers; the publishers/vendors/platforms just don’t upgrade themselves right away. We do not have a list of resources that will/won’t […]
Engineering Village (Compendex): Site Down
**Engineering Village is back** The Engineering Village site is down. As this is a long weekend in the U.S., it may take a while to come back. Contact Science & Engineering for alternate resources. Stay tuned for updates.
