eResources Blog
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London Low Life: New Adam Matthew Database
“London Low Life is a full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.” –London Low Life website Topics include underworld, slang, working-class culture, street literature, popular music, urban topography, ‘slumming’, prostitution, the Contagious Diseases Act, the Temperance Movement, social […]
UBC-Okanagan: Wiley drops IPs
*UPDATE* UBC-O IPs seem to have been fixed. The Welcome Mat is laid out again, northern friends! Folks at UBC-Okanagan are experiencing problems accessing titles on the Wiley Online Library platform. Wiley seems to have dropped some important IP addresses. We are working to restore access. In the meanwhile, UBC-O folks will probably will have […]
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 -Free Database
“EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750, the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide.” –EBSCO Publishing European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 has citations for more […]
NetLibrary: EZproxy access not working
*Update*: EZproxy now working for NetLibrary ebooks. EZproxy is not working for off-campus access to NetLibrary. Please use MyVPN if accessing a NetLibrary ebook from off campus for now. Should be fixed in a day or two (fingers crossed).
eResources: Indexes & Databases => Broken
*UPDATE* The link to Infexes & Databases is working again. However, Library staff who were working on Resource info pages yesterday, or Subject Guides or Course Pages may want to review the work as the problem server has reverted back to an October 11th, archived version. LSIT (Systems) will be sending out an email to […]
GreenFILE: Undergoing Some Adjustment
GreenFILE *UPDATE* UBC eLink is in GreenFILE now. Do to some ongoing adjustments by the provider of the GreenFILE database, the familiar UBC eLink button… …is not displaying next to articles. To see if we have an article, take the citation information for an article found in GreenFILE and plug it into our Citation Linker […]
ejournals in the Library Catalogue: What the @#*%!
*UPDATE* eJournal records in the Library Catalogue displaying normally again. Apologies. ejournal records in the Library Catalogue are appearing as per this: … and worse, issn searches are probably returning no ejournal results. The problem is new ejournal records were loaded in the Catalogue, but indexing hasn’t happened yet… and won’t till this week end. […]
Hit the TRAIL: Technical Reports Archive and Image Library
Get out of that database rut and try a new TRAIL. Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) is a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to U.S. federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. Hosted at the University of Hawaii of Manoa, TRAIL provides access to reports from: U.S. […]
eBook Update: Books 24×7 & ebrary
You can create personal bookshelves in Books 24×7 and ebrary. You can use either your UBCcard Barcode & PIN (recommended method) or your CWL, but you cannot cross-link bookshelves (ie books saved on a UBCcard generated shelf are not on a CWL generated shelf) nor cross-link platforms. Books 24×7: After logging in to Books 24×7, […]
Carbon Market News: The Business of Being Green
Carbon Market News is a comprehensive market intelligence tool that provides current information on carbon markets. The real-time news service provides energy and carbon professionals with market-moving information through the monitoring of key players as well as business and policy developments. The daily, weekly and bi-weekly reports offer in-depth market commentaries and expert insight from […]
