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Access to Blackwell journal content on Wiley InterScience – NOT AVAILABLE

Access to most of our subscribed Blackwell journal content on Wiley InterScience is currently unavailable. Be assured that our account rep at Wiley is working to resolve this as soon as possible. Unfortunately in the meantime, the typical search leads to that frustrating ‘login below to purchase access’ screen. We are certainly not alone in […]

Wiley InterScience – missing Blackwell content

As many of you have discovered there is missing content from Blackwell which is not yet available on the Wiley InterScience site. This includes some issues, articles, parts of articles (e.g. article loaded in xml but not in PDF) plus some missing metadata and articles which need to be fixed due to special character rendering […]

Update: Blackwell Synergy Journals have moved to Wiley InterScience

As of Monday, June 30, 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—has been incorporated into Wiley InterScience. Blackwell Synergy is no longer online. PLEASE NOTE: OpenURL links are currently not redirecting at the journal level but instead default to the […]

Blackwell Synergy merges into Wiley InterScience

All journal content on Blackwell Synergy merges into Wiley InterScience As of July 1, 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience. Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, 2008, there will be a […]

Ingenta Reveal – discontinued June 1, 2008

After careful analysis, UBC Library has decided to discontinue the Ingenta Reveal (formerly Uncover Reveal) table of contents alerting service. Effective June 1, 2008 registered users will no longer receive updates from Ingenta. Suggestions for other current awareness tools can be found here.

UBC eLink – RESOLVED

Update:11:15am UBC eLink is working again, but we are watching for instability. Please report any continuing problems to eResources Help. Friday, May 30th, 10:30am UBC eLink is temporarily unavailable. We are working to restore access as quickly as possible.

Palgrave MacMillan titles – RESOLVED

Update: Thursday, June 5th Access to our Palgrave MacMillan titles has been restored. Wednesday, May 7th Access to Palgrave MacMillan titles is currently unavailable. We are working to restore access as soon as possible. Titles affected are: Development Feminist review Higher education policy International Politics Journal of International Business Studies Maritime Economics & Logistics Polity […]

EBSCO Personalization Temporarily Unavailable – May 6, 2008

Please note that the personalization folder feature in EBSCOhost (My EBSCOhost), may be unavailable for a few hours on Tuesday, May 6th, as the vendor implements the new EBSCOhost features and functionality announced on April 15, 2008. For a quick review of the upcoming features, see: EBSCO Support Site. We apologize for any inconvenience this […]

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