MyiLibrary – access restored!
Update (Sept.7, 2010): Good news! Our access to MyiLibrary ebooks has been restored. *************************************************************************************************** Does this screen look familiar? Yes, it’s happened yet again. Excessive downloading has led to suspension of our access to MyiLibrary ebooks. We are investigating the problem and working with the vendor to have this resolved asap. We apologize for the […]
MyiLibrary: Excessive Downloading leads to Loss of Access
Due to repeated incidents of excessive ebook downloading (like, 10s of thousands of pages over the past month), access to the MyiLibrary ebooks has been blocked by the vendor. This includes access to many Cambridge, Oxford and Taylor & Francis ebooks as well as the Essentials of Canadian Law – Irwin Law e-Books and Irwin […]
Emerald Journals: Current issues not available
RESOLVED! We now have access to Emerald Management Plus journals. 258 titles. Due to unforeseen problems –which we are sorting out with the publisher– we do not have access to the latest issues of journals on the Emerald platform. These are mostly business journals. We hope to have the problem resolved shortly. Stay tuned! When […]
Journal of Chemical Education: Access Problem (UBC-V) – Resolved
UPDATE May 10th: Access restored! Please report any continuing problems through our ER help form. Currently, we are having problems accessing the full-text articles in ACS’ Journal of Chemical Education. The publisher is recognizing the UBC-O (Okanagan) IP addresses but not UBC-V (Vancouver). As a result, access is blocked on the Vancouver campus and possibly […]
Wiley Interscience 2010 Issues now Available!
Finally, access to the Wiley Interscience 2010 issues has been turned on. Thank you –especially to those in the Life Sciences who were most affected by this delay– for your patience. For a review of the issues behind this delay, please see the earlier post. If you encounter any problems, please email using our eResources […]
Wiley ejournals: Why no access to 2010 issues?
*UPDATE* Wiley 2010 issues now accessible! Even though we are well into the new year, you’ve noticed that you can’t access 2010 issues of Wiley ejournals. You’re frustrated. We, in eResources, are frustrated. UBC Library is part of a consortium of libraries (called CRKN) which negotiates our access to Wiley InterScience. A Wiley policy prevents […]
Nature Journals: Many Denying Full-Text Access
*UPDATE* Access seems to have been restored to our Nature titles. For the time being, many Nature journals are not giving us full text access. The authorities have been notified. Stay tuned.
Nature Journals online: Black October?
*UPDATE* October issues viewable. Something is up with the October issues for several Nature journal titles. We have a call in to our rep to investigate. Nature Immunology, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature reviews Microbiology, Nature neuroscience… to name a few problem titles. We’ll try to get it sorted soon. Stay tuned.
GeoScienceWorld – back on track
* Update * – GSW access has been restored. Please report any continuing problems to lib-ejhelp@interchange.ubc.ca. Many of you have reported our loss of access to GeoScienceWorld. We’ve notified the vendor of the problem, but unfortunately we anticipate that this won’t be resolved until after the July 4th holiday weekend in the US. Stay tuned.
Investext Lives!
*UPDATE* sigh… The joy was short lived as the site seems to have a few quirks. We will try some experimentation to get this resolved. We are leaving the site up for now. Let us know if it gets too unstable. Stay tuned. Previously…