UBC Library eResources: Service Bulletins

ScienceDirect eJournal Additions: New Titles Galore!

Posted on April 26, 2013 @5:00 pm by madgett

Now-PlayingSeveral new ejournals have been added to our Elsevier / ScienceDirect collections. They are:

  • Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology   1996+
  • AORN Journal   1995+
  • Healthcare Management Forum   1995+
  • Journal of Dairy Science   1995+
  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings   1995+
  • Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology   2003+
  • Seminars in Nephrology   2003+
  • Seminars in Oncology   2001+
  • Solid State Physics   2001+

You can find these in our ejournal Portal (the A-Z list) starting April 27th. After that date, search by journal title HERE . You should find the articles for these journals in our Summon Discovery service next week.

 

 

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Updated Resource: SAGE Reference Online 2012 Encyclopedia Collection

Posted on April 4, 2013 @10:46 am by madgett

fireworksUBC Library has purchased updates to the SAGE Reference Online Encyclopedia collection: the 2012 collection (and the 2013 collection, coming soon).

Some titles in the 2012 collection include:

All titles should be findable in Summon next week.

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MyiLibrary: Watch for the Locked eBook Warning

Posted on April 3, 2013 @9:59 am by madgett

ebookMyiLibrary has set a limit on how fast you can flip pages in order to protect entire ebooks from being downloaded by machine. If you happen to be flipping through an ebook (and you have to be flipping mighty quickly) and see this message pop up:

MyiLibrary_warning

…please fill in the captcha and prove you are human. One an ebook is locked, it is locked for everyone for 24 hours… and that’s no fun at all!

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ARTstor: Allowing Images to “Pop-Up” in Summon

Posted on March 13, 2013 @1:47 pm by madgett

fireworksSerials Solutions (the providers of our discovery service, Summon) have partnered with ARTstor to allow images to “pop-up” into search results.

In order to see these images, you need to allow your browser to display pop-ups for:

  • *.artstor.net
  • *.artstor.org
  • library.artstor.org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca

As well, you will have to be on campus or logged into EZproxy to see the images.

After you have configured your browser, look at this Summon search … and then click on an image.

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ENDS Europe: Europe’s environmental news and information service

Posted on March 13, 2013 @1:14 pm by madgett

ENDSENDS Europe is the EU’s leading source on eco-policy, business and markets –ENDS Europe website

ENDS Europe covers the latest European environmental news, analyses, interviews, opinion pieces and updates on EU laws, as well as reports on topical issues. Access ENDS Europe here.

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In Iran: Text and Photos by Adam Jones (ebook)

Posted on March 6, 2013 @11:13 am by madgett

In Iran

In Iran

Here is a preview of In Iran, an ebook that Adam Jones, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, has made available to the UBC community.

In Iran is protected by copyright, but “All photos linked in the text are published under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.” We are currently working on making this ebook discoverable within our Summon Discovery tool.

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Two Minutes on Whale Barf: Very Cool, Baillie!

Posted on February 25, 2013 @9:43 am by madgett

Sperm WhaleGrad student Baillie Redfern won a competition run by PhD Comics to have her three-minute research presentation (Engineering the Perfect Perfume) transformed into an animated video.” –TREK Online, Feb. 13, 2013

…and the result is very cool. Take five (well, only two and a bit) and watch “Whale Barf and Perfume“.

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Missed the News Yesterday? Try the Internet Archive TV News

Posted on February 21, 2013 @12:38 pm by madgett

TVHow would you like to be able to search a news archive for all the major news networks (and some smaller ones) at once? Now you can. Try out the Internet Archive TV News. Streaming Video (or, it says, you can “borrow” via DVD, but I haven’t explored that) results for keyword searches. It was originally set up for the 2012 U.S. presidential election, but they now describe themselves:

The Internet Archive works to preserve the published works of human kind. Inspired by Vanderbilt University’s Television News Archive project, the Internet Archive collects and preserves television news. Like library collections of books and newspapers, this accessible archive of TV news enables anyone to reference and compare statements from this influential medium.

The collection now contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Older materials are also being added.” –Internet Archive TV News (21 Feb., 2013)

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Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek – Frei zugängliche E-Journals : re-named “Regensburg OA Collection”

Posted on February 21, 2013 @11:20 am by madgett

bulbWhen looking up an ejournal title in our ejournal Portal (the ejournal A-Z list), you may have seen a result that included a link looking something like:

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek – Frei zugängliche E-Journals Note: Only select articles are freely accessible.

…and been confused as to what it meant (unless you can read German). To clear up some confusion, the link has been re-named:

Regensburg OA Collection

…as it is a collection of links to “free” ejournals maintained by the Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg (University Library Regensburg). But remember the added note –sometimes not every article is “free”.

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Little Cree Books: eBooks in Cree

Posted on February 8, 2013 @6:04 pm by madgett

ebookCame across this…

“The Little Cree Books below are the first in what we hope will become a large collection of online books designed for early Cree readers. Please check out the About the Project section of this website to learn more…” —Little Cree Books

maskosis okîsikâm (Little Bear’s Day)

askiw meskocipayowina (The Seasons)

Note: Creative Commons copyright licensing applies to all of the books, unless otherwise noted.

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