Trying to access RefWorks while off campus via EZproxy seems to be causing problems. While we investigate, please use MyVPN when off campus for now if you are going to be importing citations into RefWorks.
RefWorks: Trouble Accessing Accounts from Off Campus
JSTOR: Several New Resources Added!
Just a heads up about several new JSTOR resources we have added over the last little while:
- Aluka: African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes — “African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes includes spatial, visual, and contextual documentation of heritage and rock art sites throughout Africa.” –Aluka
- Aluka: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa — “Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa includes an array of materials about the liberation and independence movements in Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.” –Aluka
- The Ireland Collection — “…developed in cooperation with Queen’s University Belfast, is an interdisciplinary collection of journals and other materials.” –JSTOR . Includes titles such as The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and Seanchas Ardmhacha.
- 19th Century British Pamphlets — “7 collections … including Selections from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, and the Foreign Office Collection.” –JSTOR
ESA eJournals at UBC-Okanagan: Might Need MyVPN for Access
Due to a slight access problem, some Ecological Society of America ejournals may not be accessible directly from UBC-Okanagan campus. If you have trouble accessing:
- Ecology
- Ecological applications
- Frontiers in ecology & environment
- Ecological monographs
…please try clearing the cache & cookies in your browser and connecting again. If that doesn’t work, please set up and use MyVPN. Off campus, you always need to use either EZproxy or MyVPN for access. Sorry for the inconvenience.
SpringerLink 2012 ebooks: Now Available!
Sorry for the delay in announcing this: SpringerLink ebooks for 2012 are now available.
While the records are not yet loaded in the Catalogue (soon!), the ebooks are discoverable in Summon or, if you know the title, try the Citation Linker. Just enter the ebook’s title in the box marked “Book:”. The way sub-titles are listed can be tricky, so first try your search using the main title only.
As well, SpringerLink offers a service for Print On Demand of ebooks called MyCopy. Read all about how you can get a MyCopy of an ebook for the low, low price of $24.95 including shipping and handling. To take advantage of this feature, you need to register and log-in to a personal MySpringerLink account. Note: this personal account is only an enhancement to the access the Library provides. You will still need to always be either on campus or use MyVPN or EZproxy to access the SpringerLink site.
Books 24X7 : Catalogue Links Down, Use Resource Page
The links from the Catalogue for Books 24X7 titles are broken. We are fixing. To get to a Books 24X7 title, please do try the following:
- Find the title in the UBC Catalogue or Summon (some Summon links currently work, but not all)
- Copy the title and go to the Books 24X7 Resource page
- Connect and log into Books 24X7 then search your title
We hope to have this fixed early next week.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
EBSCOhost Databases Down (27th March)
*UPDATE* Databases are back!!*
Per EBSCO:
“Due to routine maintenance currently underway, we are experiencing temporary service interruptions for EBSCOhost… We apologize for this inconvenience and assure you that our engineering team is working on this top priority to restore service as soon as possible.”
Stay tuned.
ebrary: More eBooks to be Pulled
**UPDATE** The time is nigh! We’ve had some disappear already. The Catalogue should be updated early April.
On the heels of University of Toronto Press pulling ebooks from the Canadian Publishers Collection on ebrary, three other university presses are pulling their ebooks:
- McGill-Queen’s University Press
- Wilfred Laurie University Press
- University of British Columbia Press
The above publishers’ titles will be pulled in mid-March. The Catalogue and Summon will be updated then, but there may be some lag time with access lost before records are pulled.
The Canadian Publishers Collection is a “subscribed” collection, meaning we have not purchased the titles –only arranged for access. Any ebooks that we have purchased on ebrary will remain on ebrary.
But how can you tell a “Purchased” title from a “Subscribed” title on the ebrary site:
- on the ebrary site, go to the Advanced search screen
- set the first search box to Search in Title and add a known ebrary ebook title
- add a second search box to Search in Collection and pick “purchased titles” from the drop-down
- click the “Search ebrary” button
If you get the result “Unfortunately, we couldn’t find any results. Please try a new search above”, we have not purchased the title. If in step #3 above you change “purchased titles” to “subscribed titles” and search again, you should now get a result showing.
A cumbersome process, we know, but we hope it will become more streamlined and easier to identify purchased/subscribed titles down the road. Contact us if you have any questions.
Benezit Dictionary of Artists: New Resource
“Emmanuel Bénézit’s Paris was the unrivaled center of Western art, the home of Cézanne, Monet, Picasso, and Matisse, and the birthplace of Impressionism, post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism. In this thrilling context, Bénézit (b. 1854) undertook the monumental project of the Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs… Now comprising fourteen volumes with entries on nearly 170,000 artists, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists is the most comprehensive source of artists’ biographies in the English language.”– Oxford Art Online
Look into the life of your favourite artist in “Benezit Dictionary of Artists“. Did you know Tom Thomson lived in “Seattle where he worked as a photo-engraver”?
Adobe Reader X: Problems with ScienceDirect
The Library uses Adobe Reader 8, so there is no problem within the Library. However, if you use Adobe Reader X on your personal computer, there are issues with ScienceDirect. Please read here for further details on the problem and a fix.