Just a heads up for folks working this weekend.
There will be work on the UBC Catalogue this weekend. Many ejournal records will be removed & later replaced. This may cause problems with people using the “Search for Print and Online Journals” left-hand search box, but will not affect the “Search for Online Journals Only” right-hand search box.
The Citation Linker will not be affected (for ejournals). Clear?
*UPDATE* Summon is fixed. Please clear your browser’s cache & cookies and report any further problems to E-Resources & Access.
Yikes! Summon is having intermittent problems this morning. It is being worked on. Stay tuned.
Technical Services has contracted with Swets to provide us with 4 years of retrospective eResource usage data (2004 – 2007). That data will be able to be loaded up into a data repository to make it available to Library staff. This project connects with the Assessment Working Group’s plan for the coming 1 – 2 years.
Wondering what new innovations (or current problems) our online resource providers are in a twitter about? Wonder no more with the new Twitter Feed page on the E-Resources & Access blog.
…but our home-grown tweets still get the Home page.
Just a heads up. There are some title URLs and coverage problems with various EBSCOhost databases. Per our good friends at Serials Solutions…
“We are having data inconsistency issues… and are working to obtain the correct dates and URLs for every title.”
So, keep emailing us if you run into problems, but be prepared for a bumpy ride.
“The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,700 men & women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.” –American National Biography Online
Try out American National Biography for the next month. And please comment on the Feedback form.
From now till October 7th, we are offering trial access to The London Review of Books.
“The London Review of Books was founded in 1979, during the year-long lock-out at the Times. For the first six months, it appeared marsupially in the New York Review of Books. In May 1980, the London Review of Books jumped out of the parental pouch and became a fully independent literary paper.” -LRB website 06se2011
And after you check it out, “hop” on over to our feedback form. Hey, they started this metaphor. Or is it a conceit?
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts
is a new (and free!) Database we picked up with the migration to ProQuest’s new platform.
“The NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database is published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice’s National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world… The collection has been developed to meet the needs of criminal justice professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technical and legal experts.” –ProQuest
Beginning Friday, August 26th, there will be limited help available from the Library’s E-Resources & Access (ejhelp) unit till September 6th.
Please do continue to send in your questions/problems via our HelpForm or wherever you see the Access Problems? button during this time, but some questions will have to wait longer than normal for a response.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks for your patience, E-R&A.
