By madgett on January 27, 2012
EBSCO has taken over the H.W. Wilson databases. These are primarily Education, Humanities, Social Science, Fine Art, Architecture and Law focused Index & Abstract databases —some with Full Text. As a result, the following Resource pages now point to EBSCOhost sites rather than H.W. Wilson sites:
Education Full Text
http://resources.library.ubc.ca/91
Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983
http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1119
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
http://resources.library.ubc.ca/137
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981
http://resources.library.ubc.ca/889
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
http://resources.library.ubc.ca/659
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
http://resources.library.ubc.ca/979
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
http://resources.library.ubc.ca/978
Art Index Retrospective
http://resources.library.ubc.ca/442
Art Full Text
http://resources.library.ubc.ca/113
Summon, the Citation Linker and the Catalogue will catch up to these changes over the next few days.
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By madgett on January 27, 2012
*UPDATE* SpringerLink 2012 ebooks are now available!
Records for the 2012 SpringerLINK ebooks were added (our mistake) to the Catalogue and Summon before we had the access organized. In fact, due to higher-than-expected costs, it is probable that many 2012 SpringerLINK ebooks will not be purchased by the Library.
So, if you come across an ebook that is published by “Springer” and has a date of “2012” and you cannot get access to it, please still report it via out Help Form, but be aware that access may not be possible.
Sorry for any inconvenience and confusion this may cause.
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By madgett on January 25, 2012
*UPDATE 2* PROBLEM FIXED!! CINAHL Heading Searches should be working as expected.
*UPDATE* “We currently have a Critical Service Issue open and our technical team is working to address the CINAHL issues as soon as possible.“–EBSCO
The EBSCOhost database CINAHL [ Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature] is currently experiencing problems with Subject Heading searching. The vendor is aware of this and are working on it.
Stay tuned!
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By madgett on January 24, 2012
A few new online resources you might want to take a closer look at:
American National Biography Online: “…offers portraits of more than 18,700 men & women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.” That would be the nation just south of us.
Films on Demand: “…Web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime.” Videos on everything from Opera to Ebola.
Mathematics Teaching: “…the journal of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics… Many articles have additional information or associated files.” Yep, it’s all about the math.
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By madgett on January 23, 2012
EZproxy will be down from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on this Wednesday (January 25th.).
What does that mean?
- For off-campus access you will need to set up and use myVPN
- For resources that must use EZproxy (like ebrary, eBook Library and MyiLibrary), there will be no access till after 7:00 pm.
Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
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By madgett on January 19, 2012
This information was posted earlier, but a bit buried.
Now that ebrary has the ability to download ebooks, the University of Toronto Pres has decided to pull its ebooks from all subscription collections.
What does this mean? Where we have purchased a copy of a U of T ebook, we retain access. Where we only subscribe to a collection that has a U of T ebook in it, we lose access to the ebook. This covers over 570 and it will take a while for the UBC Catalogue and Summon. So, please be patient, but do keep reporting any ebooks you can’t access.
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By madgett on January 9, 2012
*UPDATE 1* (see below)
New year, new problems.
There are several problems with our ebrary eBook access at the moment. We are aware and working on the problems. Please stay tuned!
UPDATE 1
One problem leaves town…
Authentication (Access) problem and Bookshelf problem should be resolved. Please try the following to ensure your Access & Bookshelf are working:
- Clear browser cache & cookies
- If you are on campus -or- connecting via myVPN, you should have no problem accessing the ebook (except in two cases — see “Two problems…” below)
- When on the ebrary site, (as long as you have not logged into EZproxy yet) you will see in the upper right “Sign in”. This signs you in via EZproxy to your Bookshelf. If you have already passed through EZproxy, you are automatically signed in to your Bookshelf.
Two problems come to town:
- Almost all of our Single-User titles on ebrary have a 2 billion (yes, billion) person wait list. This should be corrected before the end of the day.
- The University of Toronto has suddenly pulled their titles from the “Canadian Publisher’s Collection.” This means that the U of T titles in this collection are listed in the UBC Catalogue, but are not accessible on ebrary. The Catalogue will be updated by the end of the month.
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By madgett on December 20, 2011
Thanks for another year of problems.
…no, seriously! It’s your challenging questions that keep us on our toes and make this job interesting. But we do need a break now and then. So, E-Resources & Access (we’re the folks behind this Help Form and lib-ejhelp@interchange.ubc.ca) is going to curl up with some ‘Nog for a few days. We will CLOSE DEC. 23 in the afternoon and re-OPEN January 3rd.
Do send us any problems you encounter, and we’ll look into them in the new year.
Enjoy the holidays!
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By madgett on December 14, 2011
While searching and accessing journals and articles on the ACS site should not be a problem, other services (like registering for an account or setting up an alert) are not working due to maintenance.
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By madgett on December 13, 2011
“Tatooing, now illegal in most states, is on the rise again, in the undergroud form of secret tatoo clubs...” —The East Village Other, Vol 1, no.3 (Dec 1965)
Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia from this exciting period in our recent history.
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