**Engineering Village is back**
The Engineering Village site is down.
As this is a long weekend in the U.S., it may take a while to come back. Contact Science & Engineering for alternate resources.
Stay tuned for updates.
Engineering Village (Compendex): Site Down
AskAway: Now Embedded in EbscoHOST Databases
Looking around in “Academic Search Complete” or some other EbscoHOST database and suddenly need the help of a Librarian? Well, now you can get it.
At the search result level within EbscoHOST databases (or at the article level, if you are browsing a journal), an AskAway box will pop up on the right.
Don’t know what “AskAway” is? Read about it here.
Wiley Online Library *DOWN*
**Wiley Online Library is back online**
Looks like the Wiley Online Library site has crashed. Hopefully, not for long. No ejournal access to Wiley titles at the moment.
Two Video Databases on Trial: A Mini DOXA Fest?
Two video databases on trial from Alexander Street Press… just in time for DOXA!
Filmakers Library Online is a collection of award-winning documentaries from a broad range of research interests – race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.
Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. The collection offers teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
The Vancouver DOXA Documentary Film Festival ends May 15th, but these trial databases go till the end of May.
New Resource: Native American Archives
“[The] Native American Archives collection provides more than 1.8 million pages of original historical documents pertaining to Native American history and life from the 18th through the 20th century. The collection is made possible in collaboration with the National Archives and Allen County Library.” –EBSCOHost
Documents include treaties, census, photos and more.
Firefox 4: Don’t Upgrade, Yet!
We recommend that you do NOT upgrade to Firefox 4 at this time. We have heard a couple of complaints from patrons (one is that the Refine Your Search options aren’t entirely working in Summon) and heard rumours of other quirks.
You can read the Firefox 4 release notes here. We are investigating fixes on our end as well. Stay tuned!
Two New eResources for Music and Urban Landscape Lovers
Two recent resources have been added to the Library’s list of Indexes & Databases:
Music Online is a portal which provides access to all of UBC library’s Alexander Street Press music databases: Classical Music Library, Classical Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Opera in Video and Smithsonian Global Sound.
elementsdb catalogues comparably illustrated and measured examples of urban land uses. It is based on the concept that urban form is comprised of replicable elements (or cases)… and it was created by Cynthia Girling and Ronald Kellett, School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia… and it’s FREE!
Methods and more come to UBC Library
Yes, it’s true. UBC Library now has access to Methods in Molecular Biology, plus all the 22,000 and growing protocols included in the Springer Protocols collection. Find them now via the Springer Protocols gateway, or cross search on the Springerlink platform to include journal, ebook and ereference content.
EZProxy access RESTORED for PHC and VCH sites
After enduring six days of Internet “throttling” and “saturated pipes” resulting in sluggish access to online resources, IT staff from Health Shared Services BC have finally resolved the problem. EZProxy is now working again for UBCers @ St. Paul’s & Vancouver General Hospitals as well as other sites of Providence Health Care & Vancouver Coastal Health.
Many thanks to the UBC Library and HSSBC staff who lobbied for the restoration of acceptable service levels.
ProQuest Acquires CIS & UPA from LexisNexis
Several months ago, ProQuest acquired the acclaimed Congressional Information Service (CIS®) and University Publications of America (UPA) product lines from LexisNexis. You can read more about this in the press release.
UBC Library subscribes to two collections involved in the transfer. After a bumpy transition, we’re happy to report our access is now active on the new platforms.
- LexisNexis Statistical is now Proquest Statistical
- LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection (Congressional Publications) is now Proquest U.S. Serial Set Digital collection
