**UPDATE** The power is on and the journals are back*
Due to power outages at the platform site, several Chinese journal collections are unavailable: China Academic journals from East View / CNKI. Stay tuned.
China Academic Journals & CNKI Titles: Sites Down
Confidential Print: Middle East, c1839-1969: New Resource
“Anyone working on the Modern Middle East will find the Confidential Print: Middle East collection extraordinarily useful. This collection is an absolutely invaluable resource for both researchers and teachers because of the range of documents available and the ease with which one can access them. The database is straightforward, simple to use, and is readily searchable. Anyone accustomed to popular databases such as JSTOR will find the Confidential Print: Middle East collection immediately familiar. One can bring up an original document on one’s own computer and/or download a PDF facsimile. The database also provides all the documentary information needed by researchers in an easy-to-use format.” -Professor Michael Gasper, Occidental College
This collection covers a broad sweep of history from c. 1839 to 1969, taking in the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and many of the former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan.
Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954: New Resource
“Jewish Life in America makes available to scholars some of the American Jewish Historical Society’s most important and valuable archival collections. Anyone researching the history of the American Jewish community will benefit from this treasure trove of primary sources.” – Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
The material ranges from the manuscript of Emma Lazarus’s famed sonnet ‘The New Colossus’, to the records of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, which supported Jewish entrepreneurship across America from 1819 to the 1980s. Also included are a selection of American Jewish Year Book articles and research guides for the majority of collections.
JSTOR: Down for the Moment
*UPDATE* JSTOR is back*
“JSTOR is experiencing temporary problems. We are sorry for the interruption, and will be back online as quickly as possible.” –JSTOR site
This also means several journal collections (like University of California press) are also down. Stay tuned.
New Journal Added: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Who knew? Apparently, many people are pleased that we now have access to the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology from 1990 to the current issue. Enjoy!
ne·phrol·o·gy, noun [ ni-ˈfrä-lə-jē ] : a branch of medicine concerned with the kidneys.
JAMA & Associated Archives: Access Problems
Unfortunately, we are experiencing problems accessing issues prior to 1998 for JAMA and many of it’s associated archives (such as “Archives of General Psychiatry”). We are working with the publisher to fix this.
Stay tuned!
Permanent URLs: More “PURLs” of Wisdom
The Distance Learning Support Librarian has put together a brief guide for creating Permanent URLs for subscribed resources. The guide “Creating Persistent URLs” is found here. PURLs for the Library’s Catalogue are covered here as well.
SwetsWise / ALPSP Platform: building PURLs?
First, a “PURL“? That’s a Permanent URL. Meaning that you can send the link to a journal or article to someone and they can click that link and see the same journal or article.
Platforms like EbscoHost help by providing a button: one click and a PURL is automatically created. SwetsWise / ALPSP however, is trickier. And copying the URL from the browser doesn’t work. Here is what you need to do;
- start with our EZproxy pre-pend: http://ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/login?url=
- build the 2nd half of the URL using this formula: http://www.swetswise.com/link/access_db?issn=xxxx-xxxx&vol=x&iss=x&part=x&ft=1 => where you replace the x’s with the numbers for your specific item
So, for a journal with issn=0300-0508 and you want an article in volume 62, issue 5 (the “part” is only filled in if it’s a supplement issue, don’t worry about the “ft=1” just add it), you would build this PURL:
http://ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/login?url=http://www.swetswise.com/link/access_db?issn=0300-0508&vol=62&iss=5&part=&ft=1
…which you can send to your friends. Of course, they can only access the article AFTER authenticating via EZproxy if they are off campus. Note: The above PURL formula only gets you to the Table Of Contents for the journal issue. That’s as close as you can get to the actual article on SwetsWise
China Online Journals: Several links broken
Several of the ejournals in the “China Online Journals” series leads to an error message:
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Bad Request
The file you are requesting does not exist.
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We are in contact with the vendor and hoping for a fix. Stay tuned.
Early American imprints: Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 is regarded as the definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America. It provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in America from 1639-1800. The content is based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans (14 vols., 1903-34, 1955-59); and subsequent bibliographic works by Roger Bristol, James Mooney and Clifford Shipton.
This digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. It includes more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages, providing access to new imprints not available in microform editions.
