By irobb on October 18, 2010
“EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750, the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide.” –EBSCO Publishing
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 has citations for more than 32,000 items. Use the embedded UBC eLink button… 
…to link to full text (where available).
Access to the database is unrestricted (free to anyone).
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By irobb on October 18, 2010
*Update*: EZproxy now working for NetLibrary ebooks.
EZproxy is not working for off-campus access to NetLibrary. Please use MyVPN if accessing a NetLibrary ebook from off campus for now. Should be fixed in a day or two (fingers crossed).
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By irobb on October 15, 2010
“[F]eaturing contributions from world experts in the field of cloud computing from academia, research laboratories and private industry… Handbook of Cloud Computing provides a comprehensive view into the cloud computing trend, presenting the systems, tools, and services of the leading providers including Google, Yahoo, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft.” —SpringerLink
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By irobb on October 12, 2010
*UPDATE* The link to Infexes & Databases is working again. However, Library staff who were working on Resource info pages yesterday, or Subject Guides or Course Pages may want to review the work as the problem server has reverted back to an October 11th, archived version. LSIT (Systems) will be sending out an email to staff.
The link from the Library Homepage (and possibly other links elsewhere) to the Indexes and Databases page(s) is broken. Dedicated Library Systems folks are working on it. There are reports of other glitches, but they seem to have been resolved. Stay tuned!
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By irobb on October 12, 2010
Okay, not eResources usual blog fare, but it is the plague du jour and we do like new databases, so…
“Bed Bug Information” is the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s collection of bug bed info, myths (sleeping with the light on doesn’t deter them), links and (ugh!) fotos. Enjoy!
[thanks for the link, Kevin]
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By irobb on October 8, 2010
GreenFILE
*UPDATE* UBC eLink is in GreenFILE now.
Do to some ongoing adjustments by the provider of the GreenFILE database, the familiar UBC eLink button… …is not displaying next to articles. To see if we have an article, take the citation information for an article found in GreenFILE and plug it into our Citation Linker (use the Linker’s Advanced Search). It’s not the best solutions, but this problem may take a couple weeks to fix. Stay tuned.
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By irobb on September 29, 2010
*UPDATE* eJournal records in the Library Catalogue displaying normally again.
Apologies.
ejournal records in the Library Catalogue are appearing as per this:
… and worse, issn searches are probably returning no ejournal results. The problem is new ejournal records were loaded in the Catalogue, but indexing hasn’t happened yet… and won’t till this week end.
So, if looking for an ejournal , please use the ejournal A-Z list. If you must search in the Catalogue, search by title for now and don’t panic when results look odd like the above, centre image. Hopefully, all will be back to normal Monday.
Contact us via our Help Form if you have any questions.
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By irobb on September 27, 2010
Get out of that database rut and try a new TRAIL.
Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) is a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to U.S. federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
Hosted at the University of Hawaii of Manoa, TRAIL provides access to reports from:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Civil Effects Test Operations
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Division of Biology and Medicine
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Division of Technical Information
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Health and Safety Laboratory
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Office of Technical Information
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Technical Information Service Extension
- U.S. Bureau of Mines
- U.S. Department of Commerce. National Bureau of Standards
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By irobb on September 24, 2010
You can create personal bookshelves in Books 24×7 and ebrary. You can use either your UBCcard Barcode & PIN (recommended method) or your CWL, but you cannot cross-link bookshelves (ie books saved on a UBCcard generated shelf are not on a CWL generated shelf) nor cross-link platforms.
Books 24×7: After logging in to Books 24×7, click on the -Account Info- tab then “User Information”. Enter your name & email (Note: if logging in by CWL, you can’t enter email). Personal folders display under -My Home- tab. Always log out.
ebrary: After arriving on the ebrary platform, click on the -Bookshelf- tab. You will be asked to log in via EZproxy, unless you logged into EZproxy earlier in your session (we recommend using your UBCcard). Remember to sign out.
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By irobb on September 24, 2010
Carbon Market News is a comprehensive market intelligence tool that provides current information on carbon markets.
The real-time news service provides energy and carbon professionals with market-moving information through the monitoring of key players as well as business and policy developments. The daily, weekly and bi-weekly reports offer in-depth market commentaries and expert insight from market participants, analysts and observers.
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“EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750, the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide.” –EBSCO Publishing
