By irobb on November 25, 2010
From now till Dec. 15th, you can read over 4500 Palgrave Macmillan ebooks (or try to) via the new ebook platform, Palgrave Connect. Please send feedback here.
“Palgrave Connect brings together [a] rich backlist and new titles in eight subject areas [economics & finance, political & international studies, history, literature & performing arts, business & management, social & cultural studies, language & linguistics, religion & philosophy] to offer libraries exceptional range and quality of research in digital format.” -Palgrave Connect website
Read More | No Comments
By irobb on November 17, 2010
“London Low Life is a full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.” –London Low Life website
Topics include underworld, slang, working-class culture, street literature, popular music, urban topography, ‘slumming’, prostitution, the Contagious Diseases Act, the Temperance Movement, social reform, Toynbee Hall, police and criminality. Many primary sources housed in the Lilly Library, Indiana University
Go on, take a walk on the seedy side.
Read More | No Comments
By dwwest on November 1, 2010
In November 2007, UBC Library sent a single DVD containing more than four million bibliographic records to Backstage Library Works. The company used a series of automated programs to resolve conflicts over name headings and series titles, update subject headings, and eliminate obsolete codes and fields. Reloading of the sparkling new data began in early January with the assistance of Ex Libris Group, a library automation firm. The records were reloaded into theLibrary’s catalogue in about four and a half days. The work continues, however. Stray names and subject terms that escaped the net of the automated programs are being cleaned up by staff, and catalogue maintenance will be ongoing.
Read More | No Comments
By irobb on October 26, 2010
*UPDATE* UBC-O IPs seem to have been fixed. The Welcome Mat is laid out again, northern friends!
Folks at UBC-Okanagan are experiencing problems accessing titles on the Wiley Online Library platform. Wiley seems to have dropped some important IP addresses. We are working to restore access. In the meanwhile, UBC-O folks will probably will have to access Wiley journals via MyVPN even if on campus.
Read More | No Comments
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).
Read More | No Comments
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).
Read More | No Comments
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
Read More | No Comments
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!
Read More | No Comments
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]
Read More | No Comments
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.
Read More | No Comments
