*UPDATE* Access seems to have been restored to our Nature titles.
For the time being, many Nature journals are not giving us full text access. The authorities have been notified. Stay tuned.
Nature Journals: Many Denying Full-Text Access
Brill: Online Reference Works (Trial)
*UPDATE* Trial has now ended
We are currently offering a trial to all Brill Reference Works online. The resources are interdisciplinary, with a focus on history, religion, Islamic studies, Asian studies, classical studies, specialist sciences and international law.
Go to the Library’s Brill page and visit the site. Remember to fill out the Feedback form after. *TRIAL ENDS DECEMBER 4TH*
JAMA & Archives Journals Backfiles Collection
Now available! The JAMA & Archives journals backfiles collection includes every issue of JAMA & Archives published from 1883-1997. Read a classic article or peruse the grand works of art which have graced the covers since April 20, 1964.
U.K.Postal Strike: Lucky Us?
“Ok,” you say. “What does a U.K. postal strike have to do with e-resources, and how does it effect me?”
Glad you asked. It seems some UK publications are making some content more easily accessible on the web. Read some of theBookseller’s supplements (usually hidden behind passwords), the Nursing Times .pdf of the entire 20 October 2009 issue and a complete copy of the latest Times Educational Supplement. But, as the publisher’s themselves say, it’s for a limited time only. Google your favourite U.K. publication. You never know.
The Sixties: An Alexander Street Press flashback
We’ve had this one for a few months now, but somehow we missed it, man.
“The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents…” well you get the drift. Check it out here.
Brill eBooks: Trial Subscription on Now
*UPDATE* Trial now ended… but try the next Brill trial.
Diseases of Babylonia. Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland. Engaging Social Justice: Critical Studies of 21st Century Social Transformation
…plus over 750 other titles make up the Brill eBooks collections on trial now. Peruse the site then give us your comments.
Trial ends November 15, 2009.
CRCnetBASE platform: eBook problems
*UPDATE* -All has returned to normal, links from Catalogue and platforms’ “Read it Online” working. Thank you Jessie from CRCnetBASE for the phone call.
Two problems here:
1) the links from the CRCnetBASE titles in the Library Catalogue are not working.
2) the “Read it Online” feature for ebooks is not working on the platforms themselves.
Hello, myVPN: R.I.P old VPN
According to UBC IT, VPN will be no more after the end of the year (December 31, 2009).
So, if you want to keep connecting to the Library’s subscribed eresources from Starbucks, you need to get familiar with myVPN. Read how to set it up here.
It requires software be loaded onto your computer, just so you know.
Alexander Street Press: Canadian Women and Social Movements
We’ve just released a special edition of our online publication Women and Social Movements in the U.S. titled “Canadian Women and Social Movements,” and we hope you’ll take a look! –Alexander Street Press
Editors for this project include Canadian feminist historians Lara Campbell (Simon Fraser); Nancy Janovicek (University of Calgary); Tamara Myers (University of British Columbia); and Joan Sangster (Trent University).
Hey, if we’re in it, it’s worth a look, eh?
Egineering Village: Full-text vs UBC eLink buttons
Almost all search results in the popular Engineering Village (Compendex) display two yellow buttons:
the over-promising 
and our OpenURL resolver 
Please choose our OpenURL resolver. The other button tries (via DOI) to go to a SPECIFIC full-text source. We may not subscribe to that source. Our resolver tries to find a full-text source we DO subscribe to. Hope this clears up the yellow-button confusion.
