By madgett on July 8, 2008
The new Ebscohost 2.0 interface will be released on Wednesday, July 16th.
To get a sneak preview of how our EBSCO databases will look follow these steps:
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Go to any EBSCO database and click on the New features link in the top left banner.
Select Test Drive….. Then take one of the databases for a spin.
NOTE: The EBSCO Interface Working Group is meeting with our EBSCO rep on Wednesday, July 9th for an overview of the administrative options available in the new interface. More information and opportunities for your feedback will follow.
If you have questions or concerns in the meantime, please contact the group lib-ebscowg@interchange.ubc.ca.
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By madgett on July 8, 2008
Update: 11:40am
Fortunately, the outage was short-lived. We should be back on-track.
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Aaargh! Well it was nice while it lasted!
Access to our Blackwell content went down again. It’s been reported to Wiley and I’m hopeful this this is a just a temporary outage. Stay tuned for an update.
Many of you have discovered titles that didn’t get restored. Please remember to check the missing content list. And there are always exceptions, so please don’t hesitate to send questions to eResources Help
Also, if you are being denied access, you can submit a request to InterLibrary Loans – during these transitory times, that might be the fastest way to get articles that are needed urgently.
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By madgett on July 7, 2008
Good news!
Access to most of our subscribed Blackwell journals has finally been restored on Wiley InterScience.
Article-level linking (through Citation Linker, Google Scholar, PubMed etc.) is still unavailable, however Wiley is anticipating these services will be activated by the end of the week. The publisher has also made progress on migrating some of the content missed during the original integration. For the list of content still to be moved to Wiley InterScience see here.
Please report any continuing access problems to eResources Help.
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By madgett on July 3, 2008
Access to most of our subscribed Blackwell journal content on Wiley InterScience is currently unavailable.
Be assured that our account rep at Wiley is working to resolve this as soon as possible.
Unfortunately in the meantime, the typical search leads to that frustrating ‘login below to purchase access’ screen. We are certainly not alone in this situation – it is being experienced world-wide to a greater or lesser extent. Here is Canada, the problem is shared by all our peer academic institutions, which like UBC, are part of the CRKN consortial license agreement.
Some progress has been made towards providing title level access (fewer instances of landing on the Wiley InterScience home page), however article level linking (Citation Linker, PubMed etc.) is not expected to be restored until later next week. We sincerely hope to have our access available before then!
Updates will continue to be posted here.
Questions, concerns, comments? Please contact us!
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By madgett on June 30, 2008
As many of you have discovered there is missing content from Blackwell which is not yet available on the Wiley InterScience site. This includes some issues, articles, parts of articles (e.g. article loaded in xml but not in PDF) plus some missing metadata and articles which need to be fixed due to special character rendering issues.
The full list of content to be added can be found here.
Wiley aims to complete the migration over next 10 days. For the latest information, please go to the transition site.
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By madgett on June 30, 2008
As of Monday, June 30, 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—has been incorporated into Wiley InterScience.
Blackwell Synergy is no longer online.
PLEASE NOTE: OpenURL links are currently not redirecting at the journal level but instead default to the Wiley InterScience homepage. This means the UBC elink and Serials Solutions A-Z links are not linking directly to titles and articles. The publisher is working on this and expects to have this resolved within a few days.
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By madgett on June 10, 2008
All journal content on Blackwell Synergy merges into Wiley InterScience
As of July 1, 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience. Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, 2008, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable while the publishers transition and re-index data.
After July 1, 2008, Blackwell Synergy will no longer be available online.
For more information go here.
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By madgett on June 2, 2008
After careful analysis, UBC Library has decided to discontinue the Ingenta Reveal (formerly Uncover Reveal) table of contents alerting service. Effective June 1, 2008 registered users will no longer receive updates from Ingenta.
Suggestions for other current awareness tools can be found here.
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By madgett on May 30, 2008
Update:11:15am
UBC eLink is working again, but we are watching for instability. Please report any continuing problems to eResources Help.
Friday, May 30th, 10:30am
UBC eLink is temporarily unavailable. We are working to restore access as quickly as possible.
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By madgett on May 7, 2008
Update: Thursday, June 5th
Access to our Palgrave MacMillan titles has been restored.
Wednesday, May 7th
Access to Palgrave MacMillan titles is currently unavailable. We are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Titles affected are:
Development
Feminist review
Higher education policy
International Politics
Journal of International Business Studies
Maritime Economics & Logistics
Polity
Urban design international
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