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Author Archives: Lorne Madgett
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!
Posted in Ejournals, Vendor Drops Access
Tagged archive, JAMA
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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.
Posted in Databases, EZ proxy
Tagged PURL, UBC Catalogue
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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 … Continue reading
China Online Journals: Several links broken
Several of the ejournals in the “China Online Journals” series leads to an error message: ——————————— Bad Request The file you are requesting does not exist. —————————————— We are in contact with the vendor and hoping for a fix. Stay … Continue reading
Posted in Broken Links, Ejournals
Tagged broken links, Wanfang Data
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, New eResources, summon
Tagged Early Americana, NewsBank, Readex
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2010 Holiday Closure of eResources & ej-help
**UPDATE**eResources is back in business. Happy New Year!** Yes, we put down our mouses and pick up our mugs at this time of year, so let’s hope access remains “jolly” over the holidays. eResources will be closed from Noon December … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, closure
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Credo Reference: Give it a try today! (trial)
Credo Reference is a giant online reference library that provides access to a wide selection of reference books. Credo Reference contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting … Continue reading
ALPSP Learned Journals: EZproxy Error Message
*EZproxy working for this collection now. Clear browser’s cache & cookies and link away* Linking to the ALPSP Learned Journals Collection from our ejournal A-Z list or via SFX (our OpenURL resolver) is leading to an error message some thing … Continue reading
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ESRI International User Conference: 2010 Technical Workshops
Billed as the “BIGGEST GIS event on Earth”, the 2010 ESRI International User Conference was held in held in San Diego, CA July 12-16, 2010. Here are the Technical Workshops from that conference in video, print, PowerPoint and audio formats.
Posted in Audio/Video resource, Databases, New eResources
Tagged Conference, ESRI, GIS
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