Category Archives: Databases

American Geophysical Union: Dig into the Archives

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Lorne Madgett

Do you know about “The Magnetic Anomaly Near Kursk, Russia” investigated in the late 1800s? Or how Argon 40 was used in an attempt to calculate the age of the Earth in 1950? So, dig into the AGU archives and … Continue reading →

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China Online Journals: Wanfang Data URLs Need Updating

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Lorne Madgett

*UPDATE* Links in A-Z ejournal list now working. Wanfang-tastic, eh? Currently, the URLs in our ejournal A-Z list are not working for many China Online Journal titles. The URLs are being updated. In the meanwhile, the journals and articles can … Continue reading →

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The Sixties: An Alexander Street Press flashback

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Lorne Madgett

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 … Continue reading →

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Brill eBooks: Trial Subscription on Now

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Lorne Madgett

*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 … Continue reading →

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CRCnetBASE platform: eBook problems

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Lorne Madgett

*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 … Continue reading →

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Alexander Street Press: Canadian Women and Social Movements

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Lorne Madgett

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 … Continue reading →

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Egineering Village: Full-text vs UBC eLink buttons

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Lorne Madgett

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 … Continue reading →

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Transportation Research Board: Several broken links to publications

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Lorne Madgett

Due to changes in their website, several links to the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies publications are now broken. We are working to repair them. In the meanwhile, go to the TRB Publications by Series site to search … Continue reading →

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Nature Journals online: Black October?

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Lorne Madgett

*UPDATE* October issues viewable. Something is up with the October issues for several Nature journal titles. We have a call in to our rep to investigate. Nature Immunology, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature reviews Microbiology, Nature neuroscience… to name a few … Continue reading →

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Gale’s Business & Company Resource Center: Printing from Firefox

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Lorne Madgett

Users of Firefox have noticed that sometimes the ability to print a full-text article from Gale’s Business & Company Resource Center is not just an icon-click away. If you click the PRINT icon and find yourself on a screen with … Continue reading →

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