Category Archives: Ejournals

American Chemical Society (ACS) website: Some Problems

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

While searching and accessing journals and articles on the ACS site should not be a problem, other services (like registering for an account or setting up an alert) are not working due to maintenance.

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eJournal Portal, UBC eLink, Citation Linker: Down

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

*All is well again. Please clear the cache & cookies from your browsers before attempting to return to any site that had an earlier error message* Looks like there is a server problem on campus. This is affecting several things, … Continue reading →

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Cambridge Journals Online: Site Down

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

The Cambridge Journals site is down. They say it may be back up later today or tomorrow. Stay tuned. The Cambridge Histories Online site (ebooks) is working fine.

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East View: China Academic Journals (Chinese Interface) Down

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

*UPDATE* Chinese interface now working, but connection to Chinese & English very slow.* *BONUS* .pdf files (not working in Firefox for about a month) are now opening.* Per our good friends at East View: “The Chinese interface for the China … Continue reading →

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Life Sciences: a Collection of Titles from Elsevier

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

The Life Sciences Package is a collection of related ejournals. Here is a title list: Advances in Agronomy Advances in Applied Microbiology Advances in Botanical Research Advances in Cancer Research Advances in Clinical Chemistry Advances in Ecological Research Advances in … Continue reading →

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In the Mood for Something New?: A Few Free Resources

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

…okay, really the info is mostly old. But it may be “new” to you. Here’s some free online resources worth a look: AFRO Black History Archives : AFRO-American newspaper archives Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons & Surgery News … Continue reading →

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British Medical Journal: Available Back to the 1800s

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

The UBC Library has access to the British Medical Journal back to 1840 (when it was the Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal ).

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The New “Search Collections” Portal: Where’s the ejournals?

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

If you are wondering where the ejournals are in the Search Collections Portal, it’s pretty simple. Print and ejournals are under “Journals“. The search box on the left searches the UBC Catalogue for Print and ejournal titles. The search box … Continue reading →

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ProQuest New Platform Migration Underway

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

*UPDATE* Migration nearly complete. Some smaller Databases (like “Ceramic Abstracts“) have been absorbed by larger Databases. Those Resource pages will point to the pages for the larger site. Please contact us if you have questions. We are currently migrating ProQuest, … Continue reading →

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Project Muse: Beta Site with eBooks Launched

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Lorne Madgett

Project Muse is doing two things in the new year: launching a new site and offering ebooks. A pre-view beta site has been launched here. The symbols on the left will clearly display the content that is currently available to … Continue reading →

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