eResources: Indexes & Databases => Broken

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Lorne Madgett

*UPDATE* The link to Infexes & Databases is working again. However, Library staff who were working on Resource info pages yesterday, or Subject Guides or Course Pages may want to review the work as the problem server has reverted back to an October 11th, archived version. LSIT (Systems) will be sending out an email to staff.

The link from the Library Homepage (and possibly other links elsewhere) to the Indexes and Databases page(s) is broken. Dedicated Library Systems folks are working on it. There are reports of other glitches, but they seem to have been resolved. Stay tuned!

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Bed Bugs: The Database

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Lorne Madgett

Okay, not eResources usual blog fare, but it is the plague du jour and we do like new databases, so…

“Bed Bug Information” is the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s collection of bug bed info, myths (sleeping with the light on doesn’t deter them), links and (ugh!) fotos. Enjoy!

[thanks for the link, Kevin]

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GreenFILE: Undergoing Some Adjustment

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Lorne Madgett

GreenFILE

*UPDATE* UBC eLink is in GreenFILE now.

Do to some ongoing adjustments by the provider of the GreenFILE database, the familiar UBC eLink button… …is not displaying next to articles. To see if we have an article, take the citation information for an article found in GreenFILE and plug it into our Citation Linker (use the Linker’s Advanced Search). It’s not the best solutions, but this problem may take a couple weeks to fix. Stay tuned.

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ejournals in the Library Catalogue: What the @#*%!

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Lorne Madgett

*UPDATE* eJournal records in the Library Catalogue displaying normally again.

Apologies.

ejournal records in the Library Catalogue are appearing as per this:

… and worse, issn searches are probably returning no ejournal results. The problem is new ejournal records were loaded in the Catalogue, but indexing hasn’t happened yet… and won’t till this week end.

So, if looking for an ejournal , please use the ejournal A-Z list. If you must search in the Catalogue, search by title for now and don’t panic when results look odd like the above, centre image. Hopefully, all will be back to normal Monday.

Contact us via our Help Form if you have any questions.

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Hit the TRAIL: Technical Reports Archive and Image Library

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Lorne Madgett

Get out of that database rut and try a new TRAIL.

Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) is a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to U.S. federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.

Hosted at the University of Hawaii of Manoa, TRAIL provides access to reports from:

  • U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Civil Effects Test Operations
  • U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Division of Biology and Medicine
  • U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Division of Technical Information
  • U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Health and Safety Laboratory
  • U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Office of Technical Information
  • U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Technical Information Service Extension
  • U.S. Bureau of Mines
  • U.S. Department of Commerce. National Bureau of Standards
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eBook Update: Books 24×7 & ebrary

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Lorne Madgett

You can create personal bookshelves in Books 24×7 and ebrary. You can use either your UBCcard Barcode & PIN (recommended method) or your CWL, but you cannot cross-link bookshelves (ie books saved on a UBCcard generated shelf are not on a CWL generated shelf) nor cross-link platforms.

Books 24×7:  After logging in to Books 24×7, click on the -Account Info- tab then “User Information”. Enter your name & email (Note: if logging in by CWL, you can’t enter email). Personal folders display under -My Home- tab. Always log out.

ebrary: After arriving on the ebrary platform, click on the -Bookshelf- tab. You will be asked to log in via EZproxy, unless you logged into EZproxy earlier in your session (we recommend using your UBCcard). Remember to sign out.

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Carbon Market News: The Business of Being Green

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Lorne Madgett

Carbon Market News is a comprehensive market intelligence tool that provides current information on carbon markets.

The real-time news service provides energy and carbon professionals with market-moving information through the monitoring of key players as well as business and policy developments. The daily, weekly and bi-weekly reports offer in-depth market commentaries and expert insight from market participants, analysts and observers.

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CQ Weekly: Keeping Up with our Neighbours

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Lorne Madgett

So, what’s up on The Hill this week?

The CQ news team covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else. Besides CQ Weekly, we also have access to:

  • Committee reports
  • CQ Committee Coverage
  • CQ Committee Rosters
  • CQ Congressional Transcripts
  • CQ Floor Votes
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American Geophysical Union Journals: .pdfs Down

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Lorne Madgett

Woo Hoo!! Print .pdfs are now accessible for full-text articles. Clear your browser’s cache & cookies before attempting to open, please.

Sorry, AGU readers, but the full-text .pdfs for journal articles are currently leading to error messages. AGU has been informed. Hopefully, this will be resolved soon. Please clear the cache & cookies from your browser before trying to access the articles.

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Many eJournals Missing from Catalogue… for now

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Lorne Madgett

*UPDATE* ejournal records are back in the Catalogue… and working!

Those familiar with ejournals at the UBC Library know that there are two quick ways to find links from the Library’s web space:

  1. via the ejournal A-Z list
  2. via the Library Catalogue

Unfortunately, some work on the Catalogue ejournal records is still underway. As a result, many ejournal records are missing at the moment. So, please make the ejournal A-Z list your first stop for ejournal title searching.

As always, please contact eResources if you have questions.

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