Hi all
Re: the changes to journal searching…
When searching for a journal from either the catalogue under journal/ejournal search, or using the blue navigation bar – now labelled JOURNALS instead of EJOURNALS – the results go directly to the Serials Solutions page with title and UBC Print Holdings or online versions available. There is no intermediary screen that allows you to choose Print or Electronic. Because our print and microform collections have been loaded into the Serials Solution database, it was felt that the intermediary screen was redundant. HOWEVER, there are cases where the search brings up no results, or may be missing some of the print/microform collections, when in fact we do have the title. So it’s important to follow up on all search options if you don’t find what you want. This means also searching the “check catalogue” search box if you don’t find results, or the format you want.
Now that some of the bugs and problems have been exposed, we are working on some changes to give us more complete and accurate results from the first search. In the meantime, remember to follow up with a catalogue search if you don’t find any results.
Try searching for the journal “Times Literary Supplement” as an example. You get no results. Yet a catalogue search finds this title. This one is missing I think because it has no ISSN.
Variant titles are also a problem. Try Reference Services Review. It finds the online, but not print – because in our print catalogue it is catalogued as RSR Reference Services Review. Then try it as a title in the catalogue (not journal, but title). It is there.
So, while we (the Serials Solution Working Group) feel this move to eliminating the intermediary screen is a good one, there are some problems, which we are working on. In the meantime, follow up on all options when searching for a journal title.

Now up to HN 51. About half way through the collection.

PsycINFO has a very powerful set of limits — many more than in Academic Search Premier, so don’t let the EBSCO software fool you: scroll down to have a look.
The type I use most often is Methodology: students are often required to find examples of particular methodologies, especially qualitative and quantitative. The Methodology limit also includes “Literature Review” and if you’re looking for an overview of a topic, this is a great way to find it.
Because Psych students are like most people and never look “below the fold”, they have no idea that this feature exists and will be very appreciative when you demonstrate it.
(Note that there’s also a Review under Document Type which limits results to book reviews.)
And of course, for a gentle introduction to a topic, appropriate for beginners you can’t go wrong with an encyclopedia or handbook.

Interesting new article on Google Books in the latest issue of the New Yorker:
Toobin, Jeffrey. Google’s Moon Shot: The quest for the universal library. The New Yorker. February 5, 2007.
A quote from their VP, Marissa Mayer:
Google has become known for providing access to all of the world’s knowledge, and if we provide access to books we are going to get much higher-quality and much more reliable information. We are moving up the food chain.”

Students can also use material listed under “OTHER CATALOGUES”, then choose Reading Rooms/Bibliographies and do a search “october crisis”. There is both primary and secondary material listed there

On Jan 31st, from 4pm-7:30pm EST, the Can’n govt website will be down for maintenance

Now interfiled to HD7391.

Paul contacted systems regarding Celia’s question about accessing websites/licensed resources from the guest access stations and got the following info…
Here is some clarification on access restrictions from Heman in Systems:
Whether a site should be blocked at our guest stations are determined by a combination of 3 rules:
Rule #1: Explicitly or implicitly trusted site are given access
Example: “ubc.ca” is explicitly trusted. Which means any site that ends
with “ubc.ca” will be allowed access, including “parking.ubc.ca”
Rule #2: Sites linked from an implicitly trusted site are also given access
“library.ubc.ca” is implicitly trusted, which means if “library.ubc.ca” website
contained a link to a third-party site, that third-party site will also be trusted;
NOTE: this third-party is only explicitly trusted, in other words, links from this
third-party site will be blocked.
Rule #3: Sites that appeared on our “blacklist” will always be blocked
Example: Google, Hotmail: since they are on our “blacklist”, access will be
blocked even if there is a link from “library.ubc.ca” to it.
Most of the time, problem occurs when a site that we otherwise trusted uses another web hosting company to host their content. For example we trust “parking.ubc.ca”, however they use a company called “eigendev.com” to process their credit card transactions, so, unless we manually add “eigendev.com” into our list of explicitly trusted sites, our guests will have trouble paying their parking fees: things will fail halfway thru their credit card transaction.
Similarly, problem occurs when our database provider passes control to a different website when delivering their contents, example if “naxosmusiclibrary.com” hosts their stuff in “naxos.com”, their content will be blocked unless [1] music library also has a link to “naxos.com”, or [2] we manually add “naxos.com” to our list of trusted sites.
Since we are short staffed, we don’t want to be maintaining these trusts and blacklists all the time. If patrons have problems accessing our more *popular* journals or databases, let us know, and we will attempt to trace out the third-party site and add them to our trusted list; otherwise the unauthenticated guest workstations are provided “as is”, and guests are encouraged to register for an ID/password if they want to do any serious research etc.

The circ staff doing the interfiling of journals and books have moved quite a few journal titles in the Ps-Zs to the upper floors of Koerner. I have put the list of journal titles that have been moved in the “Koerner Floor Plans” blue binder at the Reference Desk. As well, I have included extra copies of the current week’s floor plan for level one. I will put weekly updates in this binder.
I have also put copies at the Journals/Microform desk.
So if a patron can’t find a journal downstairs in the swing space, check the lists to see if it has been moved upstairs.

A history student came in yesterday looking for primary sources for the October Crisis – in particular Trudeau and his “just watch me” comment to the media. CBC has a fabulous online archives – which goes back to at least the 1930s – of archival radio and tv broadcasts. You can watch Tommy Douglas talking on TV about the importance of government-funded health care, or Trudeau talking to reporters during the October Crisis. Fabulous primary sources. The focus is interviews, news and current affairs programs to which CBC holds or has obtained copyright. CBC is currently negotiating Internet rights with many different organizations, including trade unions, artists and writers, so sadly, no Mr Dressup.