We have a trial of eBooks from Brill from 2007-2009 in seven humanities and social science subjects.
The trial is on until 15th November. The information page is here:
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1593

The Victorian popular culture database is now available on a trial basis until 10 November.
The information page is at http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1592
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Trial period: 15th October – 10th November 2009
Description:
A collection of primary sources, together with interpretive essays, describing popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930. It consists of two sections; Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic and Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks.

Hi there,
There seems to be a problem with the Globe and Mail: Canada’s Heritage database. Kat said that there may have been a problem with the renewal process as the Library changed vendors from ELN to CKRN. She has called customer support this afternoon (Friday) and she hopes to hear back by Monday. So unfortunately patrons will not be able to access the database this weekend; however, there is the microfilm version of the paper which they can access.
Susan P

Hallo,
I emailed Electronic Resources on the weekend about problems with accessing journals in Sage – Irene confirmed that we have lost access to the Sage backfiles, and suggests that we direct people to print versions (or alternate electronic versions) if they’re available.
Also, you may all know this, but the British Columbia Newspaper Index appears to be borked, and has been for some time? I’m guessing that Canadian Newsstand is the closest resource to send them to, or they can check the microf?
Edited to add 05/10/08:
Hurrah, the link to the British Columbia Newspaper Index is all well and happy again, thank you, Irene!
Cheers, Francesca

Wilson is offering a free trial of the Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective (1900-1984) until October 31.
Give it a try here: www.hwwilson.com/eglretro.htm
(You’ll need to register first)
Here’s the blurb:
“This one-of-a-kind reference indexes tens of thousands of essays that might otherwise be all but inaccessible—unsung tracts in collections and anthologies back decades.”

I had a patron the other day with an assignment that required her to find out how many times a certain book had been cited. I showed her google scholar and Web of Science, but authomatically assumed that WOS did not track book citations since it doesn’t offer “monograph” as a material type or suggest anywhere obvious that it tracks anything other than journal articles. I’ve since discovered that many monographs are tracked after all, but getting at the citations is tricky since WOS has abbreviated monograph titles in the same obscure manner that it abbreviates journal titles….That being said – after I read the following help page – I did manage to find citations for 3 or 4 randomly selected books: http://images.isiknowledge.com/help/WOS/hcr_citedbks.html Since this is apparently for a class assignment maybe it will come up again.

EBSCO recently announced the launch of GreenFILE, a new free interdisciplinary database on the environment. You can access it from the indexes and databases list:

http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1398
Here’s the blurb:
GreenFILE, is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. GreenFILE’s initial release includes abstracts and indexes for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage from to volume 1, issue 1 to present for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.

At 8:00pm EDT on Friday, April 11, all DLPS collections will be unavailable while database servers are upgraded. The estimated outage time is 4 hours.
Affected sites and collections include the following (and we don’t subscribe to all of them)
* ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
* American Verse Project
* Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
* British Women Romantic Poets
* DLPS Usage Statistics
* Early English Books Online
* Encoded Text Services
* Humanities Text Initiative
* HRAF Archaeology and Ethnography
* Image Services
* LLMC-Digital Collections
* Making of America
* The Medieval Review
* Middle English Compendium (MEC)
* OAIster
* Old English Corpus (OEC)
* Pictures of Record
* Radical Scatters (Emily Dickinson)
* The United States and its Territories
* UM Historical Math Collection
* William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

If you’ve had a chance to use JSTOR today, you may have noticed something different. As of April 4, JSTOR has a new interface. The visual appearance is vastly improved, and the functionality enhanced by a number of new features:

Good news on the eresources front. As of today, we have access to a number of new and upgraded online resources.
In the EBSCOhost line, we now have access to the following: