UBC Library now has access to the electronic versions of four titles from Idea Group:
1. Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology
2. Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction
3. Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine
4. Handbook of Research on Nature-Inspired Computing for Economics and Management
Our online access is in addition to our print holdings.
The URLs for the eBooks are located in the catalogue records for the print titles (not in the list of indexes and databases.)

Each winter, the librarians gather …

A little drawn out, but still worth a look.
Thanks KB for the tip!

Hi all
We have had a few students telling us they cannot access RefWorks from home, even with the proxy or VPN. RefWorks has issued a notice that the software is ‘extremely slow’ if you use Internet Explorer 7 as the browser. This is due to IE’s Phishing Filter (a new feature to IE7) that evaluates web page contents. I wonder if that is why some students are having problems?
This is the ‘patch’ that RefWorks is recommending to solve the problem
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/928089

Students from a CAP class have been handing in their assignment here at the Ref Desk for Kimberley. We aren’t sure if this is the right procedure. I called the prof, but she wasn’t there. With Kimberley away, we are just accepting them and leaving them in Kimberley’s mailbox.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is now available online. (We also have the three-volume print set in KR Ref at F1218.6 .O95 2001.)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures chronicles Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica in over 600 articles. Encompassing the great civilizations of the pre-Columbian era (including the Olmec, Aztec, and Maya peoples) up through the colonial and postcolonial periods, the Encyclopedia covers art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, history, and historiography of the region.
This book will be useful for students in ANTH 232 (Ancient Latin America) and ANTH 323 (Archaeological Foundations of Mesoamerican Civilizations).
There are two ways to find this ebook:
1) Search for the title in the library catalogue and follow the link in the catalogue record, or
2) Look for the eBook in the listing of Indexes and Databases

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