By ryan regier on August 29, 2023
A large number of Oxford ebooks in the catalog are not linking directly to the ebook and instead leaving the user at the general Oxford website. For example the record for Foundations of global health & human rights will leave the user at the general Oxford Scholarship Online Page: https://academic.oup.com/oxford-scholarship-online?login=true We are working to fix […]
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By gage on August 23, 2023
Warning: this blog post contains images of violence. A few weeks ago I wrote about the 1993 presidential summit between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin at UBC. However, that wasn’t the only time President Clinton visited the campus, as he would return four years later to meet with seventeen other nations leaders in the 1997 […]
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By phchow on August 21, 2023
This year the Evening of Sevens, or the Double Seventh Festival (meaning, a celebration on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), will fall on the 22nd of August. Double Seventh is being celebrated throughout East Asia though each country has its own origin stories and has developed unique and distinctive ways of observing […]
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By ryan regier on August 17, 2023
UBC has lost access to Access Medicine, Access Pharmacy, and other McGraw Hill Resources.
We are working to resolve the issue!
As a workaround you can place this URL in front of the website address and login to UBC with your CWL to access: https://prox…
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By claire malek on August 15, 2023
The report starkly demonstrates the living conditions of the Chinese people at this time. In an environment of discrimination, they did the most dangerous jobs, and were rewarded with the lowest pay.
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By gage on August 15, 2023
Poetry is a very popular form of literary work that appears frequently in many different places within Open Collections. For this weeks blog post I have search for examples from a handful of publications to share. The genre of poems vary wildly and even within this small sample there are love poems, rhyme poems for […]
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By ryan regier on August 11, 2023
UBC has lost access to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) of their website.
As a workaround you can place this URL in front of a NEJM URL and login with your CWL to access: https://proxy.openathens.net/login?qurl=
Alternatively you can also acc…
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