By Minghui Zhou on October 23, 2025
In 2016, we briefly explored the MacMillan Bloedel Limited Fonds and its predecessor, the Powell River Company, which you can read here. A quick recap: MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. began in 1909 as the Powell River Paper Company Ltd. Over the years, it became one of the largest forest products companies in the world, producing newsprint, […]
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By John Park on October 20, 2025
Due to excessive downloading, Factiva may impose a temporary restriction on downloading to one article at a time. Factiva has reported multiple sessions of excessive downloading including several sessions where over 10,000 articles were downloaded. We are investigating. Please remember that most resources have limits on what can be downloaded during one session. Almost all […]
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By cIRcle Office on October 20, 2025
Photo courtesy: Hanne Pearce (CC BY-NC 2.0) This year’s Open Access Week theme – “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” – speaks to the rapid and significant disruption underway in the current open access landscape, requiring nuanced discussion in regards to ownership, control, permissions, and equality. Open UBC and UBC Library are offering numerous free events that […]
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By Lauren Wong on October 9, 2025
This blog post was written by Lauren Wong, with invaluable help and advice from Chelsea Shriver, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian of UBC Library. In 2023, the Digitization Centre completed the digitization of Shakespeare’s First Folio, making it more accessible to people worldwide. We previously wrote a blog post about this achievement, which you […]
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By ryan regier on September 29, 2025
At this time, the eResources team is experiencing a temporary staffing shortage. As a result, our capacity to address all inquiries is limited. We are currently prioritizing issues that are critical to academic continuity (e.g., support for student to completing coursework) or that affect a broader group of users. While we may not be able […]
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By ryan regier on September 26, 2025
Access to the Nkoda App is currently down. Users are prompted to create a personal subscription when trying to access.
eResources has reached out to Nkoda to troubleshoot and access should be up soon.
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