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SAE Mobilus: Excessive downloading incident

By holly pickering on October 15, 2026

As of October 14, 2026, SAE Mobilus has rate limited UBC’s access due to excessive downloading of over 100 articles. We are investigating. Please remember that most resources have limits on what can be downloaded during one session. Almost all vendors have internal benchmarks that make allowances for reasonable use – usually what a person […]

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A Tale of Two Feminist Periodicals: Exploring Pedestal and Kinesis through Open Collections

By Michaela Chan on October 15, 2026

When Pedestal was launched in September 1969 by the Vancouver Women’s Caucus (VWC), it was Canada’s first feminist periodical. VWC emerged from the New Left student-led political movement at Simon Fraser University in the late 60s, a culture that valued direct action, anti-authoritarianism, and social non-conformity and promoted causes like civil rights, Black Power, gay […]

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