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Macdonald Campus Seed Library now open!
On Monday, March 20 the Macdonald Campus Library will be opening up the Seed Library for online orders. The seed catalogue will be made available to McGill students, faculty, and staff on opening day. Please note that there is a limit of 25 seed packets per borrower.
RESOLVED: Access Issue: ProQuest Central Links Not Working in Sofia Catalogue
Updated March 4
The technical issue we were experiencing with ProQuest Central links has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
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We are currently experiencing an issue when accessing ProQuest Central links within Discovery (Sofia catalogue). The links are resolving to an error message that reads:
RESOLVED: Technical issue | DeGruyter access down, "unspecified server error" message
Updated February 28
The technical issue we were experiencing with DeGruyter has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
The Library is experiencing a technical issue with DeGruyter where access to all links is being blocked, and instead we are seeing an “Unspecified server error” message.
We are currently working with DeGruyter to restore access and apologize for any inconvenience.
Open Access Agreement | Canadian Science Publishing
The Library is pleased to announce that McGill corresponding authors publishing with five Canadian Science Publishing journals now have the option to make their articles open access at no cost.
Please see below for the full details and eligibility criteria.
Eligible titles:
What do you think? New Proactive Chat survey
What is Proactive Chat?If you visited the Library website recently, you may have noticed a red conversation bubble icon and pop-up window located in the bottom right hand corner asking you if you need help.
Library Guides: A new way to curate resources in myCourses
Instructors can now help students connect to research and information resources by adding the Library Guides tool to myCourses. This dynamic tool can be inserted into myCourses in two ways, either directly in the course module and accessible via the left-side menu, or in the course’s top-level menu. Each course can be connected to pre-assigned subject guides that will populate automatically, or to one or more niche guides curated by the relevant subject librarian.
Open Access Agreement | Wiley
Starting January 15, 2023, McGill-affiliated corresponding authors will have the option to make their work open access for no cost in Wiley’s hybrid journals. Review the list of eligible titles (XLS will download).
Exam period access to Nahum Gelber Law Library for Fall 2022
As of Thursday, December 1, McGill students are able to access the Nahum Gelber Law Library 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As agreed between the Students' Society of 㽶Ƶ (SSMU) and the Law Students Association (LSA), the Nahum Gelber Law Library will limit access to the three upper floors of the library to Law students only during the December 7 to 21 examination period.
Details are as follows:
Deadline Extended | Call for Proposals | Open Research Symposium: Building an open research community at McGill
Call for Proposals:
Temporary change in how to report a broken link or access issue in the Sofia catalogue
Updated December 13, 2022. Please note, the technical issue that had been affecting our reception of your notifications from the “Report a Broken Link” function has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
Due to a technical issue affecting our reception of your notifications from the “Report a Broken Link” function, we are temporarily hiding the link from the catalogue interface.
November 1 | Macdonald Campus Library closes at 5PM
Due to an electrical shutdown, the Macdonald Campus Library will close at 5PM on Tuesday, November 1.
This shutdown is necessary for Facilities to relocate an electrical disconnect switch at the Macdonald Stewart Building.
We apologize for any inconvenience.