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Availability of ebooks for downloading

Published by Dipa Barua

Q. Hi there,
I was wondering if there are ebooks that we can borrow and download for 21 days to our kindles and other ereading devices like most public libraries offer. I basically consume all of my books in this format and I know that more and more people are turning to this book format everyday. I enjoy the selection of ebooks the library has but I do not think I have seen any that you can actually download to your mobile device. It would be really convenient to add that to the library services if it is not available yet. Thanks!

Request for DOI Search Support

Published by Dipa Barua

Q. You should add DOI search support! That way when I want to see a particular article, I don't have to waste time copying a title, then searching through all of the different results with the same or similar titles. If there was a way to take a DOI entered in the search box, find the provider, determine if the university has a subscription, then return the login link to see the article requested, it would save a little time.

Downloading a Fulltext Paper

Published by Dipa Barua

Q. I am trying to download the fulltext pdf of my own paper, recently published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2013;(32)5:849-61 Detection and analysis of irregular streaks in dermoscopic images of skin
lesions.

However, I am now asked to log in or sign in to obtain my free copy, even though I have accessed it through the SFU library website. I have never had to do this before ---I often access this journal. Has something changed? What is the institutional log in and password, so I can access the journal article?

Problems with accessing an e-journal

Published by Dipa Barua

Q. I am trying to access a journal article in the 'electronic journals' section.
For some reason I cannot get the article, it says it is embargoed on 2 of the
3 sources, so I tried ALPSP, but it didn't work. Can you help me access
it?The article is:

From Fetishism to 'Shocked Disbelief ': Economics, Dialectics and Value
Theory. Detail Only Available By: McNally, David. Historical Materialism.
2012, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p9-23. 15p