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Browse a million books in your spare time …

Feel like browsing in the bookstacks?  But not quite ready for a trip to campus?    Try a visit to the Internet Archive — www.archive.org.  Then click on texts.   There are over a million books to browse;  you’ll find standard formats such as PDF but also nostalgic formats such as the flip book.  You’ll find almost 200,000 […]

Canada-wide Cochrane Library Trial

The Cochrane Library is currently available to all Canadians for a trial period ending December 31, 2009.  This pilot is a joint initiative of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre and the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA), and was made possible by building on the leadership of the existing subscribers from provinces, territories and institutions […]

More for Less: New Services for Less Cost

Black and white printing and photocopying price reduced! Also, you can now print in colour at all of the Life Sciences Libraries! Black & white printing and photocopies price reduced to 7 cents (A savings from the former cost of 12 cents per page for copying and 13 cents per page for printing.) Colour printing: […]

Presentation on new models of scholarly publishing

The BC Research Libraries Group invites UBC faculty, staff and students to attend the following presentation: Field Study Findings on Faculty & Researcher Use of New Models of Scholarly Publishing & Communication presented by Karla Hahn. Thursday, March 5, 2009, 2:00pm – 4:00pm (refreshments served 2:00 – 2:30pm) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room […]

Springer Protocols Trial

UBC Library has a trial of Springer Protocols until April 30, 2009. You can access the protocols through SpringerLink or the Springer Protocols web site. Springer Protocols is an online collection of almost 18000 protocols in the areas of biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cancer research, cell biology, genetics/genomics, imaging/radiology, immunology, infectious diseases, microbiology, molecular medicine, neuroscience, […]

MyCopy from SpringerLink

UBC Library subscribes to hundreds of electronic books from SpringerLink. Prefer a print copy? Springer now offers a Print on Demand service for UBC faculty, staff and students wanting a personal copy from the library’s collection of Springer ebooks. You can have a black & white softcover copy delivered to your doorstep for $24.95 USD […]

Dentistry eBooks

We now have over 40 electronic books with information relevant to dentistry. The books range from key resources in clinical disciplines to historical materials from “Early English Books” Online. You can view selected books at: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/eitem/eitemsbysubject.cfm?subjid=67&lcoll=lsl Or, try our new ebook search page at: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/ebooklist.cfm

Suggested sources for Pharmacy 220 term paper

It’s that time of year again. If you’re a first-year pharmacy student working on the Phar 220 term paper, please see the following page for a list of suggested sources you can use: http://www.library.ubc.ca/life/coursesupport/pharmacy/Phar220.pdf If you’re still stuck after consulting these sources, please feel free to drop by the Woodward reference or contact Teresa Lee, […]

Library Workshops for January & February

Library workshops begin very soon! Courses are offered on campus, at C & W, and online with Wimba Classroom. Everyone is welcome. To register for these and other workshops, please see this link: January 23 – RefWorks for the Sciences January 28 – Current Awareness Tools in the Sciences January 28 – Current Awareness Tools […]

Celebrating Darwin

photo by Colin Purrington It has been 150 years since the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and 200 years since his birth (February 12). To celebrate, there will be a number of exciting events throughout the year. Check out the Vancouver Evolution Festival web site for local events, including who’s speaking at […]