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Streaming Videos on Health Related Topics

There are several sources of streaming videos on health-related topics available to you.  Two of these resources available through the UBC Library are the :   Concept Media Streaming Video Collection http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1565   and   Bates: A Visual Guide to Physical Examination, 4th Edition http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1282  

Turn off the lights for Earth Hour

On Saturday, March 27 at 8:30pm (local time), people all over the world will show their support for the planet by turning off their lights for one hour. You can participate by simply switching off the light, adding your name to the Supporters’ Map or creating a Virtual Lantern or Light Switch! To learn more, […]

How do you know you’ve found everything? A guide to systematic review searching

The systematic search process can be pretty daunting, especially if it’s your first time. There are so many different databases, and potentially thousands of article records to gather and assess, never mind documenting it all or looking through lesser known sources, i.e. “grey literature”. If you’re currently working on searching for a systematic review, or […]

There’s an elephant in the library

There’s an elephant in the library. This slogan refers to HathiTrust, a shared repository of digitized books. Over 5 million books are in the repository and it is growing everyday.  The books are both scanned and machine transcribed (optical character recognition) so it is possible to search every word in every book – all in […]

Journal of Visualized Experiments

We’re pleased to announce that the Library has subscribed to the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JOVE), a peer-reviewed journal for biological research in a video format. JOVE has more than 500 videos demonstrating laboratory methods in the fields of cellular biology, developmental biology, microbiology, immunology, plant biology, medicine, and neuroscience. A number of UBC researchers […]