By Woodward Library on March 22, 2010
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 […]
By chbeck on March 12, 2010
We are pleased to announce trial access to Rehabilitation Reference Center(RRC) an evidence-based full-text database produced by EBSCO. http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1625 Designed for physical therapists, occupational therapists and other rehabilitation professionals, RRC aims to provide the best available, most accurate and concise information on conditions seen in rehabilitation practice, allowing rehabilitation specialists to build customized treatment regimens […]
By Sally Taylor on March 3, 2010
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 […]
By giustini on February 25, 2010
Grey lit ‘how to search’ document http://guides.library.ubc.ca/greylitforhealth
By Katherine Miller on February 25, 2010
Learn how to find theses and dissertations written by students at universities around the world. Online class on Friday February 26th at 11:00-11:45 AM. This session is offered online. Please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class 1) Please register here: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/934 2) Click on the following link to join the class: http://67.202.226.156/launcher.cgi?room=theses If […]
By Katherine Miller on February 19, 2010
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that indexes over 10000 journals and offers powerful search options, including: refining results by subject, author, source, year or country tracking how often an article has been cited and the articles that have cited it creating search alerts via email or RSS Its companion tool, Journal Citation Reports […]
By Katherine Miller on February 17, 2010
Over 1600 digital images from Cook’s Voyages to the South Seas are now available. To find the images, click on Artstor , then next to “enter Artstor digital library”, click on go. Under Browse, choose “collections” and select “Cook’s Voyages to the South Seas: Natural History Museum, London”. This will show all 1647 images. Just […]
By Katherine Miller on February 9, 2010
Help us plan your space – Tell us what is important to you! Click here to access the short survey.
By Katherine Miller on February 9, 2010
Help us plan your space – Tell us what is important to you! Click here to access the short survey.
By chbeck on February 4, 2010
Not coming out to Point Grey Campus during the Mid-term Break? Consider attending online library workshops put on by the Life Sciences Librarians between Feb 16-26. CINAHL, the new Pubmed, Web of Science, Current Awareness tools, Finding Theses, Refworks and more are being offered. For more details and to register go to: http://tinyurl.com/libraryworkshops.