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Web of Science and JCR workshop

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 2:00PM – 3:00PM Please join me today for a class about Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports! 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 […]

Need Help Finding the Health Literature?

Introduction to PubMed ONLINE workshop PubMed is a biomedical database that includes citations from Medline, life sciences journals and online books. This session will provide an overview of searching within Pubmed, as well as covering some of the additional features including My NCBI account, saving and managing searches, and creating email alerts. This session is […]

Join us for online class on MEDLINE

MEDLINE: Introduction to searching on OvidSP Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 at 1:00PM – 2:00PM ONLINE Join us for this ONLINE live workshop on searching MEDLINE. This workshop covers the development of a structured search strategy using tools and techniques related to subject headings, boolean logic, limits, and more It will also include tips for using […]

Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports

Please join me online today for a class about Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports! 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 […]

Happy National Tree Day!

Canada is celebrating its very first National Tree Day on Wednesday, September 21st. The UBC Faculty of Forestry is marking the day with an orienTREEing race and a tree film marathon. The film screening is open to forestry students, faculty, staff and other members of the community, and is being held in the Forest Sciences […]

CINAHL and PsycInfo: Searching the Ebsco health databases

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 at 1:00PM – 2:00PM Make your searches more efficient and effective! Join us for this ONLINE live workshop on CINAHL, which is a key access to research literature for nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and other allied health professions, and on Psycinfo, a major index to psychosocial aspects of health, covers […]

Datastream training

The David Lam Library is hosting two training sessions on Datastream on Thursday, September 22nd from 10:00a.m.-11:00 a.m. (Beginners) and 2:00p.m.-4:00p.m. (Advanced) in the David Lam Amphitheatre. Datastream is an international and interdisciplinary database of business and economic time series, used by academics and journalists to find current and historical data in the areas of […]

New taxa and electronic publishing

The Nomenclature Section of the International Botanical Congress has approved changes to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, including a new article in the Code that allows the names of new taxa to be accepted when they appear either in electronic journals and books or in traditional print materials. Previously new names were only considered […]

Open UBC: call for participation

Open UBC is held in conjunction with International Open Access Week, which encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide. Open UBC showcases a week of diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s researchers, faculty, students and staff participate in. These events include […]

Web of Knowledge – New Interface/New Features

You may have noticed Web of Knowledge has a new look. UBC Library has 4 databases on this platform: Web of Science with Conference Proceedings Citation Index BIOSIS Previews Journal Citation Reports MEDLINE There are some excellent improvements with this interface change. For a quick update on the changes, see this 8 min. video: New […]