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By Sally Taylor on July 19, 2011
RefWorks, Mendeley and Zotero enable you to import citations and create bibliographies for your scholarly work. Which tool you select depends on your needs. In this session, three UBC science librarians highlight the features of these popular reference management tools and open the floor for discussions and comparisons using hands-on examples. The workshop is intended […]
By szagar on April 5, 2011
After enduring six days of Internet “throttling” and “saturated pipes” resulting in sluggish access to online resources, IT staff from Health Shared Services BC have finally resolved the problem. EZProxy is now working again for UBCers @ St. Paul’s & Vancouver General Hospitals as well as other sites of Providence Health Care & Vancouver Coastal […]
By Katherine Miller on March 29, 2011
We have extended our trial accounts access on the Ebsco interface until May 1st! We currently purchase these resources on different platforms and are exploring the option of accessing this content through the Ebsco interface. AGRICOLA http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1705/ Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1704/ CAB Direct includes the following 3 databases: CAB Abstracts http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1706/; CAB […]
By Katherine Miller on March 4, 2011
REFWORKS FOR THE SCIENCES – Monday, March 7th, 2011 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM Woodward Library Teaching Lab B25 RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool sponsored by the UBC Library and available free-of-charge to current UBC faculty, staff, and students. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create your own personal database in RefWorks by […]
By Katherine Miller on March 3, 2011
We are investigating purchasing the following article indexes/databases through Ebsco platform and would like your opinions on whether this would be a useful and preferred change, or not. We currently access Agricola http://resources.library.ubc.ca/112 and Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 on the Ovid platform and CAB Direct http://resources.library.ubc.ca/219 on their own platform. We have […]
By Woodward Library on February 24, 2011
If you are interested in the health field and would like to learn about new developments and research, this is the event for you! Come join us as Dr. Goldenberg, director of the Vancouver Prostate Centre and head of the Department of Urologic Sciences at UBC talks about his research. Dr. Larry Goldenberg has written […]
By Woodward Library on January 21, 2011
Do you find yourself spending hours, usually in the dead of night, inserting in-line citations and producing bibliographies manually? If the answer’s yes and you’re thinking, “There’s got to be a better way,” then come to one of our Zotero or Refworks workshops. Refworks and Zotero are both citation management tools that allow you to […]
By deangiustini on January 14, 2011
Since February 2009, HLWIKI Canada has had 1.3 million views. I find that number astonishing but it tells me that we are on the right path with the wiki’s development. As many of you know, I have worked on the wiki since 2006 but increasingly since about 2008-2009 when the total content in the wiki […]
By Woodward Library on January 4, 2011
Happy 2011! Welcome back. To mark the occasion, I thought I’d also share some happy news about recent changes to some of our most popular and well-used drug e-books. Martindale’s and Stockley’s Drug Interactions have been moved from Books@Ovid over to the MedicinesComplete platform, which also contains AHFS. Not only is Martindale’s easier to search […]