BIOL 140 Workshops

BIOL 140 students, join us for this live, ONLINE workshop demonstrating how to find the best books and articles for your BIOL 140 assignment and answering your library research questions! CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE CLASS: Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010 OR Thursday October 14th 7:00-8:00 PM Please log-in at least 15 minutes early to make […]

BIOL 200 Workshop: Best Tools to Find the Research!

TODAY – Monday October 4th 4:30-5:30 PM. This workshop will introduce the library’s resources to support the Research Essay Assignment in BIOL 200. In this session, we will cover * how to find popular and scholarly articles & how to evaluate * how to trace a citation from a popular one to its scholarly source […]

Google & Google Scholar

TODAY!  Friday, Sept 17th, 2010 at 4:30PM – 5:30PM This quick-paced fifty (50) minute online workshop, taught by Dean Giustini, a blogger, educator and social media librarian, begins with a look at Google search techniques and popular 2.0 features in YouTube and Google documents. The session includes time for participants to interact and discuss how […]

Getting Started at UBC Library

TODAY! Getting Started at UBC Library Workshop Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 4:30PM – 5:30PM This will be a general introduction to the library. Please bring your questions! This session is offered online. Please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class Click http://ubc.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=leeann on date of class to join the class: If you are […]

Intro to PubMed

TODAY Wednesday, September 15th,  2010 at 4:30PM – 5:30PM Need a jumpstart on PubMed? Join us for an online workshop on how to maximize PubMed’s current search capabilities and link to UBC library’s full text journals. This session is offered online. Please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class Click on the following link […]

Introduction to Health Sciences databases on EbscoHost: Cinahl and PsycInfo

TODAY: Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 at 4:30PM – 5:30PM This ONLINE live workshop will cover subject and keyword searching, applying limits, getting the full-text, and saving searches and creating alerts when using CINAHL, a database of nursing and allied health literature, and PsycInfo, a database for psychosocial aspects of health. This session is offered online. […]

Learn @ the Library

UBC Library teaches over 1,400 classes and workshops to over 30,000 students and faculty each year as part of its instructional program. In addition to our extensive in-class and computer lab classes, we will be offering on online workshop series in mid-September to get you ready for research. Upcoming online workshops include: Introduction to the […]

Finding Theses and Dissertations Workshop – LIVE ONLINE Fri Feb 26 11AM

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 […]

Web of Science Workshop 11 AM Feb 19! LIVE ONLINE

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 […]

New Natural History Image collection: Cook’s Voyage to the South Seas 1768-1779

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 […]