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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
In order to create space on the second and third floors of Woodward Library, we are moving a selection of low use monographs to Koerner Library, and serials with online equivalents to off site storage. Low use monographs are books that are at least 20 years old and have not circulated in the past 5 […]