By Susan Atkey on January 24, 2011
UBC Library licenses over 800 electronic databases for you to use in research and teaching. Many of these databases provide full-text access to journal literature across disciplines. Increasingly, these resources also provide access to a wide range of images as well as streaming audio and video files, which can be incorporated into classroom and online […]
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By Trish on January 18, 2011
The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary has a new design and new functionality.
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By Trish on January 18, 2011
Save valuable research time! Online research resources offer an array of tools to help you stay current in your field. In this workshop you’ll learn how to set up email alerts and RSS feeds to: be notified when new articles and dissertations are published on your topic receive Table of Contents for the latest issue […]
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By Trish on January 10, 2011
Anything You Want to Be (8 minutes) A biting satire on societal pressures that force women to compromise their individuality and intellectual goals to assume a constantly changing identity of femininity. It Happens to Us (32 minutes) Filmed before the 1973 Roe vs. Wade, United States Supreme Court decision, this film presents personal stories and […]
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By Susan Atkey on January 6, 2011
Literature buffs and book club devotees rejoice! UBC Library just purchased the Book Review Index Plus database, a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more than 5 million review citations from thousands of publications. More than 634,000 of the citations also include the full text of the reviews. Searching is possible by author or […]
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