Susan Atkey
Integrating Media Rich Collections into Your Course
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 […]
New! Book Review Index Plus database
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 […]
Credo Reference – Trial on Now!
Credo Reference is a giant online reference library that provides access to a selection of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, plus a broad range of subject-specific titles covering everything from literature to history to psychology to geography. In addition to the individual reference works, Credo Reference also adds a unique […]
Palgrave MacMillan eBooks – Trial On Now!
We are currently trialling the Palgrave MacMillan eBook collection. The collection gives you access to over 4, 500 electronic titles currently published by Palgrave MacMillan. Visit http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1687/ to explore the complete collection. Palgrave MacMillan publishes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in eight subject areas: History Language & Linguistics Literature & Performing Arts Political […]
RefWorks for Anthropologists
A reminder of the RefWorks workshop for Anthropology graduate students, this Friday November 19 from 2-4. RefWorks is a web-based citation management program that lets you gather, store, manage, and share citations, and generate bibliographies and formatted papers. We’ll explore how you can use RefWorks to create your own personal databases by importing citations from […]
Workshop – cIRcle and the Student Experience – Advancing Your Academic Career
Curious about how to get started with cIRcle, UBC’s Information Repository? Meghan Radomske, Master of Library and Information Studies Candidate and cIRcle Graduate Academic Assistant, will discuss UBC’s digital repository, cIRcle, and the benefits it offers students. cIRcle welcomes high quality scholarly contributions from both graduate and undergraduate students – enabling them to showcase their […]
Copyright Workshop – Issues and Implications for Teaching and Research
Upcoming workshop this Tuesday, November 23rd on Copyright Issues and Implications: You’re writing a thesis or a journal article, or preparing to teach your course and you have questions and concerns about copyright and the ethical use of information. Come to this session and learn the basics of Canadian copyright law, apply new learning to […]
Keeping Up-to-Date with New Research – RSS and more
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 […]
Keeping Up-to-Date with New Research – RSS and more
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 […]
Trial – Berg Fashion Library
We now have trial access to the absolutely fabulous new database, Berg Fashion Library. Anchored by the 10-volume Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, the Berg Fashion Library is the first online resource to provide access to interdisciplinary and integrated text, image, and journal content on world dress and fashion and will be useful to […]
