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March FIREtalk: Language Arts And Sciences
FIREtalks are Facilitated Interdisciplinary Research Exchanges for graduate students. The March FIREtalk theme is language. There are innumerable ways to study language, and a good many of those ways are being pursued at UBC: from investigating children’s development of language, to examining dyslexia and recovery from stroke, to studying how meaning is made in endangered […]
2015 Edition Now Available
The 2015 edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, edited by James Wright is now available. From the publisher’s description: The long-awaited new edition provides this foundational, interdisciplinary knowledge through discussions on history, current trends and future directions for each of the subjects. Both its format and integrated chapters encourage discovery, […]
Today is International Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day!
It’s a day to celebrate GIS by showcasing GIS uses and benefits and building the GIS community. For those of you who are unaware, UBC Libraries supports GIS in a number of ways by: Employing a Data & GIS Librarian (Kelly Schultz) and a Data/GIS Analyst (Paul Lesack) who can provide various GIS assistance, including […]
Join us at Cinema Salon
12:00 Noon |Thursday, November 26 | Room 216, Koerner Library
Resources for researchers
There’s a Research Guide for every discipline and research area at UBC. Each Guide includes links to background information, discipline-specific databases and journals, key reference books, primary sources, etc.: a great place to start your research or learn about new resources.
University Presses, Springer
Canadian University Presses, Oxford, University of Chicago, Stanford and Yale University Presses
Featured Digitized Resource
Uno Langmann BC Historical Photograph Collection
Now Hiring at the UBC Research Commons!
For the 2015-2016 academic year
New eBooks from OUP
Humanities and Social Sciences Titles