Anthropology

News from the Library for the Anthropology Department at UBC.

UBC GIS Users Group to meet monthly in UBC Library

By Trish on October 25, 2010

This month, the UBC Library will begin hosting meetings of the newly-rekindled UBC GIS Users Group. This group will be a gathering of students, researchers, faculty and staff on campus who work in some way with, or are interested in, geographical information systems (or science) (GIS). The meetings will be held monthly on the last […]

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Trial – Berg Fashion Library

By Susan Atkey on August 27, 2010

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 […]

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RefWorks for the Arts

By Trish on August 25, 2010

RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool, sponsored by the UBC Library, and available free-of-charge to UBC faculty, staff, and students. In this hands-on workshop you will create your own personal database in RefWorks, learn how to add references, and use these references when writing a paper, automatically formatting your footnotes and bibliography in the […]

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New eJournal – Sibirica

By Susan Atkey on August 24, 2010

Looking for a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on Russia in the Asia-Pacific region, including the vast territories of Siberia and the Russian Far East? We now have online access to the journal Sibirica from Spring 2002 to the current issue. This interdisciplinary journal publishes articles, research reports, conference and book reviews on Siberian history, politics, economics, […]

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Ethnographic Video Online

By Susan Atkey on August 23, 2010

We recently purchased a new video database of ethnographic films ranging from classics to new works from modern-day indigenous film production companies : Ethnographic Video Online The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw […]

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