Geography
February GIS Users Group
This month’s presentation is on viewshed analysis, by Forestry Resources Management PhD Candidate and GIS Instructor Brent Chamberlain. This research won Brent the ESRI 2010 Scholarship. Please join us at the UBC GIS Users Group meeting on Wednesday, February 23 at 4:00 PM in Koerner Library Room 216.
OED Online Relaunched
The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary has a new design and new functionality.
Upcoming Workshop: Current Awareness Tools
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
UBC GIS Users Group to meet monthly in UBC Library
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 […]
RefWorks for the Arts
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 […]
New eJournal – Sibirica
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, […]
