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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 […]
New Video Material for Women’s & Gender Studies
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 […]
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 […]
New Online – International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities
The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities provides information on a variety of interdisciplinary topics that relate to men, masculinity and gender relations. The encyclopedia includes such topics as Chinese masculinities, ageism, childhood studies, sexuality, and literary theory. Michael Flood, editor of the encyclopedia, offers a tool that provides insight into the theorization of masculinity […]
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 […]
World Bank launches new open access Digital Collection
A great new open access resource provides access to all the World Development Reports since 1978. Users can set up an individual account for bookmarking reports, saving chapters, and making notes, etc. The press release below provides further information: “A new online, open access, collection of all World Development Reports since 1978 was launched today […]
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 […]
