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Database Feature: PrimateLit
PrimateLit is a multi-disciplinary database covering many aspects of non-human primate research, including paleoprimatology, behaviour, learning & perception. Searches include limits by geographical region (of the primates), taxonomic category, and common name. A subset of the database, Current Primate Research, contains records added in the past six months and is an excellent current awareness tool. […]
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 […]
Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies Podcasts
The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) offer a lecture series on Wednesday afternoons for the fall and winter semesters. This series brings together scholars that focus on issues related to women and the study of gender/sexuality. The series includes post doctoral and visiting scholars, faculty both […]
The Most Dangerous Man in America
The library has just acquired the DVD “The Most Dangerous Man in America“. ” “In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to the New York Times, making headlines around the world. [The […]
More Streamed Video
On September 20th, with 11 new videos, Theatre in Video now offers 314 videos, equaling 372 hours of online streaming video. With live television broadcasts of New York productions from the 50s, revivals of classic works and experimental performances from the 60s and 70s, as well as important contemporary performances, Theatre in Video covers a […]
New to the collection: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon
Kindlers Literatur Lexikon is a comprehensive German-language encyclopedia of world literature from antiquity to the present time — “the most important works of all time.” The term ‘literature’ is broadly used; authors and their works represent all fields and disciplines, including mathematics and the natural sciences, medicine, social sciences, law, business, history, art and music, and literature. Kindlers is […]
Interested in Census data?
There has been a lot of coverage in the news recently about the demise of the long-form census. Interested to see what questions are asked on the long census form? You can take a look at the long form questionnaire here. The Census of Canada Profile Tables are good to find information about particular places. […]
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 […]
Love poetry?
Did you know that UBC Library subscribes to Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry? This resource includes the full-text of almost 250,000 poems as well as poet biographies and audio recordings of some of the works. You can search for history, criticism and commentaries as well. Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/surrealmuse/4757004/
