Research and Instructional Support Update
During the Fall 2008 term, the Lam Librarians have taught:
15 orientation sessions and workshops:
- 4 undergraduate orientations
- 1 ECM orientation
- 1 MMOR student orientation
- 4 MBA orientation workshops
- 4 individual orientations with new PhD students
- 1 Korean Executive Education student orientation
19 class specific presentations and workshops:
- 16 BCom classes
- 1 ECM class
- 2 Sales & Marketing Executive classes
5 research related workshops:
- 4 Do the Research; Get the Job session for MBAs
- 1 RefWorks for Business Researchers session
- 2 Sales & Marketing Executive classes
The librarians have also provided research support:
- Coached 20 groups of first year MBA students in research for their Project 2: Business Plan and answered approximately 100 questions relating to the projects.
- Answered over 1500 questions from students at our reference desk.
New eBooks
The Canadian Public Policy Collection and the Canadian Publishers Collection are electronic book collections that contain a number of commerce related titles. Here are a few examples:
- Carrington, C. (2007). Small business financing profiles: Small and medium-sized enterprises in British Columbia. Ottawa, Ont.: SME Financing Data Initiative.
- Hyndman, M. C. (2006). The organic entrepreneur: Cultivating the conscious capitalist. Toronto Ont.: Insomniac Press.
- Klyuev, V. (2008). Show me the money: Access to finance for small borrowers in Canada. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund Western Hemisphere Dept.
Click here to browse or search the Canadian Publishers Collection.
Click here for the Canadian Public Policy Collection.
Alternatively, titles from these collections are also searchable through the UBC Library catalogue.
To access eBooks and other Library electronic resources from off campus, you will need to set up a Virtual Private Network on your computer. Click here for instructions.
Digital Media and Marketing Videos from eMarketer
Are you looking for short digital media and marketing videos for teaching? eMarketer, a market research database available through the library, which is focused on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies, includes several short videos on digital media and marketing topics, with new videos added to the database every week.
Recent video topics include online holiday shopping, mobile TV, online consumer spending and behavioral targeting.
Click here to access eMarketer through the Library website. Once in the database, click on the Video link at the top right to browse or search the video collection.
New from Statistics Canada - Environmental Protection Expenditures by Business, 2006
This report presents the results from the Survey of Environmental Protection Expenditures and highlights expenditures related to regulations, and environmental management processes and technologies used by Canadian businesses.
See Statistics Canada’s The Daily for a summary of the report, as well as links to data tables and to the full report.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/081117/dq081117b-eng.htm
If you’re interested in using Web of Science to evaluate the impact of a particular researcher, you may want to watch this brief tutorial.
One of the measures used in bibliometrics is the h-index, first described in this paper:
Hirsch, J. E. An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. PNAS, 2005 102:16569-16572; published online before print November 7, 2005. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507655102
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