February 1st, 2012 by Sheryl Adam | Comments Off on Online Research Collections Feature
To mark Black History Month, we feature an extraordinary online collection from Alexander Street Press:
“Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America . . . including Frederick Douglass and including those of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Muhammad Ali, Sammy Davis, Jr., Ida B. Wells, Nikki Giovanni . . . and dozens more.”
Approximately 20% of the material had not been published previously and is unique to this collection.
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February 1st, 2012 by Sheryl Adam | Comments Off on Upcoming Workshop: Citation Analysis and Impact Factors in your Academic Career
Understanding the Role of Citation Analysis and Impact Factors in your Academic Career
Learn how to use tools that measure the impact of articles, journals and individual scholars including you! You will leave this workshop knowing how to :
- use ISI Web of Science and Google Scholar to track citations
- calculate impact factors of individual scholars and journals and whether this is informative in your discipline
Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 5:00PM – 6:00PM
Koerner Library
Room 217
Online registration here: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2836
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