Teaching & Learning @ UBC Library

Google is an excellent starting point for finding information related to your research assignments. Come to this session to learn how to use Google’s advanced search options, when to move on to Google Scholar to find academic/scholarly resources, and how to use the library’s new online search tool to  find full text.

This workshop will take place in Buchanan B 125 on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 12:00PM – 1:00PM

Register online.

Upcoming Workshop: Academic Integrity: How to Keep It!

You’ve been assigned a research paper.  Now what?  Come to this session to find out about tools and strategies to help keep your research on track and your academic integrity in tact. You’ll learn how to break your research assignment into manageable steps, track and cite your sources, and recognize and avoid plagiarism.

Date: Monday, October 19th, 2009

Time: 12:00PM – 1:00PM

Location: Buchanan B 125.

Register online.

The Library is offering a wide range of workshops targeted to graduate students in October. Check out the following sampling of sessions, as well as information about our upcoming Open Access Week events.  For more information on additional workshops, check out the Graduate Student Workshop Series.

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Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 3:30PM – 4:15PM
Fine Tune Your Searches with Research Tools In Education
Scarfe 155 (Education Library use only)
Fine tune your searches. Explore key tools, terms, blogs, and enhanced research features of databases such as Education Research Complete, ERIC, Education Index Fulltext, EdITLib, & CBCA Education. Consider international sources and sites for educational research. Bring your laptops (optional) and your questions (mandatory).

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Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at 2:00PM – 3:30PM
Current Awareness Tools
Koerner Library, Room 217
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 use current awareness tools to: get notified when new articles and dissertations are published on your topic; get Table of Contents notifications when the latest issue of your favorite journal is published; and set up an RSS Reader for RSS feeds to alert you to new content in blogs, journals, databases, and newspapers.

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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 9:30AM – 11:00AM
Datasets Demystified
Koerner Library, Room 217
Does your work require a data set for secondary analysis? Come to this session to learn how to find and download data from household surveys. The class will focus on the library’s collection of survey data as well as data archives to which UBC researchers have full access: Statistics Canada surveys; Public opinion polls collected by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research; and Survey data created by academics, governments, research institutes and media outlets and housed at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

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Tuesday, October 20th – Thursday, October 22nd
Open Access Week
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room
UBC has joined SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), The Students for Free Culture, OASIS (the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook); Open Access Directory (OAD); and eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), and over 120 institutions worldwide to celebrate in the First International Open Access Week. Various events hosted by UBC Library address the three themes of open access around the world, surfacing UBC scholarship and journal publishing. Attend a workshop, participate in a panel discussion, and hear from UBC colleagues about how they participate in the open access movement. Come learn about open access and share your perspective!

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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 at 10:00AM – 11:00AM
UBC Library Beta Search Tool
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 318
In February, our users asked us to improve the findability of print and electronic library resources. In this hands-on session for faculty and graduate students, you’ll learn about the Library’s new beta search tool, and how you can use it to find materials in the catalogue, our electronic journal collections, our institutional repository and in our many and varied digital collections.

Fine Tune Your Searches with Research Tools In Education

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 7th, 2009/3:30PM – 4:15PM

Location: Scarfe 155

Description: Fine tune your searches. Explore key tools, terms, blogs, and enhanced research features of databases such as Education Research Complete, ERIC, Education Index Fulltext, EdITLib, & CBCA Education. Consider international sources and sites for educational research. Bring your laptops (optional) and your questions (mandatory)

Register online.

RefWorks for the Arts

Date/Time: Thursday, October 8th, 2009/10:00AM – 12:00PM

Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 318

Description: RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool, sponsored by the UBC Library, and available free-of-charge to current 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 citation style of your choice. We will focus on indexes, databases, and citation styles used by scholars in the Arts.

Register online.