Embarking on a systematic review? Applying for a CIHR knowledge synthesis grant? Need to know what the search process is all about?

Offered by the Life Sciences Libraries, this all day workshop is designed for health sciences researchers who are planning or beginning a systematic review, or wishing to improve their ability to do a comprehensive literature search and manage the results.

Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011

Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm

Place: Woodward Library Teaching Lab (garden level)

Price: $20.00

To register, please go to: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2807

Catch the last day of events at Open Access week! Events are held in the Lillooet room in IKBLC.

• 9:00 – 9:55 AM –  Copyright and the Classroom: Open Scholarship Solutions to Support Classroom Use of Material
• 10:00 – 10:20 AM – Investigations into Open Peer Review Models
• 10:30 – 11:25 AM – From Community Engagement to Global Access: Bringing UBC’s Knowledge to the World with cIRcle
• 11:30AM – 12:45 PM – Wikis, Blogs, and Websites: Leveraging Open Source Software to Support Teaching and Learning, Scholarly Communication, and Academic Collaboration
• 1 – 3 PM – UBC Innovators in the Dissemination of Research – Showcase and Exchange

The final session includes the following presentations in the life sciences:

• Wash with Care
  Dr. Anne-Marie Nicol, Assistant Professor, UBC School of Population and Public Health
• Open Science
  Dr. Rosie Redfield, Professor, Zoology
• Cazypedia
  Dr. Harry Brumer, Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Chemistry
• Transcription Factor Encyclopedia (TFe)
  Dr. Wyeth Wasserman, Professor, Medical Genetics and Dimas Yusuf , 3rd year medical student

Workshop on Current Awareness Tools

Thursday October 27 12:00 – 1:30pm at Woodward Library, Teaching Lab

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 of your favorite journal
• find out when new books in your discipline have arrived in the library
• be notified of funding and upcoming conference opportunities
• follow news stories and blogs

No matter what your discipline, you’ll leave the session having set up a number of alerts to stay up-to-date with your research interests!

To register, please go to:  http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2539

How do you manage your research and automatically produce  bibliographies? Learn about RefWorks – citation management software at this noon-hour workshop. We recommend you bring your own laptop to this session.

REGISTER HERE

Tuesday October 25th 12 PM Noon at Woodward Library McKechnie Room (next to Information Desk)

Instructor: Helen Brown

October’s GIS Users Group topic will be History Unmasked with GIS: Politics and agriculture in Victorian Britain presented by Stephen Peplow.  Stephen is a PhD candidate in Land and Food Systems.  His research includes a fascinating use of GIS and spatial analysis to study 19th century Britain.

The meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 25 at 3:00pm in Koerner Library Level 2, Room 216.

All are welcome to attend!

LFS 250 students, join us for this live, ONLINE workshop showing the tools to find the research literature for your LFS 250 assignment and get answers to your library research questions!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Please log-in at least 15 minutes early to make sure your computer set-up & sound is working well. READ ME: How to prepare for an online class

Join us today and learn how to manage your citations and automatically produce formatted bibliographies and in-line citations using RefWorks! We recommend you bring your own laptop to this session.

TODAY (Oct 18th) at Woodward Library teaching lab B25

Instructor: Helen Brown

BIOL 140 students, join us for this live, ONLINE workshop showing the tools to find the research literature for your BIOL 140 assignment and get answers to your library research questions!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Please log-in at least 15 minutes early to make sure your computer set-up & sound is working well.

READ ME: How to prepare for an online class

Highlights of BIOL 200 Workshop posted to course page.

How do you find the best research literature for your BIOL 200 research assignment? Check out this recording of our library workshop targeted at helping you with your assignment:

CLICK HERE