Please join me for a live, online workshop on Wednesday, February 1st 9:30 – 10:30am.

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that indexes over 10000 journals and offers powerful search options, including:

• refining results by subject, author, source, year or country
• tracking how often an article has been cited and the articles that have cited it
• creating search alerts via email or RSS

Its companion tool, Journal Citation Reports can be used to find the impact factor of a journal to identify highly cited journals in a discipline.

This session is offered online.

• To register, please go to: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2919
• To join the class, go to: http://ubc.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=Web_of_Science
• To ensure your set-up is correct, please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class
• If you need help once the class has started, phone 604.822.4440

Questions? Contact sally.taylor@ubc.ca

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

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!

Please join me online today for a class about Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports!

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that indexes over 10000 journals and offers powerful search options, including:

• refining results by subject, author, source, year or country
• tracking how often an article has been cited and the articles that have cited it
• creating search alerts via email or RSS

Its companion tool, Journal Citation Reports can be used to find the impact factor of a journal to identify highly cited journals in a discipline.

Click on the following link to join the class: http://ubc.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=Web_of_Science

To avoid any technical problems, please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class

If you need help once the class has started, phone 604.822.4440.

Sally Taylor, Woodward Library.

Canada is celebrating its very first National Tree Day on Wednesday, September 21st.

The UBC Faculty of Forestry is marking the day with an orienTREEing race and a tree film marathon. The film screening is open to forestry students, faculty, staff and other members of the community, and is being held in the Forest Sciences Centre from 9am to 5pm.

Don’t forget the fabulous forestry resources we have to offer at UBC Library!

• Start with the forestry research guide.
• You can access background sources such as the Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences and Forestry Compendium.
• If you are searching for journal articles, try the databases CAB Direct and Agricola.
• Interested in research done by UBC forestry students? Check out UBC’s information repository cIRcle for Undergraduate Theses and Graduating Essays and Graduate Theses and Dissertations.

Need help with researching a forestry topic? Contact the forestry librarians Katherine Miller or Sally Taylor, or for Wood Science, Eugene Barsky.

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The David Lam Library is hosting two training sessions on Datastream on Thursday, September 22nd from 10:00a.m.-11:00 a.m. (Beginners) and 2:00p.m.-4:00p.m. (Advanced) in the David Lam Amphitheatre.

Datastream is an international and interdisciplinary database of business and economic time series, used by academics and journalists to find current and historical data in the areas of business, economics, finance, forestry, science and engineering, manufacturing, and land and food systems.

Datastream is currently available on standalone machines in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of Koerner Library, the David Lam Library and UBCO Library.

Please email christina.sylka@ubc.ca to confirm your attendance.

The Nomenclature Section of the International Botanical Congress has approved changes to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, including a new article in the Code that allows the names of new taxa to be accepted when they appear either in electronic journals and books or in traditional print materials. Previously new names were only considered valid when published in hard-copy print materials.

Other revisions to the Code include updating the title to the International Code of Nomenclature of Algae, Fungi, and Plants to reflect the inclusion of algae and fungi, and a change to the requirement for a Latin validating diagnosis or description to permit either English or Latin.

The changes which take place on January 1, 2012 are described in Outcomes of the 2011 Botanical Nomenclature Section at the XVIII International Botanical Congress, an article by Miller et al. in the latest issue of the Open Access journal PhytoKeys.