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

Introduction to PubMed ONLINE workshop

PubMed is a biomedical database that includes citations from Medline, life sciences journals and online books. This session will provide an overview of searching within Pubmed, as well as covering some of the additional features including My NCBI account, saving and managing searches, and creating email alerts.

This session is offered online. Please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class

REGISTER HERE: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2484 

MEDLINE: Introduction to searching on OvidSP

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 at 1:00PM – 2:00PM ONLINE

Join us for this ONLINE live workshop on searching MEDLINE. This workshop covers the development of a structured search strategy using tools and techniques related to subject headings, boolean logic, limits, and more It will also include tips for using the saved search strategies for managing searches when conducting systematic reviews.

Please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class

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

Instructor:  Charlotte Beck

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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