The semester is well under way, and research paper deadlines are quickly approaching. Are you looking for a time-saving tool that can help you track research, save your citations, and even format your bibliography?

RefWorks, an online citation management tool, can do all those things and more. If you’d like to see how RefWorks can help you with your research process, come to a library workshop on RefWorks this Thursday:

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. The focus is on indexes, databases, and citation styles used by scholars in the Arts.

WHERE and WHEN?
Thursday, September 27
12:00-2:00 pm
Koerner Library : Room 217 (show me a map)
Sign up here.

RefWorks is sponsored by the UBC Library, and available free-of-charge to current UBC faculty, staff, and students.

UBC Library subscribes to hundreds of online resources to support research across the disciplines at UBC. In Linguistics, there are several databases you might search depending on your area of focus. All linguists would find the essential Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) useful, while those interested in language, new media, and communication could explore Communication and Mass Media Complete. Linguists interested in stylistics or the language of folklore might turn to the Modern Language Association’s MLA database, and graduate students love the fulltext of dissertations available through Proquest Theses and Dissertations.

Until now, there was no way to search all four of these at once. Now you can! Introducing MetaLib, a new search tool that enables you to search multiple databases simultaneously.

If you’re interested in exploring this tool, come to a library session Introducing MetaLib this Wednesday, September 26 from 1-2pm in Koerner 217. In this session, we’ll give you an overview of MetaLib and show you how you can use it to search across a set of pre-defined databases in a broad area like Newspapers, select databases from a specific specific subject area such as Linguistics, or create your own set of databases to search.

Register for the session here, and try out MetaLib beforehand here.

A reminder about tomorrow’s session on Library Orientation and Research Skills for Linguists, from 12:15-2:00pm in the Koerner lab, rm 217 on the second floor of Koerner library.

This class introduces Linguistics Grad students to the resources and services available at UBC Library. You’ll learn more about searching Linguistics databases, locating journal articles online, and accessing information from off-campus. We’ll decode library terms like eLink, ASRS, DocDel, and ILL, to help you get to the resources you need. We’ll also cover essential grad student tools such as RefWorks and Proquest Theses and Dissertations.