Fully downloadable books are available via Palgrave Connect

Posted by: | July 6, 2011 | Comments Off on Fully downloadable books are available via Palgrave Connect

New full-text, downloadable, academic, business books are being added each month to Palgrave Connect’s 2011 Business & Management Collection. Palgrave employs permissive Digital Rights Management, which allows authorized users to download ebook content without any physical restrictions. Books in this collection can also be downloaded in EPUB format, which is compatible with most reading devices, […]

Clean Capitalism Report 2010

Posted by: | March 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Clean Capitalism Report 2010

The Clean Capitalism Report 2010 is now available for UBC researchers interested in Canadian corporate social responsibility to explore in both online and print form. This important 150 page report on environmental, social and governance practices of Canada’s largest companies is based on the results of a quantitative research project conducted by Corporate Knights and the Delphi Group for the Globe and Mail’s […]

Palgrave Connect: business and management e-books collections added

Posted by: | January 6, 2011 | Comments Off on Palgrave Connect: business and management e-books collections added

The New Year brings  access to even more electronic books through  Palgrave Connect E-books : Business & Management Collections.  The purchase of business and management titles from 2010 and 1995-2005 has increased our collection from this respected publisher to almost 350 business titles. Over 150 more new e-books will be added and made available through quarterly releases during 2011.    Additional […]

Trial access to the complete collection of Palgrave ebooks

Posted by: | November 26, 2010 | Comments Off on Trial access to the complete collection of Palgrave ebooks

Library users have unlimited trial access from now until December 15th to over 4, 500 electronic titles currently published by Palgrave MacMillan. Visit http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1687/ to explore the complete collection. Palgrave MacMillan publishes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works  in eight subject areas: Business & Management Economics & Finance History Language & Linguistics Literature & […]

Trial access to business ebooks

Posted by: | September 8, 2010 | Comments Off on Trial access to business ebooks

UBC Library is providing trial access to Books 24×6 BusinessPro until September 17, 2010.  This electronic book collection contains thousands of business titles from top industry publishers and authors including: AMACOM, ASTD, Harvard Business School Press, Jossey-Bass, Oxford, Wiley, Ken Blanchard, Marshall Goldsmith and more. Subjects covered are:  Project management Leadership development Quality management Organizational development […]

April – Trial Access to Sage Reference Online

Posted by: | April 21, 2010 | Comments Off on April – Trial Access to Sage Reference Online

UBC Library users have trial access to Sage Reference Online, a resource featuring the electronic versions of two hundred encyclopedias and handbooks in the social sciences. Material in the business and management collection includes coverage in the areas of advertising, marketing, business ethics, career development, global supply chain management, human resource management, leadership, leadership, organization […]

April: Newest marketing books in the David Lam Library

Posted by: | April 9, 2010 | Comments Off on April: Newest marketing books in the David Lam Library

Advertising and Chinese society : impacts and issues includes papers on “rising consumerism, consumers’ attitudes towards advertising and reactions to advertising appeals, cultural messages conveyed in advertisements, gender representations, sex appeal, offensive advertising, advertising law and regulation, advertising to children and adolescents, symbolic meanings of advertisements, public service advertising, and new media advertising and its social […]

April: New Database – Oxford Handbooks Online

Posted by: | April 8, 2010 | Comments Off on April: New Database – Oxford Handbooks Online

UBC Library now provides access to the newly launched Oxford Handbooks Online collections, thanks to funding from UBC Okanagan. The complete collection includes 72 peer reviewed handbooks in four subject modules: Business & Management Philosophy Political Science Religion New Handbooks titles will be added three times per year as they are published in print, and […]

November – E-Books: we’re getting closer and closer

Posted by: | November 20, 2009 | Comments Off on November – E-Books: we’re getting closer and closer

We have been spending more of our book budgets on e-books lately. Rising campus enrolments make space in short supply, and prompt libraries such as David Lam to send their older, less-used collections to the Automated Storage Retrieval Unit in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, in order to free up space for learning activities. […]

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