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The UBC Library Research Commons is a multidisciplinary hub supporting research endeavors, partnerships, and education. We are a community space that embraces both new and traditional exploratory scholarship and provides access to services and expertise for the advancement of research.

Our services in Koerner Library include a Digital Scholarship Lab for research, experimentation, and collaboration, consultations and workshops for UBC researchers, expertise in digital scholarship, GIS, and data services; and a welcoming space for projects and presentations.

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If you have thought of working with the UBC Library to help you manage your research cluster’s or unit’s data, you won’t want to miss this story.

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Upcoming highlights

UBC survey about your research data

UBC ARC (Advanced Research Computing) and the UBC Library want to hear about your research data, software, and computational services usage and needs.

Take survey (3-5 mins)

Future-proof your files with Markdown

Come learn the benefits of using plain-text files and simple markup formats.

 

Introduction to Markdown digital workflows

Monday, May 31 from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Manage your citations with ease

 

Choose the right citation management tool

Thursday, May 20 from 12 to 1:30 p.m.

 

Using RefWorks for citation management

Thursday, May 27 from 12 to 1:30 p.m.

 

Using Mendeley for citation management

Thursday, June 3 from 12 to 1:30 p.m.

Using Python to promote social justice

 

Geocoding & web mapping with Python

Tuesday, June 1 from 2 to 4 p.m.

 

Geospatial analysis & visualization with Python

Thursday, June 3 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Learn how to visualize data in R

Since R is free and widely used at UBC, why not learn how to use it to visualize your data?

 

Visualization with R

Friday, May 21 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Take NVivo to the next level

Add demographic data to your nodes and bibliographic data to your sources.

 

NVivo part 2: classification and datasets

Monday, May 31 from 4 to 6 p.m.

 

View the full calendar

 

Browse all our offerings, to help optimize your research, by following the link below.

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R workshops

Introduction to R and RStudio

Friday, May 28 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Copyright and Open Education

Copyright and licensing for Open Educational Resources

Wednesday, May 19 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Pedagogical and professional reasons to adopt Open Educational Resources (OER)

Friday, May 21 from 10 to 11 a.m.

Systematic and scoping reviews

Translating database searches and finding grey literature

Wednesday, May 19 from 1 to 2:45 p.m.

 

Tools, screening criteria, and appraisal

Wednesday, May 26 from 1 to 2:45 p.m.

Writing (Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication)

 

Abstracts: writing

Tuesday, May 25 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

 

Lay summaries: writing

Tuesday, June 1 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Book a one-on-one consultation

For subjects such as:

▸ NVivo, R

▸ GitHub, Docker, UNIX

▸ GIS, APIs, OSF

▸ Citation management, thesis formatting

…+ lots more

Workshop materials

Self-directed learning resources for:

▸ Core skills – such as APIs and GitHub

▸ Data analysis and management

▸ Geographic information systems (GIS)

▸ Thesis formatting

…just to name a few