UBC Library is proud to be part of Celebrate Research Week at UBC, which takes place March 4-11, 2011 and highlights research excellence across UBC’s faculties, departments, schools and partner institutions. You can find out more about this event here.
INNOVATIVE DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH AWARD
In 2010, the Library launched the Innovative Dissemination of Research Award, which honours faculty, staff and students who expand the boundaries of research with the creative use of new tools and technologies. The inaugural award was given to Michael Brauer, a Professor at UBC’s School of Environmental Health. Brauer led a team that developed the Cycling Metro Vancouver Route Planner – you can read more about the project here.
The next award will announced at the upcoming Celebrate Research Week gala on March 10.
CELEBRATE RESEARCH WEEK @ UBC LIBRARY – WORKSHOPS
RefWorks for the Sciences
Monday, March 7
10 a.m. – noon
Woodward Library Teaching Lab, Room B25
RefWorks is a Web-based citation management tool sponsored by UBC Library and available free-of-charge to UBC faculty, staff and students. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create your own personal database in RefWorks by importing references from online resources such as Web of Science, Google Scholar, PubMed, Compendex and others. Then you’ll use RefWorks to add these citations to a paper and automatically format both in text references and the bibliography in a citation style of your choice. We’ll also demo RefShare and RSS feeder tools that are part of RefWorks.
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1092
RefWorks for the Health Sciences
Tuesday, March 8
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Children & Women’s Health Centre of BC, Room C311
RefWorks is a Web-based citation management tool sponsored by UBC Library and available to UBC faculty, staff and students. Explore how you can use RefWorks to create your own personal databases by importing citations from Medline, PubMed, Web of Science and other life sciences databases. Then see how easily RefWorks will format your paper and bibliography according to your selected citation style.
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1809
Noon-hour Refworks
Tuesday, March 8
Noon – 1 p.m.
Woodward Library, McKechnie Room – Room 109
RefWorks is a Web-based citation management tool sponsored by UBC Library and available free-of-charge to UBC faculty, staff and students. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create your own personal database in RefWorks by importing references from online resources such as Google Scholar and PubMed. Then you’ll use RefWorks to add these citations to a paper and automatically format both in text references and the bibliography in a citation style of your choice. We recommend you bring your own laptop to this session.
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1919
Writing the Research Paper: Student Workshop
Wednesday, March 9
Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: Online
You’ve done a lot research – but now what? Documenting your research through writing can be a challenge to many students. This one-hour workshop will discuss the pitfalls of plagiarism and showcase skills such as citation and paraphrasing. If you’ve ever worried about properly documenting your work and giving credit to others, this workshop is for you.
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1830
Get Published – Sources and Resources
Wednesday, March 9
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Neville Scarfe Building, Room 155
Want to get an article published? Learn how to create a list of potential journals for your work. Find out about Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities, Ulrich’s Periodical Directory, COS Scholar’s Universe and the Directory of Open Access Journals. In addition, browse UBC online journals and indexes for possible titles.
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1915
What’s the Impact of Your Research? Tips and Tools for Measuring Usage
Wednesday, March 9
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 318
When you, as a researcher, refer to another author’s work in your own published work, you cite it. These citations can be analyzed to measure the usage of the cited work. While citation analysis doesn’t necessarily provide a complete picture of your work, it can be a useful tool for gathering evidence on its impact. In this session, you’ll receive an introduction to citation indexes and journal-ranking tools to help you measure the usage of your own work.
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1907
RefWorks for Business Researchers
Thursday, March 10
9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Canaccord Learning Commons computer lab, Sauder School of Business, CLC 222
This workshop is limited to faculty and graduate students at the Sauder School of Business. RefWorks is a Web-based citation management tool available to UBC students, faculty and staff through UBC Library. Learn how to create your own database of citations; import citations directly from databases such as Business Source Complete and Web of Science; and generate a bibliography for your paper. Time permitting, we will also look at the how to use the RSS feature as an awareness tool and how to share citations with other researchers.
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1930
Intro to PubMed
Thursday, March 10
Noon – 1 p.m.
Woodward Library, McKechnie Room – Room 109
Need a jumpstart on PubMed? Join us for a workshop on how to maximize PubMed’s search capabilities and link to UBC library’s full text journals. We recommend you bring your own laptop to this session.
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1921
Get Published -Sources and Resources
Thursday, March 10
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Neville Scarfe Building, Room 155
Want to get an article published? Learn how to create a list of potential journals for your work. Find out about Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities, Ulrich’s Periodical Directory, COS Scholar’s Universe and the Directory of Open Access Journals. In addition, browse UBC online journals and indexes for possible titles.
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1914
Finding and Using Images in ARTstor
Friday, March 11
10:30 a.m. – noon
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 318
ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images that are licensed for educational use at UBC. They cover the areas of art, architecture, and the humanities and social sciences. In this one-hour workshop you will learn how to search the ARTstor database effectively and interact with its many features, such as saving and downloading images and using the offline presentation software.
