Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 at 1:00PM – 2:00PM

Make your searches more efficient and effective!

Join us for this ONLINE live workshop on CINAHL, which is a key access to research literature for nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and other allied health professions, and on Psycinfo, a major index to psychosocial aspects of health, covers efficient and effective searching by using subject and keyword searching, boolean operators, managing the results, getting the full-text, and saving searches and creating alerts.

REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS HERE: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2504

You may have noticed Web of Knowledge has a new look. UBC Library has 4 databases on this platform:

• Web of Science with Conference Proceedings Citation Index
• BIOSIS Previews
• Journal Citation Reports
• MEDLINE

There are some excellent improvements with this interface change. For a quick update on the changes, see this 8 min. video: New Features Update

We have extended our trial accounts access on the Ebsco interface until May 1^st!  We currently purchase these resources on different platforms and are exploring the option of accessing this content through the Ebsco interface.

• AGRICOLA http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1705/
• Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1704/
• CAB Direct includes the following 3 databases: CAB Abstracts http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1706/; CAB Abstracts Archive http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1708 and Global Health http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1709

Thank you for forwarding this information to interested colleagues and students for their feedback too. I look forward to hearing your comments!

Katherine

REFWORKS FOR THE SCIENCES – Monday, March 7th, 2011 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM Woodward Library Teaching Lab B25

RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool sponsored by the UBC Library and available free-of-charge to current 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.

REGISTER HERE:  http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1092

We are investigating purchasing the following article indexes/databases through Ebsco platform and would like your opinions on whether this would be a useful and preferred change, or not.

We currently access Agricola http://resources.library.ubc.ca/112 and Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) http://resources.library.ubc.ca/132 on the Ovid platform and CAB Direct http://resources.library.ubc.ca/219 on their own platform.

We have trial accounts on the Ebsco interface until March 31^st for:

• AGRICOLA http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1705/
• CAB Direct http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1706/
• Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1704/

We warmly encourage you to try out these databases via their trial interfaces and give us your feedback. Thank you for forwarding this information to interested colleagues and students for their feedback too.

REFWORKS FOR THE SCIENCES – November 1st 10:00-11:30 AM

RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool sponsored by the UBC Library and available free-of-charge to current 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.

REGISTER HERE:  http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1090

In a survey asking about the Woodward Lower Level, you asked for a bright, quiet, comfortable space…

This week, the Woodward Library’s Garden  Level (formerly the Lower Level) has opened. This library space has been completely renovated and transformed.

Come visit this new space – and enjoy its new group study rooms, large quiet study space, printing, new computers, natural light and more to come.

A few photos of the new space:

BIOL 140 students, join us for this live, ONLINE workshop demonstrating how to find the best books and articles for your BIOL 140 assignment and answering your library research questions!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE CLASS: Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010 OR Thursday October 14th 7:00-8:00 PM

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

image by Daniel R. Blume on Flickr

TODAY – Monday October 4th 4:30-5:30 PM.

This workshop will introduce the library’s resources to support the Research Essay Assignment in BIOL 200.

In this session, we will cover
* how to find popular and scholarly articles & how to evaluate
* how to trace a citation from a popular one to its scholarly source
* When to use Google Scholar vs BIOSIS Preview or Web of Science.

This session is offered ONLINE. Please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class We highly recommend testing your computer equipment in advance of the class!

Click on the following link to join the class: http://ubc.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=BIOL200

If you are have technical difficulties and are not able to enter the online classroom, please call our reference desk at 604-822-4440 for assistance.

TODAY!  Friday, Sept 17th, 2010 at 4:30PM – 5:30PM

This quick-paced fifty (50) minute online workshop, taught by Dean Giustini, a blogger, educator and social media librarian, begins with a look at Google search techniques and popular 2.0 features in YouTube and Google documents. The session includes time for participants to interact and discuss how they might use Google Scholar to find academic literature.

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

Click http://ubc.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=Google on date of class to join the class:

If you are not able to access the class and need technical assistance, please call our reference desk at (604) 822-4440.