On December 14, all Science & Engineering librarians and staff relocated from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre to Woodward Library; phone numbers and email addresses will remain the same. This move will provide easy access to the combined expertise of Science & Engineering and Woodward librarians and staff.

Faculty and students should note that Science & Engineering Reserve materials, Reference materials and Current Journals (all excluding Math, Statistics and Computer Science materials with QA call numbers) are now in Woodward Library. The remaining Science & Engineering books will be available in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre until they are moved in Spring 2013.

Although physical collections moves are ongoing, the Library catalogue remains up-to-date, and access to electronic journals and our digital collections remains unchanged.

For updates, please visit the Library Changes section or contact Aleteia Greenwood, who will be Acting Head of the Woodward Library effective January 1 – December 31, 2013.

Join the UBC GIS Users Group for three presentations about the use of GIS in health sciences research.

Neighbourhood Environment in Waterloo Region: Patterns of Transportation and Health
presented by Josh van Loon

Spatial Epidemiology of Lung Cancer in Canada: Examining the Role of Air Pollution and Neighborhood Deprivation
presented by Perry Hystad

Three Projects Applying GIS in Public Health
presented by Anthony Smith

• Mapping Local Social Barriers to Sexual Health Clinics in Two Rural Communities
• Provincial Emergency/Hormonal Contraceptive Use Through Time
• National Abortion Travel Patterns

The meeting will be held Wed. Feb. 29th at 3pm in Koerner Library, Level 2, rm. 216.

The UBC GIS Users Group meets monthly. For more information, please see: http://www.gis.ubc.ca

Please join me for a live, online workshop on Wednesday, February 1st 9:30 – 10:30am.

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that indexes over 10000 journals and offers powerful search options, including:

• refining results by subject, author, source, year or country
• tracking how often an article has been cited and the articles that have cited it
• creating search alerts via email or RSS

Its companion tool, Journal Citation Reports can be used to find the impact factor of a journal to identify highly cited journals in a discipline.

This session is offered online.

• To register, please go to: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2919
• To join the class, go to: http://ubc.wimba.com/launcher.cgi?room=Web_of_Science
• To ensure your set-up is correct, please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class
• If you need help once the class has started, phone 604.822.4440

Questions? Contact sally.taylor@ubc.ca

Catch the last day of events at Open Access week! Events are held in the Lillooet room in IKBLC.

• 9:00 – 9:55 AM –  Copyright and the Classroom: Open Scholarship Solutions to Support Classroom Use of Material
• 10:00 – 10:20 AM – Investigations into Open Peer Review Models
• 10:30 – 11:25 AM – From Community Engagement to Global Access: Bringing UBC’s Knowledge to the World with cIRcle
• 11:30AM – 12:45 PM – Wikis, Blogs, and Websites: Leveraging Open Source Software to Support Teaching and Learning, Scholarly Communication, and Academic Collaboration
• 1 – 3 PM – UBC Innovators in the Dissemination of Research – Showcase and Exchange

The final session includes the following presentations in the life sciences:

• Wash with Care
  Dr. Anne-Marie Nicol, Assistant Professor, UBC School of Population and Public Health
• Open Science
  Dr. Rosie Redfield, Professor, Zoology
• Cazypedia
  Dr. Harry Brumer, Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Chemistry
• Transcription Factor Encyclopedia (TFe)
  Dr. Wyeth Wasserman, Professor, Medical Genetics and Dimas Yusuf , 3rd year medical student

Workshop on Current Awareness Tools

Thursday October 27 12:00 – 1:30pm at Woodward Library, Teaching Lab

Save valuable research time! Online research resources offer an array of tools to help you stay current in your field. In this workshop you’ll learn how to set up email alerts and RSS feeds to:

• be notified when new articles and dissertations are published on your topic
• receive Table of Contents for the latest issue of your favorite journal
• find out when new books in your discipline have arrived in the library
• be notified of funding and upcoming conference opportunities
• follow news stories and blogs

No matter what your discipline, you’ll leave the session having set up a number of alerts to stay up-to-date with your research interests!

To register, please go to:  http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2539

October’s GIS Users Group topic will be History Unmasked with GIS: Politics and agriculture in Victorian Britain presented by Stephen Peplow.  Stephen is a PhD candidate in Land and Food Systems.  His research includes a fascinating use of GIS and spatial analysis to study 19th century Britain.

The meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 25 at 3:00pm in Koerner Library Level 2, Room 216.

All are welcome to attend!

Please join me online today for a class about Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports!

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that indexes over 10000 journals and offers powerful search options, including:

• refining results by subject, author, source, year or country
• tracking how often an article has been cited and the articles that have cited it
• creating search alerts via email or RSS

Its companion tool, Journal Citation Reports can be used to find the impact factor of a journal to identify highly cited journals in a discipline.

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

To avoid any technical problems, please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class

If you need help once the class has started, phone 604.822.4440.

Sally Taylor, Woodward Library.

Canada is celebrating its very first National Tree Day on Wednesday, September 21st.

The UBC Faculty of Forestry is marking the day with an orienTREEing race and a tree film marathon. The film screening is open to forestry students, faculty, staff and other members of the community, and is being held in the Forest Sciences Centre from 9am to 5pm.

Don’t forget the fabulous forestry resources we have to offer at UBC Library!

• Start with the forestry research guide.
• You can access background sources such as the Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences and Forestry Compendium.
• If you are searching for journal articles, try the databases CAB Direct and Agricola.
• Interested in research done by UBC forestry students? Check out UBC’s information repository cIRcle for Undergraduate Theses and Graduating Essays and Graduate Theses and Dissertations.

Need help with researching a forestry topic? Contact the forestry librarians Katherine Miller or Sally Taylor, or for Wood Science, Eugene Barsky.

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