Great news! We have extended electronic coverage to Zoological Record by purchasing the backfile to 1864.

NOTE – access via the Proquest platform will be removed by August 31, 2012. If you have saved searches, please note you will need to transfer them to the new platform on Web of Knowledge. Access Zoological Record on Web of Knowledge here.

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

Embarking on a systematic review? Applying for a CIHR knowledge synthesis grant? Need to know what the search process is all about?

Offered by the Life Sciences Libraries, this all day workshop is designed for health sciences researchers who are planning or beginning a systematic review, or wishing to improve their ability to do a comprehensive literature search and manage the results.

Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011

Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm

Place: Woodward Library Teaching Lab (garden level)

Price: $20.00

To register, please go to: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2807

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

Join us today and learn how to manage your citations and automatically produce formatted bibliographies and in-line citations using RefWorks! We recommend you bring your own laptop to this session.

TODAY (Oct 18th) at Woodward Library teaching lab B25

Instructor: Helen Brown

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.

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

Open UBC is held in conjunction with International Open Access Week, which encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide.

Open UBC showcases a week of diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s researchers, faculty, students and staff participate in. These events include discussion forums, lectures, seminars, workshops, and symposia on topical and timely issues from every discipline. We invite everyone to participate either by organizing events, highlighting events already coinciding with the Week, or attending the events to be scheduled.

All of these events are FREE and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools.

Call for Participation

Are you . . .

• Developing new mechanisms to share your scholarship with a broader community?
• Using or creating open datasets to further work within your discipline?
• Creating freely-accessible resources to further your research or teaching?

If you are, we want to hear from you!

We invite UBC researchers, faculty, students, and staff to present papers, case studies, open source demonstrations, organize a panel discussion or conduct a workshop on any topic related to open scholarship. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: Open Access, Open Data, Open Education, Open Textbooks, Open Content, New models of scholarship, Scholarly Communication, Open access mandates, Open Source, Open Journals/books, OA Advocacy.

Send in a presentation submission at: http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1127 or by email to: ubc-oaweek@interchange.ubc.ca

Deadline for submission: Monday, October 3, 2011, 5:00pm.

For more information about the event, please see: http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/openubc