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July 26th, 2011 by Sally Taylor | No Comments »
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
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July 21st, 2011 by Katherine Miller | No Comments »
You may have noticed Web of Knowledge has a new look. UBC Library has 4 databases on this platform:
There are some excellent improvements with this interface change. For a quick update on the changes, see this 8 min. video: New Features Update
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July 19th, 2011 by Sally Taylor | No Comments »
RefWorks, Mendeley and Zotero enable you to import citations and create bibliographies for your scholarly work. Which tool you select depends on your needs. In this session, three UBC science librarians highlight the features of these popular reference management tools and open the floor for discussions and comparisons using hands-on examples. The workshop is intended for graduate students and faculty who enjoying sharing with other scholars in an open, interactive and hands-on atmosphere.
This workshop will be offered:
Thursday, August 4th, 2011 at 1:00PM – 2:30PM
To register: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2193
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March 3rd, 2011 by Katherine Miller | No Comments »
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 31st for:
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.
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November 1st, 2010 by Katherine Miller | No Comments »
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
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September 17th, 2010 by Katherine Miller | No Comments »
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.
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September 15th, 2010 by Katherine Miller | No Comments »
TODAY Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 at 4:30PM – 5:30PM
Need a jumpstart on PubMed? Join us for an online workshop on how to maximize PubMed’s current search capabilities and link to UBC library’s full text journals.
This session is offered online. Please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class
Click on the following link to join the class: http://67.202.226.156/launcher.cgi?room=pubmed_newlook
If you are not able to access the class and need technical assistance, please call our reference desk at (604) 822-4440
Instructor: Teresa Lee
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September 14th, 2010 by Katherine Miller | No Comments »
TODAY: Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 at 4:30PM – 5:30PM
This ONLINE live workshop will cover subject and keyword searching, applying limits, getting the full-text, and saving searches and creating alerts when using CINAHL, a database of nursing and allied health literature, and PsycInfo, a database for psychosocial aspects of health.
This session is offered online. Please see: How to Prepare for an Online Class
Click on the following link to join the class: h ttp://67.202.226.156/launcher.cgi?room=CINAHL_PSYCINFO
Instructor: Charlotte Beck
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August 4th, 2010 by Teresa Lee | No Comments »
It never fails. Just when you think you’ve got the hang of searching a database, the vendor decides it’s time for a facelift! As you probably know, OvidSP is a search platform that UBC health information seekers rely on regularly, if not daily. And as of August 2nd, there’s a new look:
Many of the changes are cosmetic rather than functional, but there are some nice new features as well, such as the option to export your search history and citations as a Word file, or to organize your projects, saved searches, and eTOCs using MyWorkspace. And for those who were irked by the screen real estate taken up by the “Search Tips” box of the previous OvidSP version, rest assured that it’s now a thing of the past. We’re also waiting for Ovid tech support to implement some tweaks in the display that we hope will make your search experience more intuitive.
For more information about the new look, see the New OvidSP Features and Functionality: Side by Side Screen Comparison handout in OvidSP’s Resource Center. Watch for instructional sessions in the fall, which will be posted on the library’s Instruction Centre. And of course, if you have detailed questions in the meantime about doing research in OvidSP databases, please contact your subject librarian. We’re always interested in your thoughts on this platform and other library resources.
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March 3rd, 2010 by Sally Taylor | No Comments »
We’re pleased to announce that the Library has subscribed to the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JOVE), a peer-reviewed journal for biological research in a video format. JOVE has more than 500 videos demonstrating laboratory methods in the fields of cellular biology, developmental biology, microbiology, immunology, plant biology, medicine, and neuroscience.
A number of UBC researchers have contributed to JOVE. Here is a selection of their video protocols:
Sarah Cohen, Shelly Au, Nelly Panté
Department of Zoology
Elena Zaikova, Alyse Hawley, David A. Walsh, Steven J. Hallam
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
D. Sesath Hewapathirane, Kurt Haas
Brain Research Centre and Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Dee Brink, Mary Gilbert, Vanessa Auld
Department of Zoology
Please send feedback about this new resource to sally.taylor@ubc.ca
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