UBC Library subscribes to hundreds of electronic books from SpringerLink.

Prefer a print copy? Springer now offers a Print on Demand service for UBC faculty, staff and students wanting a personal copy from the library’s collection of Springer ebooks. You can have a black & white softcover copy delivered to your doorstep for $24.95 USD (includes shipping & handling) plus GST & PST.

Browse these collections for ebooks in your discipline

• Environmental Sciences
• Life Sciences
• Medicine

Books that can be delivered in print are indicated by the orange MyCopy logo. Simply click on Add to shopping cart now to begin the ordering process.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact UBC Librarians, Joy Kirchner or Aleteia Greenwood, or the publisher Springer.

Library workshops begin very soon! Courses are offered on campus,
at C & W, and online with Wimba Classroom. Everyone is welcome.

To register for these and other workshops, please see this link:

January 23 – RefWorks for the Sciences
January 28 – Current Awareness Tools in the Sciences
January 28 – Current Awareness Tools in the Health Sciences
January 30 – RefWorks for the Health Sciences
February 11 – RefWorks for the Natural Sciences (Wimba Live Classroom)
February 20 – RefWorks for the Sciences
February 23 – Current Awareness Tools in the Sciences
February 24 – RefWorks for the Health Sciences
February 24 – PubMed, Ovid, MEDLINE: what’s it all about?

UBC Life Sciences Librarians and Library Staff Lauded by their colleagues from around the province of British Columbia.

Charlotte Beck for Transition to EBSCO CINAHL: Reprogramming OVID saved searches and Truncation & Wildcard Symbols

Charlotte Beck, Dean Giustini and Teresa Lee, UBC for Evidence-Based Practice Clinical Question / Search Plan Worksheet

Jeremy Buhler, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies; Teresa Lee, UBC; Trina Fyfe, UNBC for UBC OvidSP MEDLINE Tutorial – UBC Library

Jeremy Buhler, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, UBC;Ellen George, UBC; Kimberley Hintz, UBC for The Guided Tour – UBC Library

Dean Giustini, UBC for UBC HealthLib-Wiki – A Knowledge-Base for Health Librarians

Katherine Kalsbeek, Sally Taylor & Suzan Zagar, UBC for Library Research Skills for Biologists

Teresa Lee, UBC for Article Indexes & Databases search worksheet

Much of this excellent work has been donated to the librarian community to use at their institutions by depositing it into ALPS LINK, part of the SOLR, BC Campus’ learning objects repository.

For more information click here