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.

The Library’s Health Information Series is pleased to present a session on the topic of sleep and its effects on children’s and parent’s health.

Dr. Wendy Hall , professor at UBC’s School of Nursing and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, will lead the discussion.

Her presentation entitled “When Lullabies Are Not Enough: Reducing the Impact of Poor Sleep on Infants, Toddlers & Their Parents” will take place at the Terry Salman Branch Library of the Vancouver Public
LIbrary on Thursday, June 14th, at 10:30 am.

Everyone is welcome. The session will be webcast at http://tiny.cc/wendyhall

Thursday March 22nd @ noon ONLINE

How do you organize your research literature and automatically produce  bibliographies? Learn how to manage your citations and automatically produce formatted bibliographies and in-line citations using RefWorks!

• To register, please go to: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3026
• To join the class, go to: http://67.202.226.156/launcher.cgi?room=refworks
• To ensure your set-up is correct, please see: How to Prepare for an Online RefWorks Class
• If you need help to access the class, phone 604.822.4440

Instructor: Helen Brown

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

Introduction to RefWorks

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.

Woodward Library Basement Computer Lab Thursday, Feb 23rd, 1:00PM – 2:00PM

REGISTER HERE

DR. ROGER WONG, OF UBC FACULTY OF MEDICINE
Live Webcast Link: http://tiny.cc/ikblcwong 

Elder Care – Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Self-Care – March 1, 2012 – 7:00-8:30pm at Richmond Public Library’s Brighouse Branch Library

Presented by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and Woodward Library, the Health Information Series is an ongoing public lecture series that take place in the Lower Mainland community.  Who is a geriatrician? Someone who is dedicated to the health and well-being of our nation’s elders; someone who is dedicated to medically complex patient care involving interacting medical, neurological, psychiatric and social problems; someone who is on the front lines in coping with the changes associated with the graying of our society…and more!   Dr. Wong is Clinical Professsor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine of the Department of Medicine, and is also President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (CGS) — the first British Columbian to lead the organization in 20 years. As an expert on aging and geriatrics support, please join us as Dr. Roger Wong will bring a lively presentation and discussion to the community of Richmond, BC at the Brighouse Branch Library of the Richmond Public Library.

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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

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