A reminder about the upcoming library workshop on RefWorks this Thursday:

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 hands-on workshop you will create your own personal database in RefWorks, learn how to add references, and use these references when writing a paper, automatically formatting your footnotes and bibliography in the citation style of your choice.

We’ll focus on indexes, databases, and citation styles used by scholars in the Arts.

WHERE and WHEN?
Thursday, March 22 2007 from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Koerner Library : Room 217 (show me a map)
Sign up here.

In November 2004, Google launched a new search tool, Google Scholar, which indexes scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, conference proceedings, and technical reports. In the Google Scholar and More! workshop this Friday, you’ll learn about Google Scholar and other tools for scholarly searching – whether you’re starting with a bibliography, an author’s name, a topic, or just an idea.

The session is on Friday, Feb 9 from 12-1 pm in the Buchanan building, room B114 (show me a map)

This is part of the Arts Outreach program, sponsored by UBC Library, and supported in part by funding from the office of the Dean of Arts.

Tomorrow at the Library: Writing a Literature Review
Wednesday, Feb 7 from 12:15-1:15pm at Koerner Library

For students in all disciplines, not just English literature! Theses and dissertations in many subject areas – including linguistics – begin with a review of what research has been done in the area. Learn the established conventions and patterns that your lit review will follow.

The workshop will be taught by Ramona Montagnes, the Director of UBC’s Writing Centre since 1992.

This is part of the Graduate Student Workshop series.

Tomorrow at the Library: Changes in Scholarly Publishing and the Open Access Movement
Friday, Feb 2nd from 12-1pm at Koerner Library.

The scholarly communication system is going through a process of change across the world. Driven by the escalating costs of journal publication, a revolution in authoring and publishing as a result of new technologies, and a feeling that existing models restrict rather than encourage a free flow of information, scholars are re-evaluating the traditional scholarly publishing process in favour of a freer, open access model. This session will describe the building momentum for change in scholarly communication and how it is expressing itself in the Open Access Movement.

For a list of journals in linguistics that have adopted the Open Access publishing model, please see the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) list of Linguistics journals. Journals include the Journal of Intercultural Communication, the Bilingual Research Journal, and the Estudios de linguistica del espanol to name a very few.

Are you having trouble getting started writing your thesis? Come to the Thesis Writing Tips and Strategies workshop today at Koerner Library from 12:15-1:15pm. This workshop covers writing basics for graduate students – you’ll learn about writing resources, time management and principles of outlining and writing at the paragraph and sentence level.

The workshop will be taught by Ramona Montagnes, the Director of UBC’s Writing Centre since 1992.

This workshop is part of the Graduate Students Workshop Series.

A reminder about the RefWorks session tomorrow, Tuesday January 30, from 1-3 pm in the Koerner Library teaching lab on the 2nd floor.

What’s RefWorks, you ask?
RefWorks is a web-based research management tool which allows you to easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information. Managing references and creating bibliographies for research papers has always been a time-consuming and complex task – RefWorks can help you with the process.

In this hands-on workshop you will create your own personal database in RefWorks, learn how to add references, and use these references when writing a paper, automatically formatting your footnotes and bibliography in the citation style of your choice (including the Linguistic Inquiry style used by the Department of Linguistics.)

The Winter 2007 schedule for the Faculty of Arts Student Workshop series is out. Sessions include:

Getting Started at the UBC Library

If you’re new to UBC or just wanting a refresher, come join us for an overview of the UBC Library and our web sites. Learn about the resources & services available to you, whether you’re in the library, at the office, or doing research from home. This introductory class includes an orientation to the Catalogue, ejournals, indexes, subject guides, and the chat reference service AskAway

Google Scholar and More: All Articles All the Time!

You know that lots of journals and magazines are published on the web. But where? This workshop will show you where to look — whether you’re starting with a bibliography, an author’s name, a topic, or just an idea.

Refworks for the Arts

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 hands-on workshop you will create your own personal database in RefWorks, learn how to add references, and use these references when writing a paper, automatically formatting your footnotes and bibliography in the citation style of your choice.

Register online for any of these free workshops at the UBC Library Instruction Calendar. (Click the session you want to attend to get to the registration form.)

Sponsored by UBC Library, and supported in part by funding from the office of the Dean of Arts.

Did you know that you can borrow laptops from the library? These laptops allow you to download software, so that if you need to use special language fonts such as IPA phonetic fonts or other language-related software, a loaner laptop will do the trick. (Campus and library computer labs generally don’t allow you to download onto workstations.)

The loan period is 4 hours, and they’re available at the Koerner, Woodward, David Lam, and Robson Square branch circulation desks. You can even check the library catalogue for availability! Just do a title search for “laptop computer“.

For more information, see the Loaner Laptops FAQs.

UBC Library is currently trialling the database Lexicons of Early Modern English.

Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods (1480-1702).

A sample of titles from the over 150 lexicons:

The trial ends January 10, 2007.

Need a place to study for exams, with research materials and computers at hand?

Koerner Library is open for extended hours during the exam period. The library will be open every night until 1 am from December 4-18.

Good luck on your exams!