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Open Education Week at UBC
Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Attend one of the many Open Education events at UBC and UBC Library throughout March. Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons Date & Location: […]
University of British Columbia Library joins OLH LPS model
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce that the University of British Columbia Library has joined their Library Partnership Subsidy system (November 18, 2016).
UBC Library Contributes Search Interface to Federated Research Data Repository
Learn about how Portage and Compute Canada have partnered with UBC Library in adopting our UBC Open Collections user interface.
One of Canada’s most esteemed conservation scientists, Mary-Lou Florian, makes her most recent book available through UBC’s Open Collections
Mary-Lou Florian, one of Canada’s most esteemed conservation scientists, has made her new book, Comparative Anatomy of Branches, Roots and Wood of Some North American Dicotyledonous and Coniferous Trees and Woody Shrubs Used in Ethnographic Artifacts: Identification and Conservation Concerns available through UBC’s cIRcle Digital Repository.
Join us for Open Access Week!
Open Access Week at UBC is happening October 24-30, 2016. RSVP for events and learn more about what Open Access means for researchers, students and faculty.
UBC Library’s Open Collections front-end code selected as the basis for the National Federated Research Data Repository discovery platform
UBC Library’s Open Collections code selected as the basis for the National Federated Research Data Repository discovery platform.
There’s a giant robot that lives inside IKB
The Ubyssey looks at the Automatic Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Open educational resources may help students with textbook costs
Librarian Erin Fields tells the Ubyssey about how professors are leveraging technologies to help make learning more flexible (October 15, 2016).
UBC library buys rare Chaucer works for $200K
CTV’s evening news covered the Library’s purchase of this rare book on August 25, 2016.
Celebrate Science Literacy Week 2016
Visit Woodward Library from September 19-25 for a series of activities during this nationally celebrated event.