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Celebrate Learning with Asian Library
Join us online on May 12, during Celebrate Learning Week at UBC, to hear how the library users are engaging with the Asian Library collections and services.
UBC Library becomes first Canadian institution to join Dryad membership
As the first institutional member of Dryad in Canada, UBC Library joins a thriving global community of universities, research institutions and academic libraries all working together to promote data publishing, curation, and preservation.
The UBC Library Research Commons helps UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster visualize research outputs
The UBC Library Research Commons partnered with the UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster to find a workflow that would create graphical representations of the cluster’s publication information.
UBC Library launches Open Publishing Program to support UBC faculty, staff, and student-led open journals and texts
UBC Library currently hosts 30 active open access journals by providing server space, support, and access to Open Journal Systems (OJS).
Open Access Week runs October 25-31
RSVP for events and learn more about what Open Access, Open Education and Open Research mean for researchers, students and faculty.
Xwi7xwa Library brings an integrative approach and Indigenous knowledge systems to pharmacy education
This year, Xwi7xwa Library and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences launched a new type of course activity which takes an integrative approach to pharmaceutical care, community research ethics, and library skills.
New Scholarly Communications webinar series to focus on open publishing and building scholarly profiles
Scholarly Communications is launching a new webinar series that will focus on the open publishing process and practices in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
UBC Library 2020/21 Senate Report
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report is now available. Read about our highlights from the past fiscal year, which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, inspiring with innovative spaces and services and stewarding the organization. Learn how the library’s services, spaces and collections adapted to best serve the UBC campus community in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Star Wars, escape rooms, and Zoom: Innovative teaching at David Lam Library explores different learning styles
Creating teaching materials that blend popular culture with complex subject matter can be a tough formula to get right, often walking a fine line to achieve student engagement.
UBC Library Digital Initiatives creates COVID-19 web archives to document pandemic response in British Columbia
Over the past year, a team at UBC Library has been creating web archives to preserve materials relating to the COVID-19 pandemic response in British Columbia for future research.