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UBC Library users now able to access the most authoritative resource on world languages
The Ethnologue database contains datasets, analytics, maps, country profiles, language families, and language profiles of the world’s 7,111 known living languages.
UBC Library users now able to access the digital archives of Maclean’s Magazine and the Toronto Star
Digital archives like these are changing the parameters of what’s possible in research while improving accessibility.
UBC Library digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and launches digital colouring book series
When UBC Library acquired the Kelmscott Press’ Works of Geoffrey Chaucer in 2016, the book’s preservation story was just beginning.
New interactive maps of UBC Library’s Open Collections use linked open data
UBC Library co-op student Carolina Roman Amigo wanted to make it easier for researchers to understand the thousands of scanned resources found in our Open Collections.
UBC student wins Library’s Croquet Collection Prize
UBC fourth-year student Mariah Dear is the second winner of UBC Library’s annual Croquet Collection Prize.
UBC Library users now able to access ancient Greek and Latin literature with the Digital Loeb Classical Library
Users can now browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content across more than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts.
A gift from the past: UBC’s class of 1932 funds access to 343 ebooks 85 years after graduation
An endowment established by UBC’s class of 1932 is funding the Library’s annual contribution to Knowledge Unlatched, an Open Access scholarly ebook platform.
Annual croquet research prize
UBC Library now accepting submissions for 2nd annual Arkley Croquet Collection Prize.
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.